:00:14. > :00:16.Welcome to Autumnwatch, coming to you live with a Fiesta of fantastic
:00:16. > :00:20.fauna. From our Bonny base here in the
:00:20. > :00:25.Highlands, we are bringing you the very best of autumn wildlife from
:00:25. > :00:35.around the country. We're following the animals all
:00:35. > :00:52.
:00:52. > :01:01.around us here 24 hours day. Hello and welcome to Autumnwatch
:01:01. > :01:04.2012, it is our second programme, we are up here at the Ages Field
:01:04. > :01:08.Centreer in the Highlands of Scotland. If you were watching last
:01:08. > :01:12.night we had a fantastic show. We had live pine marten and live
:01:12. > :01:16.beaver. We can't make any promises about what we can bring you live
:01:16. > :01:24.tonight, I can promise you a great show. It will be a great show, he
:01:24. > :01:31.specially for Hallowe'en, we will be lifting the lid on an amazing
:01:31. > :01:36.arachnid. My colleague, Martin Hughes -- Reading The Game game
:01:36. > :01:44.will be trailing animals. We will meet arguably the most buet
:01:44. > :01:50.of them all, the -- beautiful of them all, the Scottish wildcat. It
:01:50. > :01:54.is difficult to see where we are in the dark, some context in the
:01:54. > :01:58.daylight. This is our studio, but if we pull back and pan round, it
:01:58. > :02:01.is nestled in all of these low rolling hills, covered with great
:02:01. > :02:07.range of different vegetation types. Here next to the plantation, this
:02:07. > :02:12.is our pine marten area, and there, in the centre, you can see our
:02:12. > :02:16.mammal stunt. We have some bird feeders, rigged up with lots of
:02:16. > :02:19.live cameras. We have lots of live action there. It is back over there,
:02:19. > :02:24.panning round again, it is here that some of the real stars of our
:02:24. > :02:29.show have made their home. These animals are, of course, the beavers.
:02:29. > :02:33.This is the Hugh down the loch, the studio there in the distance. It is
:02:33. > :02:38.at this end the beavers have built their lodge. You can see it in the
:02:38. > :02:41.centre. Let's see if any of the stars are performing live for us.
:02:41. > :02:45.Beavers? Not there at the moment, hopefully they will make an
:02:46. > :02:50.appearance during the show. They have certainly been entertaining us.
:02:50. > :02:54.In the morning we have got great footage. This is Boris, he's the
:02:54. > :02:58.adult male. This is the first time we have seen him. He is making the
:02:58. > :03:02.most of the last of his day, which is obviously throughout the night,
:03:02. > :03:06.he's off to bed soon. He's eating as much as he can. They have to eat
:03:06. > :03:12.20% of their body weight a day. That is an enormous amount, and
:03:12. > :03:15.obviously, he has to eat a lot of it before the winter. He sired a
:03:15. > :03:21.lot of the kits. He's not a very attentive father, he leaves all
:03:21. > :03:27.that to the mother, to Lily. He's absolutely gorgeous. He looks like
:03:27. > :03:32.a gentle character, doesn't he. does, you have been sending a few
:03:32. > :03:36.questions about beavers, this is a first one. The question is do the
:03:36. > :03:39.beefers have natural predators in the Scottish high -- beavers have
:03:39. > :03:43.natural predators in the Scottish Highlands? Not at the moment, they
:03:43. > :03:48.would have had bear, wolf and lynx, but at the moment, none at all.
:03:48. > :03:52.Last night, while we were on air, or just before, we saw this. Very
:03:52. > :03:57.curious, something moving around in the water, to begin with we all
:03:57. > :04:02.thought it was a beaver. Then it came up and it was something much
:04:02. > :04:05.more carnivorous, as an otter, a beautiful view of an otter. We
:04:05. > :04:10.weren't expecting that at all. You never what turns up on the cameras.
:04:10. > :04:15.Then, later, after the programme last night, we picked the otter up
:04:15. > :04:20.again. Look at this, something curious was going on, he or she was
:04:20. > :04:27.very, very interested in the ground just underneath one of the beaver's
:04:27. > :04:29.dams. It looked like the otter was taking advantage of one of the
:04:29. > :04:36.beaver's constructions. It was digging around in the mud and
:04:36. > :04:40.undergrowth. It looks to me like it was probably hunting for something.
:04:40. > :04:44.But what on earth would an otter have been hunting for? What was it
:04:44. > :04:47.looking for, Chris? It could have been small fish, there is no doubt
:04:47. > :04:52.about that. It could equally have been something else. When we were
:04:52. > :04:56.out the other day. We were checking one of the pits here used for soil
:04:56. > :05:03.sampling, when we lifted the lid on it and looked down inside, a number
:05:03. > :05:10.of an fibbians had gone in there, looking for some place to hibernate,
:05:10. > :05:14.frog, newts and a toad. Another thing that is interesting is they
:05:14. > :05:19.will eat toads, a lot won't, because they have the toxic glands
:05:19. > :05:24.behind their head. Not the otter, he will munch them up and love them.
:05:24. > :05:28.Great to see the otter, and many of you have been enjoying that on-line.
:05:28. > :05:32.We have had some complaint, I'm afraid. We have, we have had a lot
:05:32. > :05:37.of complaints from people who are short of sleep, because they have
:05:37. > :05:40.been enjoying the on-line stuff and the red button stuff, so much, they
:05:40. > :05:44.find it addictive. They can't switch it off, because there is so
:05:45. > :05:54.much action going on during the nigh. If you would like to join the
:05:54. > :06:00.tired brigade, then watch the website on bbc .co.uk /Autumnwatch.
:06:00. > :06:04.The Isle of Rum is no country for old men, and not for stags, like
:06:04. > :06:09.Cassius, if you watched last night, he was having a rocky time on the
:06:09. > :06:15.wrong side of the river. The question is, could he cross this,
:06:15. > :06:25.and oust his arch rival, Amadeus MoT start. Ladies and gentlemen, it
:06:25. > :06:26.
:06:26. > :06:36.is time to -- Mozart, ladies and gentlemen, it's time to rut. On the
:06:36. > :06:37.
:06:37. > :06:42.Scottish Isle of Rum, the pressure is building.
:06:42. > :06:50.Every day more red deer stags are drawn to the glens, to do battle
:06:50. > :06:54.for the right to mate. So matter, Mozart has proved to be the
:06:54. > :07:01.dominant -- so far, MoT standard has proved to be the dominant stag.
:07:01. > :07:08.With so many others looking for a chance to attack, can Mozart stand
:07:08. > :07:17.his ground? On an outcrop, just above Mozart, a
:07:17. > :07:25.new stag is watching. This is Lucius, an 11-year-old, in his
:07:25. > :07:35.prime. He has already got a small group of female, but Lucius wants
:07:35. > :07:40.
