Today's sightings
Wader Lake AM mid-level tide
Black-tailed godwit - 1
Little ringed plover - 1
Redshank - 2 plus 4 chicks
Avocets - 10
Lapwing - 4 plus 4 chicks
Grey heron - 8
Shelduck - 6
Gadwall - 8
Wigeon - 2
Common tern - 43
Shoveler - 2
Hawthorn Wood feeding station
Bullfinch - 4
Greenfinch - 1
Chaffinch - 3
Blue tit - 1
Great tit - 2
Plus a reed warbler and a chiffchaff in the filter reedbed and a cormorant on the River Wear.
Invertebrates - a buff-tailed bumble bee in Hawthorn Wood.