Today's wildlife sightings - featuring wonderful waxwing!
Wader Lake (AM, mid tide)
Grey heron - 22
Redshank - 107
Lapwing - 8 (with 3 holding territory)
Curlew - 2
Gadwall - 6
Teal - 14
Tufted duck - 9
Shelduck - 21
Plus 22 shelduck on the saline lagoon.
Hawthorn Wood feeding station
Coal tit - 8
Blue tit - 14
Great tit - 7
Long-tailed tit - 2
Bullfinch - 9
Chaffinch - 7
Siskin - 4
Elsewhere on site
Waxwing - 6 in the car park
Goldfinch - 6 in the car park
Collared dove - 1 in the car park (quite uncommon for WWT Washington)
Mute swan - 4 flew over site at about 9am
Little grebe - 1 on the River Wear
Cormorant - 1 on the River Wear