:07:41. > :07:46.more. Mozart, on the right, decides to size him up. First meeting, and
:07:47. > :07:52.they are both cautious. Full on fighting is extremely dangerous, it
:07:52. > :08:00.is a last resort. But Lucius, behind on the higher ground, keeps
:08:00. > :08:05.challenging Mozart, again and again. Looking for any sign of weakness.
:08:05. > :08:08.Mozartled hold his ground, but he needs to step up a gear. If he
:08:08. > :08:17.doesn't stamp his authority, others doesn't stamp his authority, others
:08:17. > :08:27.will take advantage. And now, attacks come from all sides. Across
:08:27. > :08:28.
:08:29. > :08:33.the river, an older stag, Cassius prepares to mount a challenge. Only
:08:33. > :08:43.yesterday, Mozart easily sent him packing, but what a difference a
:08:43. > :08:51.
:08:51. > :09:01.day makes. Cassius seems brimming with new-found confidence. In a
:09:01. > :09:02.
:09:02. > :09:11.neat manoeuvre, he steals one of Mozart's behinds. -- hinds.
:09:11. > :09:21.Mozart's empire is starting to crumble. And Lucius makes another
:09:21. > :09:35.
:09:35. > :09:45.move. And this time it is no contest. Lucius is too strong.
:09:45. > :09:50.
:09:50. > :09:56.Mozart's rut is over. But he's young, his time will come. Lucius
:09:56. > :10:02.introduces himself to this newly inherited hare recommend.
:10:02. > :10:06.Experience is -- hare yum, experience is important for a stag.
:10:06. > :10:16.Not only do they need to be able to fight, but they need to know how to
:10:16. > :10:21.behave around the hinds. It pays to have a gentle side. By tasting the
:10:21. > :10:31.scent, Lucius can tell if any of the hinds are in season. The signs
:10:31. > :10:34.
:10:34. > :10:44.are good. Mozart can now just watch. Lucius is in charge. And gets
:10:44. > :10:45.
:10:45. > :10:53.precisely what all the tacks fight so hard for. Several hinds are now
:10:53. > :11:03.in season. Brutal battle break out all along the glen. These two stags
:11:03. > :11:29.
:11:29. > :11:34.are evenly matched, and neither After eight exshousing minutes,
:11:34. > :11:44.there is a result. -- exhausting minutes. There is a result. Fights
:11:44. > :11:47.
:11:47. > :11:52.like this are a huge drain on a stag's reserves. While they are
:11:52. > :12:02.ruting, stag's don't have time to eat. The reserve they have built up
:12:02. > :12:02.
:12:02. > :12:06.over the summer, are running out. Even for Lucius, a clock is ticking.
:12:06. > :12:14.Although he has claimed top spot, every fight will drain his powers.
:12:14. > :12:19.Waiting in the wings are other stags. Like wiley old Cassius. So
:12:19. > :12:24.far they have been conserving their energy, soon, inevitably, one of
:12:24. > :12:30.them will mount a challenge. Will it be strong enough to topple
:12:30. > :12:35.Lucius. The challenges on the new Monarch of the Glen, will be
:12:35. > :12:39.immense. I just can't believe how hard those
:12:39. > :12:45.stags have to work to get their Scottish oats, they really do work
:12:45. > :12:48.hard. What I do want to know is why have the females so blinged up,
:12:48. > :12:52.they have so many tags on them? Very interesting, that is because
:12:52. > :12:59.they are studying them. And they have been studying them for an
:12:59. > :13:02.incredible 59 years up on Rum. years! It is the longest-running
:13:02. > :13:07.mammal study in the world. They must have learned a lot in that
:13:07. > :13:12.time? If they are looking at those hinds they might be far away, they
:13:12. > :13:19.have to have the tags, they double them up because they rub them off.
:13:20. > :13:24.The study has gone going on -- been going on for 59 years, but it turns
:13:24. > :13:28.out that the hinds, the female are all gathered up in saiarkle by the
:13:28. > :13:36.stags. The stags think he has the females there, they don't wander
:13:36. > :13:42.very much at all, until they come into oestrus, they are only in that
:13:42. > :13:46.for one day, when that happens they wander off, sometimes a lot of
:13:46. > :13:51.metres, and to another stag, and they mate, and then back to the old
:13:52. > :13:55.stag. Are you suggesting they are promiscuous? Not promiscuous, but
:13:55. > :14:03.slightly naughty. They have a choice? They make a choice. We have
:14:03. > :14:07.a choice of what live cameras we look at it. Just before the
:14:07. > :14:11.programme we had an action on our Mamet malstump. We have been seeing
:14:12. > :14:17.a lot of animals in there. We have had the predictable ones like this
:14:17. > :14:21.one. Lovely animal, field vole. I used
:14:21. > :14:26.to do a little bit of research with them at university. Of all the
:14:26. > :14:29.little man mals, they bite the most! Very interesting what they
:14:29. > :14:39.were doing there. That one was taking the food out. It wasn't
:14:39. > :14:44.eating the food there. They do a lot of the business of cacheing
:14:44. > :14:49.them. One of my motorbikes wasn't running very well, and when he
:14:49. > :14:58.opened up the cash receiptor, it was full of nuts put there by a
:14:58. > :15:04.friendly mice. It was packed, I know lots of people will find that.
:15:04. > :15:11.Wait for it, we have an Autumnwatch first, we have an unpredictable
:15:11. > :15:15.animal in the mammal stump. What is it? Is it a giant mouse? No it is a
:15:15. > :15:19.weasel. What is it doing there. It certainly hasn't come in to eat the
:15:19. > :15:24.nuts and fruit, but the mice and voles who have come in to the eat
:15:24. > :15:29.the nuts and fruit. It is like the sparrowhawk of the mammal world, it
:15:29. > :15:36.is taking full advantage. It is very rare to get a view like that.
