The popular Nottinghamshire reserve has around 500,000 visits a year
Surrounded by nature, it's as if we've been dropped in the middle of the countryside. Yet we're only half a mile away from a busy retail park, four lanes of constant traffic, and a sprawling residential area.
The visitor centre café is where another species flock. Homo sapiens converge for sandwiches, jacket potatoes, soup or one of the delicious looking cakes and a cup of coffee. No wonder there's more people sitting outside than in on this particular day - the balcony is a suntrap with a gorgeous view of one of the ponds.
Retired postman Colin Smith, 63, of Stapleford, has come armed with a telescope and binoculars. The keen birdwatcher, who visits several times a week, usually spots around 40 species each time. There's no sign of a bittern, one of the reserve's rarer birds. With the recent expansion of the reedbeds though, the trust hopes that the secretive members of the heron family will start breeding there again. Lucky visitors might also spot an elusive otter as well. It just wasn't to be for us this day - we had to make do with a squirrel scampering up a tree.
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