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The Countryside HourWith Chris Skinner and Paul HayesChris Skinner's High Ash Farm at Caistor St Edmund - Monday 14th March 2015

Paul Hayes was in for Matthew Gudgin this week, joining Chris Skinner down on the farm.

  • Chris Skinner and Paul Hayes
  • Some of the hedge rows on High Ash Farm
  • The ups and downs of High Ash Farm
  • A babbling brook!
  • An example of daldinia concentrica
  • They are so hard that Chris had to take a saw to one!
  • The concentric circles show the age of the fungus
  • Chris was very upset to find one of the buzzards that lives on the farm dead recently
  • Next Chris was keen to show off some of his bird feeders
  • Chris took Paul into the bird hide behind the feeders
  • Tits were the most numerous bird on display today
  • A grey squirrel briefly scared the birds away
  • For today's final item, Chris showed Paul some of the tracks on the farm

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    Paul Hayes sits in to put your local wildlife questions to farmer Chris Skinner.

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