The bigger picture of Wild Ken Hill in Snettisham is paying off
Wild Ken Hill organise many tours of the rewilding farm site at Heacham Bottom Farm, Snettisham, and it is a nature reserve well worth exploring.
The Big Picture tour takes approximately two-and-half-a-hours on foot and the tour goes ahead in all weathers.
Four of us set off with our guide Carl from Wildlife Tours and Education and we got absolutely drenched, so it is essential that appropriate clothing is worn.
Luckily though the sun came out soon after and our tour guide was an extremely knowledgeable ornitholigist and expert in wildlife.
The bigger picture of Wild Ken Hill, from a two-year period is paying off that benefits people, plants, animals and the farming industry.
Wheat crops have reharvested, species have been introduced such as curlews, beavers, pigs and ponies and all manner of birds, including buzzards.
Species have revisited such as otters, and new types of butterflies such as purple emperors are expected to appear due to the natural bio-diversity being promoted at Wild Ken Hill.
There is so much to see in the natural abundance of autumn at Wild Ken Hill, so it is no wonder that 'The Watches' on the BBC are interested in the site.
From Monday, BBC Autumnwatch start filming and have set up camp with their huge satellite dish in-situ to start pre-production.
There are four beavers who are busy 'ringing' trees, they eat the bark to find the soft layer of poplar and birch trees and in doing so the tree falls eventually.
This natural cycle causes a clearing allowing the sun to shine through and for new growth and further species to thrive.
The four Tamworth pigs cover the acres of land by turning up the soil, this allows birds to find worms and future natural development.
The Exmoor ponies which are tagged so they can be traced, essentially roam free, and the manure they produce has no toxins or contamination as everything they eat is natural with no crop sprays.
Experts at Wild Ken Hill farm the site regeneratively, keeping omissions and diesel to a minimum and the style of farming allows the natural process of the land to rewild.
Tours start from £35 per person and it is well worth booking ahead with so much to see and learn about such as bees, bats, fungus, butterflies, regenerative farming workshop, birds, moths and of course a walk up Ken Hill.
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