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Welcome to a brand new series of Springwatch Unsprung, | :00:19. | :00:33. | |
coming to you live from Suffolk, in front of this feisty | :00:34. | :00:35. | |
and boisterous audience, drawn from the beautiful countryside | :00:36. | :00:37. | |
around us and the RSPB Minsmere staff and volunteers. | :00:38. | :00:43. | |
I'm Chris Packham, and I will be your host for the next three weeks | :00:44. | :00:56. | |
Full stop and this is what we gain to show you. Some of the most | :00:57. | :01:02. | |
fascinating and beautiful wildlife in the region. Have a look at this. | :01:03. | :01:09. | |
Frolicking in the fields. The birdsong sometimes produced by these | :01:10. | :01:17. | |
beautiful wrens. But all of a sudden a predator is lacking in the grass. | :01:18. | :01:24. | |
Perhaps chasing bad little money. And the magnificent sparrowhawk. | :01:25. | :01:33. | |
This camera is live from the woods about 700 metres away. And you can | :01:34. | :01:38. | |
watch these images live on your screen immediately after the | :01:39. | :01:40. | |
programme and throughout the next three weeks. The programme is a | :01:41. | :01:46. | |
little less about the wildlife and a bit more about the people who engage | :01:47. | :01:52. | |
with it. That is you. We really want to engage with the audience and to | :01:53. | :01:55. | |
help us we have experts in the studio and a few famous guests. It | :01:56. | :02:00. | |
is my pleasure to introduce our first guest this evening. Number one | :02:01. | :02:05. | |
and gentle man who used to be a barrister but has been guilty of | :02:06. | :02:08. | |
appearing on television rather a lot. Is extremely eloquent and | :02:09. | :02:15. | |
erudite and has a razor wit. I bet you do not know that he is president | :02:16. | :02:20. | |
of the Woodland Trust. Mr Clive Anderson! We will be talking to you | :02:21. | :02:31. | |
shortly. And the second guest gave up hunting, pop and rock stars and | :02:32. | :02:39. | |
made tracks into the world of wildlife. To find out if she's just | :02:40. | :02:45. | |
sweet or a fox on the run, we will be looking later at book. It is | :02:46. | :02:52. | |
Lucie Jones. As I was saying, this programme is all about the viewers. | :02:53. | :02:58. | |
Lindsay Chapman, nice to see you again. How are you? I trod on your | :02:59. | :03:06. | |
foot! You did, quite a lot of weight. How do people get in touch? | :03:07. | :03:14. | |
In so many ways. And so much stuff is coming in all day. They are | :03:15. | :03:18. | |
talking about tonight 's live show, what we might see later on and in | :03:19. | :03:23. | |
particular the live cameras. You can watch those on the website right | :03:24. | :03:27. | |
now. If you have never watched Springwatch this is one of the best | :03:28. | :03:32. | |
things about it. We have got this whole place wired with cable | :03:33. | :03:39. | |
everywhere and it is bringing images from nest cameras. That is the Stone | :03:40. | :03:45. | |
Curlew, rather strange looking, it is a wading bird. And crepuscular, | :03:46. | :03:53. | |
so active in the evening in low light. And we will tell you a lot | :03:54. | :03:55. | |
more about these birds in the programme at eight o'clock over the | :03:56. | :04:00. | |
next three weeks. Beautiful and rare. And also things you might | :04:01. | :04:07. | |
recognise from your own garden. This camera is the bluetit camera. Very | :04:08. | :04:14. | |
sleepy. And the great fit camera as well, let's take a look at that. -- | :04:15. | :04:30. | |
great tit. You cannot see if it is the male or the female but feeding | :04:31. | :04:35. | |
is going on. It looks like it was a spider. Now rapidly becoming part of | :04:36. | :04:48. | |
a bluetit! Let's move on. A bit of life feeding straightaway, | :04:49. | :04:52. | |
brilliant. Those cameras are live, they're free and they are there for | :04:53. | :04:58. | |
three weeks 24 hours a day. We have been seeing a lot of pictures of | :04:59. | :05:03. | |
people who have their own nest box at home. This is fabulous, Trevor | :05:04. | :05:09. | |
