Countryfile.

[Jonas]

Countryfile is for the country as the Sun is for journalism.......

[MattyF]

Ha ha very true.

[gnfencer]

The comments on ellie are correct but Anita rani is a lovely too always thought she's underrated, see favourite tv girls thread.

[Stubby]

Did anyone see the tracked quad, in the small farming heros section. Anymore info on it, just interested.

 

And can i join the tree hugging with Ellie queue.

 

Yep I saw it . Handy tool .

[MR TREEBUS]

On my way to the back of the Ellie queue!! but am prepared to fight my way to the front lol

 

On a more serious note i was horrified to learn that hedgehog numbers have dropped from an estimated 30 million in the 50's to around 1 million present day

I remember as a kid in the 70's there seemed to be loads about......hardly seem to see any these days....no wonder!

I presume its the good old human trait of reducing habitat/increase in road traffic thats the main cause....shame

[pycoed]

You see hardly any dead on the roads now - they don't get as far as the nearest road these days.

Guess what loves eating hedgehogs?

Clues: it's population has exploded since the 70's, many of them cough a lot, it has stripes & Cuntryfile loves them.

[openspaceman]

On my way to the back of the Ellie queue!! but am prepared to fight my way to the front lol

 

On a more serious note i was horrified to learn that hedgehog numbers have dropped from an estimated 30 million in the 50's to around 1 million present day

I remember as a kid in the 70's there seemed to be loads about......hardly seem to see any these days....no wonder!

I presume its the good old human trait of reducing habitat/increase in road traffic thats the main cause....shame

 

Plus the increase in its main predator

[mendiplogs]

On my way to the back of the Ellie queue!! but am prepared to fight my way to the front lol

 

On a more serious note i was horrified to learn that hedgehog numbers have dropped from an estimated 30 million in the 50's to around 1 million present day

I remember as a kid in the 70's there seemed to be loads about......hardly seem to see any these days....no wonder!

I presume its the good old human trait of reducing habitat/increase in road traffic thats the main cause....shame

 

Hi TREE MY OLD MATE SEEN ELLIE ON MENDIPS ploughing mate they were moaning them old farmer boys about what ELLIE WAS DOING well I think it lightens up the day I think thanks Jon

[MR TREEBUS]

Never knew that badgers ate hedgehogs.....oh well you learn something new every day

[C.J]

Pages 127-128 Badger by Timothy Roper (New Naturalist):

 

 

'Badgers are significant predators of both adult and young western hedgehog (Erinaceus europaeus). When Patrick Doncaster, then a graduate student at Oxford University, radio-tracked hedgehogs on a farm in East Oxfordshire he found that 3 individuals from his sample of 12 adult hedgehogs were eaten by badgers within two months of the start of his study. Similarly, when he introduced 39 radio-tagged hedgehogs into Wytham Woods, near Oxford, seven were eaten by badgers (Doncaster 1992)Subsequent survey work by Doncaster and others on both local and regional scales, has revealed consistent negative correlations between hedgehog numbers and badger numbers, suggesting that the absence of hedgehogs from rural areas in most of western and central England is a consequence of predation by badgers. Hedgehogs persist to some extent in these regions by occupying suburban habitat, but even there they are unable to survive when badger sett density in surrounding rural areas exceeds about 10 setts /km sq.(Young et al,2006)'