Thank. Monday evening 6 o'clock club A.B.C. Radio news with Lucy Lightfoot Good evening 13 properties at the morons in him have been left in danger of falling into the sea after strong winds and high tides eroded the coast Norfolk County Council's warning conditions over the next 48 hours could still pays a threat and the risk of properties sliding down the cliffs remains very high as the sand dries and becomes more powdery further houses could fall down smart in one of the homes that's likely to be condemned he bought it late last year to some people in the community although the. Service is a bit absolutely fantastic people that I've never met before coming up and saying you know. What's happening and. Everybody's been absolutely fantastic about it so. Life goes on meanwhile a holiday village next to the beach near Los staffs has been closed till further notice after being battered Bali those strong winds and high tides everyone staying at the Cotton resorts were told was told to go home John was staying there with his wife at the time he explained what happened we either knock on the door you demolish the world's largest garage the rectory from the far corner over the extensive. Building. We were out. Building where we are told go on the. First go around quite a pedestrian being hit by a vehicle in. A call to Caney lane near to the junction of the Norfolk and hospital at just before 4 pm. Being advised to avoid the area and find alternative routes negotiators have struck a brakes it's transition deal setting out the relationship between the E.U. And the U.K. After personally sin March next year the governments who. Be free to strike trade deals with Count countries outside the E.U. In the time up to December 2020 while citizens who arrive to live in the U.K. Will keep existing rights that deal is expected to be signed off by the E.U. Leaders at a summit on Thursday but our political correspondent and racing Claire says there's likely to be frustration amongst those who voted out remember here in Norfolk 59 percent of people voted for Brick sets and remember David Cameron said back in 2016 that if we voted to leave he would trigger Article 50 the next day and we'd be out within 2 years well it's actually going to be 4 and a half years 4 and a half years before we can start controlling immigration control. Police have said more than 400 schools including 2 in Norfolk have received a hoax email threatening to detonate a bomb on school grounds money isn't handed over Norfolk Police have confirmed they've had 2 reports from schools they don't believe the threats were credible a number of schools across England of wire evacuated after receiving the emails which demanded cash both the Home Office and the Department of Education are advising any school that receives the mail to contact their local police force the rates minister Jessye Norman has told councillors and business leaders in Norfolk that he can't promise to get the A 47 Joules by 2030 the minister was in King's Lynn earlier today to meet the A 47 alliance they were impressing on him that the road is vital for economic growth across the county Christofferson chief executive of the Norfolk Chamber of Commerce says the government needs to realise the economic importance of Norfolk or I don't think he said anything even already know so we're not coming away with any new any new information and we're not coming away with any high hopes or expectations of things are going to change soon or imminently. And that makes me concerned because I do think the thing that we feel that we feature lower down the list and we should do a French couple have gone on try. While for the murder of their nanny in southwest London the body of safely Linae who was 21 was found in the back garden of Wissam Medina he answered brain Ikeda's house last September they deny matter Richard Lister reports from the Old Bailey opening the prosecution case Richard Hall Well Q.C. Told the jury that Sophie Leonis last hours must have been truly wretched he said she'd been found with 4 broken ribs a broken jaw and a fractured sternum and the defendant he said to try to conceal her body by burning it in the garden Mr Hall well told the court that Sabrina Quaid there had a fixation with a former member of the band boy zone Mark Walton with whom she'd had a relationship several years earlier Mr Hall would said Mr Dare had accused her nanny of conspiring with Mr Walton an allegation he denies. Police believe a missing man from Suffolk could now be in King's Lynn 23 year old Jimmy Williamson was last seen by his mother on Wednesday when he got on a bus that Brandon that was travelling to Thetford He's described as vulnerable and presented McPartlan is to give up his television commitments after being arrested for drink driving I.T.V. Says he's taking time off to seek treatment and his show Saturday Night Takeaway won't be broadcast this weekend B.B.C. Radio 4 news now with the sports headlines here's Nick Bollea Daniel Fargo hopes the international break will help more of a squad return to full fitness city and isn't until Good Friday when they host follow Stuart Broad is targeting 400 Test wickets ahead of the forthcoming series against New Zealand 35 years old he feels he has plenty of cricket left in him well rugby will investigate the circumstances around Belgium's World Cup qualifying win over Spain which send remain it to the 2019 World Cup Norfolk's weather forecast and his Julie Ranger overnight tonight largely draw I was someplace else especially early on and then we'll at least see clouds thickening up for the stale and perhaps a few showers of rain or sleet but for many of us it could be a dry night but there is the risk of some patchy ice where we've got any surface water especially on untreated roads and pavements but the yellow Met Office warning which is in place until 9 o'clock tomorrow morning for much of eastern counties for ice actually doesn't cover Norfolk but I don't think we can rule out the risk of ice or together especially with temperatures anywhere between sort of plus one and minus one and overnight tonight it's not quite as cold for some of us as as last night and then tomorrow choose day should remain largely fine and dry was spells of sunshine and the very