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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 - 24/1/2018

Wader Lake (AM, high tide):

Grey heron 4 (2 in hedge)

Mallard 98

Eurasian teal 83

Eurasian wigeon 2

Lapwing 44

Shelduck 17

Common buzzard 1 (flying over, heading North East)

Canada goose 1

Kestrel 1

Common snipe 10

Black-headed gull 25

 

Saline lagoon:

Shelduck 2

Eurasian teal 11

 

Hawthorn Wood feeding station:

Willow tit 1

Bullfinch 5

Siskin 4

Great tit 4

Blue tit 5

Coal tit 3

 

Plus:

A greater black-backed gull feeding on a dead pheasant on the river

A male kingfisher in the gully

A ferruginous duck in the white-headed duck pen

A great-spotted woodpecker calling in Spring Gill Wood

Lesser redpoll in the hawthorn scrub at the duckery 9

Tufted duck on the reservoir 42

Tree sparrow on the centre feeders 5

Emerging flora - snowdrops near the gully/compost toilet and bluebells, snowdrops, ramsons and lords-and-ladies in Hawthorn Wood and fungi - velvet shank fungi on a willow tree in the gully.