Island Life Magazine Ltd June/July 2010 | Page 111

country life

Island Life - June/July 2010

Red squirrels running amok as if they own the place;

still single-handedly farms 150 acres of arable land within

badgers emerging from their sets to rummage for their next

the estate. There are also 36 acres of woodland, most of it

meal; moorhens wondering what all the fuss is about, and

ancient, but with parts that suffered badly when the Great

inevitably the unwanted and somewhat destructive predators.

Storm hit the Island back in 1987.

But forget the foxes, magpies and crows that provide