Kaleb Cooper told off by bird campaigner at Jeremy Clarkson’s Farm
Kaleb Cooper was told off by a bird campaigner at Jeremy Clarkson’s Diddly Squat Farm in Oxfordshire.
The 27-year-old farmhand from Chipping Norton rose to fame in the first season of the Amazon Prime Video show, which was released in 2021.
Since then, the star has appeared in all three subsequent series, including the fourth iteration, which was released earlier this year across May and June.
Mr Cooper has three children with his partner, Taya, welcoming the birth of their son, Ashton, in September.
Now, Mr Clarkson has written in The Sunday Times Magazine about how his farmhand was told off by bird specialist Hannah Bourne-Taylor.
A local parish councillor, Ms Bourne-Taylor wanted to monitor the bird population at Mr Clarkson’s Diddly Squat Farm and enhance the habitat for them.
In response to this, the 65-year-old created wildflower strips in the centre of his fields, but when asking Mr Cooper if they could do more, he was curtly told “no”.
Mr Clarkson wrote: “Matters came to a head when Hannah arrived one day in early June to find Kaleb cutting the grass fields so that he would have some hay to feed our cows this winter.
“She was distraught. ‘He’s mincing all the baby skylarks. They’re in their nests in this field, and they’re too young to fly off’.
“Kaleb took his b******** like a man, but said that if he’d waited until the skylarks were old enough to get out of his tractor’s way, the grass would have been useless.
“I insisted he did wait in the next field along, and guess what? He was right. It was.
“Next spring our cows are going to look like they’ve been on Mounjaro.”