0:00:02 > 0:00:06I'm Johnny Kingdom.
0:00:06 > 0:00:10And I'm spending a year filming the birds on our land,
0:00:10 > 0:00:1752 acres right on the edge of Exmoor in southwest England.
0:00:17 > 0:00:20We've got lots of British birds down here,
0:00:20 > 0:00:25like the wren, the blackbird and the great spotted woodpecker.
0:00:25 > 0:00:30And I've already started filming some of these birds through this very hard winter we've just had.
0:00:31 > 0:00:36But now spring's arrived, and everything happens this time of the year.
0:00:38 > 0:00:41Of course, the birds start building their nests.
0:00:44 > 0:00:47This is something I always look forward to.
0:00:50 > 0:00:56It's the busiest time of the year, and if my wife wants to find me, she's got to come to the land!
0:00:56 > 0:01:00- Oh, she's lovely.- The song thrush.
0:01:00 > 0:01:04Beautiful, that, you know.
0:01:04 > 0:01:08Now that spring is here, what I want to film is some birds sitting on
0:01:08 > 0:01:14their nest, hatching their eggs and rearing their chicks.
0:01:14 > 0:01:17If I could do that, that would be fantastic!
0:01:19 > 0:01:22BIRDSONG
0:01:27 > 0:01:30Well, in the wintertime, we saw the woodpecker.
0:01:30 > 0:01:33This is the female great spotted woodpecker.
0:01:35 > 0:01:37But now, this time of year,
0:01:37 > 0:01:40this is when you'll hear that... brrr, brrr, drilling.
0:01:40 > 0:01:45But what he's actually doing is he's calling a mate,
0:01:45 > 0:01:49and year after year they'll go to the same area, they'll call a partner,
0:01:49 > 0:01:53then both the pair of them will go and select a nice hole in a tree,
0:01:53 > 0:01:57which is the one I'm hoping for, which is down the valley.
0:01:57 > 0:02:01I went there in the wintertime because he was roosting there,
0:02:01 > 0:02:06so hopefully they may pick that tree for a nesting site.
0:02:06 > 0:02:08I'll point the stick out where the hole is.
0:02:08 > 0:02:11Up there, look.
0:02:11 > 0:02:14You must understand that the woodpecker are not one of the early birds,
0:02:14 > 0:02:18it's very early yet to find its nests, but this is the beginning of it.
0:02:18 > 0:02:22When you hear the drilling, that will tell me it's spring of the year.
0:02:25 > 0:02:27Here I am talking to you, you lovely people,
0:02:27 > 0:02:32and I've just seen a swallow fly in my tepee right below us.
0:02:32 > 0:02:34We've been waiting for the swallow to come back,
0:02:34 > 0:02:37and they've travelled from southern Africa, all that ways!
0:02:37 > 0:02:41And they comes back to the same nesting place again.
0:02:41 > 0:02:46So we could be in luck! I've already got a camera there waiting for him.
0:02:46 > 0:02:51The only trouble is, my wife don't like that tepee.
0:02:51 > 0:02:55Most people put a tepee on flat ground.
0:02:55 > 0:02:57This is on a hill.
0:02:57 > 0:03:01To me, it sticks out like a sore thumb.
0:03:01 > 0:03:07He tried to cover it up with willow, but that was very patchy.
0:03:07 > 0:03:10Saying that, look, it's growing.
0:03:10 > 0:03:14Next year, you won't see that at all, I don't think.
0:03:14 > 0:03:18I don't think I'm going to get him to take it down.
0:03:18 > 0:03:21I think this is a work of art.
0:03:21 > 0:03:24The wife don't like the tepee, OK?
0:03:24 > 0:03:26Never mind.
0:03:43 > 0:03:51I'm so pleased that I dug this pond, because it brings in lots of wildlife, especially the birds.
0:03:55 > 0:03:58Can you see what I can see down there? Look, see the yellow flowers.
0:03:58 > 0:04:02There's the cock bird, look. Now, this is one of our biggest geese.
0:04:02 > 0:04:04Beautiful, isn't it?
