Sunflower in Wiltshire

This is the same field as yesterday. It's great to walk across the stubble now that the oil seed rape has been harvested. It means that we can get to the environmental strips down the middle of the field that were previously surrounded by the crop.

There's a "Beetle Bank", a mound about 1 metre high and 3 metres wide that runs nearly the whole width of the field. It is covered in what Natural England calls "natural regeneration", but the rest of us would call weeds. Apparently the beetles like it! In fact everything likes it. It's like a hidden corridor across the field for deer and hare.

On either side are 6 metre wide strips of "Tree Sparrow Mix". It mainly comprises Millet - that's the yellowy/greeny frondy stuff that you can see behind the sunflower. Tree sparrows love millet as much as budgerigars do. And there is some Quinoa in the mix as well. And one Sunflower! I don't know how it got in there, but I'm sure the sparrows will love it as much as I do :-))