One of the important things about renting a holiday cottage may be the freedom it provides you with. And when freedom can be your thing, then you could don’ much better than to invest your visit to a many country cottage holiday cottages.
Some of our cottages possess the advantage of being visiting distance in the Durham Wildlife Trust reserves. These reserves are within 25 miles in the beautiful and historic capital of scotland- Durham and expand to some total of some 550 hectares of the richest and many diverse wildlife habitats found in the UK. They are here looking forward to one to explore and enjoy, so allow us to inform you of some of the areas you could visit;
If watching birds is where your interest lies, you will want to start at Joe’s Pond. This former clay pit can be a deep, freshwater site flanked by dense scrub and Willow and it is home to over 140 species of birds, from Long-Eared Owls to Teal and Ruddy Duck. Not just that, but the mixed habitat is also the place to find six types of dragon and damsel fly as well as water invertebrates for example Water Scorpion and Great Pond Snails. With two artificially created wild flower meadows, there will be something for all at Joe’s Pond.
If your good walk is the thing that you like, then visit Hedleyhope Fell. This rare, mid-altitude heathland is among the largest samples of its kind while offering a stunning landscape by having an incredible cornucopia of wildlife, which is certain to distract you from your main goal and turning a fast brisk enter a lengthy fascinating ramble. The heath is really 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. Take the digital camera as the attractiveness of all the heather, bell heather, cross-leaved heath, crowberry, bilberry and cotton grass is a photographers heaven. Various rare plants seen in these areas include petty whin, stags-horn club moss and adders tongue fern in the event you needed more to snap! Needless to say here there is an abundant of wildlife you will run into and it is an ideal back drop for any picnic.
The most recent area to come under the Durham Wildlife Trust is Milkwellburn Wood, a native woodland that can now be enjoyed forever. Situated near Blackhall Mill and Chopwell the site has become designated like 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. This area houses many wildlife birds including red kite, tawny owl, woodcock, sparrow hawk, blackcap, garden warbler, tree pipit and so additional, oh and lets keep in mind you have the badgers, foxes, roe deer and red squirrels this is worth a darn moving out at any time of the season!
These are merely a number 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 next time you see where to go for the holidays, take a look at us, Country Cottage Holiday and rent our stunning cottages and possibly pay Durham Wildlife Trust reserve a trip.