0:04:04 > 0:04:10It's a Canada goose, one of a pair, and it looks like they could stay here.
0:04:10 > 0:04:14And they've got a nest down the other end, which I'll show you in a minute.
0:04:14 > 0:04:16If you follow me down here...
0:04:22 > 0:04:25These are our first birds to nest on this pond.
0:04:25 > 0:04:29Hello! You OK, mate, eh?
0:04:31 > 0:04:38They was introduced into this country in about the 17th century roughly, but they don't go home now.
0:04:38 > 0:04:41They stay, they breed in a lot of ponds around here.
0:04:41 > 0:04:45Now, if you look over to the island on this side here, if you watch
0:04:45 > 0:04:48the box, to the right-hand side of the box,
0:04:48 > 0:04:51there is the female goose, look, and she's sitting on eggs.
0:04:51 > 0:04:58She may have maybe five or six eggs, so if you say four goslings, I'll be happy, anyway.
0:05:05 > 0:05:09Ah, she's got up for the first time,
0:05:09 > 0:05:11and she's turning her eggs.
0:05:11 > 0:05:13That's fantastic, that.
0:05:13 > 0:05:15Look at that.
0:05:15 > 0:05:20I can see two eggs. Lovely shot, that.
0:05:21 > 0:05:26Around about 15 days, and then hopefully we'll see some goslings.
0:05:34 > 0:05:40So I can film the birds without disturbing them, I've put a camera up in a tree.
0:05:40 > 0:05:43But we've got a problem.
0:05:43 > 0:05:47The camera is misted up, so what I's got to do is climb up the tree
0:05:47 > 0:05:52and actually take the globe off and hope that the camera will dry out.
0:05:54 > 0:05:56Oooh!
0:06:01 > 0:06:03Right, globe's off...
0:06:04 > 0:06:08It's very, very damp inside, you can see that, it's all misted up.
0:06:08 > 0:06:12And it's misted up on the globe itself, look. Look at that, look.
0:06:12 > 0:06:15See? That's condensation, look. It's wet, look at that, look.
0:06:15 > 0:06:17Would you believe it?
0:06:17 > 0:06:20And that should be a sealed unit.
0:06:20 > 0:06:24I'm going to wipe it off, I'm going to leave it staying like that, and it'll dry out, OK?
0:06:40 > 0:06:43Well, arrived back at the cabin just to check the cameras,
0:06:43 > 0:06:46and I've got to check the goose camera, because that's important.
0:06:46 > 0:06:49As you see, I took off the dome.
0:06:49 > 0:06:51Nearly there... Ah, now!
0:06:51 > 0:06:54Ah... There we got it, now you've started to work.
0:06:54 > 0:06:59There you are. The camera's working again, by taking the globe off, but it will get clearer than that
0:06:59 > 0:07:02when it dries out a bit, but that's not too bad, actually.
0:07:02 > 0:07:05But to see it in the cabin and just sit down in your leisure
0:07:05 > 0:07:08and watch all the other birds, I think that's fantastic.
0:07:08 > 0:07:10Right, let's come out of that one.
0:07:10 > 0:07:13Let me show you another one I was interested to show you.
0:07:13 > 0:07:16Now, this is the blue tit's nest.
0:07:16 > 0:07:19This is a lovely story, the same thing happened last year.
0:07:19 > 0:07:23The blue tit kept this box all through the winter.
0:07:23 > 0:07:26I was up there winter nights, looking for the wrens and that,
0:07:26 > 0:07:29and the blue tit would always come into this box here.
0:07:29 > 0:07:33She kept it last year, and she last year had nine eggs.
0:07:33 > 0:07:39And now she's building again, we'll be seeing a clutch of eggs here could be next week.
0:07:39 > 0:07:46Right, the next camera I want to show you is out there near that dead tree on the left.
0:07:47 > 0:07:51Oh, oh, look! The blackbird's just gone out.
0:07:51 > 0:07:54And there's a baby, in again, there was three babies!
0:07:54 > 0:07:57Look, there's a baby! Now there's the cock bird!