Baker has a nest box with two bluetit is just meeting each other | :05:10. | :05:13. | |
are apparently they keep banging into each other. A bit of congestion | :05:14. | :05:19. | |
so the brood is probably prospering inside. Fabulous, looks like a | :05:20. | :05:28. | |
mirror. We may only pop up on your television screens once every season | :05:29. | :05:32. | |
but we are here all year online and we would love you to send in your | :05:33. | :05:38. | |
pictures and videos. People have been doing that and here is how you | :05:39. | :05:46. | |
do it. All you have to do is go to the BBC website and look for | :05:47. | :05:53. | |
Springwatch. Hit the play button if you want to see the live cameras. | :05:54. | :05:58. | |
And for live coverage, you could choose any of those cameras. We will | :05:59. | :06:05. | |
alternate those. And in the course of the day if something exciting is | :06:06. | :06:09. | |
happening we will put that camera up. People have been getting in | :06:10. | :06:14. | |
touch all year and sending in pictures and video. I just wanted to | :06:15. | :06:20. | |
build a picture of what has been happening since Winterwatch on the | :06:21. | :06:24. | |
online community. Take a look at this first picture. This is from Ian | :06:25. | :06:34. | |
Ledley, Canada goose, Gosling. And this as well, it really shows Spring | :06:35. | :06:44. | |
for me. Gratuitous bluebells! And that is rather good. The action is | :06:45. | :06:55. | |
fantastic. Sometimes birds of prey grapple with the talent but that was | :06:56. | :07:03. | |
holding its tail. Lots of ways to get in touch and this is exactly | :07:04. | :07:07. | |
how. It has never been easier to get in touch with us here on spring. | :07:08. | :07:12. | |
Wherever you are and whether you use the phone, laptop or tablet. The | :07:13. | :07:17. | |
easiest way is to go online and be our friend on social media. Like as | :07:18. | :07:22. | |
long Facebook and you can post comments and victories on the wall. | :07:23. | :07:26. | |
Follow us on histogram and Taggart into your photographs or get in | :07:27. | :07:31. | |
touch on twitter using the hashtag Springwatch. And if you cannot | :07:32. | :07:36. | |
remember all this it is explained on the website. It is as easy as that, | :07:37. | :07:43. | |
head straight to the website. And one more thing we would love you to | :07:44. | :07:48. | |
get involved with and this is the quiz. Over the next three weeks we | :07:49. | :07:51. | |
will set the quiz every night by a young viewer. This week it is | :07:52. | :07:58. | |
Melanie and she has an incredible collection of skulls. I will hand | :07:59. | :08:01. | |
over to Melanie to set the first question. | :08:02. | :08:07. | |
I'm Melanie, this is my quiz for you. On this skull, this animal had | :08:08. | :08:13. | |
huge eyes so excellent night vision. It has a huge pointed set of | :08:14. | :08:23. | |
canines. What do you think it is? I love that. It is a mystery. I had a | :08:24. | :08:30. | |
massive collection of skulls myself, I started when I was younger than | :08:31. | :08:35. | |
Melanie. I like it when young people get hands-on with nature. Would you | :08:36. | :08:42. | |
like a skull like that? Yes! They beat we could arrange that. I'm sure | :08:43. | :08:47. | |
we could slip Q1. Get in touch and send us your answers on the hashtag | :08:48. | :08:53. | |
Springwatch. Over to our first guest. Welcome, Clive Anderson. | :08:54. | :09:06. | |
Famous for entertaining as in chat and quiz shows. But there has been | :09:07. | :09:11. | |
another side to you we did not know about, the passion for wildlife. | :09:12. | :09:22. | |
Exactly. I have always liked wildlife. I wish I had brought in a | :09:23. | :09:27. | |
photograph, a couple of years ago I was photographing beavers in | :09:28. | :09:31. | |
Scotland, they had been released back into the wild. That is quite | :09:32. | :09:37. | |
the borders, you have to sit there for two hours waiting for them to | :09:38. | :09:40. | |
turn up. If you make any noise they do not come. You have also been | :09:41. | :09:46. | |
overseas in the Masai Mara. We have got a clip. We have seen an | :09:47. | :09:51. | |
