Wildlife Sightings - 12/08/2024


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Weather: Rainy/humid

River Wear Tide Level: Hightide


Wader Lake Specie

Teal - 16

Shelduck - 1 adult + 11 juv

Willow Tit - 1 (singing)

Black-tailed Godwit - 8

Sand Martin - 7

Red Shank - 30

Grey Heron - 4

Avocet - 3

Canada Goose - 3

Greylag Goose - 1

Lapwing - 20

Pied Wagtail - 1 juv


Hawthorn Wood Bird Feeding Station

Blue Tit - 11

Robin - 1 adult + 1 juv

Dunnock - 1

Nuthatch - 1

Bullfinch - 2

Greenfinch - 1 adult + 1 juv

Chaffinch - 7

Goldfinch - 1

Woodpecker - 1 male adult + 1 juv

Stock Dove - 1


Bird Species Noted Around Site

Blackcap - Top Meadow Hedge - 1 (singing)

Curlew - River Wear - 1 (singing)

Sedge Warbler - Wader Lake footpath - 1

Herring Gull - River Wear - 104

Mallard - Saline Lagoon - 24

Little Egret - River Wear - 1

Grey Heron - River Wear - 1

Jay - Hawthorn Wood - 1 (singing)

Tufted Duck - Reservoir - 1 female + 1 duckling

Shelduck - Reservoir - 1 juv

Mallard - Reservoir - 22

Gadwall - Reservoir - 1


Other Wildlife Species Noted Around Site

Mammals:

Black-headed Gull - 70

Herring Gull - 1

Goldfinch - flock of 30

Kestrel - 1

Common Tern - 22

Gadwall - 3


Invertebrates:

Speckled Wood Butterfly


Flora/Fungi:

Bloody Brittlegill

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