0:07:57 > 0:08:01That's the cock bird actually feeding the babies, how about that?
0:08:01 > 0:08:05One, two, three chicks I can see there, and an egg, there's the egg.
0:08:05 > 0:08:07So she's got three babies.
0:08:07 > 0:08:11That's wonderful, I think.
0:08:11 > 0:08:16The blackbird will have two or three broods, and this is the first one.
0:08:16 > 0:08:19We are into April now, so you can guarantee...
0:08:19 > 0:08:25Oh, end of April these will be flying away, and then she will select another spot.
0:08:25 > 0:08:29It just gives you some idea, like everything in the wintertime
0:08:29 > 0:08:34is closed down, everything's quiet, but now everything
0:08:34 > 0:08:36is happening, now it's so quick.
0:08:36 > 0:08:41So I'm not going to do any more today, so I'm going to close it all down.
0:08:41 > 0:08:43Bang! That's it!
0:08:43 > 0:08:44OK?
0:09:03 > 0:09:09Well, it's early in the morning, and my dad always said, "If you miss the morning, you miss the day,"
0:09:09 > 0:09:14and that is true. Everything's waking up.
0:09:14 > 0:09:19BIRDSONG
0:09:19 > 0:09:21That's Jenny wren!
0:09:21 > 0:09:22That's good.
0:09:22 > 0:09:27I'm so pleased, because don't forget last year was 18 wrens I had go in
0:09:27 > 0:09:32the box, but not this year, because of this bad winter we've had.
0:09:32 > 0:09:36I do like the wren.
0:09:36 > 0:09:38Oh, I smell fox!
0:09:38 > 0:09:39Fox coming this way.
0:09:39 > 0:09:42Fox coming now.
0:09:45 > 0:09:48I just love this morning time when you hear the birds sing.
0:09:50 > 0:09:54A lot of people don't hear this, because them're lying in bed too long.
0:09:59 > 0:10:03He's right at the entrance of the hole.
0:10:03 > 0:10:08I've just seen a nuthatch go in a hole, and I know there's a pair there.
0:10:08 > 0:10:11This nuthatch is in a woodpecker's hole
0:10:13 > 0:10:17He's right across. He's gone across over there. He's on a piece up there.
0:10:17 > 0:10:22I can see he's cleaning himself or doing something. He's took off!
0:10:22 > 0:10:24He's gone back.
0:10:27 > 0:10:31A lot of activity going on now, he's definitely at the nest.
0:10:31 > 0:10:34This is fantastic. We've got another bird on our list.
0:10:38 > 0:10:43What's that? I thought I heard a woodpecker then, a great-spotted woodpecker.
0:10:47 > 0:10:50But the sound was on the left-hand here somewhere.
0:10:50 > 0:10:55See, this takes time, you've got to wait, you just don't have them just like that.
0:10:55 > 0:10:57This is where your patience kicks in.
0:10:57 > 0:11:00WOODPECKER DRILLS
0:11:03 > 0:11:07I've come down early to see if I can see a woodpecker.
0:11:07 > 0:11:11Just to see if it's nesting in that hole yet.
0:11:12 > 0:11:16You can see down there in the bushes, the hide.
0:11:20 > 0:11:23I'm assuming he's showing where the woodpeckers nest is, I'm hoping.
0:11:23 > 0:11:25I know he's roosting there.
0:11:25 > 0:11:30I'm hoping that the woodpecker will nest there as well, but we might not be so lucky as that, OK?
0:11:33 > 0:11:39What I want to do is, walk over to that tree, just in case he may be in there.
0:11:47 > 0:11:50Well, he's not in there.
0:11:56 > 0:12:00I reckon that those woodpeckers have found another tree.
0:12:00 > 0:12:04I think I'm going to have to have another look around our woodland.
0:12:15 > 0:12:18Well, interesting story.
0:12:18 > 0:12:21I've been waiting for the swallows to return to the teepee.
0:12:21 > 0:12:23They've come back.
0:12:23 > 0:12:25OK, they're nesting in there.
