Wildlife Sightings - 08/05/2020
Weather: Sunny 18°C
Wind speed: Light
River Wear Tide Level: Low
Wader Lake - AM - Mid / low water level
Avocet 46
Lapwing 20
Oystercatcher 2
Little ringed plover 2
Common sandpiper 1
Curlew 1
Common tern 62
Black headed gull 28
Lesser black backed gull 1
Jackdaw 46
Saline Lagoon
Avocet 2
Oystercatcher 1
Black headed gull 4
Lesser black backed gull 1
Shelduck 7
Hawthorn Wood
Sparrowhawk 1 (female)
Great spotted woodpecker 1 (male)
Nuthatch 1
Treecreeper 1
Robin 2
Blue tit 3
Great tit 5
Bullfinch 2
Goldfinch 2
Chaffinch 2
Jay 1
Other birds noted around site
Gadwall 9 (site count)
Shoveler 8 (site count)
Mute swan 2 (Round Table Ponds)
Reed warbler 3 (Round Table Ponds)
Sedge warbler 2 (Round Table Ponds)
Reed bunting 2 (Round Table Ponds)
Common buzzard 1 (Top Meadow)
Tawny owl 2 chicks (Hawthorn Wood)
Other wildlife species around site
Invertebrates:
Speckled wood
Small tortoiseshell
Red Admiral