elephant, the sun is just coming up over the forest. A perfect day to be | :09:52. | :09:58. | |
trampled to death by a rogue elephant enraged by crowds of people | :09:59. | :10:03. | |
shooting at it! Thankfully not trampled to death. We were trying to | :10:04. | :10:08. | |
scare the elephant away from the crops because the Maasai people are | :10:09. | :10:14. | |
taking up farming, which they did not used to do. There is a bit of | :10:15. | :10:17. | |
conflict there and that was the problem that we were looking up. The | :10:18. | :10:22. | |
wildlife scares the elephant away for them. They tried all kinds of | :10:23. | :10:32. | |
things, bumblebees, all sorts. It was quite dangerous. Sometimes an | :10:33. | :10:37. | |
elephant will come towards you and trample you to death. Your interest | :10:38. | :10:43. | |
goes back further, you did an A-level of the I did science | :10:44. | :10:48. | |
subjects at school, I had an idea to become a doctor so I did zoology and | :10:49. | :10:52. | |
things like that. So I did things on humble bees and termites. Social | :10:53. | :11:01. | |
insects. Why did you turn your back on wildlife? To enter the legal | :11:02. | :11:10. | |
world. If I knew I was going to go into broadcasting I would've stuck | :11:11. | :11:16. | |
with science and nature and I have been co-presenting with you! I do | :11:17. | :11:19. | |
not know, I was unimaginative, becoming a doctor or a lawyer. And | :11:20. | :11:25. | |
the Woodland Trust, you have been present for some time. It is a grand | :11:26. | :11:32. | |
title, I'm just an adornment! Your familiar probably with a wooden | :11:33. | :11:38. | |
trust. Of course, we work with them constantly. Looking to preserve | :11:39. | :11:42. | |
ancient woodland, and new woodland and battling disease. These are some | :11:43. | :11:51. | |
Twitter pictures. These are good. Sometimes a tree can be hard to | :11:52. | :11:55. | |
capture on camera. You want to get the size and the beauty. That is | :11:56. | :12:02. | |
excellent. It is nice. I do not know what that in the middle is. It is a | :12:03. | :12:08. | |
hawthorn. And this is nice as well. In the UK we have less woodland than | :12:09. | :12:18. | |
any other country in Western Europe. Since every man arrived we have been | :12:19. | :12:23. | |
cutting down trees. But recently with the work of the Woodland Trust | :12:24. | :12:28. | |
and others, ancient woodland we're worried about losing because once it | :12:29. | :12:34. | |
has lost it is lost for ever. It develops an ecology of hundreds of | :12:35. | :12:38. | |
years. And people when they want to build something, but you have got to | :12:39. | :12:44. | |
wait 400 years to get the same. And old trees are especially good for us | :12:45. | :12:48. | |
because they have got holes in big enough to hide a substantial bird. | :12:49. | :12:55. | |
This is not the most inspiring view but this is a little owl inside a | :12:56. | :13:00. | |
hollow oak tree. We had a barn owl inside. This is live now. She has | :13:01. | :13:06. | |
three young and she is putting them at the moment. She will be active in | :13:07. | :13:12. | |
the next hour or so. Not keen on appearing in the programme! This is | :13:13. | :13:21. | |
real life wildlife, you cannot beat that. Do not clap your hands! Here | :13:22. | :13:27. | |
we have one of the adults feeding one of the young. It has got a large | :13:28. | :13:37. | |
beetle. Appearing on your show is life and death, sometimes you either | :13:38. | :13:42. | |
start and sometimes you're being fed to the real star! A lot like show | :13:43. | :13:50. | |
business! One last thing, tree of the year, it is something run by the | :13:51. | :13:56. | |
Woodland Trust. There is a European competition and you have got to find | :13:57. | :13:59. | |
the English tree of the year, Scottish, European. A little bit | :14:00. | :14:07. | |
like Eurovision. This is the pear tree. It is magnificent. And this is | :14:08. | :14:16. | |
the major oak, Robin Hood is said to have hidden inside it but I'm afraid | :14:17. | :14:21. | |
it would have been a sapling when he was around. We're not sure whether | :14:22. | :14:25. | |