small chance of a shower that again could be of rain or sleet and it shouldn't feed as CO tomorrow with light to moderate north to northeasterly winds and temperatures a few degrees higher than today so we're looking at maximum temperatures of about $6.00 to $8.00 Celsius us $43.00 to $46.00 degrees Fahrenheit and simple cost thank you very much Julie Ann Marie Walsh is here with an update on the rides well I know much has changed in code. Unique only lane remains partially blocked on the westbound side not spoiling an act for them which we know roundhouse way and the accident has happened outside the hospital in Norwich now deride ferry slow westbound on the approach to the outer ring right about so because of the red wax causing delays there also still looking quite heavy on North Walsham right about the bike directions need to be Constitution Hill round about a one for 3 Beccles road is busy now westbound between Gholston and Bradwell Great Yarmouth the 47 acre straight is queuing eastbound on the approach to the run roundabouts if you see anything or can update me call 016-836-1732 extension 1 Norfolk farmer nature lover Chris Kate of visibly perked up when he heard Judy ranger just now saying it shouldn't feel as cold tomorrow. Mazing so I did bring a smile to walk by so that wind has gone right through me Ana I didn't even have to stay inside why you say it. Perished particularly Saturday I was just a really ruled I raise a shop window don't are all wildlife survives what it doesn't it's have everything thrown at it this winter we in this sort of severe cold weather and a few days of snow and testing our nights of wild life to the limit I think the moment. But you survived and you're here with us this evening and you're very welcome Christy S. And it's a lovely place to be and I lost warm studio my coal face is scholar says I suffer from wind you say that that's what it is these bright orange shop blasted things wind damage Yes well you can phone through any questions all things to tell us about the floor and foreigner of Norfolk then you're very welcome for the last week on the existing phone number and we'll tell you more about the change as we go through but it's 160-361-7321 that's the number to ring for questions to Chris and for the ministry sound Chris which he gave us Number 6 out of 10 early it's not straightforward no yeah it is yes if you're if you know your Norfolk wildlife you'll shouldn't have any problem with this one but sometimes I bring in some stink is annoying or more and it's a little bit unfair because you know you miss you know your wildlife Well you don't stand a chance to be honest but sometimes I bring in something a little bit and topical as well and this one is recorded at lunch time today it's hot off the press there's a little bit a wind in the recording which you can understand we have that strong easterly wind between 30 and 40 miles and we call it the row riddle it is all Weiss just for fun and we expect a few right amounts of Sanai And if you do get it right and we'll do our best to mention your name before we go off it just before 7 o'clock here comes tonight's Robel riddle. Well it's a persistent little person isn't it yes it is yes it's nice it's a lovely sound and if you're out and about walking really anywhere in the Norfolk countryside you should be able to hear that sound somewhere or rather at this time of year so very topical Well Kate the phone lines open til 5 to 7 when we will collate the results much like the Russian general election Chris will win on a landslide I should think I won 603617321 or you can send a text message straight through to the studio here 2813 double 3 and you start your message with the word Norfolk. Good luck with the sound and we look forward to hearing from you the saving will give out the answers as we go through the program lots to get through as well and I want to your questions coming through and a little little moment on the farm today where we had a little wager no money exchanged hands but needless to say I lost. But flocks of red weighing in field fair yes there it ching to leave our country I think I have been mixed. There are winter visiting thrushes and they are very very unsettled the moment they're patrolling the farm they had a steward's towards the coast and then now come back again to the pastors on the farm and we've got several faults of 4 or 500 as much as that of both Red Wing and feel fair and sometimes the flocks a mixed sorry that they just can't white tonight leave so what they are Whiting for is a good southwesterly coming in from the Atlantic and that will help them because it's a huge task to fly upwind going across the north say I remember inland with had winds of 3540 miles an hour today and had wind that's about the speed I can fly so they might take off and end up still back where they started so they would become exhausted whereas with a tile when it makes a huge difference so they white for the right conditions before they'll leave their winter visiting thrushes very very attractive and when you're at the found to die we saw some right wing so fresh always bad with a rusty raid sort of plumage just underneath the wing and particular where the wing joins the ball be there you'll see a little flourish of faith as they arrest the raid and these feel fair. Feeding at the farm a much larger species TOTUS pill ORUs and you can hear them as rather harsh cackle they will saying but it's very rarely today and I'm singing in the in this country there might this noise when communal feeding and the Red Wing is a much higher pitched see that sort of noisy. They visit most winters but have have more come this year and what's happened is they arrived quite early on in the autumn and there was some cold weather over in Scandinavia a little bit earlier than normal that forced them to come southwards through sort of day mark into Western Europe sort of across the North Sea That's a pretty short crossing and they arrived here sort of the 1st ones I saw in late September feasting on some rowan berries planted rubber Roman trees on the farm and they were really gorging themselves on that and into October more arrived and no sooner and I was arrived at the farm and feeding and then I seem to have this each that