RSPB Dearne Valley Old Moor is an 89-hectare (220-acre) wetlands nature reserve in the Dearne Valley near Barnsley, South Yorkshire, run by the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB). It lies on the junction of the A633 and A6195 roads and is bordered by the Trans Pennine Trail long-distance path. Old Moor is managed to benefit bitterns, breeding waders such as lapwings, redshanks and avocets, and wintering golden plovers. Passerine birds include a small colony of tree sparrows and good numbers of willow tits, thriving despite a steep decline elsewhere in the UK. The reserve, along with others nearby, forms part of a landscape-scale project to create wildlife habitat in the Dearne Valley. As of 2018, the reserve had about 100,000 visits per year. It may benefit from future habitat creation beyond the reserve and improved accessibility, although there is also a potential threat from climate change and flooding.
Read more: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RSPB_Dearne_Valley_Old_Moor
_______________________________ Today's selected anniversaries:
1864:
Union General Ulysses S. Grant pulled his troops out of the Battle of Cold Harbor in Hanover County, Virginia, ending one of the bloodiest, most lopsided battles in the American Civil War. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Cold_Harbor
1942:
On her thirteenth birthday, Anne Frank began keeping her diary during the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Diary_of_a_Young_Girl
1994:
The Boeing 777, the world's largest twinjet, made its first flight. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_777
1999:
In the aftermath of the bombing of Yugoslavia and the Kosovo War, the NATO-led Kosovo Force entered Kosovo with a mandate of establishing a secure environment in the territory. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kosovo_Force
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tokamak: (nuclear physics) A torus-shaped chamber used in nuclear fusion research in which a plasma is magnetically confined. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/tokamak
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