Wildlife Sightings-30/07/2022

Weather: Overcast, Light rain

River Wear Tide Level: Mid

Wader Lake Species

Shelduck - 7 (juv)
Avocet - 19 + 6 juv
Teal - 3
Swallow - 2
Lapwing - 86
Black-tailed godwit - 7 + 1 juv
Common tern - 35 + 17 juv + 9 Chicks
Black-headed gull - 68 + 19 juv + 2 chicks
Grey heron - 1 juv
Snipe - 3
Dunlin - 1
Common sandpiper - 1
Kingfisher seen fishing to left of Northumbrian Water hide - 1 (m)

Saline Lagoon Species

Mallard - 10
Lapwing - 2

Hawthorn Wood Species

Great Spotted Woodpecker - 2 juv
Blue tit - 7
Bullfinch - 2
Chaffinch - 3

Lookout Feeding Station Species

Blackbird - 1
Great tit - 3

Other birds species noted

Curlew River Wear - 2
Lapwing River Wear - 5
Pheasant Corner Meadow - 7 (f) + 7 young

Invertebrates

Speckled Wood across site
Meadow Brown across site

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