Wildlife sightings - 24/08/2018
Wader Lake (AM, low tide):
Avocet 2 (1 adult, 1 juvenile)
Grey heron 5
Lapwing 65
Common snipe 6
Dunlin 2
Green sandpiper 1
Hawthorn Wood feeding station:
Goldfinch 25
Blue tit 9
Chaffinch 11
Coal tit 3
Greenfinch 10
Great tit 7
Bullfinch 4
Robin 1
Dunnock 1
Nuthatch 1
Plus:
Tufted duck on the reservoir 11
Song thrush in South Wood 1
Wren in North Wood 1
Black-headed gulls and lesser black-backed gulls on the River Wear
Speckled wood and small white butterfly
Common darter and common hawker dragonfly
Giant puffball mushroom at the amphibian pond view point
Nipplewort and prickly lettuce
Diplolepis rosae (dog rose gall) on Wader Lake footpath
