One of the great things about renting any occasion cottage may be the freedom it offers you. And when freedom is the thing, then you might don' better than to invest your holiday in one of our many country cottage holiday cottages.

A lot of our cottages hold the advantage of being visiting distance in the Durham Wildlife Trust reserves. These reserves are within 25 miles from your beautiful and historic town of Durham and expand with a total of some 550 hectares of the richest and a lot diverse wildlife habitats to be found in the united kingdom. They are here looking forward to you to definitely explore and luxuriate in, so let's inform you of some of the areas you might visit;

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If watching birds is how your interest lies, you will want to start at Joe's Pond. This former clay pit can be a deep, freshwater site surrounded by dense scrub and Willow and it is the place to find over 140 varieties of birds, from Long-Eared Owls to Teal and Ruddy Duck. Not only this, however the mixed habitat can be home to six varieties 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's something for everybody at Joe's Pond.

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If your good walk is exactly what you like, then visit Hedleyhope Fell. This rare, mid-altitude heathland is probably the largest types of its kind and provides a sensational landscape by having an incredible cornucopia of wildlife, that is sure to distract you against your goal and turning a quick brisk head into an extended fascinating ramble. The heath can be a complicated patchwork of heathers, bracken, rush pasture and grasses, such as a quantity of rare plants, providing habitats for reptiles, lizards, butterflies and ground nesting birds like Lapwing, Curlew, Black Grouse and Snipe. Don't forget to take you guessed it-your camera since the great thing about all of the heather, bell heather, cross-leaved heath, crowberry, bilberry and cotton grass is really a photographers heaven. Various rare plants found in these areas include petty whin, stags-horn club moss and adders tongue fern in case you needed more to snap! Of course here it has an abundant of wildlife that you will run into and is also an ideal back drop for any picnic.

The most recent area ahead beneath the Durham Wildlife Trust is Milkwellburn Wood, a native woodland that can now be enjoyed forever. Situated near Blackhall Mill and Chopwell the site is now designated like a "site of nature conservation importance". This woodland delivers 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. The bradenton area is home to many wildlife birds including red kite, tawny owl, woodcock, sparrow hawk, blackcap, garden warbler, tree pipit and so a lot more, oh and lets keep in mind you have the badgers, foxes, roe deer and red squirrels this can be worth while going at any time of the season!

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These are merely some of around 25 reserves taken care of from 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 for your holidays, have a look at us, Country Cottage Holiday and rent our stunning cottages and possibly pay Durham Wildlife Trust reserve a call.