Wildlife sightings - 27/05/2024
a.m.
Wader Lake
Avocet 24 + 1 chick
Gadwall 10
Tufted duck 2
Lapwing 1
Redshank 2
Black-headed gull 128 + 2 chicks
Common tern 65
Hawthorn Wood
Chaffinch 1
Stock dove 1
Great-spotted woodpecker 1
Willow tit 1
Blue tit 3
Great tit 1
Magpie 1
Dunnock 1
Nuthatch 1
Bullfinch 4
Goldfinch 2
Other birds
Swift - 1 - Over Hawthorn Wood
Mute swan - 2 - River Wear
Buzzard - 1 - Hollowood
Sedge warbler - 3 - Wader Lake footpath
Willow warbler - 1 - Orchard
Sand martin - 3 - Wader Lake footpath
Long-tailed tit - heard - Middle Wood
Blackcap - 2 - Around site
Nuthatch - 1 - Hawthorn Wood
Song thrush - 1 - Pen 1
Greenfinch - 1 - Gully
Wren - 2 - Close Encounters
Moorhen - 1 - Gully
Invertebrates
Small white butterfly
