In the paddock run one of the hens found a new way to escape Mr Cockerel’s advances.

Badgers trying to get into the Silkie run, the duck run, opening feed bins and overturning the goose bucket.

It seems to be war everywhere around the world – and in the animal kingdom too.

We have just been outside to move the sitting hens to a more secure location.

Neither the UN nor Trump nor the EU have been involved in any of our plans and negotiations with the badgers!

We heard and recorded some on my app as well as chiff chaff’s and warblers, chaffinchs, robins, blackbirds and wrens. All along the way we heard cuckoos Listen below