Wildlife sightings - 4/8/2017
Wader Lake (AM, low tide):
Avocet 5 (2 adult and 3 juvenile)
Dunlin 1
Little ringed plover 1
Lapwing 55
Oystercatcher 2
Redshank 8
Common tern 3
Black-headed gull 22
Grey heron 9
Sparrowhawk 1 (female)
Shelduck 8
Hawthorn Wood feeding station:
Willow tit 1
Coal tit 3
Long-tailed tit 8
Goldfinch 10
Greenfinch 4
Bullfinch 12
Great-spotted woodpecker 2
Treecreeper 1
Saline lagoon:
Black-headed gull 47
Teal 2
Plus:
Jay at Spring Gill 2
Cormorant on the river 2
Swift 11 (site count)
Swallow 6 (site count)
Sand martin 10 (site count)
House martin 5 (site count)
Kestrel on Old Oak Meadow 2
Amphibians and invertebrates:
Smooth newt in the amphibian ponds
Comma, red admiral, speckled wood and meadow brown butterflies
Bumblebee and forest cuckoo bee
Flora:
Yellow loosestrife
Purple loosestrife
St John's Wort
Water mint
