CountrysideNK

2/2 Here are some highlights of the meadow earlier on in the year April-June 2025. This enabled by cutting and raking off the meadow at least once per year.

1/2 After a meadow cut on @NorthKestevenDC Lollycocks Field Nature Reserve earlier in the week local Sleaford Volunteers helped the @hillholtwood CountrysideNK Ranger to rake up the cuttings, top up some trampled down dead hedging and trim back around the “Rising Ash Sculpture”

Gates, bridges, bramble and paths. The @hillholtwood CountrysideNK Ranger has been out and about improving access on the @NorthKestevenDC Stepping Out Walk footpaths around Metheringham Barff today

In the run up to the #BigButterflyCount the @hillholtwood CountrysideNK Ranger has seen a good number of butterflies out and about in Lincolnshire farmland and urban green space. Ringlet, Meadow Brown, Gatekeeper, Common Blue

This mornings weekend litter haul picked by the @hillholtwood CountrysideNK Ranger on @NorthKestevenDC Millennium Green this morning. Enjoyed by all ages and sadly littered by all ages. Adult dog owners what colour is your slung/dropped filled dog poo bag today?

An attractive new interpretation board on @NorthKestevenDC Millennium Green, North Hykeham. Designed and constructed by @LindumGroup using pictures of the sites wildlife taken by the @hillholtwood CountrysideNK Ranger. Thanks to the NKDC Waste Team for its installation.

Serenaded by Wood Pigeons, a hopeful rain soaked Cuckoo calling on @NorthKestevenDC Millennium Green, North Hykeham this morning @hillholtwood

Coming soon, our treehouse in the woods is almost complete and available to rent for a tranquil escape

Known as Moon, Dog or Ox, whatever you like to call them, the Oxeye Daisies on @NorthKestevenDC Lollycocks Field Local Nature Reserve, Sleaford and Millennium Green, North Hykeham are looking fantastic at the moment @hillholtwood @heartoflincs

🌻Calling all plant lovers!🌻 Head to @MrsSmithCottage in Navenby TOMORROW for their Plant Sale and Swap, 12pm-3pm. Get your garden ready for the summer - bring your own plants, or just come to browse and buy, all while enjoying the wonderful garden at the cottage. pic.twitter.com/DqR00Nt31a

A recent meet with our local Sleaford Volunteers that assisted the @hillholtwood CountrysideNK Ranger carry out light maintenance on @NorthKestevenDC Lollycocks Field LNR. Including litter picking, overhead tree branch pruning, grass cutting and digging out invasive Common Docks.

There will surely be some gold medal winners found this week for #WildflowerHour! 🏅 The challenge set this week by the lovely team at @wildflower_hour is wide open - anything from single wildflower species to myriad variety. They just have to look spectacular!

A Big Thank You to our volunteers assisting the @hillholtwood CountrysideNK Ranger on @NorthKestevenDC “The Nettles”yesterday. Litter picking, volunteer grown wildflower planting and mowing in the spirit of #NoMowMay leaving swathes of rough grass, Cow Parsley and Buttercup uncut

A filled Dog Poo bag and a pair of swimming shorts hanging on a tree. Just a couple of the usual suspects found by the @hillholtwood CountrysideNK Ranger on @NorthKestevenDC Millennium Green this morning. Neither of them life savers btw if the life saving throw rope is missing.

The Heckington Eau and its surrounding farmland, Lincolnshire. A current soundscape for Greater Whitethroat, Common Reed Warbler, Skylark and Moorhen

A great day recently with local and guesting volunteers from Notts and Northants on @NorthKestevenDC Lollycocks Field, Sleaford. Helping the @hillholtwood CountrysideNK Ranger plant rescued snowdrops, donated hedge whips, litter pick and clear overwintered Great Willowherb

A great Spring find for the @hillholtwood CountrysideNK Ranger. First time frog spawn in a scrape dug out by hand during the Blue Green Corridor Project on @NorthKestevenDC Lollycocks Field back in September 2022. As intended a fish free habitat created for amphibians to breed in

On a positive note the @hillholtwood CountrysideNK Ranger put a newly refurbished nest box back up on @NorthKestevenDC Millennium Green, North Hykeham this morning.

@lincsblogger The River Slea Mute Swans exploring the pond on Lollycocks Field Local Nature Reserve, Sleaford, #Lincolnshire

Some recent volunteering activity on @hillholtwood @NorthKestevenDC Lollycocks Field Local Nature Reserve, Sleaford. Activities included litter picking, deadwood habitat creation and bramble clearance.