how carry on flying and move weights with us perhaps go to the mall pastoral side of the U.K. Where there's more grass learned which suits them they like sort of foraging on short grazed grass and as well as on berries hips who are sometimes slows and just occasionally are Evie berries and they'll feed on earthworms and saw invertebrates as well so. They seem to disappear and then another batch will come in and then you'll see a field or maybe a pastor on a farm absolutely covered in what looked like song thrushes literally 2 or 300 of them in a Red Wing and you never these days see that many song thrushes they're getting quite scarce now regular species and the Red Wing have this same sort of nomadic instinct in them that they'll carry on flying west woods and once with through the worst of the winter they'll come back to the east coast and just white for the right conditions but it's a little bit lighter than normal for them to go back and so they're very sort of restless is the best way to describe it is the large flocks which seem to get larger each day just Whiting for that southwesterly to take them across the north say. Harry is listening in the mile cross area of knowledge and he asks about frog spawn he says folks born in my pond is going to white collar after having been in case thin ice for the last few days will this have killed it off yes I've noticed this is the farm we've got Franks born and Toad spawn as well the toad spawn looks like long strings sometimes a metre or more long all with those tiny little black dots saying I don't remember if you used to have a cap gun years ago and I did there was a real level little it was red when it was pink doubt pink or raid and you'd pull it out most all these little black dots on it well that's exactly what Toad spawn looks like and frog smallness is large the Latin ice max which once it's laid it sinks to the bottom of a poem which looks quite alarming and then absorbs water and comes back out to the top but it is susceptible to being fried frozen and that's what's happened when it bleaches like that killed the the baby typo's the eggs inside the sperm and why they won't be able to emerge Sadly some may still be laid light to roam but generally there's a mass exodus to the nearest body of water both toads and frogs and usually the laying session for Spawn happens quite a brief period of time and recorded it many times at the farm with frogs and toads we've got various areas of water dotted all over the farm and sometimes we have 4 or 500 frogs just making this wonderful chorus just after dusk in the A evening and I recall the disputed killer Juana. Written on me to say here in front of me around for you. Just close to not. Just on. The tax. They're almost all in concert with each other right. Lovely sired to say the mole so to bombing a bias in the waltz just with the head sticking or the top of my using saw it I did a track the attention of the local Heron here as a kind of failed eye and gorge themselves on as many as he can possibly ate but in places at the farm they're doing well but this cold weather will have taken its toll at the moment sadly. Now just before the sports news at 630 I will give out the new telephone number which will be in action for next week's program and that from then on and I looted to it just a little while ago but for now it's the old favorite 016-036-1732 extension 14 your suggestions on the rural riddle will go through of some of those as well in a couple of moments but pens and paper at the ready or whatever digital way you can do it and I'll give out the new phone number for next Monday very slowly as these things come to try Yes they certainly train or don't like change going memorize the old one I think is so imbedded in my psyche somewhere right from where Price 30 years ago we were using molding not nearly 40 years they are being coming in there for around 30 or 30 plus progress though Chris yes we cannot stand in it so why are you more digits now remember progress is yes is dialing a long number but we'll give out the number at $630.00 this is all above our pay grade isn't it Chris we said we have no influence whatsoever on there but it will be a free phone calls so that that's an advance from a slight word you put out what I said that then you will go through some of the sound and the guesses for the sound in a moment but Claire has contacted us on the e-mail Claire inflect while walking my dog Harvey at around 230 this afternoon in the freezing wind in the warm sun I stopped and watched a barn owl it was hunting and sitting on a post before going out to hunt again is it usual for them to hunt in the afternoon at around this time of the day does it mean they're more hungry than they should be it was a beautiful sight and not one I was expecting yes there the answer is yes they will hunt during Di lar toss particularly at this time of year remember we have got the spring equi knocks at MIT diy tomorrow that means the sun is by. Overhead on the equator did right over the top and every day after that the sun is slightly north of the equator in other words the northern hemisphere which is where we are so this week is an important week it's the U. United Kingdom's maximum value lot to gain and we're going to gain 29 minutes between this Monday and next Monday extra daylight now longer daylight means shorter hours of darkness and when you're barn owl The female has probably already laid eggs and might even be incubating on them and their early nest is and so the Myal is responsible for taking food for her and looking helping to feed her if she's incubi she can't really leave the nest for too long although she will come out very briefly the next often into a whole tree used to be in bombs years ago but many good old bound. Been sealed up because it's not deemed appropriate to have birds in areas where you might be storing food for human consumption so the numbers of suffer they do vary a bit but I think when we did a nocturnal was Irish Last autumn I think you saw about 4 bomb owls the following week I took my grandson maggots and we saw it so I think we've got at least 3 paise on the farm at least now I don't know how much of an effect this cold weather those 2 or 3 days of snow have had on the populations