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Surviving winter: How we give wildlife a spring start
News News And Stories Blog Surviving Winter How We Give Wildlife A Spring Start
It’s not just our migrating birds that are facing a challenging time. In recent years the breeding rates of many of our UK wading birds have declined too. At WWT we manage 3,000 hectares of prime wetland habitat, much of it designated as nationally or i
Wildlife Sightings - 08/10/2020
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Weather: SunnyWind Speed: LightRiver Wear Tide Level: HighWader LakeAMWater Level: MidWigeon- 2Teal- 42Shoveler- 6Gadwall- 6Shelduck- 4Grey Heron- 6Lapwing- 30Curlew- 6Redshank- 8Saline LagoonAMTide Level: High but fallingCurlewGrey HeronHawthorn WoodAMGr
Fall for WWT Washington this autumn
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Just as wetlands offer sanctuary to thousands of animals over the colder months, they also make the perfect place to safely escape the everyday and appreciate one of nature’s greatest shows - autumn. For local wetland centre WWT Washington, it is a
WWT launches new gift card for admissions, gift shop, and cafe
News News And Stories News Wwt Launches New Gift Card For Admissions Gift Shop And Cafe
If you’re on the search for a great gift this Christmas, why not treat your loved ones to one of our newly launched gift cards?Available now, the much-demanded card can be redeemed against admission, for items in the gift shop, or food and drink in our
Planned path works - 29 November 2023
News News And Stories News Planned Path Works 28 And 29 November 2023
Path closure noticeWe have contractors on site on Wednesday 29 November to fix the path between our otter enclosure and Wader Lake. To allow vehicle access, we'll be closing off the path from our domestic duck exhibit down to the otters for the duration o
Welney sightings - 27/08/2023
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Why not get closer to nature by staying at one of our cottages on site – available to book through Airbnb by visiting the ‘Experience’ page of our website. Highlights House Martin Common Sandpiper Little Egret Green Sandpiper Greenshank S
Recent Sightings 10th-23rd July
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The black-headed gulls breeding on Deep water lake have now completed their breeding season and moved off the lake, leaving the area much quieter. There is still plenty of wildlife on the lake however, including a variety of ducks such as teal, wigeon and
Latest Sightings
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Breeding season is well underway, with more and more eggs and chicks cropping up every day. We surveyed the mere for black headed gull nests today: there was a total of 591 nests and 1140 eggs! The islands were also crawling with chicks, some just hatched
Top 5 migratory birds to look out for on our reserves
News News And Stories Blog Top 5 Migratory Birds To Look Out For On Our Reserves
Their motivation for this long, treacherous journey is to find a partner in a good nesting habitat and raise young where food is plentiful. Wetlands tick all the boxes, which is why we welcome so many different species, often in large numbers, to our rese
Whooper Swans
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Whooper Swans building up nicely with at least 44 counted on the Mere today, also last night over 20,000 Pink-footed Geese came into roost! A few more Pintail on the Mere including a male almost fully out of eclipse plumage looking as elegant as ever.A 2n
Wildlife Sightings - 22/07/2022
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Weather: Light RainRiver Wear tide Level: High A.M Wader lake:Avocet - 64Oystercatcher - 6Lapwing - 52Wood Sandpiper - 1Common Sandpiper - 1Redshank - 57Black-Tailed Godwit - 10Curlew - 16Common Snipe - 3Black-Headed Gull - 524Common Tern - 170Grey Heron
Wildlife Sightings - 28/08/2021
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Weather: sunny Wind speed: light River wear tide level: highA.MWader lake:Black - tailed godwit - 11Curlew - 20Greenshank - 3Dunlin - 2Redshank - 52Common snipe - 4Lapwing - `40Grey heron - 7Teal - 22Sedge warbler - 4White wagtail - 2Saline lagoon:Teal -
Wildlife Sightings 20/10/21
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Weather: SunnyWind Speed: LowRiver Wear Tide Level: LowWader LakeTeal - 37Moorhen - 8Jay - 1Lapwing - 37Saline LagoonLittle EgretGrey HeronLBB GullRedshankLong-tailed titHawthorn WoodWillow tit - 1Sparrow hawk (f) - 1Nuthatch
Migrations series: how birds use wetlands as migration service-stations
News News And Stories Blog Migratory Service Stations How Wetlands Help Birds Migrate
Migration is one of the biggest events in a bird’s life. The journeys they undertake twice a year between their winter and summer homes is challenging and dangerous. Across their flyway, migrating birds rely on a chain of staging sites where they can fe
December
Discover Wetlands Wetland Wildlife Wildlife By Month December
Wetland wildlife in December The cold weather is here and with it, birds in their thousands are congregating en masse at our wetlands, using the habitat as a relatively warm refuge in which to rest and feed together. Waterbirds of all shapes an