Wildlife sightings - 22/08/2018
Wader Lake (AM, mid-tide):
Lapwing 283
Black-tailed godwit 1
Common tern 6
Dunlin 1
Avocet 1
Redshank 12
Common snipe 13
Lesser black-backed gulls 3 (1 adult and 2 juveniles)
Saline lagoon:
Common snipe 1
Greenshank 1
Green sandpiper 1
Curlew 1
Hawthorn Wood feeding station:
Bullfinch 3
Goldfinch 12
Great-spotted woodpecker 1
Greenfinch 5
Chaffinch 8
Blue tit 7
Great tit 7
Nuthatch 1
Coal tit 2
Willow tit 1
Elsewhere on site:
Common buzzard overhead 1
Wren in Hawthorn Wood 1
Cormorant (5) and sand martin (2) on the River Wear
Tufted duck on the reservoir 14
Comma butterfly in the orchard
Wall brown butterfly on Wader Lake footpath
Common darter dragonfly at the amphibian ponds
Chicory
Common bent
Bur-reed
