Today's sightings Sat 30 July
a.m. Tide level: low
Wader Lake
Avocet 8 + 2 chicks
Lapwing 12
Oystercatcher 4
Redshank 18
Common sandpiper 2
Common tern 82
Grey heron 11
Saline lagoon
Common sandpiper 1
Lapwing 36
Black headed gull 90
Grey heron 3
Other birds
Cormorant - river
Willow warbler 1 + 2 juvenile - East Down
Chiff chaff - Window on the Wear 2
Blackcap - gully
Common whitethroat 1 + 3 juvenile - Wader Lake footpath
Reed warbler - Round table ponds
Sedge warbler 1 + 3 juvenile - Round table ponds
Hawthorn Wood
Great spotted woodpecker
Jay
Nuthatch
Willow tit 2
Coal tit 4
Blue tit 16
Great tit 10
Bullfinch 21
Greenfinch 8
Goldfinch 2
Chaffinch 18
Mammals
Weasel - domestic pond
Amphibians
Froglets - amphibian pond
Invertebrates
Speckled wood butterfly
Comma butterfly
Wall brown butterfly
Meadow brown butterfly
Small tortoiseshell butterfly
Blood vein moth
Flora
Yellow bartsia
Yarrow
Black knapweed
Marsh thistle
Yellow wort
Common centaury
Wasp orchid
Field scabious