Nottinghamshire Wildlife Trust column: Idle Valley Nature Reserve, Retford, is perfect spot for seeing wildlife in the winter Published: 07:00, 03 January 2021
The Idle Valley Nature Reserve, just outside Retford, provides a wealth of wildlife opportunities at any time of year but is particularly worth a visit in winter when interest is heightened by the arrival of huge flocks of ducks and other water birds,
writes Erin McDaid, of Nottinghamshire Wildlife Trust.
While birdwatchers visit all year around due to the range of habitats and its sheer scale, it is actually one of the most important areas in the East Midlands for over-wintering wildfowl and well worth a visit during the colder months.
Volunteers plant hundreds of new trees at Nottinghamshire nature reserve
The site has seen unprecedented visitor numbers during the pandemic
Volunteers planting trees at Skylarks Nature Reserve (Image: Nottinghamshire Wildlife Trust)
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Wheels still turning for Farndon s Christmas tree tradition despite coronavirus
| Updated: 15:06, 23 December 2020
A Christmas tree on wheels has been making its traditional ârootâ around a village bringing cheer to the doorstep.
The mobile tree has been a village tradition in Farndon for a number of years.
Pictures of the mobile christmas tree in Farndon. Due to covid19 restrictions carol singing around the village was cancelled so instead residents han have the tree for a night for a donation to charity. L>R - Lauren Haswell of Newark, who works at Farndon School, Chair of FREG Sarah Fussey, Anne-Marie Spence of The Meadows, Farndon. 171220JT2-1 (43622371)
CEMEX finalises sale of Attenborough Nature Reserve to Nottinghamshire Wildlife Trust
Building materials supplier CEMEX is pleased to confirm that the sale of its award-winning Attenborough Nature Reserve to the Nottinghamshire Wildlife Trust has been finalised.
The Trust has been keen to purchase the reserve for many years, and this has become possible thanks to a £750,000 grant from Biffa Award and public backing for the Trust’s Attenborough Lifeline Appeal.
Nottinghamshire Wildlife Trust, which has managed the site for over 50 years, launched its Lifeline Appeal campaign for funding to purchase the reserve in November 2019 - following the end of CEMEX’s commercial sand and gravel extraction which helped shape the site for almost a century. It is now a designated Site of Special Scientific Interest. Such is the popularity of the nature reserve, an area of restored former sand and gravel quarries alongside the River Trent south of Nottingham, that the charity reached its amb