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Today's Sightings
Wader Lake Time - PM/Tide - High Whooper Swan - 2 Wigeon - 2 Shoveler Shelduck Other Birds Kestrel - Flew over site Goosander - River Wear
19 November 2015
Today's Sightings
WADER LAKE / AM / HIGH TIDE Curlew - 24 Teal - 68 Black-headed Gull - 30 Grey Heron - 1 Shoveler - 2 Shelduck - 2 SALINE LAGOON AM HIGH TIDE Grey Heron - 1 HAWTHORN WOOD - AM Chaffinch - 5 Great Tit - 10 Blue Tit - 3 Robin - 1 Willow Tit - 2
18 November 2015
Today's Signting's
Wader Lake / Time: Am / Tide: Mid Jay - 1 Great Spotted Woodpecker - 1 Canada Geese - 30 Tufted Duck - 6 Grey Heron - 1 Grey Wagtail - 1 Stock Dove - 6 Teal - 12 Shoveler - 1 Lapwing - 1 Saline Lagoon Lesser-Black Gull - 1 Hawthorn Wood Coal
17 November 2015
Today's Sightings
WADER LAKE / AM / HIGH TIDE Teal - 70 Tufted Duck - 20 Lapwing - 10 Shoveler - 4 Black-headed Gull - 15 Shelduck - 1 OTHER BIRDS / AM Sparrowhawk (Forgotten Meadow) - 1 Teal (Reservoir) - 20 Tufted Duck (Reservoir) - 15 Kestrel (Stream Channel) -
16 November 2015
Today's Sightings
Wader Lake Tide Level - High/Time - AM Teal - 3 Grey Heron - 3 Black Headed Gull - 12 Hawthorn Wood Coal Tit - 1 Blue Tit - 3 Bullfinch - 2 Blackcap - 2
15 November 2015
Today's Sightings
Wader Lake Time - AM/Tide - Low Grey Wagtail - 1 Pied Wagtail - 1 Eurasian Teal - 20 Lapwing - 1 Shoveler - 2 Saline Lagoon Eurasian Teal - 7 Curlew - 1 Jay - 1 Other Birds Mistle Thrush - Compost Toilet - 1 Grey Heron - River Wear - 1 Cormorant - River W
14 November 2015
Todays Sightings
Wader Lake AM Low Tide Cormorant (fly over) 1 Shoveler (drake) 1 Tufted duck (male) 1 Eurasian Teal 12 Mallard 40 Black Headed Gull 3 Saline Lagoon Carrion Crow 2 Curlew (calling) Other Birds Jay (Wader lake footpath) 1 Song Thrush (
13 November 2015
Today's Sightings
WADER LAKE / AM / HIGH TIDE Lapwing - 5 Pied Wagtail - 1 Black-headed Gull - 1 Grey Heron - 1 Teal - 4 Tufted Duck - 1 SALINE LAGOON / AM Curlew - 25 OTHER BIRDS / AM Tufted Duck (Reservoir) - 18 HAWTHORN WOOD / AM Great Spotted Wood
11 November 2015
Today's Sightings
WADER LAKE / AM / LOW TIDE Herring Gull - 4 Black-headed Gull - 23 Teal - 45 SALINE LAGOON/ AM / LOW TIDE Curlew - 1 OTHER BIRDS / AM Kestrel (Wader Lake footpath) - 1 Grey Heron (Window on the Wear) - 1 HAWTHORN WOOD / AM Bullfinc
10 November 2015
Today's Sightings
Wader Lake Time/AM Tide/Low Lapwing - 3 Black-headed Gull - 36 Hawthorn Wood Treecreeper - 3 Bullfinch - 2 Great Tit - 2 Blue Tit - 3 Long-tailed Tit - 1 Blackcap - 1 Pheasant - 3
8 November 2015
Today's Sightings
Wader Lake Time/AM Tide/Low Canada Goose - 29 Mallard - 25 Tufted Duck - 9 Grey Heron - 3 Teal - 16 Saline Lagoon Curlew - 2 Teal - 14 Common Snipe - 1 Hawthorn Wood Willow Tit - 1 Coal Tit - 7 Great Tit - 9 Blue Tit - 14 Bul
6 November 2015
Today's Sightings
Wader Lake Time/AM Tide/High Teal - 14 Herring Gull - 4 Hawthorn Wood Dunnock - 1 Bullfinch - 2 Treecreeper - 2 Great Tits - 2 Coal Tits - 5 Pheasants - 6
2 November 2015
Today's Sightings
Wader Lake Time - AM/Tide Level - Mid Common Snipe - 6 Redshank - 14 Lapwing - 32 Black Headed Gull - 56 Herring Gull - 4 Teal - 55 Grey Heron - 2 Grey Wagtail - 1 Black tailed Godwit - 1 Saline Lagoon Common Snipe - 10 Teal - 40 Curlew - 2 Grey Heron - 1
1 November 2015
Rare visitor!
We again have a (very handsome) male Ferruginous duck on site today. The bird has been here since Friday, first spotted in the filter reed beds. This species has not been seen wild on site for over thirty years!
1 November 2015
Sightings Update
This afternoon at 4 o clock we spotted an adult male Ferruginous duck in the white headed duck pen on the inner circle. This is the second sighting in two days, first spotted in the filter reed beds. This species has not been seen on site for over thirt
31 October 2015