Field visitors
SPOTTER’S GUIDE
As our farmland springs back to life, wild creatures venture out to take a look STOAT A flash of red-brown in grassy edges or amid the furrows may be all you glimpse of this slinky little mustelid, as it bolts for the safety of a hedgerow or dry stone wall.
ROE DEER One of two native species in the UK, delicate caramel-coloured roe deer are familiar sights in fields in spring, white rumps bouncing away skittishly across the cropland.
GREY PARTRIDGE These red-faced gamebirds were once common. Sightings are rarer now but you may spot them in field margins of arable farms.