Wildlife Sightings - 23/08/2022

Weather: warm,light+ breezy some cloud

River Wear Tide Level: low

A.M

Wader Lake:

Black-tailed Godwit - 33

Avocet - 8

Ruff - 1

Dunlin - 1

Lapwing - 47

Curlew - 2

Common Snipe - 1

Common Tern - 20

Grey Heron - 3

Black-headed Gull - 6

Saline Lagoon:

Lapwing - 7

Black-headed Gull - 2

Other Birds Noted Around Site:

Mute Swan - 2 (River Wear)

Cormorant - 5 (River Wear)

Common Sandpipper - 1 (River Wear)

Treecreeper - 1 (Middle Wood)

Jay - 2 (Hawthorn Wood)

Hawthorn Wood:

Great Spotted Woodpecker - 1

Greenfinch - 5

Dunock - 1

Chaffinch - 11

Robin - 3

Blue tit - 7

Lookout Feeding Station:

Greenfinch - 1

Long-tailed tit - 2

Bullfinch - 1

Great tit - 4

Chaffinch - 4

Robin - 1

Other Wildlife Species Spotted On Site:

Invertrabrates:

22-Spot Ladybird larvae

Migrant Hawker - 2 (Saline Lagoon)

Small Cocker (Dragon Fly pond)

Flora/ Fungi:

Oak Bracket (Spring Gill Wood)

Stink Horn (Gully Path)



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