:15:36. > :15:41.Weasels are so I will Luisive. Many of our -- eLuis I have. Many of our
:15:41. > :15:46.mammal -- elusive, many of our mammals are. It is good if you know
:15:46. > :15:50.the tracks and signs. Most of us only visit parks and woodlands in
:15:50. > :15:54.the day. The problem is, a lot of British wildlife is nocturnal. How
:15:54. > :15:58.can we tell what is going on in these woods when we are tucked up
:15:59. > :16:04.in beds. Luckily for us there are clues everywhere. Straight away, I
:16:04. > :16:13.found one of the most obvious ones, an animal trail. I wonder if there
:16:13. > :16:19.are deer about. Let's try toe find deer footprints. This is like --
:16:19. > :16:25.try to find deer foot prints. This is like a motorway here, can't find
:16:26. > :16:30.any of the slots. Where are they? There, look like some footprints or
:16:30. > :16:34.slots. Is it deer. It shows how difficult it is, it isn't. Look at
:16:34. > :16:39.that, it is domestic animal, it is sheep. So what you want is a number
:16:39. > :16:45.of different clues, put them all together, and then you will get the
:16:45. > :16:52.right answer. I was completely wrong. Keep your eyes peeled for
:16:52. > :16:56.animal poo as well. Sometimes skat, excrement, is
:16:57. > :17:01.difficult to identify. But this one is easy. Have a look at this, this
:17:01. > :17:08.is badger. What they do, kindly, is dig a little pit, first of all, and
:17:08. > :17:17.poo in the middle of T it is called a badger latrine. Some poo has
:17:17. > :17:23.characteristic smells. It is not nasty, often the smell of the poo
:17:23. > :17:27.is diagnostic too. Otter poo smells of vie lets, pine marten is sweet.
:17:27. > :17:37.This badger poo smell as bit woody, really. Clearly, if this was dog
:17:37. > :17:39.
:17:39. > :17:44.poo, it would be offensive. This is perfect, a badger set over
:17:44. > :17:47.there, and badger runs. Look at this, incredibly lucky, badger
:17:47. > :17:51.footprint beside this mole hill. Now I can paint a complete picture
:17:51. > :17:56.of what the badger is doing at night. Come over here. The badger
:17:56. > :18:00.has been trotting along here, sniffing side-to-side, probably
:18:00. > :18:04.last night. He has come up to this mole hill and put his paws either
:18:04. > :18:08.side, stop, maybe the mole hill was moving a little bit. Could he get
:18:08. > :18:14.the mole? No. He has had a little dig here or there, maybe an
:18:14. > :18:21.earthworm, sniff, sniff, moved on. With so many badger signs, I'm
:18:21. > :18:27.going to stake out this area with wildlife cameraman, Lindsay. He has
:18:27. > :18:35.brought his kit to spot and film the badger. I have my own camera to
:18:35. > :18:40.record what has happened. Gone mad on the zoom! It is
:18:40. > :18:49.difficult operating the camera with one hand. We have got a slight
:18:49. > :18:59.problem, though. The moon is coming out. If it really comes up that
:18:59. > :19:01.
:19:01. > :19:11.will be a problem. They prefer it pitch black. You never know.
:19:11. > :19:11.
:19:11. > :19:19.can't tell you how exciting it is waiting. The badger is out. He's
:19:19. > :19:27.just snuffling around. Checking that all is well. There's nothing
:19:27. > :19:34.like being out on a cold night watching badgers. It never gets
:19:34. > :19:37.dull. You are right, it never gets dull. I have to applaud you, Sir,
:19:37. > :19:40.for getting down on your hands and knees and doing the decent thing.
:19:40. > :19:44.It is important to know the difference between all of those
:19:44. > :19:48.smells. I think people will think that is a bit quirky and a bit
:19:48. > :19:53.strange, maybe on Twitter a few comments. But you are wrong, you
:19:53. > :19:57.have to know the smell of the stuff. You're right, it smelled fine.
:19:57. > :20:02.on the ground, not all over your dog and the rug, though. That's bad.
:20:02. > :20:07.I did stay down there, Chris, with Lindsay, I did. I was there for
:20:07. > :20:11.more than 20 minutes. But I have to confess, Lindsay is one of the real
:20:11. > :20:17.hard men, he was down there far, far longer, man nights after me. He
:20:17. > :20:22.filmed some rather unusual things. Look at this. What do you think
:20:22. > :20:27.this is? I thought it was a beatle. It is a common slew going up a tree.
:20:27. > :20:30.That is unusual, isn't it. I have never read of slews in tree. There
:20:30. > :20:34.are tree slews in other parts of the worlder but not related to
:20:34. > :20:43.these types of slew. There are accounts of common slews climbing
:20:43. > :20:49.three metres up a tree. These animals are insectivores, they find
:20:50. > :20:59.it in the lower grass. That slew is going up the tree and is finding
:20:59. > :21:05.food up there. Something larger coming down the tree is rather
:21:05. > :21:10.bigger. A pine marten, if you look at the back leg, the hind limbs, it
:21:10. > :21:15.has flexible ankles, just like the squirrel. Not as agile as a
:21:15. > :21:20.squirrel, no points for that one! It is the flexible joints on the
:21:20. > :21:24.limbs that allows it to climb so well, and the long claws. We filmed
:21:24. > :21:29.something up the road from here, something spectacular. Look at this.
:21:29. > :21:34.Arguably my favourite bird. A tiny minute, it is a Merlin. It was just
:21:34. > :21:44.up the road. Chris I would expect to see Merlin up on the moor. It is
:21:44. > :21:46.
:21:46. > :21:50.being mobbed here. Jackdaw. They go to the coast in the winter, they
:21:50. > :21:53.are a small bird specialist. They move all around the coast. I see
:21:53. > :21:58.them down in the south in the winter time. A female Merlin like
:21:58. > :22:03.that, what a sight. These are exciting times for ornithology. We
:22:03. > :22:09.have new techniques to find out exactly what birds are up to. In
:22:09. > :22:14.the past we would ring them, and they would fly off, sometimes we
:22:14. > :22:17.would recover the ring but never know what they were doing it in the
:22:18. > :22:21.meantime. Now we have gadgets to put on birds and they fly off, and
:22:21. > :22:28.we know exactly where they have been all the time. Take a look at
:22:28. > :22:34.this, it is amazing. Chris from the British Trust for
:22:34. > :22:38.Ornithology, is visiting a colony of swifts in Devon, to apply some
:22:38. > :22:42.extraordinary technology to these birds. Swifts rely on areas of good
:22:42. > :22:47.weather in summer, they need a lot of insects to feed on. Although the
:22:47. > :22:52.weather is nice now, it has been a terrible struggle. The swifts have
:22:52. > :22:58.struggled and some nests failed completely. It is good to find some
:22:58. > :23:05.activity, and we can tag the adults. Chris is using fine, soft netting,
:23:05. > :23:09.which stops the birds from being hurt with the net. They don't
:23:09. > :23:15.associate hurt with the net. We have to make sure they come back.
:23:15. > :23:20.As they prepare to fit a geolocator tag, they have a rare opportunity
:23:20. > :23:25.to see the incredible bird close up. The head has a couple of
:23:25. > :23:30.adaptations, which makes it an incredible predator of insects.
