Wildlife sightings - 24/05/19
a.m. Tide Level: High
Wader Lake
Avocet 40 + 6 chicks (brood of 4 + brood of 2)
Redshank 5 + 3 chicks (brood of 2 + brood of 1)
Lapwing 12 + 2 chicks
Oystercatcher 3
Ringed plover 1
Common tern 88
Black-headed gull 63
Lesser black-backed gull 2
Jackdaw 72
Shelduck 20 + 17 ducklings (2 broods)
Grey heron 52 (20 adults + 32 chicks/juvenile)
Saline Lagoon
Lapwing 2
Shoveler 1
Swift 2
Hawthorn Wood
Jay 1
Great spotted woodpecker 2
Nuthatch 1
Bullfinch 9
Chaffinch 2
Goldfinch 4
Greenfinch 2
Other birds
Sparrowhawk - 1 - Wader Lake
Kestrel - 1 - Wader Lake
Common buzzard - 1 - Soaring over Wader Lake
Cormorant - 2 - River
Amphibians
Smooth newt - Amphibian ponds
Invertebrates
Speckled wood butterfly
Orange tip butterfly
Tree bumblebee
Flora
Bugle - North Wood
Raggel Robin - Forgotten Meadow
Northern marsh orchid - Forgotten Meadow
Yellow rattle - Top Meadow
