In 2019, Jeremy Clarkson began farming 1,000 acres at Diddly Squat, adding ponds and widening field margins. 6 years later, 45 bird species were recorded there

Jeremy Clarkson’s Diddly Squat Farm is best known for the farming challenges featured in Amazon Prime Video series Clarkson’s Farm. But a month-long bird survey has highlighted another side of the 1,000-acre Oxfordshire property, with 45 bird species recorded at the farm.

Clarkson bought the land in 2008 and began farming it himself in 2019, after the local contractor who had been farming the land retired. Since then, he has made changes to parts of the farm, including widening field margins, leaving some hedges untrimmed, digging ponds and planting wildflower strips.