:23:30. > :23:35.They have binocular vision, they have the ridge over it, which has
:23:35. > :23:40.an aerodynamic shape on the head, and widens the eyes. It has a wide
:23:40. > :23:44.mouth by allows large prey items. It has been shown equisite control
:23:44. > :23:49.over the precise shape of the win and exactly the angle the feathers
:23:49. > :23:55.are sitting at of the it gives them amazing manoeuvrability. It is a
:23:55. > :24:01.machine for taking flying insects. As swifts are highly-tuned aerial
:24:01. > :24:10.hunters, it is vital this tag doesn't interfere with the flight.
:24:10. > :24:17.This is the tag we are putting on, it weighs 0.6 of a gram, it is less
:24:17. > :24:21.than 0.2% of their body weight, has no effect on them. Once fitted, it
:24:21. > :24:26.records daily flight levels. And researchers can work out exactly
:24:26. > :24:30.where in the world this bird is. The information is stored on the
:24:30. > :24:35.tag, it is not transmitted. This means they have to retrieve the tag
:24:35. > :24:40.next year, when the swift returns to this nest site. This data will
:24:40. > :24:46.add to the amazing results gathered over the two years the project has
:24:46. > :24:50.been running. By putting geolocator on the birds, we are hoping to
:24:50. > :24:55.revolutionise our understanding. Initial results shows we have been
:24:55. > :24:59.able to do. That it has changed the understanding of the whole cycle of
:24:59. > :25:04.the swift. Chris, what are the Khans of them being able to catch
:25:04. > :25:08.exactly this same bird? Very high. Swifts are long lived, they go on
:25:08. > :25:11.for 35, 40 year. The females will return to the same nest hole year
:25:12. > :25:17.after year. On account of that, there is every chance that if they
:25:17. > :25:21.go back next yeeark having fitted one of these tiny geolocator, on to
:25:21. > :25:27.the birds, they will be able to recapture the female and snip it
:25:27. > :25:32.off. These things weigh 1.3 grams. That is tiny. They tie them on with
:25:32. > :25:36.cord, and the swift carries them for a year. A couple of years ago
:25:36. > :25:40.they first fitted them, in a short space of time we have learned an
:25:40. > :25:44.amazing amount. This is just incredible. The swift actually had
:25:44. > :25:49.its geolocator fitted up here in England. It immediately flew off in
:25:49. > :25:53.August, off to Spain, and then down to the west coast of Africa, taking
:25:53. > :25:57.the same route as the Ospreys. It then moves all the way across here
:25:57. > :26:01.to Uganda. And it stays here, all the way through, August until
:26:01. > :26:05.December. Then it goes on a little Christmas holiday. All the way
:26:05. > :26:10.across the coast of Mozambique, where it feeds up and returns over
:26:10. > :26:15.to here, just before it starts to think about coming back to the UK.
:26:15. > :26:19.And then it flies across the sea, to Liberia, and it spend as few
:26:19. > :26:22.days here. That is well out of the way. You think it could come this
:26:22. > :26:28.way, it is going there for a reason. The reason they think the swifts
:26:28. > :26:33.might be going to Liberia, is to feast upon aerial ter mights. They
:26:34. > :26:42.can put term mights, they can put on a lot of weight quickly to go
:26:42. > :26:47.over the is a hareia, and back to the UK to breed in May. -- the
:26:47. > :26:56.Sahara, and back to the UK to breed in May. Do they all do that or just
:26:56. > :27:00.that one swift? We don't know that. They will take different routes. We
:27:00. > :27:04.will learn more quickly with the tag, we will learn a lot about
:27:04. > :27:07.different species, which in the past we would have had no hope. The
:27:07. > :27:11.real message is that it is not just about looking after birds in this
:27:11. > :27:15.country. It is about looking after them in Uganda, in Mozambique, and
:27:15. > :27:21.Liberia, and all the places inbetween. Conservation is a global
:27:21. > :27:29.issue, not just a UK one, for this species. It never seizes to amaze
:27:29. > :27:32.me what an incredible -- ceases so amaze me, that they might have done
:27:32. > :27:36.five million kilometres, three million miles, that is a lot of
:27:36. > :27:42.flying, isn't it? Inconceivable. The swifts can make a screaming
:27:43. > :27:47.noise, which led to the nickname "devil bird", I which I think is a
:27:47. > :27:51.great fact because tonight is Hallowe'en. I'm sure a lot of
:27:51. > :27:54.people have been out and very active. But have our beavers been
:27:54. > :27:59.active tonight? I don't think we have seen them live yet on the
:27:59. > :28:03.programme. They have been certainly very active last night.
:28:03. > :28:09.Let's have a look. We have seen a lot of the kits. This is this
:28:09. > :28:16.year's kits. Nor and Timber. There is a third one, which is probably
:28:16. > :28:19.one of last year's kits, which will be either Isla be or Arron. They
:28:19. > :28:25.are pretty self-sufficient at this stage, they are about six months.
:28:25. > :28:30.They will have moved on to bigger trees at this age. Initially they
:28:30. > :28:33.will start on saplings and aquatic plant. Very busy throughout the
:28:33. > :28:37.night, just like their dad. They have to eat 20% of their body
:28:37. > :28:41.weight. You can see them there, he's having a good old nibble and
:28:41. > :28:46.knaw. They are very sweet. They are, let's have a look at the family
:28:46. > :28:51.tree. I want to say we have two fully adult beavers up here, Boris
:28:51. > :28:56.and Lily, over the past few years they have bred a lot of kit. These
:28:56. > :28:59.are the five we have here. There were seven all together. The
:28:59. > :29:03.Godfather figure we mentioned earlier. These animals here have
:29:03. > :29:06.all been remove. This is not a reintroduction project, it is a
:29:06. > :29:09.demonstration project. Trying to learn what beavers do the
:29:09. > :29:14.environment. They have been trapped alive and moved away to somewhere
:29:14. > :29:19.else. That is the family tree. is who is left, Nor and Timber,
:29:19. > :29:25.this year's young, and last year's young, and one from two years ago,
:29:25. > :29:28.they are all living together as a family on the Loch. We took a look
:29:28. > :29:32.at the lodge yesterday, we have a lot of questions about that. It is
:29:32. > :29:35.a difficult thing to get your head round. This is it from the outside,
:29:35. > :29:41.it is pretty big. It is difficult to get a sense of scale. That is
:29:41. > :29:46.the inside where we have the camera. And what you see inside is their
:29:46. > :29:51.chamber, they have to swim underneath to get to that. It's
:29:51. > :29:54.made of wood and mud and, I mean, it is an incredible thing they have
:29:54. > :29:58.made there? It is, there are two types of lodges, a brook lodge in
:29:58. > :30:04.the middle of the river, and a bank lodge, which is joined to it. The
:30:04. > :30:08.curious thing is they pile it up in a great big mound and then they
:30:08. > :30:11.excavate the chambers around it. They don't shape it around the
:30:11. > :30:17.chamber, and they will excavate more. The purpose for the lodge is
:30:17. > :30:22.to keep them warm in the winter, and in Canada it can be 1 degree
:30:22. > :30:26.sent grait grade in the lodge when it is minus 20 out. It protect them
:30:26. > :30:31.from predators and it is safe to have young and store food. We don't
:30:31. > :30:36.know how many chambers are in that? Three? I would imagine, looking at
:30:36. > :30:41.the size of it. They have very lodges around the loch, they use
:30:41. > :30:45.that as the main one. When the female gets pregnant she pushes
:30:45. > :30:49.them out to the other two. They have to keep building them. They
:30:49. > :30:56.look scrappy but serving good purpose. If you were watching last
:30:56. > :31:00.night, Yolla went to the Outer Hebrides to pursue his interest in
:31:00. > :31:07.the Golden Eagle, he didn't just want to see one, he wanted to see
:31:07. > :31:11.them hunting. Let's see if he succeeded. I'm on the wind swept
:31:11. > :31:14.island in the Hebrides, where the team and I are on a really
:31:14. > :31:19.difficult mission. We are trying to film a golden eagle family hunting.
