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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 - 10/2/2018

Wader Lake (AM, mid-tide):

Lapwing 260

Redshank 4

Common snipe 6

Wigeon 2

Teal 44

Shoveler 10

Shelduck 26

Lesser black-backed gull 5

Herring gull 47

Black-headed gull 460

Curlew (flew off at 8.15am at headed west) 500

 

Saline lagoon: (AM mid-tide):

Curlew (on Wader Meadow) 100

 

Hawthorn Wood hide:

Goldcrest 2

Treecreeper 1

Nuthatch 1

Great-spotted woodpecker (two female, one male) 3

Bullfinch 20

Chaffinch 10

Willow tit 1

Long-tailed tit 8

Coal tit 8

 

Plus:

A woodcock (flushed by a stoat) at North Wood

A male kestrel taking a blackbird on Wader Lake footpath

Tree sparrows (6) and great-spotted woodpecker (2) on the centre feeders

Gadwall (3), tufted duck (72) and shoveler (2) on the reservoir