wildlife Sightings -19/01/2022
Windspeed: low
River wear tide level: mid
A.M
Wader lake:
Mute swan - 2
Shelduck - 20
Shoveler 11
Teal - 15
Tufted duck - 8
Wigeon - 2
Canada goose 1
Black-heade Gulls - 63
Herring Gulls - 5
Lapwing - 5
Saline Lagoon:
Common snipe - 1
Other birds noted around site:
Mistle thrush - 2 (Wader lake meadow)
Great spotgted woodpecker - 1 (Centre feeders)
Long-tailed tits - 5 (Amphibian ponds)
Goldfinch - 3
Song thrush - 1 (Hawthorn wood)
Coal tit - 2 (South wood)
Hawthorn wood:
Robin - 7
Jay - 1
Bullfinch - 5
Blue tits - 10
Great tits - 9
Sparrow hawlk - 1
Lookout feeding station:
Bullfinch - 4
Greenfinch - 1
Blackbird - 3
Dunnock - 1
Chaffinch - 2
Other wildlife species spotted around site:
Flora / Fungi:
Creeping Buttercup ( Lagoon path)
Dogs Mercury ( Hawthorn wood)
Broad Buckler fern ( Hawthorn wood)