:31:19. > :31:24.Something that's never been done before. I have had some great views
:31:24. > :31:28.so far, but still not seen a kill. For the past couple of days, our
:31:28. > :31:34.quest has had a bit of a setback. The weather really has taken a turn
:31:35. > :31:37.for the worst here now. It is what they call, this persistent light
:31:37. > :31:42.rain and visibility is poor, the hills are all covered now. It is
:31:42. > :31:52.bad for you, it will be bad for the eagles as well. All they will do in
:31:52. > :31:56.this is hunker down. They will not hunt at all. Just about half an
:31:56. > :32:01.hour again the rain stopped and passed over. All of a sudden the
:32:01. > :32:04.male has moved, and the youngster, the youngsters using this bank here,
:32:04. > :32:09.the winds change round. We have only maybe an hour-and-a-half until
:32:10. > :32:13.it gets dark. Because they probably didn't feed yesterday, because they
:32:13. > :32:16.definitely haven't fed all day today, they will probably be very
:32:16. > :32:21.hungry. The next hour-and-a-half, and maybe tomorrow morning might be
:32:21. > :32:28.our best chance of finding them hunting. She's calling constantly,
:32:28. > :32:32.and has been for the past day-and- a-half. That is a begging call. The
:32:32. > :32:37.adults, bless them, are doing their best, they are hunting back and
:32:37. > :32:41.forth. They haven't caught anything yet. Unfortunately I didn't see
:32:41. > :32:51.them catch anything for the rest of that day. So they must have gone to
:32:51. > :32:54.
:32:54. > :33:01.roost pretty hungry. Let's hope things improve tomorrow.
:33:01. > :33:05.The next morning, our eagle family is up and about early. Matt Wilson
:33:05. > :33:08.our eagle spotter takes me to a known roost, where they may well
:33:08. > :33:16.have spent the previous night. feels more like eagle territory
:33:16. > :33:19.when you have to climb a bit. have picked just about the perfect
:33:19. > :33:26.spot, haven't they. The wind and rain will come from that direction
:33:26. > :33:33.over there. Look at all the down on it. It is all over the shop. That's
:33:33. > :33:39.a treasured one. That is off the back of the nape. That's where the
:33:39. > :33:49.name the golden eagle comes from. That is awesome. I tell you what
:33:49. > :33:52.
:33:52. > :33:57.else is here. A big old pellet, that couldn't be anything other
:33:57. > :34:01.than a golden eagle. It is packed full of rabbit. Look at the size of
:34:01. > :34:08.it, I have pretty big hands, lock at the size of it. Is this likely
:34:08. > :34:14.to be off this year's chick, do you think, or it might be an old one?
:34:14. > :34:18.It could be from any of the birds. Look how light. It is a nice life
:34:18. > :34:22.being a golden eagle, knowing you are the apex predator, there is
:34:22. > :34:26.nothing to compete with you. It is amazing, it is their world. I feel
:34:26. > :34:31.like I'm really getting to know these birds. But we are running out
:34:31. > :34:35.of time to film a hunt. So we decide to split up and stake out
:34:35. > :34:39.two different places, where the eagles are most likely to hunt. I
:34:39. > :34:49.sneak up on 1,000 barnacle beasts that have just arrived back from
:34:49. > :34:51.
:34:51. > :34:56.the Arctic. While Matt and Jessie take check out a rabbit Warren.
:34:56. > :35:02.They are up on the far shore there. I'm wondering what has brought them
:35:02. > :35:08.up. Is it an eagle. I can't see one, but you can hear them, you can hear
:35:08. > :35:12.the noise now This is like a fast food chain for
:35:12. > :35:16.the eagles. I will stay here, if anything will draw them in, 1,000
:35:16. > :35:21.geese should do that. In the end, the eagle heads for the
:35:22. > :35:28.rabbits. The male is keeping a watchful eye over the Warren. When
:35:28. > :35:33.all of a sudden he sees his chance. Here's the rabbit, peeping out of
:35:33. > :35:37.the burrow, completely oblivious to the danger behind it, but the
:35:37. > :35:42.rabbit sees him just at the last moment. We have to take a look. The
:35:42. > :35:47.male swoops low down, hugging the ground and staying out of view. So
:35:47. > :35:52.nearly got it. It is amazing to see this huge eagle manoeuvre like that.
:35:52. > :35:56.I admit he didn't get a kill, but it was so close. I think that's our
:35:56. > :36:04.mission accomplished. It just goes to show, that these
:36:04. > :36:06.birds of prey don't always get at all, that our eagle family are
:36:06. > :36:13.hunting successfully, and are in a good position to face the winter
:36:13. > :36:18.months ahead. I feel so lucky, over the past few days I have managed to
:36:18. > :36:23.get the closest I have ever been to these magnificent birds. Do you
:36:23. > :36:26.know what struck me, it is the fact that it has been the eagle's choice
:36:26. > :36:30.to allow me a glimpse into their private lives. If they wanted they
:36:30. > :36:33.could have opened their wings and been ten miles away in no time at
:36:33. > :36:43.awe. But they have tolerated me, they have put up with me, and it
:36:43. > :36:44.
:36:44. > :36:48.has been a magical experience. I'm one very, very happy naturalist.
