Wildlife sightings - 04/07/2022

a.m. Tide Level: High

Wader Lake

Avocet 55 (8 juv + 3 chicks)

Oystercatcher 3

Redshank 2 (1 juv)

Lapwing 8 (3 juv)

Black-tailed godwit 3

Common tern 73 (20 chicks)

Shelduck 23 (20 juv)

Tufted duck 4 (1 duckling)

Teal 4

Greylag 0

Black-headed gull 219 (19 chicks)

Swallow 2

Saline Lagoon

Redshank 4

Lapwing 21

Oystercatcher 3 (1 chick)

Shelduck 3

Hawthorn Wood

Greenfinch 1

Willow tit 1

Chaffinch 6

Dunnock 2

Wood pigeon 2

Blue tit 11

The Lookout

Great tit 5

Bullfinch 2

Blue tit 1

Chaffinch 1

Other birds

Goldfinch - 2 - Amphibian ponds

Kestrel - 2 - Hawthorn Wood

Treecreeper - 1 - Hawthorn Wood

Blackcap - 2 - South Wood

Mammals

Roe deer

Invertebrates

Red soldier beetle

Ringlet butterfly

Common green lacewing

Ground beetles

Rhinocerous beetle

Flora/fungi

Bristly oxtongue

Greater spearwort

Common mallow

Purple loosestrife

Redshanks

Upright hedge parsley

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