Jeremy Clarkson has had to battle intrusive seagulls on his farm.
The 59-year-old TV star’s Diddly Squad farm in Chipping Norton, Oxfordshire, will feature on his new Amazon Prime show ‘I Bought The Farm’, but the TV presenter has run into some trouble with the winged pests swooping on his crops.
First sharing a snap of the birds swarming the 1,000-acre farm, he joked on Instagram: "I’ve decided to plant seagulls this year."
He later posted a video as he drove at the flock in his tractor, with the gulls seen flying away.
The ‘Grand Tour’ host quipped: "S**t! My crops are escaping."
Jeremy – who grows wheat and barley on his land – previously promised his upcoming series will be a "warts and all" look at the farming industry in the UK.
He said: "This is not Kate Humble – much as I like Kate Humble – with 20 acres, bottle-feeding a lamb. Or a TV presenter who grows veg in his back garden. This is actual farming – life, death and form filling.
"We’re not making ‘Countryfile’. We’ll be showing it warts and all. For example, I have no view on badger culling in terms of whether it’s necessary, but if it’s happening we will not shy away from putting it in the programme."
The series is set to show the dilemmas farmers face when it comes to environmental struggles and an overwhelming increase in demand.
Jeremy added: "When you till the soil or plough in weeds, it releases carbon into the atmosphere. So you think, ‘OK, I won’t plough, I’ll just spray the weeds.’ But that’s bad for the bees. Every decision you make as a farmer is bad for some reason or another."
Jeremy Clarkson battles seagulls on farm