:36:49. > :36:53.That's what we want, a happy naturalist. Well done, you might
:36:53. > :36:56.not have seen it successfully hunt, you did see it hunt. That is a
:36:56. > :37:00.first for Autumnwatch, we have never filmed a golden eagle hunt
:37:00. > :37:04.any more. I want to know why is it so difficult to see? They are a big
:37:04. > :37:07.bird, they don't need to feed very often. As you saw, not for a couple
:37:07. > :37:12.of days. They range over vast distance, being in the right place
:37:12. > :37:16.at the right time is a really tough call. I think he did really well.
:37:16. > :37:22.Let's see that one more time. This eagle so nearly catches the rabbit,
:37:22. > :37:28.watch this, as it comes over the brow up there, you can see the
:37:28. > :37:33.rabbit's tail as it turns and bolts for the hole. The eagle's feet are
:37:33. > :37:38.right down, it could have been only a centre metre away with the
:37:38. > :37:41.leading talon. It could have touched it, unless it could wrap
:37:41. > :37:45.the others around the bunny it wouldn't have got it. It was really
:37:45. > :37:49.close, one lucky rabbit. What fascinates me is the way the eagle
:37:49. > :37:52.did that. They drop right down and came in very low like a fighter jet,
:37:53. > :38:02.across the ground. That is very often the way that they do it. They
:38:02. > :38:08.will hug ground, they will use the topography, the rock or hill, they
:38:08. > :38:13.will come round like an ambush. Have you seen them hunt? I have, I
:38:13. > :38:17.was in Rum looking at the red deer, we are going up there, it was a
:38:17. > :38:21.passion one coming down a lot of tree, and the other came hammering
:38:21. > :38:27.from the side. That one of flying to flush and the other one was
:38:27. > :38:31.trying to knock out. Co-operative hunting. They are very adaptable.
:38:31. > :38:36.They will, they are very clever predators. That golden eagle very
:38:37. > :38:41.nearly got a rabbi. One of its favourite prey items would be a
:38:41. > :38:46.pine marten. If it was lucky enough to see it in the open. Imagine
:38:46. > :38:51.getting that on the live cameras, a golden eagle swoops in for a pine
:38:51. > :38:55.marten. Let's see if we have pine marten action going on in the live
:38:55. > :38:59.cameras. We haven't there, but we have had plenty, haven't we?
:38:59. > :39:03.certainly have, take a look at this. Here are beautiful pictures of one
:39:04. > :39:07.of the nation's most beautiful mammals. It is coming in across the
:39:07. > :39:12.top of that dry stone wall. They are in their winter coat at the
:39:13. > :39:18.moment. For a long time that was this creature's downfall. Because
:39:18. > :39:24.all the way through the Middle Ages, that coat of very highly valued.
:39:24. > :39:30.They were hunted for their fur. We have a long, thick bushy tail, good
:39:30. > :39:34.for balance much and the long legs. This is fascinating. We have now
:39:34. > :39:39.two together. I always thought that an animal like a pine marten would
:39:39. > :39:44.be solitary, and wouldn't tolerate other pine martps near it at all.
:39:44. > :39:49.Very unusual. It is unusual. They both look like females. Typically
:39:49. > :39:53.they will fight same-sexs will fight. If a female goes into
:39:53. > :39:57.another one's territory. The female will fight it. We have a food
:39:57. > :40:00.source, and as a consequence of that, animals are coming in, and
:40:00. > :40:06.all of those normal territorial rules are breaking down, because
:40:06. > :40:11.they are desperate to get to the strawberry jam! How about mother
:40:11. > :40:16.and daughter. They were two females. They seemed to have bushy tail, and
:40:16. > :40:21.most seemed to have a thinner brush there. We have seen those two, and
:40:21. > :40:31.we have seen another pine marten now. Look at this. This one was
:40:31. > :40:33.
:40:33. > :40:38.seen just yesterday. There it is. Look at the chest markings, see if
:40:38. > :40:41.you can see Spike. What have we got up to, three now. Three individuals,
:40:41. > :40:46.we do think there are plenty more. Check the pattern on the chest.
:40:46. > :40:50.Take a look at this. This is equally extraordinary, here is one
:40:50. > :40:53.of our pine marten we recorded earlier, up on the log. Loving the
:40:53. > :40:59.strawberry jam. It is looking over its shoulderk because another
:40:59. > :41:05.animal has come in, e-- shoulder, because another animal has come in
:41:05. > :41:08.to explore the bathe. It is a relative of the pine -- bait, a
:41:08. > :41:13.relative of the pine marten. You might think they will be worried
:41:13. > :41:17.about the animals. It is a badger, they have a ferocious bite, they
:41:17. > :41:21.are not interested in the pine martens. They will take small
:41:21. > :41:26.animals and birds opportunistically, but nothing as big as the pine
:41:26. > :41:33.marten. The pine marten gives it some pays space. It did eventually
:41:33. > :41:36.move off. There was no aggression between the animals. It would have
:41:36. > :41:40.been different if there was a fox, it would have been a different
:41:40. > :41:45.story if a fox had turned up. seems there is a lot of tolerance
:41:45. > :41:52.on the feeding table at the moment. I like to see that. Pine martens
:41:52. > :41:57.are the second-rarest carnivores in the UK. The rarest is the Scottish
:41:57. > :42:01.wildcat. I'm unlikely to see it, not only are they very rail strikes
:42:01. > :42:08.they are extremely elusive. But here at the Field Centre, there is
:42:08. > :42:13.a captive breeding programme. I met up with John to find out more.
:42:13. > :42:18.we are in the depths of a food, well away from human habitation.
:42:18. > :42:22.These are the pens, we have a family of three, mum, dad and the
:42:22. > :42:26.kitten. They have successfully bred, and the kitten will go back into
:42:26. > :42:29.the wild? The kitten will be released back into the wild at 18
:42:29. > :42:36.months old. It is important to keep them wild, but you have to manage
:42:36. > :42:44.them a bit. You have to feed them. So, John, what's on the menu today,
:42:44. > :42:49.chicken? It's one of my life, Lucy's chickens, it died. This is
:42:49. > :42:56.good practice for them, to have a whole animal, when they go to the
:42:57. > :43:01.wild. I tie it on to here. Nice and firmly. The look they give you is
:43:01. > :43:06.not a domestic moggy look, you can see the wildness of the eyes.
