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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 - 17/01/2018

Wader Lake (AM, low tide, partially frozen):

Shelduck 15

Shoveler (one female, two males) 3

Lapwing 155

Eurasian teal (three pairs and two females) 8

Common snipe 2

Black-headed gull 58

Herring gulls - 8 adults, 2 first winter juveniles, 1 second winter juvenile and 1 third winter sub-adult

 

Saline lagoon (AM, low tide):

Eurasian curlew 4

Shelduck 4

 

Hawthorn Wood feeding station:

Goldcrest 1

Siskin 1

Great-spotted woodpecker 1 (female)

Coal tit 5

Redwing 1

Blue tit 8

Great tit 6

 

Plus:

A jay, three siskin and a pair of bullfinch in Middle Wood

A female sparrowhawk in South Wood

A male sparrowhawk and two tree sparrows on the centre feeders