The Holkham National Nature Reserve is the largest such reserve in England. It is on the Norfolk coast between Burnham Overy Staithe and Blakeney, and is managed by Natural England with the cooperation of the Holkham Estate. Its 3,900 hectares (9,600 acres) include a wide range of habitats, such as grazing marsh, woodland, salt marsh, sand dunes and foreshore. The reserve is part of the North Norfolk Coast Site of Special Scientific Interest, additionally protected through Natura 2000, Special Protection Area and Ramsar listings, and is part of both an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty and a World Biosphere Reserve. Holkham is important for wintering wildfowl, especially pink-footed geese, Eurasian wigeons and brent geese, but it also has breeding waders, and attracts many migrating birds in autumn. A number of scarce invertebrates and plants can be found in the dunes, and the reserve is one of only two sites in the UK with an antlion colony. The Vikings navigated the creeks to establish Holkham village. The reserve was created in 1967 mostly from the Holkham estate, owned since the 17th century by the Earls of Leicester, and attracts over 100,000 visitors a year, including birdwatchers, horse riders and naturists.

Read more: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holkham_National_Nature_Reserve

_______________________________ Today's selected anniversaries:

1301:

The Árpád dynasty, which had ruled Hungary since the late 9th century, ended with the death of King Andrew III. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%81rp%C3%A1d_dynasty

1724:

Philip V, the first Bourbon ruler of Spain, abdicated in favor of his eldest son Louis. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_V_of_Spain

1900:

Giacomo Puccini's opera Tosca, based on the play La Tosca by French dramatist Victorien Sardou, premiered at the Teatro Costanzi in Rome. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tosca

1953:

Josip Broz Tito was inaugurated as the first President of Yugoslavia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josip_Broz_Tito

1975:

British teenage heiress Lesley Whittle was kidnapped by Donald Neilson and subsequently murdered during a failed ransom collection attempt. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Lesley_Whittle

_____________________________ Wiktionary's word of the day:

orgulous: Proud; haughty; disdainful. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/orgulous

___________________________ Wikiquote quote of the day:

Not less strong than the will to truth must be the will to sincerity. Only an age, which can show the courage of sincerity, can possess truth, which works as a spiritual force within it.   --Albert Schweitzer https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Albert_Schweitzer