Wildlife Sightings - 19/05/2021
Weather: sunny, warm, cloudy
Wind speed: light
River Wear tide level: high
Wader Lake - am - water level low
Avocet 46
Lapwing 6
Redshank 3
Oystercatcher 4
Common tern 150
Mute swan 8 ( 2 adults, 6 cygnets)
Shelduck 53 (11 chicks + 1 ruddy)
Grey heron 25
Shoveler 1 (male)
Gadwall 4
Black headed gull 61
Jackdaw 12 (on meadow)
Saline Lagoon
Shoveler 1 (male)
Oystercatcher 2
Common tern 2
Hawthorn Wood
Great spotted woodpecker 2 (male, female)
Nuthatch 1
Bullfinch 2 (male, female)
Robin 1
Blue tit 3
Great tit 2
Lookout feeding station
Bullfinch 2 (male, female)
Great tit 2
Robin 1
Blue tit 1
Other birds noted around site
Buzzard: Hollowood 1
Tufted duck: Reservoir 14
Jay: Hidden meadow 1
Sedge warbler: Wader Lake path: 1
Shelduck: River Wear 4
Sparrowhawk: Over reservoir 1 (male)
Other wildlife species around site
Invertebrates (Spring Gill Wood):
Orange tip 2
Speckled wood 1