or not he existed at the European competition is normally one by a | :14:26. | :14:30. | |
tree in Romania. Terry Wogan sadly is no longer with us or he could | :14:31. | :14:35. | |
have done the commentary. As with a lot of things, the English element | :14:36. | :14:42. | |
came in last, Scottish, Irish and Welsh were ahead. But we could win | :14:43. | :14:49. | |
four. What are you up to next? A mini nine miles from here, on with | :14:50. | :14:57. | |
the London Palladium. With the show, whose line is it anyway. -- million | :14:58. | :15:05. | |
miles. So if you want to see Central London and wildlife onstage, I would | :15:06. | :15:11. | |
imagine tickets are available. Do come along. Thank you very much. We | :15:12. | :15:17. | |
set all our guests a challenge and they have been tricky. We had to | :15:18. | :15:22. | |
make a wildcat from plasticine and draw barnacle geese and take | :15:23. | :15:25. | |
photographs on mobile phones. This year we offer a range of artist | :15:26. | :15:29. | |
materials and people have got to, with the visual representation of | :15:30. | :15:41. | |
Minsmere. Clive, going first. This is a painting in acrylic, ten | :15:42. | :15:45. | |
minutes is not longer enough for me to get beyond that. You have got a | :15:46. | :15:55. | |
tree. I was going to do the water, I did not get around to that. I love | :15:56. | :16:03. | |
it. This is a bit or John Nash over that side. Maybe another ten days. | :16:04. | :16:08. | |
Ack Van Gough did not paint as quickly as this! He only had one | :16:09. | :16:15. | |
ear! He did not sell many paintings in his life! It is a competition. A | :16:16. | :16:22. | |
representation of your work here. I will put it in the middle, because | :16:23. | :16:26. | |
we don't know if anybody will get any better. Slightly below the | :16:27. | :16:34. | |
middle! Mike Hedges too big, it is waiting it down! That is pretty | :16:35. | :16:41. | |
good. What do you think? It is top of the leaderboard, not bad. | :16:42. | :16:44. | |
It's time for a new feature that we are calling Hide Share, | :16:45. | :16:47. | |
where well-known faces have the dubious honour of sharing | :16:48. | :16:49. | |
time in a small bird-watching box with our very own Chris here. | :16:50. | :16:52. | |
It's two people sharing a bird-watching hide, | :16:53. | :16:54. | |
They told me I would find you here. What I do looking at? One of your | :16:55. | :17:16. | |
LPs, making sure it has got no scratches. I have not changed a bit! | :17:17. | :17:23. | |
Seriously, we have all aged a bit, but you have not changed that much. | :17:24. | :17:30. | |
You are a smooth talker! Can I get you to sign them? You can be | :17:31. | :17:35. | |
self-effacing, but 7 million albums! It is amazing! I have been doing it | :17:36. | :17:42. | |
an long time. In four years I made 16 albums as a kid. Spitting image | :17:43. | :17:48. | |
happy in the studio and I had to keep going, walking in the air, and | :17:49. | :17:53. | |
my voice started breaking, and somebody would kick me and the voice | :17:54. | :17:58. | |
would shoot back up, and they would say, ten minutes before his voice | :17:59. | :18:03. | |
breaks, that is 37 albums! It felt a bit like that. Have you been here | :18:04. | :18:10. | |
before? I live around the corner, I used to bring the kids here all the | :18:11. | :18:20. | |
time. I am looking at this gull. The surface of the water is alive with | :18:21. | :18:24. | |
insects. I swallowed 30 of them on my way to meet you. It is not good | :18:25. | :18:30. | |
for a single! But it is good for the birds. It is thick with insects. If | :18:31. | :18:34. | |
you can it is from the centre of London. It is stunning. | :18:35. | :18:44. | |
All I do is to see was roosters like this. At 8am I have got a jam some | :18:45. | :18:53. | |
edge in my pocket, my mum does not see me until tea-time, I was out | :18:54. | :18:58. | |
running through rivers and climbing trees. We went out in those days. It | :18:59. | :19:05. | |
did not matter if you cut your on, you did not go home until it was | :19:06. | :19:11. | |
