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Wildlife Sightings-27/7/2022

Weather: Sunny, light breeze

River Wear Tide Level: Low

Wader Lake Species

Avocet - 34
Lapwing - 134
Black-tailed godwit - 6
Common tern - 78
Common Gull - 2
Med Gull hybrid - 1
Black-headed gull - 97
Shelduck - 10

Saline Lagoon Species

Sedge warbler - 3
Lapwing - 1
Reed Bunting - 1

Hawthorn Wood Species

Coal tit - 3
Blue tit - 10
Robin - 4
Great tit - 7
Chaffinch - 7
Dunnock - 2

Lookout Feeding Station

Bullfinch - 2(m)
Great tit - 5
Chaffinch - 4
Magpie - 1

Other bird species noted

Willow Warbler Amphibian Ponds - 2
Chiffchaff Amphibian Ponds - 2
Cormorant River Wear - 4
Blackcap Wader Lake path - 3
Whitethroat Wader Lake path - 1
GS Woodpecker (Juv) Southwood - 3
Long-tailed tit Middle Wood - 4

Invertebrates

Speckled Wood
Small White
Green Veined White


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