Wildlife sightings - 03/05/2021

a.m. Tide Level: High

Wader Lake

Avocet 47

Lapwing 16

Redshank 3

Oystercatcher 4

Common tern 21

Swallow 3

Sand martin 1

Gadwall 5

Shoveler 2

Greylag 24

Canada goose

Herring gull 30

Black-headed gull 28

Lesser black-backed gull 2

Shelduck 51

Saline Lagoon

Shoveler 2

Oystercatcher 2

Shelduck 1

Hawthorn Wood

Chaffinch 1

Blue tit 3

Robin 2

Greenfinch 4

The Lookout

Bullfinch 2

Long-tailed tit 1

Great tit 4

Other birds

Reed warbler - 1 - Filter reedbed

Sedge warbler - 1 - Filter reedbed

Mute swan - 9 - River Wear

Cormorant - 1 - River Wear

Willow warbler - 1 - Wader Lake path

Goldfinch - 2 - Wader Lake path

Great-spotted woodpecker - drumming - Hawthorn Wood

Flora

Glaucous sedge

Wood avons

Bugle

Woodruff

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