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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 - 12/04/17

AM, mid tide

 

Wader Lake:

Ringed plover 3

Avocet 21

Common snipe 5

Redshank 6

Oystercatcher 2

Pied wagtail 1

Black-tailed godwit 31

Kestrel 1

Northern lapwing 25

Stock dove 2

 

Saline lagoon:

Black-tailed godwit 1

Avocet 4

Shoveler 2

Oystercatcher 2

Gadwall 2

 

Hawthorn Wood:

Chaffinch 12

Greenfinch 3

Goldfinch 6

Dunnock 2

Great tit 4

Blue tit 2

Robin 3

 

Other birds on site:

A ferruginous duck in the white-headed duck pen

A sinensis cormorant (continental sub-species) on the River Wear

A peregrine falcon flying over the reserve

Mistle thrush in Spring Gill Wood (2) and North Wood (4)

Chiffchaff across the reserve (15)

 

Other wildlife species:

Two rabbits

Tadpoles

 

Flora:

Lesser  celandine

Wood sorrel

Hart's-tongue fern

Ramsons

Bluebells

Cuckoo flower

Cowslip

Primrose