because they can quickly starve a food nights without food they become depleted So that's the other reason in good hunting conditions they will not only just be looking for small mammals which they spawn I was probably doing a will if they get the opportunity to take birds as well and at 3 o'clock on Saturday morning I peeped out to my bedroom and just woke up and there was a Tony I'll sitting on top of a floodlight at the farm and the next 2nd it just flew 10. Yards into a tree with all U.V. On and I know there's lots of roasting sparrows in there and so it's actually after taking whatever prey it could take so not unusual to see ban else hunting early in the morning at this time of year and sort of mid-afternoon all men would bear in mind they're having shorter hours of night and the reason I hunt at night is because they're quarry feel vile short tiled field mice. Anything that small mammals in other words there they are mainly nocturnal so owls of Scott to learn to follow their quarry and do most of their hunting at night in the we will recognise the call of a tourny owl the sort of twit to worry but the barn owls call is something quite else and I'm going to dim the volume Diane because here comes the sound of a barn owl. We hope. You couldn't make it up not the most attractive sound knows most you not if you're a sparrow roosting no hearing that not know it says it is one of those spooky sounds of it's flying past year on silent wings the wings are designed to have a little filigree on the tips of the primary feathers which break up the wind the normal noise a wing would make going through the air so these tiny little hair like projections around the tips of the feathers actually mean the Van Auken approach its price silently is listening with its facial discs or has asked the metrical leaves $1.00 ear on each side of the head but one they are higher than the other so it can kind of hear in stereo and I was shot always in the facial discount channels sounding with wonderful sight so well done very lucky to see that happen and the answer is that the owl needs to be out there hunting as much as possible even in daylight no need to feed itself to feed its might as well and before long young in the nest should we hear your mystery sound again Chris Yes we can. That's the one we're trying to identify the saving still no half an hour before we close the lines and quite a few of you have got in touch Richard in Blake and Alan in Manchester but I think the sound is a not hatch A.J. In a spell ne reckons the sound is a blue tit Derek says I think it's a rain bullfrog says David on the text messages Amarin Stoss than ace photographer in south Norfolk Hello to you Ana and her suggestion is the sound is a greatest spotted wood PPACA greenfinch is the answer from Bernard who's listening in great which you know him and Johnny help says it's a goldfinch ranks like getting around the species there yes I think there's a club I had to mention every possible British That's at least some of the other women have apart from Skinner. You know so we had great spotted woodpecker there and they say the cool of a great spotted woodpecker. Which. It is called up assistance to it has not. Yet slick the actual contact. And will be able to hear them drumming in a moment. Feeding the chicks through just erotic things I do for right there lol for this is faulty Fe up a tree. You got a good head fight sign and what you say you need yes ma'am to nice nice and these same species but this is their. Sort of headbanging cause if you like where they're setting out their territory. Typical Maine and I bang my head from a piece of wood to impress the ladies. And the 2 miles. So it ain't a great spotted woodpecker right not right spotted woodpecker anything else you can tell us it isn't Yes lots got lots of wrong ounces here I'm just looking through some of the sirens I've got in front of me I won't have necessarily all the wrong ounces I think somebody said a green thing didn't I I think it's a green for yes burn it said Green a finch will not greenfinch all my hate not literally but here we go to the dream signed by my old age. Somebody sheltered. What ever happened. I think somebody thought I did she know now that's a long wire why I don't shoot on the farm that will be a bird scare us there is he survived. Goodness may. So that's what it is it's not a green faint shit and it's not a great spot it would pack There's half an hour to go before we close the lines you can give us a call now what you think Chris's rural riddle is this week. The number to ring 016-036-1732 extension 1 or you can send a text message Chris has already given the number out you can do it again. 813 double 3 Start your message with the word Norfolk comes right through to the studio he had with us and standard network right supply teatime at B.B.C. Doco don't you K. E-mail another way to get in touch it will keep you updated on the answers as they come through Nicky in style and says we have a very friendly black bird in the garden I've noticed though he has a white spot on he's weighing is this normal Yes it's quite usual to see sort of partial melon mistake Beano if you like of his white feathers you can have something as extreme as a completely white black bird which doesn't want my sense or just white feather and it's quite useful if a garden birds for you to bow to identify cause many mile blackbirds look exactly the same females are obviously slightly slightly brown in color but. Yet it's a good way of identifying a particular bird and see how long it's going to stay with you in the garden but sort of when blackbirds have popped the white plume age they seemed to be more susceptible to predation because a bird like a spiral can pick them out in my gardens often and I saw at least Eitel knowing blackbirds but if one had white on me it would slightly be more vulnerable but they're starting to sing now that sort of start to become members of the dawn chorus and I think um I think I'm just looking in front of me because somewhere I've got a lovely recording I did last spring acts for 30 now before I fall you I am on the 29th of March last year I just have a little listen to this. Part of the. One of the most delightful sirens in the dawn chorus. And they