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from Church Farm

Latest news - because of the demand we are now taking bookings for an additional wildlife TV training course this year - 5-6 July 2008. The course is fun and informative with no prior knowledge required.

Just a couple of responses from last year:

Thank you for such an enjoyable and informative course last weekend, I hope I get the chance to put some of your teachings into practise soon ...   Nathan. 

I just want to say a very big thank you for a wonderful 2 days, it was extremely illuminating, informative and enjoyable. 

As you know the script writing and narration aspects were highly valuable to me - I will be focusing on this area over the next few months and will keep in touch with my progress....   Anna.

A world first - wild badgers at home as never seen before ......

BBC2 15th February 2008 at 6.40pm

BBC Natural World 'Badgers -Secrets of the Sett'

Produced by Andrew Cooper

Narrated by Sir David Attenborough

 

The programme was well received by one of the highest audiences of the year and achieved the highest rating for audience appreciation, so a very big thank you to all who enjoyed the film. A very special thank you also to the hundreds of viewers who contacted me over the weeks following the broadcast. Your comments and best wishes are all much appreciated. Even better you can now follow the progress of our wild badger family via our webcams.

Spring is at last here and this year looks to be an amazing year for wild flowers. Our fields are now full of primroses. Bluebells started to appear before the end of March and even the first wild cherry blossom started to break in the first week of April!

The mallard and moorhens on the pond are getting frisky and the kestrels are sitting on top of the barn, between mating. At least this year apperas to be progressing the way seasons are supposed to, albeit a little earlier than usual.

The aerial battles of buzzards at this time of the year can be very spectacular. Often half a dozen or more are seen diving and swooping over the woods, even occasionally making talon to talon contact in mid air.

Those of you regularly watching our webcams cannot have failed to notice that we now have increasing numbers of lambs in our fields. They are great fun to watch as they race around in little gangs or curiously follow 'Famous' our tame cock pheasant, much to his displeasure. When he turns around suddenly with a flick of his long tail feathers, the lambs all rush off. All we need now is some warmer weather.