Wildlife Sightings - 11/09/2019

Weather: sunny

Wind speed: mid/gusty

Tide level a.m.: low

Wader Lake:

Grey heron - 1

Pied wagtail - 1

Black tailed godwit - 8

Stock dove 2

Lapwing 43

Snipe 2

Teal 36

Redshank 15

Saline Lagoon

Kestrel 2

Black headed gull 1

Hawthorn Wood

Sparrowhawk (female) 1

Goldfinch 6

Greenfinch 4

Nuthatch 1

Long tailed tit 10

Willow tit 1

Bullfinch 14

Stock dove 1

Other birds noted around site

Little egret - River Wear 1

Cormorant - River Wear 2

Long tailed tit - Hawthorn Wood 20+

Little grebe - Reservoir - 1

Jay - Forgotten Meadow 2 / North Wood 1

Grey heron (juvenile) - River Reedbed 1

Other wildlife species around site

Invertebrates:

Elephant hawkmoth caterpillar - Wader Lake footpath

Tiger slug - Spring Gill

Migrant hawker - Reservoir

Flora/Fungi:

King Alfred's cake fungi

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