Wildlife and bird watching in the East Midlands
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Wildlife watching in the East Midlands is dominated by the Wash and the ospreys at Rutland Water Nature Reserve
There are plenty of other opportunities to see wildlife and birds here though, and an exciting development is the huge new reserve being created at the recently flooded Alkborough Flats on the Humber Estuary.
Other major wildlife habitats can be found at the Far Ings National Nature Reserve, the Derbyshire Dales and the Peak District.
There are plenty of other opportunities to see wildlife and birds here though, and an exciting development is the huge new reserve being created at the recently flooded Alkborough Flats on the Humber Estuary.
Other major wildlife habitats can be found at the Far Ings National Nature Reserve, the Derbyshire Dales and the Peak District.
County by county
Recent East Midlands news
- Another Goshawk nest destroyed in the Derwent Valley
- Oil beetles rediscovered in Lincolnshire after 28 years
- Minsmere, Ouse Washes & Fairburn Ings amongst RSPB reserves flooded
- Wildlife at risk as drought spreads
- Is the Natterjack toad about to croak?
- Drought conditions playing havoc with bluebell season
- Wildlife warning as drought continues
- Sperm whale washes up on Skegness Beach
- UK government announces 12 large scale 'wildlife zones'
- Gamekeeper loses appeal
- Leucistic sparrows near Nottingham
- Glossy ibis in Derbyshire
- New 460 acre 'Jubilee' forest to be created in UK's East Midlands
- David Shepherd to talk at WildlifeXpo
- Another gamekeeper convicted
More East Midlands news
- Group of rare bats found in Nottinghamshire wood
- Rutland osprey missing - feared shot
- UK Wildlife Photography Competition 2011 launched
- Twite populations threatened by wildfires
- Help find Britain's disappearing oil beetles
- First ospreys arrive back in the UK
- Rare hazel pot beetle makes its hideout in Sherwood Forest
- Toads on the roads – Please be careful
- Find a wood near you - New website launched listing 14,000 woods in the UK to visit
- Why is Herefordshire ignored by national conservation bodies? RSPB, we need you.
- Major new wildlife exhibition launched in London
- Donna Nook seals thriving in the harsh winter
- Missing piece of Lincolnshire Fen purchased
- Birds really do need some help in this weather
- 3 Ospreys shot in UK
Another Goshawk nest destroyed in the Derwent ValleyThe crime is the latest in a long-running series of attacks on birds of prey in the Peak District. It leaves only one active goshawk nest in the entire Derwent Valley, which previously has held six pairs of these birds of prey.
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Rutland osprey missing - feared shot Staff from Anglian Water and the Rutland Osprey Project fear an osprey has been shot in Rutland. The missing bird was the first to return to the site from its African wintering grounds after being released in Rutland, as part of the Rutland Osprey Project.
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First ospreys arrive back in the UKThe ospreys are back. EJ has arrived at Loch Garten, and the romantically named 03(97) is back at his nest at Rutland Water, and other ospreys have been sighted all over the UK, but as yet there is now sign of the 'Lady of the Loch', the amazing 25 year old bird from The Loch of the Lowes.
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