Wildlife Sightings - 01/06/2020
Weather: sunny
Wind speed: very light
River Wear tide level: high
Wader Lake – AM – water level low
Avocet 37
Lapwing 18
Shoveler 1 male
Oystercatcher 2 + 1 young
Common tern 247
Redshank 5
Little ringed plover 2
Curlew 1
Black headed gull 107
Lesser black backed gull 3
Shelduck 38 + 16 chicks
Jackdaw 40
Saline Lagoon
Lapwing 2
Oystercatcher 2
Hawthorn Wood
Great spotted woodpecker 1 male
Blue tit 4
Chaffinch 5 female
Great tit 3
Bullfinch 2 male
Robin 3
Goldfinch 4
Nuthatch 1
Chiffchaff 2
Dunnock 1
Other birds noted around site
Grey heron (Heron Hedge) 18
Blackcap (Spring Gill Wood) 1
Song thrush (Old Oak Meadow) 1
Mute swan (River Wear) 1
Willow Warbler (Amphibian Ponds) 1
Other wildlife species around site
Amphibians / Fish:
Toadlets
Invertebrates:
Common blue
Orange tip
Small white
Speckled wood
Chimney sweeper
Common carder blue
Flora / Fungi:
Smooth meadow grass
Cats ear
Goats beard
Small sweet grass
Field horsetail
Meadow vetchling
Burnet rose
