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>
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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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Wiktionary's word of the day:
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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Wikiquote quote of the day:
There is surely nothing other than the single purpose of the
present moment. A man's whole life is a succession of moment after
moment. There will be nothing else to do, and nothing else to pursue.
Live being true to the single purpose of the moment.
--Yamamoto Tsunetomo
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Yamamoto_Tsunetomo>