dark. Your dad was into wildlife? He could not believe we were in London. | :19:12. | :19:18. | |
A swift here as well. I am wrong, it is a swallow. I thought you were | :19:19. | :19:25. | |
never wrong! I spoke before I looked, which is a fatal mistake in | :19:26. | :19:30. | |
the world of birding. Always look first, especially when you squinting | :19:31. | :19:35. | |
into the sun! I once thought a plastic bag was a kingfisher, I made | :19:36. | :19:39. | |
somebody reverse of a busy road so we could look out across the river | :19:40. | :19:45. | |
at a plastic ack! I was only 15! Everybody believes what you say. You | :19:46. | :19:53. | |
shouldn't! A blue plastic bag over their! It is a kingfisher! | :19:54. | :20:11. | |
His musical success is remarkable, he has a new album, him duetting | :20:12. | :20:18. | |
with himself as a boy. I will be honest, it looked like you were | :20:19. | :20:23. | |
having problems identifying a kingfisher. I have got a couple of | :20:24. | :20:28. | |
pictures. Here is the first one, this is a kingfisher coming out of | :20:29. | :20:32. | |
the water, quite easy to identify. Very striking. Fabulous photograph. | :20:33. | :20:40. | |
This is absolutely gorgeous, a baby kingfisher. This has had over 25,000 | :20:41. | :20:48. | |
likes on our Facebook page already. It is a treat. Everybody goes for | :20:49. | :20:51. | |
the cute! The kingfisher for you! Do come and join us, Lucy! You have | :20:52. | :21:11. | |
done a U-turn, you were writing for the NME, interviewing Bjork, into | :21:12. | :21:17. | |
Radiohead, and now you have written about foxes. I am still into | :21:18. | :21:22. | |
Radiohead! Nature and wildlife has been a lifelong passion. I decided | :21:23. | :21:28. | |
that is the area I wanted to move into, especially when I started to | :21:29. | :21:33. | |
learn how much we stand to lose. Foxes, it is an interesting topic | :21:34. | :21:37. | |
for a journalist, because they incite so much opinion, they can be | :21:38. | :21:41. | |
contentious. I wanted to get my teeth stuck into that. You learned | :21:42. | :21:47. | |
at a young age, with your grandfather? He was into fox | :21:48. | :21:51. | |
hunting? He was a Foxhunter, there was hunting in my family, and | :21:52. | :21:57. | |
farming. I became aware of the fox being more than an animal. Hunting | :21:58. | :22:02. | |
is part of the reason why the Fox has an ambiguous and complex | :22:03. | :22:05. | |
relationship in this country, I wanted to look at that. Lots of | :22:06. | :22:10. | |
cultural references, fabulous Mr Fox here. Very much intertwined with our | :22:11. | :22:16. | |
culture. There is a rich cultural history. Traditionally, he has | :22:17. | :22:23. | |
always been demonised, a devil preacher in Church art or a chicken | :22:24. | :22:29. | |
pincher, the villainous character, until you get to fantastic Mr Fox, | :22:30. | :22:34. | |
with Roald Dahl. He starts to change and becomes a hero, which is | :22:35. | :22:39. | |
mirrored in the way attitudes changed as well. Most people love | :22:40. | :22:45. | |
them these days. You start with urban foxes, the foxes you meet, | :22:46. | :22:50. | |
they are the world's most successful carnival. They go well in our | :22:51. | :22:59. | |
cities. There are 10,000 in London, my patch is Walthamstow marshes. I | :23:00. | :23:04. | |
had a frustratingly few months when I could not find any. In Stoke | :23:05. | :23:09. | |
Newington, it is very built-up with pubs and restaurants, I saw one. | :23:10. | :23:13. | |
That is one of the wonderful things about being a city dweller and | :23:14. | :23:17. | |
seeing them. I live in Highbury, just down the road. There are | :23:18. | :23:23. | |
hundreds of boxes. Come to my back garden or hang around my dustbins! | :23:24. | :23:28. | |
Even if you can't see them, you can hear them. Let's listen to this. | :23:29. | :23:40. | |
They are very vocal. Here is another one. | :23:41. | :23:47. | |
But the complaint I heard, people don't like the vixen scream, it is | :23:48. | :23:57. | |
quite chilling. We hear that in their mating season. Is that their | :23:58. | :24:03. | |
