Wildlife Sightings 1/07/2023
Weather: Windy & Sunny
River Wear Tide Level: Low
Wader Lake Species
Avocet - 38
Lapwing - 52
Redshank - 8
Black-tailed Godwit - 1
Common Tern - 46
B.H. Gull - 130
Common Gull - 2
Gadwall - 12 + 5 ducklings
Teal - 6
Tufted Duck - 8 + 30 youngsters
Shelduck - 5 + 17 juv.
Grey Heron (new brood of 3 chicks) - 11 + 11 juv.
Grey Wagtail - 1 m
Hawthorn Wood Bird Feeding Area
G.S. Woodpecker - 3 juv.
Nuthatch - 1
Bullfinch (5 m, 2 f & 3 juv.) - 10
Greenfinch - 4
Goldfinch - 8
Long-tailed tit - 6
Coal tit - 2
Blue tit - 14
Great tit - 10
Reed Bunting - 1 m
Lagoon Path
Chiffchaff - 1 + 3 juv.
Lagoon Reedbed
Reed Warbler - 1
Sedge Warbler - 2 + 2 juv.
Over the Lagoon
Swallow - 3
River Wear
Cormorant - 2
Herring Gull - 27
L.B.B. Gull - 5
Oystercatcher - 2 + 2 juv.
Invertebrates
Ringlet @ Window on the Wear
Flora/Fungi
Purple Loosestrife & Cranesbill - Forgotten Meadow
