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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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WWT Washington has moved to seasonal opening days

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Wildlife sightings - 06/06/16

a.m. Tide level: mid

Wader Lake

Avocet 16 + 10 chicks

Lesser black-backed gulls 2

Little ringed plover 2

Redshank 1

Common tern 112

Redshank 1

Shoveler 3

Gadwall 5

Black headed gull 4

Oystercatcher 2

Shelduck 18 + 11 ducklings

Saline Lagoon

Grey heron 2

Shelduck 4

Swallow 5

Hawthorn Wood

Jay 2

Great spotted woodpecker 1

Chaffinch 4

Bullfinch 2

Goldfinch 1

Great tit 3

Blue tit 4

Other birds

Willow tit - 1 - Lagoon hide path

Coal tit (feeding fledglings) - 3 - Lagoon hide path

Swift - 2 - Wader Lake path

Reed warbler - 3 - Filter bed

Kestrel - 1 - over Ganderland

Blackcap - 2 - North Wood

Other wildlife and flora

Tadpoles developing well in amphibian ponds and forgotten meadow pond

Orange tip butterfly

Common butterfly

Ragged Robin

Northern marsh orchid

Cuckooflower

Silver weed