Wildlife Sightings 8/01/22

Weather: Light rain/ Overcast

Wind Speed: Light/Mid

River Wear Tide Level: Mid

Wader Lake (40% Frozen)

Shelduck - 34
Shoveller - 12
Gadwall - 2
Wigeon - 4
Teal - 210
Mallard - 17
Coot - 4
Moorhen - 6
Little Grebe - 1
Herring Gull - 14
B. H. Gull - 78

Saline Lagoon (85% Frozen)

Hawthorn Wood

Willow tit - 2
Bullfinch (4m,2f) - 6
G.S.Woodpecker - 2
Nuthatch - 1
Long-tailed tit - 14
Jay - 4

Lookout Feeding Station

Robin - 4
Dunnock - 2
Bulfinch (1m,2f) - 3
Willow tit - 1
Coal tit - 3
Chaffinch - 5

Other birds noted around site

Curlew - Over Wader Lake - 2
Cormorant - Over Wader Lake - 2
Common Buzzard - Over Wader Lake - 1
Golden Eye - River - 2(m)
Goosander - River - 4
Goldcrest - Staff car park - 2
Sparrowhawk (m) - Centre feeders - 1
G.S.Woodpecker (m) - Centre feeders - 1

Mammals

Roe Deer 6 Old Oak Meadow

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