Wildlife sightings - 30/09/18
Wader Lake (AM, high tide):
Bar-tailed godwit (rare visitor) 1
Black-tailed godwit 2
Teal 36
Black-headed gull 242
Curlew 1
Redshank 9
Saline lagoon (AM, high tide):
Teal 32 (1 at the river reedbed and 31 on the lagoon)
Jay 1 (at the river reedbed)
Hawthorn Wood feeding station:
Female sparrowhawk (flushed birds away)
Plus:
Grey heron at the filter reedbed 1 and on the River Wear 3
Cormorant on the River Wear 1
Curlew on the River Wear 2
Sparrowhawk at Forgotten Meadow (female) 1
Tree sparrow on the centre feeders 1
Great-spotted woodpecker in Hollowood 2
Treecreeper in Pen One 1
Shaggy inkcap fungus at the filter reedbed
Birch polypore bracket fungus in Spring Gill scrub
