Wildlife sightings - 20/08/16
a.m. Tide Level: Mid
Wader Lake
Avocet 3
Lapwing 160
Redshank 72
Common snipe 6
Little ringed plover 1
Black-tailed godwit 6
Common sandpiper 1
Common tern 38
Saline Lagoon
Sparrowhawk (low over lagoon) 1
Curlew 2
Hawthorn Wood
Great spotted woodpecker 2
Bullfinch 18
Chaffinch 32
Greenfinch 14
Goldfinch 8
Willow tit 3
Coal tit 6
Long-tailed tit 7
Nuthatch 1
Other birds
Kingfisher - 1 - River reedbed pool
Little egret - 1 - River Wear
Mute swan - 2 ad + 3 young - White head pond
Ferruginous duck - 1 - Reservoir
Tufted duck - 1 - Reservoir
Coot - 5 + 5 young - Reservoir
Other wildlife/flora
Azure damselfly
Blue tailed damselfly
Common darter
Four spotted chaser
Stonecap
Sea aster
Lesser sea spurrey
Hastate orache
Sea club-rush
