BIRDIE BOOST FOR COURSE

Greetham Valley, in Rutland, has been crowned 2017 Environmental Golf Course of the Year. The award recognises venues which demonstrate environmental best practice. Its initiatives include wildflower meadows, a solitary bee tower, a series of nesting boxes for birds and bats, a reedbed and 17 new ponds, wildlife-friendly drystone and log walls, bird feeders, feeding towers and hides, and a floating bird island.