really get going this time of the year one will suffer them straining to die just such a relaxing sound. The bedroom window open on the early spring morning and a little bit warm air coming in and just. Like $530.00 I start at the moment and each day from I want to get a little bit earlier so that we are. Really worth it when you hear this sort of rich song. Is a marvelous sound and maybe presages better days ahead weather wise as well only what I want to do how does that we're going to break for the sports news in just a moment but I did mention and this is forewarned is forearmed from next week on radio Norfolk our phone in number is going to change from Monday the 26th of March next Monday is going to be a new number and I did promise a little earlier that I would read it out slowly so you can now sit down and then you can keep on contacting us on this Monday evening session and all the other things we do on radio Norfolk as well so for next Monday and then on what's the new telephone number for radio Norfolk will be 080-038-9732 extension 1 so the last 4 numbers of the same. 080-038-9732 extension 1 that's the new radio Norfolk number hope you'll be able to memorize that course eventually maybe yes oh forewarned is forearmed That's an interesting logo do you know who it belonged to you know the royal observer corps was their motto as their multigrain it's above the carpet above the door of a massive underground concrete bunker underneath the North Walsham roundabouts on the north side of knowledge and I worked on after 3 years in uniform and it is early warning station in the old the dice of the Cold War when we were expecting nuclear attack seems kind of underground nuclear bunker and you stay down there all we came in uniform what about that Mickey found himself a bunker in the cold war who told Madoff last week that way but maybe you need a bunker on they'll farm again he sees us through. Any violates the enemy back time of the A evening just after half past 6 Somebody was very fit raring to go Mr Nicholas thank you very much good evening Norah said head coach Daniel foreign sis is soldering good shape as they head toward the international break the Canaries recorded their 1st win since for early February when they beat Reading at the weekend their next game isn't until Good Friday when they host championship high flyers full of fog hopes that the international break will help some of the squad return to full fitness when you're in a game you can't wait to start for the next game. The last 17 games with just 2 losses one loss at performance wasn't good but to be honest we've got the feeling there are. Genuine and really good shape and I think it's necessary in the moment to to recreate a bit and yeah also hopefully some players were injured Seibert to come back and I want to go on when they are back and hopefully again it's fine for Scotland assistant coach James McFadden a surge to Scotland's new recruits to seize their chance as many as 7 players could make their senior debuts across. The months friendlies against Costa Rica and Hungary England brought says he has a lot of cricket left in him as he targets taking his 400th Test wicket in the series against New Zealand broad is also taken time out to work on his bowling action I've got a great hunger to play I mean out I've had a tough Ashes tour I've got a lot of hunger to get in this England team stay in this England team and have a lot of success and that certainly includes the next Ashes series and that sort of things. That 30 want to touch we've got quite a cricket left in me besides Formula One boss Toto Wolff expects the new season to be a 3 way fight between his team Ferrari and Red Bull the championship begins in Australia on Sunday with myside is looking to win a 5th constructors' championship in a row and world rugby will investigate the circumstances around Belgium's Well Cup qualifying win over Spain which sent remain yet to the 2019 well Cup the match official was remain in and Spain's players angry confronted him at full time on B.B.C. Reading of sport on Nicola. 26 minutes to 7 this Monday evening and Chris Skinner from hi ash farm is with us on the countryside our Bernard in great which I am says I once photographed a completely white black bird it was in the gardens of the school reef and it had pink eyes which I think means that it was a genuine Albi No that was only there for 2 or 3 days and then it disappears Yes that's a very good description of an owl being I with the pink eyes it completely lacks any color pigment you see it in various species of birds are seeing a completely white jackdaw and they are the ones that might this particular noise and that seem to be getting on and they're singing jackals I've got one at the farm at the moment with half a white wing and I did wonder when I 1st saw right whether it'd been roosting underneath another giant door and it was it was sort of dropping the wing I had seen that before and now it wasn't it so if there I see it most days and it is nice you can sort of pick out an individual bird which would otherwise look the same as all the others in the floor so mostly these are little genetic Yes they are little throwbacks sometimes something happens to actively and but with a not a true Albion I when they are quite scarce Are you seem to members a child I was fascinated in Norwich Castle museum with completely white black but it was stuffed in a case you understand but I was always so fascinated and a white mole as well in there as well so I think I've seen that a completely white man in the last say yes in Castle Museum one of their exhibits than usual animals Well thank you very much for that note from great Burnet and any other questions all you can tell us what you've seen do drop us a line on the mile or send us a text message and I am a sends an email. Well our friend and I reinstalled this TORNEY out sat here for absolutely ages I managed to get quite close to it before it flew off there's now a nesting point it's now nesting at the top of the ancient Culp's and we've got a photograph that on a census of this beautiful. Looks marvelous and she got quite close I think he yes it's a stunning shop interests and goals that that's the one with that very distinctive soldier to it