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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 - 16/11/16

a.m. Tide Level: Low

Wader Lake

Wigeon 3

Teal 117

Shelduck 3

Curlew 5

Lapwing 44

Redshank 6

Common snipe 2

Saline Lagoon

Curlew

Teal

Greater black-backed gull

Hawthorn Wood

Great spotted woodpecker 1

Nuthatch 1

Long-tailed tit 12

Willow tit 2

Coal tit 8

Blue tit 22

Great tit 11

Bullfinch 15

Greenfinch 10

Chaffinch 27

Sparrowhawk 1

Other birds

Goosander - 1 - River Wear

Grey heron - 2 - River Wear

Cormorant - 5 - River Wear

Tufted duck - 15 - Reservoir

Ferruginous duck - 1 - Reservoir

Little grebe - 1 - Reservoir

Greylag - 35 - Flew over site

Kestrel - 1 - Lagoon scrub

Fieldfare - 3 - Lagoon scrub