:43:06. > :43:14.you love the eyes. Fan nas particular. John, when you get this
:43:14. > :43:20.close, you can see -- fantastic. John, when you get this close you
:43:20. > :43:25.can see the fantastic features? There is the ring-tipped tails,
:43:25. > :43:33.there can be six rings is about right for an adult, getting fainter
:43:33. > :43:38.as it goes up. What would they favour in the wild? Small mammals,
:43:38. > :43:42.bank voles, field vole, mice, rats, nesting birds, some other birds,
:43:42. > :43:46.like all cats they will stalk their prey. Their main threat in the past
:43:46. > :43:51.has been habitat loss, that is still a problem, persecution, and
:43:51. > :43:55.now, one of their problems is interbreeding with the domestic
:43:55. > :43:58.cats. The really serious problem is genetic pollution, because so many
:43:58. > :44:05.people have domestic cats nowadays. Certainly, if you were a wildcat,
:44:05. > :44:08.and you came across a domestic pussy, you know, that won very
:44:08. > :44:13.attractive, thank you very much. How do you know these are pure bred,
:44:13. > :44:18.or don't you? We have never had them DNA tested, but they have all
:44:18. > :44:22.the characteristics of pure bred wild cats. She is coming in. This
:44:22. > :44:29.is the kitten. Coming in to inspect the chicken now. Here comes the
:44:29. > :44:35.male as well. Is this normal behaviour?
:44:35. > :44:45.Absolutely, very cautious approach, and then claws. So basically she's
:44:45. > :44:46.
:44:46. > :44:50.trying to find out if it is dead? Here comes dad, do you see that,
:44:50. > :44:55.almost lynx-like walk. And those eyes, and the whiskers, look at
:44:55. > :44:59.those wonderful whiskers. Here he comes now. He will very likely push
:44:59. > :45:05.the kitten off. He's obviously going to try to pull it away.
:45:05. > :45:11.not pleased about that, he thought he could take it away to his den.
:45:11. > :45:15.Look at that club-shaped tail. Isn't it wonderful. He's got it
:45:15. > :45:20.off! Will they share it, or is he quite greedy? He will take it off
:45:21. > :45:29.and he will feed from it first. When he has had his fill the other
:45:29. > :45:34.two will fight over the rest of it. He's not a very generous tom, he
:45:34. > :45:40.doesn't share it. He's gone into the den. The female is saying, what
:45:40. > :45:45.about me, I know that feeling. Amazing animal. Gorgeous. They
:45:46. > :45:50.don't look to me like a domestic pussy cat. Those faces look so
:45:50. > :45:53.fierce. The evil look in the eye. They look so magnificent. Chris
:45:53. > :45:58.there is a huge debate about the genetic, obviously it is important,
:45:58. > :46:03.it is a difficult one. It is very involved. The bigger question, why
:46:03. > :46:07.should we care? Why should we want to have, beautiful though they are,
:46:07. > :46:12.wildcats in the wild again. We have only got the 400 as we have said.
:46:12. > :46:16.There are two reasons for it, one, it is our fault, we led to the
:46:16. > :46:20.great crash in their populations, through persecution. In a way our
:46:20. > :46:25.conscience should say we should put them back. They are very much a
:46:25. > :46:28.part of the Highland fauna now. They appeared all down the UK, to
:46:28. > :46:31.the south-east of England. If a creature is living in a community
:46:31. > :46:36.like that, if it has evolved to live there, it is playing a
:46:36. > :46:41.functional role F you take it out, that community and ecosystem isn't
:46:41. > :46:45.as functional, and won't be as sustainable. If we really want to
:46:45. > :46:48.preserve habitats for the future, we need all species to live there.
:46:48. > :46:55.In this part of Scotland, that is the wildcat of that is why we
:46:55. > :47:00.should have them back. A bit more geography, the artist has produced
:47:00. > :47:03.this lovely map. Here we are, let's go around the camera. This is the
:47:03. > :47:08.studio here, here is a view of it outside that you can see. You can
:47:08. > :47:14.see it lit up on the righthand side there. Here, is the beaver, the
:47:14. > :47:20.other end of the lodge, let's take a look at that camera now. They are
:47:20. > :47:25.about, I don't know, 150ms up the lodge there. Of course, as I have
:47:26. > :47:29.already mentioned the other side of the loch, we have the pine martens
:47:30. > :47:33.and the bird feeder, there has been a lot of activity there. That is
:47:33. > :47:36.not a camera we can cut to live, there is no action going on at this
:47:37. > :47:41.time of night when it is dark. There has been a lot of action in
:47:42. > :47:47.the day. It has been a bird of a bird bonanza. Look at that, we have
:47:47. > :47:51.finches, and tits, there is a lot of action from the woodpecker. And,
:47:51. > :47:55.like all bird feeders, it is not just birds. What else would you
:47:55. > :48:00.expect. A squirrel. As we said yesterday, it is not greys we have
:48:00. > :48:09.up here, it is red squirrels. Off he goes, takes his nut. Putting it
:48:09. > :48:14.in the box, and then, jumy, let's have a nut and enjoy that.
:48:14. > :48:20.You can't help but enjoy that. Gorgeous creature. Talking of
:48:20. > :48:25.squirrel, we have had great footage from Kate McKray, who has a mini-
:48:25. > :48:29.Springwatch in her garden, she put up a nestbox for squirrels and she
:48:29. > :48:34.got this footage, take a look. There is a squirrel going into the
:48:34. > :48:38.nestbox, there is a camera inside the nestbox that she has rigged up.
:48:38. > :48:43.And there we have the squirrel making himself a nice little nest.
:48:43. > :48:49.That locks like fresh leaves it has taken in there. Not old dead leaves.
:48:49. > :48:54.They look like they might be fresh loaves it is using to make its nest.
:48:54. > :48:59.Very curious. Well done, Kate, nice footage. We were having a squirrel
:48:59. > :49:02.fest, Anthony has sent in a question of Facebook, or comment,
:49:02. > :49:07.he says he lives in Buckinghamshire, and sometimes there is a squirrel
:49:07. > :49:11.that makes a kind of barking sound, it can go on for 20 minutes at a
:49:11. > :49:16.time. What is the sound it is making. Let's have a look at the
:49:16. > :49:21.squirrel doing exactly that. I have frequently heard that, many of you
:49:21. > :49:25.have. It sometimes sounds almost like a jay. You can mistake it for
:49:25. > :49:28.a bird. Maybe that's just me. It is just a squirrel being very
:49:29. > :49:36.aggressive. Marking out its territory. Saying Phil, I'm here,
:49:36. > :49:40.nobody else, clear off. Barking mad. In an unfriendly fashion.