to where we can actually hear air I hope with the my ole with the horse warbling call and the female going weak in the background. With joy. There's guns going off in the background probably yes that's more the traditional $22.00 yes you can hear. The mio. Very closely with the aerials. Of occasionally warble as well one could just hear. Thank you very much for that Dunning picture a photograph to reflect I don't don't forget we mentioned a great spotted woodpeckers a short while ago and tonight on hi Ashley on Facebook we've got a stunning video that I managed to capture today have a great spotted woodpecker been sort of filming different birds feeders at the farm in the last by auto animation to catch both a My old and a female great spotted would pack so it's Facebook harsh from Facebook page and just have a little look at the fade and the my all has the little red spots on the back of his head the female it's absence but they've both got raid bottoms if you like which you can see really clearly and it's busily feeding all now and that feeder at the farm I would advise to look at it on the Facebook page for high as far as to reflect very close up 40 Jess is a magnificent bird Yes stunning and I even remember last week when you were hard I think and I got you up up and close to some of the great spots the farm with all 3 species of woodpecker and Jass fleetingly for the 1st time ever just for a bite to seconds I had a lesser spot one of the feeders at the farm that would excite one of our radio Norfolk countryside our contributors which is Graham apples and he from the B.T.R. And I know he's been at the farm trying to sort of get the 1st sight of for quite a while of a lesser spotted woodpecker wave got them at the farm they're also called Bob would back as an edgy minute of little birds and not much bigger than a sparrow rightfully their tiny little birds and very scarce now read list species and we've got lots of green wood back oh yeah fall which is the largest of the 3 species in fact you saw one this afternoon when you arrived at the farm after I left you 2 today I had an avian encounter on the road between Casey. is and deadman to an intern or age up to long john hill but that out in the county and the the carson traffic what what they were being held up we will a knob was the an and and it was this great tall bird in the road walking around it was a mute swum oh right now whether the swan had landed there thinking it was of water why a i don't know or maybe he all she was warming the the feet because that the obvious of the roads going to be a look and know i should think it in there there are cables going across the hall you i-l. Near white back to nor is annoys just hoping at hadn't i am and counted some of the electric cables going i with the road in which case it would likely be injured for bit feathers were little bit ruffle to one side been right didn't look too in a conveniency but even he was old obviously holding the rag i got several pairs of mic swarm i actually all pay and up on your why you bank to nari john me in the river tass folly and the saud of the river there there must be half a dozen pay is between mock saul and like a numb and they're they're all busy they're just looking to really start ness building from any time meron and it was a year ago almost exactly while a ses one force 17 sorts of 1st of April and i did manage to catch the switches their them might ng siring and me swarm for of mute just and every lighting up a cigarette in amount coal to very intimate moment boat that rach rather especial recording what struck me was how been how tall the swallows out here also 6 1st at les yes and i can give a good account for themselves if you have a dog or you ventured to close to the nast and the kolb which is the my ole and you know he will have a go it year and in can inflict quite an injury with these wings syfy if you It might catch hold of you well I'm redoing the travel of a going would have swarms blocking the traffic like there was this often a. We haven't I'm a phrase you know it always you haven't. Well I am going to start off in Coney and Coney lane it remains post the blokes in the westbound side House following an accident between roundhouse way and road it's happened outside the hospital but so we have had a cool from Ken that just say people have been stuck in a car parked there for around an hour and a ha so just have a look in Norwich now very slow on D. Right that's westbound on the approach to the outer ring road because of the right works which are still cooling some delays that also North Walsham right that's heavy in both directions need to be Constitution Hill roundabouts and just some of the usual days the A one to 3 Beccles road still looking quite busy on the westbound side off between Goulston and Broadwell easy anything or can obtain me cool 168-361-7321 buck with Chris Skinner in the studio and some of your suggestions on the rural riddle this is Chris's ministry sound. Monday in Swat and says The sound is not a lot. Paul in writing them reckons a house sparrow made the sound night job says Jane in Suffolk John in full Pamela sonorities says the sound is a bullfinch and Charles and L. Sing is opting for not catch of a good little spread there Christopher you're telling me yes. A few more I some more wrong on says just come in but good on says some say lap wing green plover. Peewit all signs you had a field full of these Apple weeks ago there was one right over the marker firing Yes very high pitched plaintive plaintive call so it's not lap and I think we had sparrows on busy looking in front of me so we can dismiss sparrows. With Malouda thrown in for free. So it's not the house not the house sparrow Passat don't mistake us. That's a little nearer to the mystery sounds look really good yes here we got some close calls. But have we got a winner as about 10 minutes to go before we close the phone lines and then we will collaborate all the answers scientifically and days down them in absolute amazement to see if someone has beaten Chris this week we'll find out but in the meantime if you want to have a go and add to all the suggestions this is the sound that Chris has brought in. I 160-361-7321 Crystal tell us what the answer is just before we