Wildlife Sightings - 07/06/2020
Weather: wet
Wind speed: breezy
River Wear Tide Level: mid
Wader Lake - AM - water level mid
Swallow 10
Avocet 44
Common tern 179
Lapwing 26
Oystercatcher 3
Pied wagtail 1
Shelduck 21 adults + 28 young
Black headed gull 68 adults + 2 young
Herring gull 1
Gadwall 1
Saline Lagoon
Gadwall 2 (male + female)
Shelduck 5
Lapwing 1
Hawthorn Wood
Jay 2
Chafffinch 11
Bulfinch 9 (7 male, 2 female)
Willow tit 2
Goldfinch 5
Coal tit 1
Greenfinch 2
Great spotted woodpecker 3 (male, female + juvenile)
Reed bunting 2 females
Sparrowhawk 1
Song thrush 1
Treecreeper 4
Other birds noted around site
Chiffchaff (across site) 5
Wren (Old Oak Meadow) 1
Cormorant (River Wear) 2
Lesser black backed gull (Amphibian Ponds) 4
Common whitethroat (Amphibian Ponds) 2
Willow Warbler (Wader Lake path) 1
Other wildlife species around site:
Mammals:
Roe deer (buck) 'barking' (East Downs)
Bank vole (Hawthorn Wood)
Flora / Fungi:
Hedge woundwort
Self heal
Water drop hemlock
Hedge parsley
Flattened meadow grass
