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"Travelers Above, Toilers Below" bids adieu to winter’s visitors and unearths the quiet laborers of the countryside. Join Chris Skinner and Matthew Gudgin at High Ash Farm under February’s low sun as they watch fieldfares and redwings fuel up for their North Sea journey, their cinnamon-speckled breasts aglow. Beneath the pastures, moles toil in darkness, shaping the soil with their velvet-clad strength and leaving mole hills as evidence of their unseen empire. From the warmth of apricity to tales of a mole felling a king, this episode weaves natural history with wonder. A teaser of harvest mice nesting in shredded grass hints at spring’s approach, while Rat the terrier adds his playful chaos. Celebrate the fleeting beauty of migration and the steadfast work below in this heartfelt farewell to February.

https://www.buzzsprout.com/2432378/episodes/16663195-episode-2-8-travelers-above-toilers-below.mp3?download=true

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