head off. KEN Hello Ken in battles I thought you might be interested to know I've had a black or red start in my garden recently a black red Stott Yes Red Star Yes which we care is he from his uncle's ankles even a valley Yes Why even a valley and some people get a little bit confused with the red stop and the my old Bramble ing and we've got some stunning mile bromelain I didn't put the video up tonight now they have like the feel faint red wing they've been forced to stay a little bit longer in our country and they're to leave black right starts will come out and come to the neck of the woods particularly down in Suffolk means may area are in the heath limestone they're very attractive indeed but not a 1000000 miles out from my old Bramble NG so you do need to know your beds look check what you have seen carefully with with a good illustrated by God but that's quite a red letter day and a little bit early as well to see them so normally arrive a little bit lighter perhaps you might expect to see some red starts away in the swallows arrive in another 2 to 3 weeks' time a good sighting if that is what you have same but my old Bramley have stunning black heads on the top all the grayish plumage is worn off and they're in full breeding plumage you don't often see that in the U.K. But because of the the wind direction they're forced to stay another couple of weeks and so they look at Sea amazing I'll try and get a video of them for the next program but I think they are on the harsh on Facebook from. 2 to 3 weeks ago but without the spectacular breeding putting me to it seems to develop in a quite a short time 2 to 3 week period like the yellow hammers then getting in a sort of full breeding plumage in the game when you're at the farm today we saw some stunning my all yellow hammers sort of lemon curd i Phone the farm tracks was in it it was really there are lots of them well yes there were something else we saw on the farm with Chris backing a hunch here it is. Oh for a close up view of a Jack it's not showing the white underside of the tail and this is dissipated it's used a clever trick gone behind a tree have beautiful chestnut Brian and the head shape the flattened head shaped with a 2 little diminutive angle is just pushes 3 Bramble growth which you can do with these and just disappear from sight. He's got. No Bigelow Labradoodle no diminutive they're also called the barking deer because of the noise I might when they call each other sounds like a dog barking rabbit and we're just going along the side of someone trying to kill Plantation which is 12 area of woodland and they just go to visit our sheets of team to see if we can see the very 1st glimpse of the might be across night might be the sly worms just out of hibernation we don't have yet to have a look Chris it's minus 50 outside you don't stand a chance. Well I think nature always surprises you one says a little bit of warmth somewhere hugely attractive to reptiles and so we'll have it up on Probably mad but you know that anyway the sun is out but the wind is icy cold so let's can have a look. You know we have a sheet it in the sun is on it and we got anything active hibernation just some and . Now you saw in one of our graphs nyc all sly worms under the sheet team we got 3 more seats just so that the Hill is going to follow the amps themselves say that would be an unheard off site in this weather it wasn't for that matter why yes that's it that's brought everything forward it's rather like a green ice Hold'em if you want to bring your garden plots all my little bit earlier in the yeah. Than on the glass and it's like the difference in foreign. Cities as sheets of corrugated metal 4 feet by 4 feet and all them up and and Chris lays them here on this rock in public. And the landscape is the hillside and very often we see. Reptiles is the very last visit of the year we are not the shape it's our little our. Own little mouse people vowels like a snake I know why the 1st night of the year why oh my theory is said to year one year old snake I should think it's about 1214 inches long grass night grass night with the yellow behind trying to hide well spotted actually it's a bit longer than that that's close to 2 feet long and quite slim so I go to Holly to nation. She's having a good look at us we have a good look every slivers of why beautiful absolutely spoil the beautiful Now that was a surprise and he doesn't move so quickly this time you know it needs a warmth which is why they're under the team and if I put my hand on the sheets and it's quite warm and so reptiles need that warmth to actually galvanise them into movement and he's just stopped under some Bracken they're frozen not frozen in cold but just stillness so that he doesn't see the. I see him so obviously out in the I hope and in sunlight with no cover and that's a risky thing to do because that's how I read email for a buzzard I can tell you let's have a look under another sheet where well spotted it was all called up was an A.S.C. I just get still down there gathering some more like as I walk see moving again Oh yes there he goes right out in the open nothing under that sheet I'm still anticipating to see the 1st slow worms they need I tell all of employees and I think which is why I wish I had it done through this cold winter that we had was not too bad on this blanket I felt so there's not an obviously the sun is B.C. Down and the cost they need to get tight and about early so that they can fall into might and otherwise you leave it another 2 to 3 weeks where you kind of hibernation all the might ngs done for another year to get anything out of here. Oh all right all slow slow like you did miss it like a twig it certainly did and look at that it's reversing into the leaf into the leaf litter everywhere there there he goes Just out of hibernation Yeah absolutely perfect look at that it's a my all is golden in it's a good 8910 inches long I would think fantastic So there we are 2 reptiles on a really cold easterly wind undersea to take a look at a spectacularly beautiful and again they'll be mating before long so they need to be out of hibernation and the miles are right before the females so they're ready just as my all frogs and female frogs are all on the move just as well my