Wildlife Sightings8/5/2022

Weather: Sunny

River Wear Tide Level: High (falling)

Wader Lake

Avocet - 30
Tufted Duck - 9
Shelduck - 38
Shoveler - 3
Gadwall - 2
Cormorant - 1
Black-headed Gull - 76
Mallard - 10
Greylag goose - 4
Lapwing - 11
Herring Gull - 6
Common Tern - 10
Canada Goose - 10
Curlew - 2
Redshank - 2
Grey Heron - 24
Pied Wagtail (m) - 1
Garganay (m) - 1

Saline Lagoon

Shelduck - 6
Black-headed Gull - 2
Shoveler (1m,1f) - 2

Hawthorn Wood

Blackcap - 1(m)
Reed Bunting - 1(m)
G.S.Woodpecker - 1(m)
Dunnock - 1
Robin - 2
Bullfinch (2m,1f) - 3

Lookout Feeding Station

Nuthatch - 2
Bullfinch - 1(m)
Great tit - 2
Chaffinch - 2
Blue tit - 1

Other birds noted

Gadwall (2m,2f) - River Wear - 4
Cormorant (flying) - River Wear - 1
Sedge Warbler - About site - 4 (heard)
Wren - Wader Lake Footpath - 1 (heard)
Swallow - Wader Lake Footpath - 1
Mistle Thrush - Stream Channel - 1
Chiff Chaff - About site - 4 (heard)

Invertebrates

Speckled Wood - 3 (about site)
Orange tip - 2 (m) (about site)
Corder bee - 1 (Visitor Centre)
Small Phoenix Moth (Hawthorn Hide)

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