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According to the Met Office, our autumns are getting warmer on average in the UK. But what does this mean for our farmers and native wildlife? Who are the winners and who are the losers? Keeley Donovan is on a mission to find out just what changes we have seen in autumn temperatures over the last few years and what we can expect for the future.

One of the largest and most impressive gatherings along our coasts during autumn is the arrival of our winter visitors from their Arctic breeding grounds. Steve Brown heads to RSPB Snettisham at dawn to witness a true natural phenomenon when tide and time coincide with the mass migration of the tiny Knot in a breathtaking wildlife spectacle.

Love them or hate them, could moles be a friend to our garden? Paul Martin meets a zoologist to learn all about the invisible creatures and find out how the presence of a mole could indicate the health of your lawn. If you are fed up with pesky molehills, Paul tests some theories to stop moles in their tracks. They include cat litter, glass bottles, a solar powered device and another, rather noisy contraption.

John Craven is in Kent, the Garden of England, to help with a rather different kind of harvest. Forget cereal crops and root vegetables; John is here to help with the harvest of the Kentish cobnut. A relative of the wild hazelnut, the Kentish cobnut is making a comeback on British menus and John is meeting proud platt owner and chairman of the Kentish Cobnut Association, Alexander Hunt. John joins a group of local ‘nutters’ to help bring in the harvest and discovers how these juicy nuts are a favourite with wildlife as well. John then meets local chef, Matthew Kearsey-Lawson, for a feast of well-earned cobnut treats.

As the clocks go back and the days get shorter we often find ourselves craving comfort food in a bid to beat the blues. However, as Margherita Taylor discovers, there are plenty of foods that we should be eating that contain key ingredients to keep spirits up through the dark and gloomy months ahead. And as well as keeping us happy and healthy, Margherita meets a turkey farmer who likes to keep his feathered friends happy with a tune or two.