0:12:25 > 0:12:29I've got a camera on the nest, but it's completely different.
0:12:29 > 0:12:31The swallow has got a forked tail
0:12:31 > 0:12:36and under its beak, where it supposed to be red like the common swallow, it's pure white.
0:12:36 > 0:12:38I've looked all through the book,
0:12:38 > 0:12:40and the nearest thing to it
0:12:40 > 0:12:44is on the next page, is a housemartin, which is black and white,
0:12:44 > 0:12:48but the housemartin is completely different.
0:12:48 > 0:12:53So, why is this bird white where it's supposed to be red?
0:12:53 > 0:12:57If you look here to see the white part on its throat,
0:12:57 > 0:13:01just below that white you have a black band, and then it is white again.
0:13:01 > 0:13:03A very attractive bird, this.
0:13:03 > 0:13:07So what sort of bird is it?
0:13:07 > 0:13:10I'm going to have to look into this a bit more, I think.
0:13:13 > 0:13:16Right, she is sitting happy there, so let's come out of this one,
0:13:16 > 0:13:20and let's have a look at our other birds.
0:13:20 > 0:13:24The blue tit did go out. This one has been laying for a few days. There you are,
0:13:24 > 0:13:28there's your proof, look. They have left their eggs uncovered.
0:13:28 > 0:13:291, 2, 3.
0:13:29 > 0:13:31I can see three or four eggs.
0:13:31 > 0:13:34That's the first shot of eggs I've got.
0:13:34 > 0:13:38I'm just going to go to our blackbirds quick.
0:13:38 > 0:13:41I'd say that they are gone. There you are.
0:13:41 > 0:13:46I couldn't to her yesterday, I had to spend a day with my wife.
0:13:46 > 0:13:50Here you are, look, this is what they looked like two days ago.
0:13:50 > 0:13:53That will show you how quick they fly.
0:13:53 > 0:13:58We started with three chicks, but now there is only two left.
0:13:58 > 0:14:01This is what happens in wildlife.
0:14:01 > 0:14:04Let's come out of this one and get on the goose.
0:14:04 > 0:14:06You can see the island.
0:14:06 > 0:14:08I can zoom into there.
0:14:08 > 0:14:11It doesn't look like she's in the nest.
0:14:14 > 0:14:19Right, too far, and she's there, OK.
0:14:19 > 0:14:21OK? A-ha!
0:14:21 > 0:14:25We've got a new one! I can't believe it. I've got a baby.
0:14:25 > 0:14:27It was born today.
0:14:29 > 0:14:31Excellent!
0:14:31 > 0:14:33Excellent, I've got a gosling, I can't believe it.
0:14:35 > 0:14:39I can't believe that I've got a gosling, I'm over the moon!
0:14:39 > 0:14:45I hope I'm recording it!
0:14:45 > 0:14:48I hope you saw that, you lucky people, that was a gosling.
0:14:48 > 0:14:53Just come out of its shell, man, because I can't show you that, you see.
0:14:53 > 0:14:58I can't show you that. I've got to get down there, I think, with the camera.
0:14:58 > 0:15:02That's what I'm going to do, right? Cut this.
0:15:02 > 0:15:05OK. Do that, and close down.
0:15:05 > 0:15:08Close down!
0:15:08 > 0:15:09I'm off. I'm going down pond!
0:15:13 > 0:15:17OK, right. I'm going to go here.
0:15:21 > 0:15:26Well, I've arrived at the pond, and look at that, they're yellow.
0:15:26 > 0:15:28They're beautiful.
0:15:28 > 0:15:32It's five little goslings
0:15:32 > 0:15:34with mum, in that wonderful...
0:15:36 > 0:15:39I can't explain how I feel.
0:15:41 > 0:15:47Let's hope and pray that they will all live. It's very, very rare that they all live.
0:15:47 > 0:15:50This is a time now where if there are any predators around,
0:15:50 > 0:15:54like a mink, or anything like that, they will take 'em.
0:15:56 > 0:15:58But look how big those chicks is.
