Wildlife sightings - 07/06/2021

a.m. Tide Level: Low

Wader Lake

Little-ringed plover 2

Common tern 198

Avocet 25 + 2 chicks

Black-headed gull - 56 + 16 chicks

Shelduck - 35 + 20 ducklings

Lapwing 4

Redshank 3 (inc 1 juvenile)

Moorhen 2 + 3 chicks

Coot 1 + 3 chicks

Tufted duck 6

Gadwall 4

Shoveler 1

Grey heron 18

Saline Lagoon

Shelduck 7

Avocet 1

Heron 1

Shoveler 2

Hawthorn Wood

Bullfinch 3

Chaffinch 1

Blue tit

Great tit

Mallard 3

The Lookout

Great tit 3

Blue tit 1

Other birds

Swift - 1 - Over river Wear

Chiffchaff - Allover site

Nuthatch - 1 - Hawthorn Wood

Great-spotted woodpecker - Hawthorn Wood

Invertebrates

Orange tip butterfly

Peacock butterfly

Flora/fungi

Scarlet pimpernel

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