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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 - 09/06/2017

AM low tide

Wader Lake

Black-tailed godwit 2

Avocet 27 adults and 20 chicks

Oystercatcher 4 adults and 1 juvenile

Lapwing 21

Redshank 4

Little ringed plover 2

Grey heron 26

Common tern 140

Black-headed gull 60

Stock dove 4

Gadwall (two new broods) 8 adults and 23 ducklings

 

Saline Lagoon

Avocet 3

Lapwing 4 adults and 3 chicks

Oystercatcher 2 adults and 1 juvenile

 

Hawthorn Wood feeding station

Great-spotted woodpecker 3

Bullfinch 10 adults and 4 juvenile

Chaffinch 14

Goldfinch 4

Greenfinch 2

Great tit 10 adults and 8 juveniles

Jay 2

Moorhen 2

 

Other wildlife species

A rabbit on Forgotten Meadow

Tadpoles

Common green shieldbug

Green-veined white and speckled wood butterflies

Tree bumblebee

(Flora)

Black medick

Common centaury

Yellow rattle

Northern marsh orchid

Bee orchid

Bird's-foot trefoil

Marsh thistle