Willow Tree Fen News Today

A charitable trust set up to stop the destruction of our county’s natural habitats is marking its 75th birthday with an ambitious fundraising appeal.

The charity is trying to raise £1m to protect wildlife habitats as part of its 75th anniversary.

Spring into the season at Springfields Festival Gardens this weekend.

Competing against 11 other celebrities!

Last modified on Sun 23 May 2021 04.10 EDT A small patch of Bourne North Fen in Lincolnshire provides an intriguing contrast to the vast stretches of wheat and rapeseed that surround it. Untended for years, this little piece of land is now covered with grass and reeds surrounding a wood of willow and alder. Last week, between downpours, this tiny six-hectare plot bristled with wildlife: a cuckoo called insistently; the occasional booming sound of the bittern – one of Britain’s rarest ...

Hares, cranes, bitterns: small triumphs in the battle to rewild Britain’s landscape Robin McKie © Provided by The Guardian Photograph: Alamy A small patch of Bourne North Fen in Lincolnshire provides an intriguing contrast to the vast stretches of wheat and rapeseed that surround it. Untended for years, this little piece of land is now covered with grass and reeds surrounding a wood of willow and alder. Last week, between downpours, this tiny six-hectare plot bristled with ...

In her monthly column, Rachel Shaw, of Lincolnshire Wildlife Trust, discusses long legged birds.

 | Updated: 17:22, 22 January 2021 Lincolnshire Wildlife Trust has closed Willow Tree Fen in the hope that the newly arrived pair of cranes will repeat the breeding success on the nature reserve last year – the first time the birds bred in Lincolnshire for 400 years. Cranes form lifelong pair bonds and are very site loyal. The pair that nested at Willow Tree Fen were expected to return from their wintering grounds in February but arrived on today (Friday, January 22) and Lincolnshire Wil...