Wildlife Sightings - 27/06/21

Weather: Wet, drizzly, overcast

Wind Speed: Low

River Wear Tide Level: Mid


Wader Lake

am/low

Avocet 24

Common Tern 89 (67 adults + 22 chicks)

Oystercatcher 5 (4 adults + 1 juvenile)

Lapwing 26

Little Ringed Plover 1

Pied Wagtail 1

Gadwall 2 (male + female)

Black Headed Gull 77 (69 adults + 8 chicks)

Mediterranean Gull 1


Hawthorn Wood

Great Spotted Woodpecker 2 (male + female)

Greenfinch 1

Nuthatch 1

Reed Bunting 1 (male)

Coal tit 2

Dunnock 3


Lookout feeding station

Bullfinch 6 (4 males + 2 females)

Willow Tit 2

Robin 1

Chaffinch 8

Great Tit 4

Blue Tit 2


Other birds noted around site

Lesser Whitethroat 1 (Hidden Meadow Hedge)

Common Whitethroat 2 (Amphibian Ponds)

Song Thrush 1 (Dragonfly Ponds)

Lesser Black Backed Gull 1 (River Wear)

Goldfinch 6 (Wader Lake Path)

Reed Warbler 2 (Filter Reed Bed)


Other wildlife around site

Roe Deer Buck (Hidden Meadow)

Flora/Funghi

False Oat Grass

Broad Leaved Willowherb

Sickle Medic (Wader Lake Meadow)

Soft Rush (Amphibian Ponds)

Cat's Ear (Wader Lake Path)

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