Ray Mears Hay Meadows

Hi all,

By chance last night I caught a programme on ITV HD called Ray Mears' Wild Britain and it was featuring british hay meadows as a habitat for abundant wildlife. It was very interesting and the meadows and methods they featured are very similar to those found at LambWatch.

They featured Barn Owls at the end in detail as they are found around hay meadows because they feed on the abundant rodent life that thrive in a hay meadow habitat.

If they hadn't said it was a focussed on a farm elsewhere, it could easily have been lambwatch :) I highly recommend it ! Tis an interesting half hour's documentary on hay meadows and how ace they are!
 

Here is a link to the programme on ITV Player:

http://www.itv.com/itvplayer/video/?Filter=183217

I am not sure if there are any restrictions on where in the world this can be watched but let me know if you have problems and I will see if I can help :)

I saw the programme last night and it was a good 'watch' and also recommend that other Lambwatchers would enjoy it very much.

Well, the bad news is that it can only be viewed in the UK, but that is because they sell programmes like that to networks in North America, so perhaps we will see it eventually.  It sounds lovely.  We cannot get "Spring watch" or "Autumn watch" here either, for the same reason. 

Helen

I watched Wild Britain with Ray Mears last night and it was based in Somerset..

Ray Mears is always a good man to watch as he always does programmes about the wildlife all over Britain..

Have just watched the link about the hay meadows.... it was so interesting. Pippa Raynor ( the bumble bee lady on the clip) came to look at one of our meadows with a view to cropping the wild flower seeds to be taken to another farm for sowing to make a new meadow somewhere in the Dales area...... Just love the barn owls