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Episode 2.94 - Band of Gold and Hedge-Gap Wires
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Send us Fan Mail On a warm, unseasonably sunny mid-October morning at High Ash Farm, Chris Skinner and Matthew Gudgin are stopped in the pickup by a spectacular feeding display beside the farmyard. A charm of around 250 goldfinches — the “clown faces” with their red masks and yellow wing bands — is working the five-acre teasel plot. The birds prise the loose, nutritious seeds from the prickly heads with their specialised beaks, rising briefly to the electricity wires to watch for sparrowhawks...