A Red-backed shrike has been spotted at Woodhill Farm House here in the Surrey Hills. This is exciting news as Red-backed shrikes are now effectively extinct as breeding birds in the UK, with only 200 or so sightings recorded as they pass through the UK in the Spring and Autumn. The RSPB have been n[...]
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Albury Produce Show 2011
This weekend’s almost unending rain paused this Saturday between 2pm and 5pm for the 65th Annual Albury Produce Show and gave Surrey’s fete goers a much needed taste of Summer. The Albury Produce Show was founded in 1946 and is one of the oldest shows of its kind in the country. There wa[...]
Pictures of the birth of a Sussex bull calf
Upper Woodhill Farm’s Andrew Cameron phoned at 6.45 this evening to tell me one of his cows was ‘showing’ and would probably give birth in the next hour. So I jumped in the Landie and headed up to the farm. Sure enough in Andrew’s maternity pen was a cow well on her way. This[...]
Christmas Trees at Santa Fir
Here in our corner of the Surrey Hills we are surrounded by the Christmas Trees of Santa Fir, the award winning Christmas tree grower. Based on the Willinghurst Estate in Shamley Green, Hans and Julie Alexandersen run one of the country’s largest Christmas tree plantations, with over 600,000 t[...]
Peaslake Village Fayre 2010
The Peaslake Village Fayre will open at 1pm this Bank Holiday Monday 30th August. Local actor Anthony Valentine, best known for his TV appearances on Callam, Coldiz and Raffles, will officially open the fete which will include the famous Pilgrim Morris Men (see video), Punch and Judy, Balloon modell[...]
Mayfield Win at Surrey County Show
We watched the Mayfield herd’s Snowdrop take Best of Breed in the Sussex breed Bull born after 1st January 2009 category at the Surrey County Show this morning. Four of the original heifers in Andrew Cameron’s Woodhill Herd, that you will have read about on this site, came from the awar[...]
April 22nd, 2010 - 6:02 pm § in Video, Wildlife News
Have you heard a Cuckoo?
According to the Poll that has been running on this site for the last week, six of you have already heard a cuckoo, a clear indicator that Spring is upon us. The Woodhill area in the Surrey Hills is the summer home to a number of cuckoos that visit us at this time of the year from their [...][...]
Video clip of a calf being born
With all the calving going on at Upper Woodhill Farm I thought that visitors to the site might be interested to see a video of a calf being born. I haven’t yet had the opportunity to film one of Andrew’s heifers giving birth, but I found this short clip from the Discovery Channel whic[...]
