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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 - 20/08/16

a.m. Tide Level: Mid

Wader Lake

Avocet 3

Lapwing 160

Redshank 72

Common snipe 6

Little ringed plover 1

Black-tailed godwit 6

Common sandpiper 1

Common tern 38

Saline Lagoon

Sparrowhawk (low over lagoon) 1

Curlew 2

Hawthorn Wood

Great spotted woodpecker 2

Bullfinch 18

Chaffinch 32

Greenfinch 14

Goldfinch 8

Willow tit 3

Coal tit 6

Long-tailed tit 7

Nuthatch 1

Other birds

Kingfisher - 1 - River reedbed pool

Little egret - 1 - River Wear

Mute swan - 2 ad + 3 young - White head pond

Ferruginous duck - 1 - Reservoir

Tufted duck - 1 - Reservoir

Coot - 5 + 5 young - Reservoir

Other wildlife/flora

Azure damselfly

Blue tailed damselfly

Common darter

Four spotted chaser

Stonecap

Sea aster

Lesser sea spurrey

Hastate orache

Sea club-rush