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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 - 20/02/2018

Wader Lake (AM, low tide):

Female pintail (first record for at least five years)

Black-tailed godwit 2

Mute swan 2

Grey heron 26

Tufted duck 6 (2 male, 4 female)

Oystercatcher 4

Kestrel 2 (pair)

Gadwall 2 (pair)

Common snipe 9

Eurasian wigeon 3 (2 male, one female)

Shelduck 28

 

Saline lagoon (AM, low tide):

Curlew 1

Shelduck 7

Eurasian teal 12

 

Hawthorn Wood feeding station:

Great-spotted woodpecker 2 (males)

Greenfinch 1

Long-tailed tit 6

Bullfinch 7 (4 male, 3 female)

Nuthatch 1

Goldfinch 1

Chaffinch 7

Blackbird 2

 

Plus:

Tree sparrow and song thrush heard on East Down

Tree sparrow on the centre feeders 7

Ramsons

Snow drops

Coral spot fungus