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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 - 12/09/2017

Wader Lake (AM, high):

Kestrel (pair on camera tower) 2

Gadwall 1

Ruff 1

Grey heron 1

Black-tailed godwit 4

Curlew 51

Shelduck 3

Redshank 68

Lapwing 101

Teal 8

Common snipe 1

 

Saline Lagoon:

Teal 9

Lesser black-backed gull 1

Redshank 2

 

Hawthorn Wood:

Bullfinch 5

Great-spotted woodpecker 1

 

Plus:

A sparrowhawk on East Down

A juvenile grey heron at Window on the Wear

A mute swan on the River Wear

Three jay in Spring Gill Wood and one in North Wood

A coal tit on the centre bird feeders

A chiffchaff on Wader Lake footpath

A treecreeper near the stream channel

 

Invertebrates:

Common darter and migrant hawker dragonflies

Speckled wood and red admiral butterflies

 

Flora:

Water mint and hemp agrimony