Hole characters to welcome you!

Ethelfritha Often you will find a Hole resident where you don't expect to find them... Flower pots are a regular hidey hole for the chickens. They only give their location away by peeking over the edge of their newly acquired residence. This young lady is 'Ethelfritha'. All the chickens and cockerels enjoy a dust bath in a flower pot or in the wood shavings in the Pole Barn, so expect to see dust and dirt pitched into the air by a seemingly invisible host!

Florence, Maisy and Jemima Recent additions are our 3 pedigree Dexter calves pets - 2 of the 3 seen here. They will only grow waist height, and enjoy being fed and stroked. All 3 were born in spring 2008, and if you had thought before that all cattle are huge and a little physically intimidating, meeting these 3 youngsters will change your view.

Gwendoline and Gertrude Gwendoline & Gertrude make a lot of honking noise when you first arrive, sharing security duties with Holly.  They think they are guard dogs and fashion critics, but are in fact Chinese Geese and lay very large eggs, but only when and where it suits them! Once they recognise you're no longer a stranger, they should stop honking!

Some of the other members of the welcoming committee: Barny & Bernie Barn Owl - as seen left, have had babies again this year in the tractor shed in an old tea chest, and Barny can be seen most nights hunting at dusk. We also have a family of wild Roe deer in the fields, that can regularly be seen early and late in the day. To give them cover, we allows parts of some fields to grow tall rushes, in whch they hide and 'nest' overnight.