Our reserve manager John Gowland met up with the Sunderland Echo's Alison Goulding on her lunch break, as part of Bird Watching magazine's Birding Lunch campaign (1-5 April 2013).
The initiative aims to highlight the abundance of amazing bird life that can be seen in a short space of time, in the most urban of places, if you just look closely enough.
Read the full article on the Sunderland Echo's website here: http://www.sunderlandecho.com/news/have-a-birding-lunch-1-5526676
And find out more about the Birding Lunch campaign via Twitter @BirdingLunch or on their Facebook page here: http://www.facebook.com/wwtwashington?ref=hl#!/BirdingLunch?fref=ts