Jeremy Clarkson has confessed to feeling like a “complete idiot” after a blunder led to the death of one of his birds and left another injured. The 64-year-old TV personality, says he regularly likes to buy his grandchildren the “loudest presents” for Christmas. It however appeared to backfire when his daught bought him “a dozen guineafowl”.

Initially the former Top Gear presetner was won over by the “fluffy chicks which made adorable little squeaky noises”. Now fully grown however, Jeremy says they are in full song. To make matters worse for Jeremy, he says the barn they lived in “now smells so terrible, you need to wear a full hazmat suit” to enter.

It prompted Jeremy to decide it was time to relocate the noisy birds. Writing in The Sun, Jeremy says he eventually settled on a small wooded area he planted a decade ago.

With posts and electric fencing in situ, Jeremy boasted that the enclosure was “way more secure” than the Colditz prisoner of way camp. He seen spotted a major problem though.

He wrote: “However, I’d forgotten something important. Birds can fly. A point they proved about seven minutes after I’d released them. I knew they’d got out and onto my front lawn because the noise caused all the glass in my kitchen ­windows to ­shatter.”

He says he eventually managed to herd the birds back into their pen. However, the following morning Jeremy discovered another big problem with his choice of home for his guineafowl, reports Gloucestershire Live.

Despite managing to corral the guineafowl back into their pen, Clarkson faced yet another issue the next morning, highlighting further troubles with his avian accommodations.

Jeremy Clarkson faced a grim discovery on his Diddly Squat Farm when he found that his attempt to protect his chickens had inadvertently led to a fox massacre. He recounted the harrowing experience: “The next morning, one was dead. And another mortally wounded. It turned out that the wood had been home to a family of foxes and I’d simply fenced them in and provided what they saw as a nice supper.”

The TV star realised too late that his birds had tried to flee, only for him to unwittingly drive them back into peril. Reflecting on the incident, he confessed: “I felt a complete idiot.”

Clarkson, who bought 400-hectares of farmland in Oxfordshire in 2008, took over its management after the previous tenant retired in 2019. His farming exploits have since been chronicled on Amazon Prime’s Clarkson’s Farm, earning him a new following and making the farm a popular destination among fans.

Beyond entertainment, Jeremy has emerged as an advocate for farmers, with author and farmer James Rebanks commending him for highlighting the challenges faced by Britain’s rural communities. Rebanks shared his insights: “I can report back from within the farming community: they all loved that programme. They loved it.”

He added, acknowledging Clarkson’s unique appeal: “Ok, he’s clowning around and he plays to that audience, and a lot of farmers are lads that like machines and they would have watched Top Gear and all the rest of it.”