:49:40. > :49:43.If you saw our film about grey squirrels yesterday, you know we
:49:43. > :49:47.still don't know everything about all the creatures we have in our
:49:47. > :49:51.country. We have lots to learn. Particularly about the mammal, we
:49:51. > :49:55.spend more time looking at the birds and mapping them, even
:49:55. > :50:00.butterflies and dragon flies. The mammal society is putting together
:50:00. > :50:08.a new mammal at last. They neat our help. If you see any when they are
:50:08. > :50:12.out, and report them. How do you do that. Go to our website. From
:50:12. > :50:18.mammals to spider, Laura on Facebook has said, is it just me,
:50:18. > :50:24.or is there massive amount of spiders this autumn. The answer to
:50:24. > :50:30.that a truly amazing tale. This is the story of an epic
:50:30. > :50:35.adventure. Our hero, a male house spider. In autumn, he faces the
:50:35. > :50:40.most important and dangerous journey of his life. His mission is
:50:40. > :50:47.to seek out a female spider. But to reach her, he may have to risk his
:50:47. > :50:52.own life. For the past year, he's lived on
:50:53. > :50:58.his web. It's an architectural wonder. On tip toe, feathery hair
:50:58. > :51:04.on his feet, stop him sinking through. But a flat-footed fly,
:51:04. > :51:11.quickly becomes entangled. He pick up vibration, with sensitive hairs
:51:11. > :51:20.on his body and strikes. Venom, injected through needle-like
:51:20. > :51:25.fannings, quickly fangs quickly subdue his prey. Powerful enzymes
:51:25. > :51:28.put down his prey. This is the last supper, autumn has arrived, and the
:51:28. > :51:37.urge to mate has become overwhelming. When the time is
:51:37. > :51:46.right, he leaves the safety of his web. Now he must venture into an
:51:46. > :51:56.unknown land, where a female house spider waits. Out in the open, our
:51:56. > :52:04.
:52:04. > :52:08.spider is now exposed to predators. A lucky escape. Inside the house,
:52:08. > :52:13.he's confronted by a weird landscape, a world away from his
:52:13. > :52:23.humble shed. A giant wooden mountain appears to be an
:52:23. > :52:31.insurmountable obstacle. It's a long way up. But the varnished wood
:52:31. > :52:41.holds just enough tiny crevices for our hero to grip on to. And soon,
:52:41. > :52:42.
:52:42. > :52:50.he finds an easier route. Our hero is making excellent progress. But
:52:50. > :53:00.just like us, spiders need to drink. He's drawn towards the bathroom.
:53:00. > :53:07.
:53:07. > :53:15.And into danger. The water's surface tension does keep him
:53:15. > :53:21.afloat, but he will drawn if he's stuck here for too long. Our slick-
:53:22. > :53:31.sided baths and sinks are death traps to spiders. But a flannel can
:53:31. > :53:38.provide a lifeline. The hairs on his body and his waxy exsoskeleton,
:53:38. > :53:45.do repel water and a good grooming helps him dry off. In the spare
:53:45. > :53:50.room, a complex web has been spun by a female house spider. As soon
:53:50. > :53:55.as our male touches the web, receptor on the body sense the
:53:55. > :54:05.female's fare moans, but he must be careful. She may mistake him for
:54:05. > :54:05.
:54:06. > :54:10.food. He begins a courtship dance, drumming his pelps and bobbing, the
:54:10. > :54:16.female listens to the vibration, she's satisfied with her suitor,
:54:16. > :54:26.and allows him to approach. He uses his pelps to transfer his sperm.
:54:26. > :54:36.And after mating, he take up residence in her web. The danger
:54:36. > :54:38.
:54:38. > :54:41.isn't over. A rival male approaches. The female stores sperm through the
:54:41. > :54:48.autumn and only fertilises through spring. Our male will have to fight
:54:48. > :54:58.to ensure he's the father of her offspring. Each male could deliver
:54:58. > :55:03.
:55:03. > :55:12.a toxic bite, this could be a battle to the death. The rival is
:55:12. > :55:17.chased off. Our male is victorious. He returns to his mate. Now his
:55:17. > :55:21.mission is complete, his life is over. He won't survive the winter.
:55:22. > :55:30.But he has ensured that a new generation of adventurers will
:55:30. > :55:33.appear next year. That is a fabulous film. It goes to
:55:33. > :55:38.show, not only red stags have to work hard to get a female, but the
:55:38. > :55:43.spiders do too. It is tough. It is a tough life. It is tough being a
:55:43. > :55:53.male, more than you would imagine. Some animal. This is a great time
:55:53. > :55:54.
:55:54. > :56:00.of year to look for spiders' webs. It is brilliant here. The dew on
:56:00. > :56:07.the webs is astonishing. We found a spraiing web, inside the beaver
:56:07. > :56:11.lodge is a web. A crane fly, very unlucky, flies into the web, and
:56:11. > :56:16.down from the top comes from what appears to be a garden spider. A
:56:16. > :56:23.big female, she needs that to produce her eggs before she finshes
:56:23. > :56:28.her Deepcuties this summer and leaves them to emerge this year.
:56:29. > :56:34.And the beaver stays asleep. Now we have a spider and a crane fly. What
:56:34. > :56:38.next will die in the beavers' lodge. If you are interested in creepy
:56:38. > :56:42.crawlies, the Lancashire wildlife Trust are running Wild About
:56:42. > :56:46.Spiders this Saturday. You can find details of that and lots of things
:56:46. > :56:49.to do on the website. Look at the "things to do" page. You can also
:56:49. > :56:53.catch up on what has happened to the Springwatch stars on the
:56:53. > :56:58.website. Things like the king fisher, the barn owl, the Ospreys.
:56:58. > :57:03.Yesterday, very briefly, we asked for your help to try to identify
:57:03. > :57:06.case of this very worrying ash dibac disease. We need your help as
:57:06. > :57:11.soon as possible, we are running out of time because the leaves are
:57:11. > :57:15.falling off the ash tree. How do you identify and report it. You can
:57:15. > :57:20.download this to help identify it, and link through to reporting it.
:57:20. > :57:23.We need your help. Let's check out the live cameras, any action on any
:57:23. > :57:29.of them. I don't think so. It is very cold tonight, and there is a
:57:29. > :57:33.full moon? There is a massive full moon out there. Maybe that's why.
:57:34. > :57:40.lot of animals don't come out on a full moon. Pine martens are
:57:40. > :57:43.nocturnal this time of year, maybe it has put them off. That isn't an
:57:43. > :57:49.excuse. Do you know what a grouch pine
:57:49. > :57:52.martens are called? It is called a richness. Let's -- a group of pine
:57:52. > :57:56.martens are called? It is called a richness. We have had lots of
:57:56. > :58:01.richness this show, we will bring you lots of other richness tomorrow.
:58:01. > :58:05.Lots of action with the stag, they will be battling out. Lucius and
:58:05. > :58:10.Cassius will be out on the glen, having a little bit of a fight.
:58:10. > :58:15.There will be a glorious spectacle. Look at that, the knot, we will be
:58:15. > :58:21.visiting the knot. And ravaged by the English, and patient work by
:58:21. > :58:25.the Scots is rebuilding the Caledonian forest with all its
:58:25. > :58:30.fantastic wildlife. We will be back tomorrow, with not too many tricks