Wildlife Sightings - 15/08/18

Wader Lake     Time/AM     Tide/High

Avocet - 9 (7 adult & 2 young)

Shelduck - 2

Lapwing - 42

Common Tern - 6

Snipe - 16

Redshank - 3

Little Grebe - 1

Pied Wagtail - 1

Grey Heron - 1

 

Saline Lagoon     Time/AM     Tide/High

Teal - 6

Lapwing - 3

 

Hawthorn Wood

Great Tit - 12

Blue Tit - 9

Coal Tit - 1

Bullfinch - 3

Chaffinch - 8

Willow Tit - 1

Robin - 1

Dunnock - 1

Goldfinch - 3

Great Spotted Woodpecker - 1

 

Other Birds Noted Around Site

Wren (millennium wood) - 1

Tufted Duck (reservoir) - 8

Cormorant (River Wear) - 1

Mute Swan (River Wear) - 1

 

Other Wildlife Species

Mammals:

Bank Vole (North Wood)

 

Amphibians:

Toad (North Wood)

 

Invertebrates:

Common Blue (Forgotten Meadow)

Red Admiral (amphibian ponds)

Comma ( Wader Lake path)

 

Flora:

Field Scabious (Wader Lake path)

Hedge Parsley

Black Thorn - Sloe

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