0:15:58 > 0:16:03That will tell you now that they won't be very long before them're on the water.
0:16:07 > 0:16:09That's dad, there.
0:16:11 > 0:16:14You got to get to know me, you know, because you're on our land!
0:16:14 > 0:16:16You know that, don't you?!
0:16:16 > 0:16:18You've come along and took over.
0:16:18 > 0:16:21You don't own the place, you know, do you?!
0:16:24 > 0:16:28I've named them Johnny and Julie.
0:16:33 > 0:16:37And you can see them moving to the right there.
0:16:37 > 0:16:41The reason why she's on that side, is because the wind is coming
0:16:41 > 0:16:44from the other side, which is very clever of her.
0:16:44 > 0:16:46She's got to keep them warm, mind.
0:16:48 > 0:16:50Well done, mum.
0:16:53 > 0:16:57Let's go home now and tell Julie the good news.
0:17:01 > 0:17:03Julie, you up there?
0:17:03 > 0:17:05Come here, come here!
0:17:05 > 0:17:06Come on.
0:17:06 > 0:17:10- Look here.- Oh! Ain't they lovely?
0:17:10 > 0:17:12- See, I told you, didn't I? - Tiny little things.
0:17:12 > 0:17:14Yeah, but there's five of them.
0:17:14 > 0:17:17Look, Harry, Harry, look!
0:17:17 > 0:17:19- What's that?- Birdies!
0:17:19 > 0:17:21Can you say birdie or no?
0:17:21 > 0:17:23No. No, he's not!
0:17:23 > 0:17:26He always do say birdie.
0:17:26 > 0:17:30- So all five hatched then?- All five hatched, and there was hardly a day
0:17:30 > 0:17:34and they were on to the bank, onto the grass land as quick as that.
0:17:34 > 0:17:36- I wonder if they'll stay there. - Well, you don't know.
0:17:36 > 0:17:40It just depends if there's any predators, but I'm a fair ways up.
0:17:40 > 0:17:43They are walking up towards the cabin, you see.
0:17:43 > 0:17:46You wouldn't think they'd go so far been as they're so small.
0:17:46 > 0:17:51But you see, you'll never get five of them to stay there.
0:17:51 > 0:17:54You'd be very lucky if you do, anyway. OK. Brilliant, isn't it?
0:17:54 > 0:17:58Well, let's keep our fingers crossed. Come on then, Harry, we're going in.
0:17:58 > 0:18:00- See you again, mate. - Say "Bye, Grandad".
0:18:00 > 0:18:02And that's my new grandson.
0:18:04 > 0:18:09OK. Well, you know that swallow I filmed on the land,
0:18:09 > 0:18:13I've worked out why it was a funny colour.
0:18:14 > 0:18:19I thought I had a pair of black and white swallows, but I must be mad, I think.
0:18:19 > 0:18:24The problem was, you see, a swallow has got a red-maroon breast, like that.
0:18:24 > 0:18:26But this is pure white.
0:18:26 > 0:18:31And I am using a colour camera, because you can see the hazel,
0:18:31 > 0:18:35all of the colours were there, but on the swallow, it was showing white.
0:18:35 > 0:18:42So what's wrong? I've rung up Bristol, the film people, they're all trying to find out.
0:18:42 > 0:18:43They've been on the internet.
0:18:43 > 0:18:45They can't find these swallows.
0:18:45 > 0:18:49And then the brain began to kick in. I know I ain't got much of one!
0:18:49 > 0:18:52I thought, ah, let me go down in the tepee.
0:18:52 > 0:18:57So I sneaked in there quick with a different camera, and just looked up like that.
0:18:57 > 0:19:02It's very, very quick, but it's enough to show you people
0:19:02 > 0:19:05that it's definitely a normal swallow.
0:19:05 > 0:19:07Not a black-and-white one.
0:19:07 > 0:19:10So, that's telling me that there's something wrong
0:19:10 > 0:19:15with the other camera, so I shall have to get that fixed.
0:19:15 > 0:19:17So, what do you think of that story?
