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Our Chilean flamingo flock is currently being housed indoors. This is a temporary measure as a precaution to avian influenza (bird flu). We will let you know as soon as they are safe to be outdoors. Thank you for your understanding.

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Today's sightings

Wader Lake AM mid-level tide

Black-tailed godwit - 1

Little ringed plover - 1

Redshank - 2 plus 4 chicks

Avocets - 10

Lapwing - 4 plus 4 chicks

Grey heron - 8

Shelduck - 6

Gadwall - 8

Wigeon - 2

Common tern - 43

Shoveler - 2

 

Hawthorn Wood feeding station

Bullfinch - 4

Greenfinch - 1

Chaffinch - 3

Blue tit - 1

Great tit - 2

 

Plus a reed warbler and a chiffchaff in the filter reedbed and a cormorant on the River Wear.

Invertebrates - a buff-tailed bumble bee in Hawthorn Wood.

 

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