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Today's sightings
Wader Lake Time – AM/Tide – Mid Avocet – 11 Tufted duck – 10 Shelduck – 16 Grey heron – 20 Oystercatcher - 4 Teal - 6 Grey lag goose - 25 Canada goose - 20 Black headed gulls - 15 Herring gull - 7 Mute swan - 2 Saline Lagoon Oystercatcher
15 March 2016
Today's Sightings
Wader Lake Time - AM/Tide - Mid Avocet - 2 Tufted Duck - 37 Shelduck - 48 Grey Heron - 27 Lapwing - 25 Redshank - 2 Canada Goose - 1 Mute Swan - 2 Oystercatcher - 2 Wigeon - 1 Stock Dove - 2 Greylag Geese - 6 Kestrel - 1 Jay - 1 Other Birds Siskin - South
6 March 2016
Today's Sightings
Wader Lake Time - AM/Tide - Low Avocet - 1 Lapwing - 22 Oystercatcher - 2 Redshank - 4 Grey Heron - (20 nesting) - 38 Shelduck - 54 Teal - 27 Wigeon - 2 Mute Swan - 2 Saline Lagoon Shelduck - 6 Oystercatcher - 2 Teal - 10 Redshank - 3 Other Birds Kestrel
5 March 2016
Regionally rare wading bird returns
Regionally rare avocets have begun their annual return to a North East wetland reserve. WWT Washington Wetland Centre welcomed the first of its iconic wading birds of the season on 4 March – just 10 days later than the site’s previous record of 23 Feb
4 March 2016
Today's Sightings
Wader Lake Time/AM Tide/Mid-High Avocet - 1 Gadwall - 4 Black-headed Gulls - 24 Goosander - 3 Oystercatcher - 2 Shelduck - 16 Tufted Duck - 40 Redshank - 1 Grey Heron - 35 (20 nests) Lapwing - 23 Saline Lagoon Time/AM
4 March 2016
First avocet
Our first avocet of the season is down on Wader Lake this morning.
4 March 2016
Today's Sighting's
WADER LAKE 90% FROZEN / MID TIDE Lapwing - 14 Grey Heron - 14 Redshank - 1 Oystercatcher - 1 Stock Dove - 2 Mute Swan - 2 Black- Headed Gull - 130 Mistle Thrush - 2 Eurasian Teal - 4 Shelduck - 26 SALINE LAGOON FROZEN OTHER BIRDS Lesser
29 February 2016
Today's Sighting's
WADER LAKE / AM / MID-LOW Oystercatcher - 2 Lapwing - 11 Grey Heron - 17 Canada Goose - 4 Eurasian Teal - 14 Shelduck - 16 Mute Swan - 2 OTHER BIRDS / AM Tufted Duck (River Wear) - 4 Goldcrest (Spring Gill Wood) - 1 Mistle Thrush (Spring Gill Woo
28 February 2016
Breeding bird update
Each year our reserve manager John produces a Breeding Bird Survey Summary, detailing the successes and stories of the key wild bird species that have bred here on site. The 2015 results are now in and highlights include seven nesting avocet pairs, in wha
24 February 2016
Today's Sightings
Wader Lake Time - AM/Tide - Low Lapwing - 25 Shelduck - 26 Redshank - 1 Oystercatcher - 2 Grey Heron - 25 Canada Goose - 36 Jay - 1 Song Thrush - 1 Saline Lagoon Oystercatcher - 2 Shelduck - 3 Stock Dove - 1 Other Birds Song Thrush - Duckery - 1 Redshank
21 February 2016
Today's Sightings
Wader Lake Time - AM/Tide - Low Grey Heron - 19 Teal - 1 Shelduck - 24 Lapwing - 4 Oystercatcher - 3 Black headed Gull - 84 Herring Gull - 25 Redshank - 1 Goosander - 1 Saline Lagoon Common Snipe - 6 Teal - 6 Other Birds Goosander - River - 3 Tufted Duck
20 February 2016
Today's Sightings
Wader Lake Time/AM Tide/Mid Black-headed Gull - 30 Shelduck - 12 Grey Heron - 14 Herring Gull - 10 Saline Lagoon Grey Heron - 1 Hawthorn Wood Reed Bunting - 1 Blue Tit - 10 Nuthatch - 2 Great Spotted Woodpecker - 1 Great Tit
17 February 2016
Today's Sightings
Wader Lake Time - AM/Tide - Mid Common Snipe - 1 Eurasian Teal - 14 Shelduck - 27 Grey Heron - 15 Saline Lagoon Grey Heron - 1 Oystercatcher - 2 Shelduck - 2 Goosander - 3 Other Birds Jay - Orchard - 1 Kestrel - Reservoir - 1 Treecreeper - Hollowood - 3 T
14 February 2016
Today's Sightings
Wader Lake Tide Mid Curlew - 1 Shelduck - 8 Canada Goose - 40 Teal - 10 Heron - 12 Other Birds Mistle Thrush - Window on the Wear - 1 Tufted Duck - River Wear - 25 Hawthorn Wood Bullfinch - 6 Long tailed tit - 8 G. S. Woodpecker - 2 Chaffinch - 6
9 February 2016
Today's sightings
Wader Lake (AM low tide): Lapwing - 3 Grey heron - 10 Shelduck - 9 Stock dove - 1 Eurasian teal - 9 Tufted duck - 3 Saline Lagoon (AM low tide): Curlew - 1 Shelduck - 2 Hawthorn Wood: Robin - 3 Long-tailed tit - 5 Blackbird - 4 Coal tit - 5
8 February 2016