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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 Mon 31/07

Wader Lake

Green sandpiper 2

Dunlin

Lapwing 186

Common tern 11

Curlew 31

Common sandpiper

Lesser black backed gull

Avocet 5

Grey heron 10

Redshank 42

Shelduck 6

Saline lagoon

Lapwing 4

Black headed gull 12

Hawthorn Wood

Stock dove

Jay

Great spotted woodpecker 5

Goldfinch 7

Greenfinch 2

Bullfinch 9

Chaffinch 16

Great tit 14

Long tailed tit 6

Other birds

Kestrel (juvenile - Forgotten meadow)

Grey heron (juveniles) 2 - Window on the wear

Invertebrates

Common carder bee

Speckled wood

Flora

St John's Wort

Lords & ladies in berry

Fungi

Rosy brittlegill

Sulphur tuft

Ganoderma applanatum