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Friday, 3rd September 2010

Country Life

A magical sight, sandpipers that travel around the world NOW is the moment to see the pygmy curlew. That's what the old Sussex birders and wildfowlers and anybody else who loved the sandy or muddy shores of our lovely Sussex seaside called these tiny little birds, Pygmy is right.

Waiting for the wheat to dry out again AFTER several really good hot days, the combine is parked up under some trees away from the road, whilst we wait for the wheat to dry out again after a number of torrential downpours.With everyone away from home I have been helping lead the corn.

All cereal harvesting has been completed in South West France TRAVELLING down to the Dordogne in France last week, it was interesting to see that there was still a fair amount of wheat yet to be harvested in northern France.

Last year the empress landed on my foot IT IS very strange how the female purple emperor comes to visit us each year. Here she is sitting on my wife's hand.

Pecking order thrown into chaos

Trouble keeping the horsefly at bay

A good thing is that ragwort feeds butterflies

A farmer's wife shares her humorous look at life

Hysteria over cloned cows story

Silver-washed fritillaries have been common

Purchasing land was an even bigger venture then

Young squirrels eat the wheat

Newly arrived heifers are adding an extra 1,000 litres of milk daily

Unique call of wood pigeons

I found a dead chick in the run one day

Action on bovine TB must have proper eradication programme

Many rely on maize to save the day, but it has tasseled early

Two families of blue tits enjoyed the water

Holly is quite fearless at stealing food from the bulls

Then the other dogs surround the patch like Indians in the Wild West

The cows look happy indoors with cooling fan and sprinkler

Cockerel made an error by crowing loudly and early

There is one place which quivers underfoot

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