mating? When they make, they remain in the mating process, given that we | :24:04. | :24:09. | |
are before the watershed, for quite some considerable time. Minutes, but | :24:10. | :24:17. | |
nudging two hours. They are mobile, moving around. I would be screaming! | :24:18. | :24:24. | |
We don't want to be thinking about you! Your book is experiential, you | :24:25. | :24:31. | |
went fox hunting with the Hunt saboteurs and you met people who | :24:32. | :24:34. | |
don't like them and many that do. It is very rational. I enjoyed the book | :24:35. | :24:42. | |
greatly. How did you feel, trying to reconcile these polarised opinions | :24:43. | :24:47. | |
about the animal? It was challenging at times. I wanted to approach it as | :24:48. | :24:51. | |
a journalist and be as impartial as possible and present the different | :24:52. | :24:55. | |
agendas, let the reader decide. That was my intention. I love foxes. My | :24:56. | :25:02. | |
motivation for writing it was to investigate them as a wild animal | :25:03. | :25:06. | |
and get past the myths and rumours that you hear and explore them, | :25:07. | :25:11. | |
their social groupings, which are interesting and complex, how they | :25:12. | :25:17. | |
hunt. You have completely turned! You have gone from the NME to fully | :25:18. | :25:23. | |
appreciating the science of boxes! What a transformation! Did you name | :25:24. | :25:27. | |
them after your favourite bands? I should have done! It is a fantastic | :25:28. | :25:33. | |
book. I should not be advertising get. Other Fox books are available! | :25:34. | :25:40. | |
If you are into foxes and you want a balanced view from both sides of the | :25:41. | :25:44. | |
argument, which lays some of the myths to rest, the psychopathic | :25:45. | :25:50. | |
henhouse nonsense, this is the book for you. You have got to show us | :25:51. | :25:56. | |
your artwork, ten minutes, what have you come up with? This is inspired | :25:57. | :26:01. | |
by our trip today. This is what we saw. What do we think about this? It | :26:02. | :26:14. | |
is pretty good. Clive, you did quite well. The three-dimensional aspect | :26:15. | :26:24. | |
of the mixed media, as they say... And difficult the fact of what we | :26:25. | :26:29. | |
saw, which was fantastic. Pretty good. That is really good. We are | :26:30. | :26:39. | |
running out of time. We have got to get to the quiz. Those pictures are | :26:40. | :26:48. | |
on our Flickr page. Go to the website, follow the link, so much to | :26:49. | :26:54. | |
see. Go and have a look. This is one of the pictures on the Flickr site. | :26:55. | :27:01. | |
Have a look at this. It is a Flickr picture of a weasel that we were | :27:02. | :27:05. | |
sent, a baby weasel. How cute is that? Getting out of control! Cute | :27:06. | :27:12. | |
rabbits, cute kingfishers, and now weasels. It will turn into a | :27:13. | :27:18. | |
voracious predator, ripping the heart out of old. Sorry! Josh, who | :27:19. | :27:27. | |
took that, is 13. The quiz answer, my Twitter feed went crazy. Loads of | :27:28. | :27:36. | |
people said Badger, pine Martin, Yorick, but this is what it is. | :27:37. | :27:46. | |
This is a red box. A red Fox! Anybody in the audience | :27:47. | :27:55. | |
get that? One or two. Those large canine teeth are gripping teeth, | :27:56. | :27:59. | |
they are therefore piercing the prey, hanging onto wet, shaking it | :28:00. | :28:04. | |
about. That is typical of that. Well done if you got it right. More quiz | :28:05. | :28:11. | |
tomorrow. If you want to follow Melanie, she is on Twitter. | :28:12. | :28:23. | |
MelanieGBones. It has been a great first programme. Thank you to our | :28:24. | :28:28. | |
guests. We are back at 6:30pm tomorrow. | :28:29. | :28:32. | |
We are back in an hour, where we will be finding out more | :28:33. | :28:35. | |
But before that, if you head to the website now, you can | :28:36. | :28:40. | |
join our expert commentators and Clive for a sneak-peek | :28:41. | :28:42. | |
Thank you, see at 8pm, and tomorrow at 6:30pm. | :28:43. | :29:05. | |
As they come in towards the home straight, | :29:06. | :29:12. | |
Jessica Ennis challenges Brianne Theisen-Eaton. | :29:13. | :29:16. |