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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 - 05/09/2017

Wader Lake (AM, low tide):

Knot (juvenile) 1

Redshank 29

Teal 12

Lapwing 139

Black-tailed godwit 1

Kestrel (male) 1

Pied wagtail 2

White wagtail family on passage (2 adults and 3 juveniles)

 

Saline lagoon:

Eurasian teal 9

 

Hawthorn Wood feeding station:

Chaffinch 14

Blue tit 5

Coal tit 1

Bullfinch 6

 

Plus:

A little egret on the River Wear

A great black-backed gull on the River Wear

A song thrush in Hollowood

Five blackbirds in Hollowood

A great-spotted woodpecker in Hollowood

Two shoveler on the reservoir

Five cormorant on the River Wear

 

Flora:

St John's Wort

Purple loosestrife

Yarrow

Shaggy inkcap

Blackberries on bramble

Sloes on blackthorn