Wildlife sightings - 25/09/18
Wader Lake (AM, low tide):
Avocet (juvenile) 1
Teal 17
Lapwing 230
Common snipe 1
Black-headed gull 165
Lesser black-backed gull (juveniles) 2
Herring gull 1
Hawthorn Wood feeding station:
Great-spotted woodpecker 2
Coal tit 2
Blue tit 4
Robin 1
Chaffinch 5
Great tit 4
Willow tit 2
Goldfinch 1
Dunnock 1
Other birds on site:
Teal on the Saline Lagoon 3
Curlew on Saline Lagoon meadow 2
Tufted duck 19 and northern shoveler 1 on the reservoir
Grey heron on the River Wear 2
Blackbird 1 and long-tailed tit 2 in Millennium Wood
Comma and speckled wood butterflies