Wildlife abounds in the area around Howard House, including the wild deer that can often be seen in our fields and on neighbouring land in the early morning and at dusk. Horses quickly become used to the deer and if you're riding - and keep quiet - you can ride remarkably close without startling them.

There's also a large owl population that can be heard quite clearly all around the farm most summer evenings.

Spring visitors can expect to hear cuckoos and woodpeckers and there's also the call of the curlews and buzzards, both of which nest in the area.

In late autumn and winter, skeins of geese fly over regularly to their chosen inland grazing, returning to the Solway Coast at night.