Wildlife Sightings - 30/07/18

Wader Lake     Time/AM     Tide/High

Avocet - 29 (14 adults & 15 juveniles)

Little Ringed Plover - 2 (1 adult & 1 juvenile)

Common Snipe - 7

Black-tailed Godwit - 5

Lapwing - 116

Greylag - 5

Redshank - 17

Teal - 2

Pied Wagtail - 3

Grey Heron - 7 (4 adults & 3 juveniles)

Common Tern - 37

 

Saline Lagoon

Lapwing - 7

Common Sandpiper - 1

Avocet - 1

Teal - 2

 

Hawthorn Wood

Great Spotted Woodpecker - 2 (juveniles)

Bullfinch - 3

Blue Tit - 7

Chaffinch - 5

Great Tit - 8

Robin - 4

 

Other Birds Noted Around Site

Song Thrush (gully) - 1

Stock Dove (Wader Lake) - 1 (juvenile)

Great Black-backed Gull (River Wear) - 1

 

Other Wildlife Species

Invertebrates:

Meadow Brown

Speckled Wood

Large White

 

Flora:

Bristly Oxtongue

Scarlet Pimpernel

Great Burnet

Bramble (blackberries fruiting)

Apple trees in orchard fruiting

 

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