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⚠️ Site closed: Sunday 25 October ⚠️

Due to the weather warning currently in place and the forecast of strong winds, WWT Washington Wetland Centre will be closed on Sunday 25 October.

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Wildlife sightings - 01/02/2018

Wader Lake (AM, low tide):

Mute swan 1

Stock dove 7

Shelduck 27

Lapwing 90+ (very mobile thanks to a hunting sparrowhawk!)

Grey heron 7

Black-headed gull 59

Common snipe 1

Eurasian teal 23 (17 male and 6 female)

Sparrowhawk 1 (large mature female)

 

Saline lagoon (AM, low tide):

Shelduck 2

Eurasian teal 13 (7 male and 8 female)

 

Hawthorn Wood feeding station:

Coal tit 3

Blue tit 6

Great tit 9

Long-tailed tit 6

Jay 1

 

Plus:

Tree sparrow (6) and great-spotted woodpecker (1) on the centre feeders

Goldeneye (2 males) and a grey heron on the River Wear

Bullfinch in the orchard 8

Snowdrops

Hazel catkins

Dead Man's Fingers fungi