Wildlife sightings - 06/06/16
a.m. Tide level: mid
Wader Lake
Avocet 16 + 10 chicks
Lesser black-backed gulls 2
Little ringed plover 2
Redshank 1
Common tern 112
Redshank 1
Shoveler 3
Gadwall 5
Black headed gull 4
Oystercatcher 2
Shelduck 18 + 11 ducklings
Saline Lagoon
Grey heron 2
Shelduck 4
Swallow 5
Hawthorn Wood
Jay 2
Great spotted woodpecker 1
Chaffinch 4
Bullfinch 2
Goldfinch 1
Great tit 3
Blue tit 4
Other birds
Willow tit - 1 - Lagoon hide path
Coal tit (feeding fledglings) - 3 - Lagoon hide path
Swift - 2 - Wader Lake path
Reed warbler - 3 - Filter bed
Kestrel - 1 - over Ganderland
Blackcap - 2 - North Wood
Other wildlife and flora
Tadpoles developing well in amphibian ponds and forgotten meadow pond
Orange tip butterfly
Common butterfly
Ragged Robin
Northern marsh orchid
Cuckooflower
Silver weed