Countryfile: Leicestershire

Ellie Harrison is in Leicestershire reporting on the drastic decline in farmland birds. She joins the farmers learning how to spot rare birds and hears how they are creating the right habitat for wild birds back on their farms. Ellie visits an alpaca farm where the animals are being bred for use in therapy for people with mental health problems. Matt Baker tells that wetland birds are in decline in Rutland too. He joins the volunteers on Rutland Water to survey the migrant bird population and lend a hand to restore the habitat of one of Britain's rarest wetland species, the bittern. See what Adam Henson is doing to encourage wild birds back onto his farm. He is joined by wildlife cameraman Richard Taylor Jones to see if they can catch a glimpse of rare corn buntings. Wind turbines - love them or hate them, they now produce so much electricity every year that we have to pay millions of pounds to turn them off. So is it time to stop building onshore turbines? Tom Heap finds out