CountrysideNK

We're a @NorthKestevenDC service that combines over 135 miles of Stepping Out Walks and nature sites, as well as a wide range of exciting & educational events!

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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.

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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”

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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

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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

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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?

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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.

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

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

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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

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🌻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. https://t.co/DqR00Nt31a

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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.

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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!

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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

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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.

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

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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

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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

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

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

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