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Today's wildlife sightings - featuring wonderful waxwing!

1 min read • 7 March 2013

Wader Lake (AM, mid tide)

Grey heron - 22

Redshank - 107

Lapwing - 8 (with 3 holding territory)

Curlew - 2

Gadwall - 6

Teal - 14

Tufted duck - 9

Shelduck - 21

Plus 22 shelduck on the saline lagoon.

Hawthorn Wood feeding station

Coal tit - 8

Blue tit - 14

Great tit - 7

Long-tailed tit - 2

Bullfinch - 9

Chaffinch - 7

Siskin - 4

Elsewhere on site

Waxwing - 6 in the car park

Goldfinch - 6 in the car park

Collared dove - 1 in the car park (quite uncommon for WWT Washington)

Mute swan - 4 flew over site at about 9am

Little grebe - 1 on the River Wear

Cormorant - 1 on the River Wear

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