0:19:40 > 0:19:43Well, it's a beautiful morning.
0:19:43 > 0:19:45But, a very sad one.
0:19:47 > 0:19:51The film crew have come all the way down to see me this morning
0:19:51 > 0:19:57to see these geese, Canada geese, and they've just disappeared, and I can't understand this.
0:19:57 > 0:20:02They only stayed two-and-a-half days.
0:20:02 > 0:20:05So where have they gone? It's awful.
0:20:05 > 0:20:07Very upsetting, I'm telling you now.
0:20:15 > 0:20:21I'm really, really concerned now that a predator have taken our goslings away.
0:20:21 > 0:20:26I know that there's a fox around here, but saying that, it could
0:20:26 > 0:20:32be a mink that have come up the stream and taken them. I don't know.
0:20:32 > 0:20:36But what a sad day for us.
0:20:59 > 0:21:03The other thing that upset me is the blue tits.
0:21:06 > 0:21:08You see the box up in the tree there,
0:21:08 > 0:21:15on Sunday, the blue tits hatched out and I couldn't wait. I'd been waiting for such a long time.
0:21:15 > 0:21:18I came back on Monday to do a bit of filming of the birds
0:21:18 > 0:21:22and I couldn't believe what I saw in the box.
0:21:22 > 0:21:27I saw two eggs and one little tiny dead chick.
0:21:27 > 0:21:33This is what the chicks looked like on Sunday, very, very small, tiny little things.
0:21:33 > 0:21:39Next day, one dead chick, and two other eggs that didn't hatch.
0:21:39 > 0:21:43All the rest is gone, which is telling me they've died
0:21:43 > 0:21:46and the parent birds have taken them out of the nest.
0:21:47 > 0:21:49I don't know what have killed them.
0:21:49 > 0:21:55But, you know, four days we had a very hot spell so maybe it's something to do with that.
0:21:57 > 0:21:59I just don't know.
0:21:59 > 0:22:01I don't know the answer.
0:22:01 > 0:22:03But it's sad.
0:22:32 > 0:22:35Well, at last, some good news.
0:22:35 > 0:22:41I've been searching and searching, and I finally found those woodpeckers.
0:22:43 > 0:22:46There you are, we found the nest.
0:22:46 > 0:22:49I didn't think it would be this tree, mind.
0:22:55 > 0:22:58I know there's babies here, because I heard them chirping.
0:22:58 > 0:23:01Cheep, cheep, cheep. Something like that.
0:23:05 > 0:23:06They're wood pigeons.
0:23:09 > 0:23:13But I heard that cch-cch-cch. I can hear that noise very faintly.
0:23:16 > 0:23:20So what we're going to do now is just wait and see if the woodpecker will come.
0:23:28 > 0:23:32If I go back like that, we might be lucky and see them flying.
0:23:39 > 0:23:42There's my first shot.
0:23:42 > 0:23:44That's where it is, but he's gone in a hole.
0:23:46 > 0:23:49The bird's gone running in the nest.
0:23:49 > 0:23:53And come out, and gone away again, but at least we got one little shot.
0:23:54 > 0:23:56OK.
0:24:02 > 0:24:04I'm letting it run a bit.
0:24:04 > 0:24:07Here he is. He pitched in that time, now is he the male?
0:24:07 > 0:24:10Yes. He's lower down.
0:24:10 > 0:24:14But he'll start walking up to the nest. There you are, look.
0:24:15 > 0:24:20And look, you can't get no better shot than this, this is brilliant.
0:24:20 > 0:24:24Beautiful coloured bird with that red helmet
0:24:24 > 0:24:28at the back, that shows me he is the male Great Spotted Woodpecker.
0:24:28 > 0:24:31Brilliant.
0:24:35 > 0:24:37In he goes.
0:24:37 > 0:24:40So the babies is not that big really.
0:24:42 > 0:24:45They don't stay on the outside very long, when the babies get
0:24:45 > 0:24:48bigger they will do, because they can't get in with them.
0:24:50 > 0:24:53And there it goes. That's fantastic.
