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Wildlife Sightings - 31/07/2022

Weather: Raining

River Wear tide level: High

A.M

Wader lake:

Avocet - 30
Lapwing - 38
Redshank - 6
Black-tailed godwit - 4
Dunlin - 1
Common Sandpiper - 2
Curlew - 3
Oystercatcher - 2
Common Snipe - 1
Common Tern (12 chicks) - 73
Swallow - 5
Sand martin - 1
Black-headed gull - 103

Saline Lagoon:

Reed warnbler - 1

Other Birds noted Around site:

Mistle Thrush Spring Gill Wood - 1
Blackcap Wader Lake Path - 1
Whimbrel Wader Lake - 1
Greenshank Wader Lake - 1

Hawthorn wood:

GS Woodpecker (2 juv. ,1m) - 3
Dunnock - 2
Robin - 3
Bullfinch (2m,1f) - 3
Blue tit - 10
Great tit - 7

Lookout Feeding station:

Great tit - 4
Blue tit - 4
Robin - 1
Chaffinch - 6
Bullfinch - 1

Other Wildlife Species spotted around Site:

Invertebrates

Southern Hawker Hawthorn Wood - 2 (f)
Blue Shieldbug instar (2nd)


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