Wildlife sightings - 27/05/2024

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Wader Lake

Avocet 24 + 1 chick

Gadwall 10

Tufted duck 2

Lapwing 1

Redshank 2

Black-headed gull 128 + 2 chicks

Common tern 65

Hawthorn Wood

Chaffinch 1

Stock dove 1

Great-spotted woodpecker 1

Willow tit 1

Blue tit 3

Great tit 1

Magpie 1

Dunnock 1

Nuthatch 1

Bullfinch 4

Goldfinch 2

Other birds

Swift - 1 - Over Hawthorn Wood

Mute swan - 2 - River Wear

Buzzard - 1 - Hollowood

Sedge warbler - 3 - Wader Lake footpath

Willow warbler - 1 - Orchard

Sand martin - 3 - Wader Lake footpath

Long-tailed tit - heard - Middle Wood

Blackcap - 2 - Around site

Nuthatch - 1 - Hawthorn Wood

Song thrush - 1 - Pen 1

Greenfinch - 1 - Gully

Wren - 2 - Close Encounters

Moorhen - 1 - Gully

Invertebrates

Small white butterfly

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