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The Lincolnshire Wolds

Editor: David N. Robinson

2010

"The Lincolnshire Wolds are a range of hills in the county of Lincolnshire. They are a designated Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB), and the highest area of land in eastern England between Yorkshire and Kent. This book is a collection of papers on the landscape history and regional geography of the Lincolnshire Wolds, bringing together the important known historical, natural and cultural information about the area. The volume particularly focuses on the Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty in its regional setting, making it the first of its kind to be published."

Trustees for Nature: A Memoir

Ted Smith

2007

"Ted Smith is one of the great pioneers of nature conservation, having had a lifetime involvement at both local and national level. His memoir Trustees for Nature is an intimate personal account of events and developments in wildlife conservation and of the people involved, against the background of Ted's own life, family and home. Sir David Attenborough, who wrote the foreword to the book, described it as a very important document in the history of conservation in this country. Trustees for Nature describes the foundation and development of the Lincolnshire Wildlife Trust, including the acquisition and management of a hundred nature reserves across the historic county's varied landscape. The Trust's progress is traced in the context of far reaching changes in national land use policies and practices over more than fifty years. Also described is the rapid growth nationwide of the County Wildlife Trusts' movement in the late 1950s and in the 1960s, and the conversion of the Society for the Promotion of Nature Reserves into a national association, now the Royal Society of Wildlife Trusts - in all of which Ted played a leading role."

Exploring Woodland: Peak District and Central England

The Woodland Trust

2007

"Exploring Woodland is a series of guides from the Woodland Trust that describe and illustrate 101 woodland sites in different parts of the UK. Ilustrated with site maps and photographs, these are the essential woodland guides for all tree lovers. Both privately owned and public woods are included in the guides. There is a map of each site and information on how to find it, the type of woodland, the facilities available and what to look out for on your visit, including the wildlife that you may meet there. All sites have been visited by independent researchers so that the information in each book is up-to-date. Exploring Woodland: Peak District and Central England covers the ancient woodland of the central counties of England from South Yorkshire through Derbyshire, Nottinghamshire and the Peak District to Leicestershire, and east to Lincolnshire. It includes Sherwood Forest, perhaps England's best-known forest of all."

Where to Watch Birds: East Midlands

Rob Fray

2006

"The five counties covered in this guide (Derbyshire, Leicestershire, Lincolnshire, Northamptonshire and Nottinghamshire) comprise natural and man-made areas as diverse as the Wash, Rutland Water and Sherwood Forest. Famous migration hot spots are found on the Lincolnshire coast, while the river valleys of the Humber, Trent, Welland and Nene all atttract a wide range of species. Following the series format, each of the 49 major sites is dealt with in detail, providing information on habitat, access, best times of the year to visit and the species likely to be encountered. Maps and line drawings enhance this exhaustive text."

Where to Watch Birds: East Midlands

Graham Catley

1996

"This volume is one in a series that shows where to watch birds in the UK and Ireland. Covering the counties of Lincolnshire, Northamptonshire, Derbyshire, Leicestershire and Nottinghamshire, it indicates 49 major sites and other areas of interest. It covers both man-made and natural habitats."

The Birds of Lincolnshire and South Humberside

Stephen Lorand and Keith Atkin

1989

An avifauna of the old county of Lincolnshire, including a systematic list of all the species recorded in the county.

Birds at Gibraltar Point: A Systematic List Covering The Years 1949 To 1987

R.A.O. Hickling

1988

70 page systematic list.

The Birds of Lincolnshire

A.E. Smith, R.K. Cornwallis

1955

136 page with systematic list and fold-out map.

Saga of Swans and Harrier over the Fen

Kenneth Richmond

1949

"This book. which contains two narratives of bird life, will delight the wildfowler, the bird watcher and the nature lover. Saga of Swans is largely the result of the authors's observations of a solitary Whooper Swan which spent two years on a Lincolnshire mere. during that time there were ample opportunities for studying the the swan at close quarters and of getting to know it as an individual and as a character. The life of the swan is pictured; his home life in Iceland; his flight with his family to the Outer Isles thence to Solway, the Northumbrian lochs, Derwentwater and Crowland Wash, and his sojourn there for two seasons with a pair of Mute Swans.

Harrier over the Fen describes the private life of one of the rarest of British breeding birds, the Marsh Harrier. Here too is a tale crowded in incident, yet with a background which is strictly authentic. This is a world of sedge and dyke, peopled by the skulking Bittern, the sly Rail and above all, floating like a spirit of the waters, the figure of Girriak, handsomest and most majestic of fenhawks'.

The Birds of the Humber District

John Cordeaux

1872

From the introduction:"It was with considerable hesitation that I commenced this notice of the avifauna of the Humber District, from the fact that any attempt on my part to supply a complete list of our birds (resident, migratory, and occasional visitants) must to some extent be a failure, not only from lack of time and opportunity to become thoroughly acquainted with the district, but also from having had in a great measure to work alone and unaided by local ornithologists, of whom, I regret, North Lincolnshire, compared with the neighbouring counties of Yorkshire and Norfolk, is singularly deficient. This deficiency of fellow workers, however, has to some extent been counterbalanced by an occupation requiring almost constant daily outdoor supervision in all seasons and in all weathers, thus affording most favourable facilities for noting the times of arrival and departure of our migratory birds, The sources whence my materials have been drawn are thus principally my own notes and observations, extending over a period of ten years. I am also greatly indebted to those notices of rare and accidental visitants, captured principally in East Yorkshire, and recorded during the same period in the pages of the 'Zoologist/ in which journal also many of my own notes and remarks on our birds in this work have already appeared, and, lastly, to a paper on the ornithology of Lincolnshire by the Rev. R. P. Alingtori, of Swinhope Rectory, which appeared in the 'Naturalist' for January 1852."