Wildlife sightings - 27/07/2024

a.m. Tide level: high

Wader Lake

Sand martin 22

Common tern 24 + 1 juvenile + 6 chicks

Black-headed gull 73 + 21 juvenile + 1 chick

Shelduck 5 + 20 juvenile

Lapwing 260

Oystercatcher 1

Redshank 20

Moorhen 2 + 1 juvenile

Coot 1

Greylag 4 + 4 juvenile

Canada goose 2

Hawthorn Wood

Blue tit 4

Great tit 3 + 2 juvenile

Coal tit 2

Long-tailed tit 1

Great spotted woodpecker 1 + 1 juvenile

Bullfinch 1

Goldfinch 1 + 1 juvenile

Greenfinch 1

Nuthatch 1

Treecreeper 1

Other birds

Grey heron - 3 - Heronry (back of Wader Lake)

Great tit - 2 - Wader Lake footpath

Wren - 1 - Wader Lake footpath

Blackbird - 1 - Wader Lake footpath

Robin - 1 juvenile - Wader Lake footpath

Goldfinch - 4 juvenile - Wader Lake footpath

Song thrush - 1 - Wader Lake footpath

Little egret - 1 - River Wear

Herring gull - 2 - River Wear

Black-headed gull - 4 juvenile - Saline Lagoon

Mallard - 3 - Saline Lagoon

Moorhen - 2 juvenile - River Reedbed


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