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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 - 31/5/2018

Wader Lake (AM, mid-tide):

Common tern 120+

Avocet 22

Shelduck 24 + 22 chicks

Lesser black-backed gull 1

Little ringed plover 1

Oystercatcher 3

Gadwall 17

Lapwing 6 + 1 chick

Shoveler 1

Grey heron 15

 

Saline lagoon:

Shelduck 5

 

Hawthorn Wood feeding station:

Great-spotted woodpecker 1

Great tit 1

 

Plus:

A male blackcap, two bullfinch and a blackbird on Wader Lake footpath

A jay and a great-spotted woodpecker in Spring Gill Wood

A wren in North Wood

 

Invertebrates:

Azure blue damselfly on Forgotten Meadow

Tree bumblebee on Wader Lake footpath

Speckled wood butterfly

 

Flora:

Yellow flag iris