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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 - 14/07/16

a.m. Tide Level Mid

Wader Lake

Avocet 34 + 2 chicks

Oystercatcher 4

Little ringed plover 3

Lapwing 31

Redshank 16

Grey heron 27

Common tern 309

Black headed gull 43 + 2 young

Gadwall 6 + 10 ducklings

Saline Lagoon

Avocet 6

Lapwing 82

Redshank 20

Common sandpiper 3

Oystercatcher 2

Grey heron 4

Black headed gull 130

Lesser black backed gull 2

Curlew 1

Hawthorn Wood

Great spotted woodpecker 3

Jay 1

Bullfinch 20

Greenfinch 10

Goldfinch 6

Chaffinch 27

Willow tit 2

Coal tit 3

Blue tit 16

Great tit 10

Dunnock 6

Other birds

Jay - 3 - North Wood

Common whitethroat - 5 - Gully

Swallow - 2 - Northumbrian Water hide (2nd brood)

Ferruginous duck - 1 - reservoir

Other wildlife/flora

Tadpoles developing into froglets

Meadow brown

Speckled wood

Tufted vetch

Meadow vetchling

Common knapweed

Great burnet