One of many advantages of renting a vacation cottage is the freedom it provides you with. Of course, if freedom can be your thing, then you may don better than to spend your visit to a many country cottage holiday cottages.
Some of our cottages hold the advantage of being visiting distance from your Durham Wildlife Trust reserves. These reserves are within 25 miles from the beautiful and historic town of Durham and expand to a total of some 550 hectares from the richest and a lot diverse wildlife habitats found in britain. They are here waiting for one to explore and luxuriate in, so let us tell you about a few of the areas you can visit;
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If bird watching is where your interest lies, why not start at Joes Pond. This former clay pit can be a deep, freshwater site encompassed by dense scrub and Willow and is home to over 140 varieties of birds, from Long-Eared Owls to Teal and Ruddy Duck. Not only this, but the mixed habitat can also be home to six kinds of dragon and damsel fly along with water invertebrates including Water Scorpion and Great Pond Snails. With two artificially created wild flower meadows, there will be something for all at Joes Pond.
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In case a good walk is the thing that you enjoy, then visit Hedleyhope Fell. This rare, mid-altitude heathland is among the largest samples of this category and provides a sensational landscape with an incredible cornucopia of wildlife, which can be guaranteed to distract you from your main goal and turning a simple brisk walk into a lengthy fascinating ramble. The heath can be a complicated patchwork of heathers, bracken, rush pasture and grasses, such as a number of rare plants, providing habitats for reptiles, lizards, butterflies and ground nesting birds like Lapwing, Curlew, Black Grouse and Snipe. Dont forget to take you guessed it-your camera since the great thing about all the heather, bell heather, cross-leaved heath, crowberry, bilberry and cotton grass is a photographers heaven. The number of rare plants found in these areas include petty whin, stags-horn club moss and adders tongue fern in the event you wanted more to snap! Obviously here it has an abundant of wildlife that you will encounter and is also the right back drop for a picnic.
The latest area in the future under the Durham Wildlife Trust is Milkwellburn Wood, a native woodland that now can participate in forever. Situated near Blackhall Mill and Chopwell the website is currently designated being a "site of nature conservation importance". This woodland offers over 2km of public footpaths and 4km of permissive paths. The woodland is 79.5 hectares of mixed conifers and broad leaf plantations and remnants of ancient semi-natural woodland. El born area hosts many wildlife birds including red kite, tawny owl, woodcock, sparrow hawk, blackcap, garden warbler, tree pipit therefore a lot more, oh and lets not forget you have the badgers, foxes, roe deer and red squirrels this is worth while moving out whenever you want of the season!
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These are just a few of around 25 reserves cared for by the Durham Wildlife Trust - section of the national band of local Wildlife Trusts doing sterling work throughout Britain, managing 2,300 wildlife reserves.
So the next occasion you consider which place to go to your holidays, take a look at us, Country Cottage Holiday and rent one of our stunning cottages and maybe pay Durham Wildlife Trust reserve a call.