0:24:57 > 0:25:03Well, ever since the geese disappeared, I've been hoping and praying that they're still alive.
0:25:03 > 0:25:07I've been hunting around all over the countryside,
0:25:07 > 0:25:12and I found out that they waddled all the way down the river to Knowstone Mill.
0:25:12 > 0:25:17And they waddled up this valley, and down at the top of this field,
0:25:17 > 0:25:20and they've come out into the road.
0:25:20 > 0:25:25And do you know, in the back of my mind, I said, I wonder if they've gone to another pond.
0:25:26 > 0:25:34And then, I bumped into George, and he owns a fishery, and a few days ago they turned up there!
0:25:36 > 0:25:38They crossed the road in this dip here.
0:25:38 > 0:25:42They came down that valley. For this distance now, you're over two miles.
0:25:42 > 0:25:48And this is where they went, down into this valley here, which you may be lucky to get a shot off.
0:25:48 > 0:25:53I don't know if you can see or not. But down there is the fisheries, you see?
0:25:53 > 0:25:55So this is where I am off to now.
0:25:55 > 0:26:01I'm off to see George, hopefully to see the parents and these goslings, to see how they're getting on.
0:26:04 > 0:26:06- All right, mate.- Hi, John!
0:26:06 > 0:26:08Nice to see you, mate.
0:26:09 > 0:26:12Well, they were halfway along this bank, this morning.
0:26:12 > 0:26:17So they have either dived in or they will be up on the top on the oak tree lake.
0:26:17 > 0:26:19You know your birds, don't you?
0:26:21 > 0:26:26The only sad thing is, George says there's only two goslings left out of the five.
0:26:26 > 0:26:28Very, very sad.
0:26:32 > 0:26:33Beautiful.
0:26:35 > 0:26:39What a wonderful sight that is.
0:26:39 > 0:26:42Look at that. Lovely, fluffy balls.
0:26:45 > 0:26:47Well, they've changed.
0:26:47 > 0:26:50They're twice the size.
0:26:50 > 0:26:52And it's only a week.
0:26:52 > 0:26:54Yes, they doubled their size.
0:26:54 > 0:26:57- Doubled in size. - So they're feeding well, aren't they?
0:26:59 > 0:27:01That is a cracking shot.
0:27:01 > 0:27:04That is beautiful.
0:27:04 > 0:27:07You don't remember me, do you? No.
0:27:07 > 0:27:09Well, they probably do, John.
0:27:09 > 0:27:11They recognise sounds, don't they?
0:27:11 > 0:27:17- Oh yes.- And they're ain't too many people sound like you, John, is there?- No, mate!
0:27:17 > 0:27:20My missus says I'm a one-off.
0:27:23 > 0:27:29So, how did those two know to come to this lake, from that distance, all the way over there?
0:27:29 > 0:27:32They normally nest here every year, they have done for years.
0:27:32 > 0:27:36This year they didn't nest. For some reason, I don't know why.
0:27:36 > 0:27:40George is saying that honestly thinks that this is their home.
0:27:40 > 0:27:43They come to my place just for a little while,
0:27:43 > 0:27:46have their goslings, and then decided to come back home again.
0:27:46 > 0:27:49So I think that's a wonderful story, anyway.
0:27:49 > 0:27:53I honestly do. I think it's beautiful, because we got two alive.
0:27:53 > 0:27:55That's a good result.
0:27:55 > 0:27:58Yes. Definitely.
0:27:58 > 0:28:00And they're up on their feet now.
0:28:00 > 0:28:03Yes, they're up running around now, aren't they?
0:28:03 > 0:28:05Wonderful.
0:28:07 > 0:28:09Beautiful, that.
0:28:13 > 0:28:16Well, let's hope these little goslings make it.
0:28:20 > 0:28:22There's a bird. He's up there, look.
0:28:25 > 0:28:28I want to get that pretty shot you told me that you can get.
0:28:28 > 0:28:32Up a bit, go on? Up!
0:28:34 > 0:28:35Oh, what you doing, Bob?!
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