Wildlife Sightings - 30/05/2020
Weather: sunny 20°C
Wind speed: light
River Wear tide level: high
Wader Lake – AM – water level low
Avocet 32
Oystercatcher 4 + 2 chicks
Lapwing 8
Little ringed plover 2
Curlew 7
Redshank 3
Common tern 186
Black headed gull 90
Lesser black backed gull 2
Herring gull 1
Jackdaw 52
Shelduck 36 (20 adults + 16 ducklings)
Gadwall 5
Shoveler 3
Grey heron 35
Saline Lagoon
Shelduck 6
Lapwing 1
Oystercatcher 1
Kestrel 1 (male)
Grey heron 3
Hawthorn Wood
Blue tit 6
Great tit 3
Coal tit 1
Willow tit 1
Bullfinch 6 (4 male, 2 female)
Chaffinch 4
Greenfinch 4 (pair feeding young 2 adults + 2 fledglings)
Goldfinch 1
Robin 3
Dunnock 1
Wren 1
Nuthatch 1
Treecreeper 1
Blackbird 2
Jay 2
Great spotted woodpecker 4 (1 male, 2 females + 1 juvenile)
Stock dove 2
Wood pigeon 2
Mallard 1
Common crow 1
Magpie 2
Pheasant 1
Chiffchaff 1
Other birds noted around site
Grey heron (River Wear 3, river reedbed 1)
Sparrowhawk (low over Wader Lake) 1 female
Other wildlife species around site
Mammals:
Roe deer (North Wood)
Amphibians / Fish:
Smooth newt (Amphibian Ponds)
Invertebrates:
Comma
Common blue
Flora / Fungi:
White water lily (Amphibian Ponds)