are many of our reptile species arrived by donation but I don't think they're enjoying this cold weather too much you're really spoiled to say that that's a special sight just look at the delicate markings on ice like. We would just wouldn't see it if it wasn't for these metal plate. Now there he goes and I see how a good 10 inches long he's a big He's a big one fantastic and I thought it was a cold out Bracken rate I need to go get some new glasses before long I think you nearly said Specsavers. Other other glasses manufacturers are available Well I take it back Chris I'm glad I didn't wager anything last month that So yes you would and I'm surprised this while this is. This is a real treat for May 1st one is that the yeah about the grass night. And a little family a field falls I mean. Just shows you not choose a bite just keep your eyesight. And to prove it get some corrugated iron Yeah down at the end of your golf even down the end of the gallon and you'll be surprised what you can say. You may even see a grass snake when the wind chill factor of minus 10 is yes that was a real shocker I would argue I was delighted to be successful with 2 species I did mention frogs and toads and of course their amphibians what we saw were reptiles like a lizard sort of like a legless lizard if you like and there's quite a number at the farm and both the grass snake and the sly worms were very slim because they've been in hibernation and they have used up much of their body reserves and so they'll fatten up over the next few weeks and they're become much more plump back to bird life now and we're all seeing Casias phoned I wonder about I Sorry Ross as I wondered about the behavior of a magpie which landed on my flat roof to feed on some see that I'd put it out he ate a bit of seed and then he regurgitated it then moved to the end of the roof as there were a few pigeons feeding at the same time then the Magpie came back to feed on the regurgitated seed has Chris seen this behavior before yes I've seen Magpies do this before they're really sort of intelligent members if you like if you can call them intelligent members of the call Vade family and they are seen them do this with Droid braid where they'll actually take a piece of braid to my bird bath dip it in and then leave it a moment or 2 and then fly off and then come back a short while later and actually ate the bread when it soaked very clever and they will do this with grain as while small grains just get slightly moist and might be drink some water as well go off and have a drink of water and come back and eat regurgitated food and they are the ones that make this kind of machine gun kind of cool but very attractive at this time here and they're breeding into this is a magpie sort of in close proximity to a carry him grow. Coolidge paragraph and this time again. Magpie's clue image is iridescent Dark Blues turquoise ors and greens and red tile is used in display flying search areas quite narrow when it's flying along it will expand out when it's in course it display and there they are as the crow family if you like. Rooks will make a flat stick mast carrying crows as well Jack dolls in holes and magpies seem to be guilty thieves and very aware that their legs are likely to be stolen so they build a kept home a nest so it's like a big dome with the entrance how the saw it and so you can actually see the eggs as it came with the other species of call Vegas and Jesus will have an open topped stick and they asked as well I like like the rocks and so it's always quite interesting I seem to know that. As their eggs you have to hide your own example horrify bring back parts like this they all of a better doesn't want to be bit That's right yes we will give the answer to the rural riddle in a moment but just from 92nd should we speak about the Mad March Hare's Oh absolutely all the many around us we've got a really good population to hire from much of the cover the winter cover in the I would to wall but same mix as Dolly Diane and so you can actually see the mite in the bites and they're really active at night chasing each other 3 or 4 Jack is chasing a jail all the female if you like very active lots of boxing going on and sort of all cavorting or by I seem to get very active and I during March hence my March hares and doing dialogue eaters while the house sort of extravagant behavior carries old so there really unusual creatures and now there's to be no buy in broad daylight hours most of the year they keep themselves secrete to the wind you don't see them so something to watch out for something to enjoy as we. Yes the remounts look out for the has and we've closed the phone lines fold the mystery sound crosses rural riddle which this week he gave a 6 out of 10 racing to. Craig glistening in the United States reckons it's a rain joy never to home in Yarmouth says it's a reed warbler little Grebe says Simon in orange Jenny an athlete or a reckon just sound is a night job and not Hatch says Malcolm in Southwold and there were lots of others earlier as well but Chris now is the time to tell us highlight the outside not jock Capri mulga scuppered just literally the goat sucker Yes I wish I had some at the farm you can see them out on the west side of nor Each not far from the city interesting but it's a catch moths but the night's correct on Sat is the not passion it's a mile not singing. God who right on says. Yes. Well done everybody one or 2 correct answers including Richard in Blakeney and Alan fame through not hatch. So did Charles and L. Cing not hatch and Malcolm as well listening in Southwell well done to all of you and to everyone for taking part in enjoying this wonderful display of not hatchery . We saw a few days in your bird hide to be weeks back in May. The mason bird Yes what you called yes sit to your openness and said the man in the mice in bed yes. Mike says next how small the with mud yes makes an eerie now we're going to finish with a bit of a you sound that you can listen out for the dawn chorus I listen I as we go through much of this wonderful greeting early in the morning. Chris thank you very much I will see you say you're welcome Chris going to from high ash fall so. This stuff he. Says. RINGBACK. I've known for news don't. Let you know 5.