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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 - 22/06/16

a.m. Tide Level: Low

Wader Lake

Avocet 19 + 22 chicks/juvenile

Ringed plover 1

Eurasian teal (drake) 1

Shelduck 7 + 10 ducklings

Black headed gull 2

Common tern 200 + 25 chicks

Gadwall 2 + 6 ducklings

Pied wagtail 2

Oystercatcher 3

Lapwing 7 + 5 chicks/juvenile

Sedge warbler 1

Saline Lagoon

Lapwing 7

Tufted duck 3

Shelduck 2

Swallow 8

Hawthorn Wood

Bullfinch 6

Greenfinch 1

Goldfinch 1

Dunnock 1

Robin 2

Other birds

Treecreeper = 1 + 4 fledglings - Spring Gill

Whitethroat - 2 - Lagoon footpath 2

Mute swan - 2 + 3 cygnets - White-head pen

Song thrush (juvenile) - 1 - Wader Lake footpath

Other wildlife/flora

Common toadlets

Tree bumblebee

Azure damselfly

Ragged Robin

Bee orchid

Elderflower

Yellow flag iris

Northern Marsh orchid

Spotted orchid