Wildlife sightings - 01/06/2022
a.m. Tide Level: Mid
Wader Lake
Arctic tern (first summer) 1
Common tern 155
Avocet 35 (+ lots of chicks)
Oystercatcher 3 (1 chick)
Lapwing 10
Swallow 5
Shelduck 32 (11 ducklings)
Tufted duck 4
Shoveler 2
Canada goose 13 (6 goslings)
Greylag 5
Black-headed gull 81 (2 chicks)
Grey heron 27
Saline Lagoon
Grey heron 1
Shelduck 2
Canada goose 5
Greylag 1
Hawthorn Wood
Bullfinch 1
Great-spotted woodpecker 1
Wood pigeon 1
Great tit 1
Chaffinch 3
Robin 2
The Lookout
Great tit 3
Chaffinch 2
Bullfinch 2
Dunnock 1
Other birds
Goldfinch - 2 - Amphibian ponds
Reed bunting - 1 - Amphibian ponds
Cormorant - 1 - River Wear
Blackcap - 2 - Wader Lake footpath
Willow tit - 6 (5 fledglings) - Reserve orchard
Sedge warbler - 1 - River reedbed
Reed warbler - 1 - Filter reedbed
Sedge warbler - 1 - Filter reedbed
Tree sparrow - 1 - Centre feeders
Mammals
Roe deer
Invertebrates
Orange ladybird
Azure damselfly
Flora/fungi
Hedge woundwort
Bittersweet
Yellow oat grass
Coats beard
Common spotted orchard
False oat grass
