:00:00. > :00:12.We are back. The temperatures dropping, the leaves are on the turn
:00:13. > :00:16.and there is a mass of brilliant wildlife out there in the UK. It is
:00:17. > :00:21.a time of dramatic change and our aim is to bring you the beauty, the
:00:22. > :00:27.drama, and the wildlife as it happens.
:00:28. > :00:39.All around me in the darkness large animals are gathering. Listen to
:00:40. > :00:59.this... What on earth is that? It is Autumnwatch, Shhh.
:01:00. > :01:06.Hello and welcome to Autumnwatch 2016. Coming to you live from the
:01:07. > :01:10.RSPB Arne Reserve down here in Dorset. We will be live for the next
:01:11. > :01:14.four nights and our mission is to bring you the best of British
:01:15. > :01:18.wildlife but also to diagnose the biological symptoms of this season.
:01:19. > :01:23.Oh yes. You made that sound technical. We are going to enjoy and
:01:24. > :01:27.revel in this autumn and do that, we have got lots of camera teams around
:01:28. > :01:35.the reserve and live cameras, so let us go straight to them now. The
:01:36. > :01:40.first one is our live carcass cam. This is on the beach. It will be
:01:41. > :01:45.interest seeing what makes the most of it. Our other live camera, we
:01:46. > :01:49.have a badger camera out. This is near a badger sett. We have had a
:01:50. > :01:56.lot of action on that which we will show you later on and back by
:01:57. > :02:06.popular demand, oh yes, the mouse Maze, you know we are in Arne, I
:02:07. > :02:11.want to call this the Arnold Schwarzenegger Maze. It a mission.
:02:12. > :02:16.We will bring you any live action as it happens throughout the show on
:02:17. > :02:20.the live cameras. What is so special about autumn? What is special about
:02:21. > :02:28.this part of the country? It is very special, look at this.
:02:29. > :02:34.This year, Autumnwatch comes to you from southern Dorset. An area of
:02:35. > :02:40.outstanding natural beauty. Stretching from the Jurassic Coast,
:02:41. > :02:47.to Poole Harbour. A stunning array of habitats.
:02:48. > :02:54.Home to a wealth of wildlife. Arne and its surrounding area is the
:02:55. > :02:59.most biodiverse place in Britain. Here, we will follow majestic
:03:00. > :03:05.mammals and charting the seasonal arrival of migrating birds.
:03:06. > :03:14.We have got stories from right across the country. And even further
:03:15. > :03:21.afield. Incredible journeys. And extraordinary science.
:03:22. > :03:31.We have got the best of British wildlife at the most spectacular
:03:32. > :03:35.time of year. It looks amazing. It whetted my appetite, has it yours
:03:36. > :03:40.Chris? Very much so. I like Arne and Dorset very much Arne is a beautiful
:03:41. > :03:46.place to be based but let us take a close look while we have -- why we
:03:47. > :03:52.have come here. It's a stunning RSPB reserve, there is a dozen different
:03:53. > :03:55.habitats, plenty of signs of autumn in the woodland, gorgeous autumn
:03:56. > :04:02.leaf colour, lots of birds on the Heath and a huge variety of insects,
:04:03. > :04:06.there is a spectacle of over wintering Waders that can be seen
:04:07. > :04:11.here, this autumn, the light has been extraordinary on those
:04:12. > :04:16.wetlands, absolutely glorious and outstanding sunsets in the last few
:04:17. > :04:20.days, we were in the hide when they filmed that sunset, it was beautiful
:04:21. > :04:25.wasn't it. Stunning. Gorgeous colours. You are taken by this
:04:26. > :04:29.place? I love it. I Joan Ied that time when you and I went down into
:04:30. > :04:35.the hide and we sat and really really took it all in. You are
:04:36. > :04:40.speaking about it as if it was 100 years ago. It was two days ago. The
:04:41. > :04:44.thing about autumn is it such a dynamic season. People think it's a
:04:45. > :04:49.precursor to winter, everything is dying. It is far from that. Massive
:04:50. > :04:53.amount of species energy moving round. Every autumn is different.
:04:54. > :04:59.You can't predict it because it is dependent on the previous seasons,
:05:00. > :05:06.one of the things the cameramen have noticed is that summer has lingered
:05:07. > :05:11.on a bit. In the cafe, I think they were after the cake, they found
:05:12. > :05:15.white-tailed bumblebees. Dragonflies still active. Because it has been so
:05:16. > :05:20.warm this week, then again this is the warmest part of the country, and
:05:21. > :05:27.that is probably why you get all six species of reptile here, here we
:05:28. > :05:32.have a slow worm, legless of course, here is the nemesis, a smooth snake,
:05:33. > :05:37.a species that eats lizards and snakes, to see one of these in the
:05:38. > :05:43.open at this time of year is a treat. Even finding one in the
:05:44. > :05:47.summer is a treat. They need to heat up in the sun but they are too
:05:48. > :05:51.scared to do so so they hide in the Heather and you never see them. They
:05:52. > :05:56.should be hibernating now? I am sure they will be if it starts to get
:05:57. > :06:00.colder. We will find out from Nick. There are late signs is of lingering
:06:01. > :06:04.summer as Chris called it and a mild autumn, I saw swallows the other
:06:05. > :06:07.day, but we want to get a national picture, so we would like do you
:06:08. > :06:11.send in your sightings and your reports of where you are, and all
:06:12. > :06:17.the details of how you can share those with us are on the website,
:06:18. > :06:23.you can do it by Twitter or Facebook and we will show you some later on.
:06:24. > :06:29.I feel the need for caring to fib at the moment. Let us have a map. Let
:06:30. > :06:35.us see where we are. We are in the south of England. Sandwiched between
:06:36. > :06:40.Weymouth and Southampton at the edge of Poole Harbour, I have this map of
:06:41. > :06:44.the reserve. Michaela has already said a fantastic place, lots of
:06:45. > :06:53.diverse habitats. Masses of wildlife. 251 different types of
:06:54. > :06:58.spider. It is very rich when it comes to wildlife. Let us look where
:06:59. > :07:04.we are. We are in a barn here on the farm. Where is Martin? Martin has
:07:05. > :07:10.headed out around there. I was getting there. Around there, he is
:07:11. > :07:15.looking and listening for a local autumn spectacle. Yes, I am
:07:16. > :07:21.Michaela, we have to be quite quiet down here. I have been listening out
:07:22. > :07:32.in the darkness and a very strange sound has been echoes round here,
:07:33. > :07:37.let us listen again. Again. Again. ANIMAL CRIES That is the sound of
:07:38. > :07:43.the sika deer. It is a non-native deer. It arrived here from Japan in
:07:44. > :07:47.1860. Now, they should be all round me here, I am in black-and-white
:07:48. > :07:54.does a we don't want to disturb them. That is why I look weird.
:07:55. > :07:58.Normally, during the day, sika deer are solitary, very solitary deer,
:07:59. > :08:02.they will lie up alone or maybe a mother with a calf. During the night
:08:03. > :08:06.and now in the rut, they come together. That is what we will try
:08:07. > :08:13.and watch for, how are we going to do it? Come with me. We have our
:08:14. > :08:18.hide here, inside the hide, excuse me, right, what do we have here? We
:08:19. > :08:21.have Pete our cameraman, and we have got this, I will sit down and get
:08:22. > :08:26.out the way, an extraordinary camera, this is a thermal camera,
:08:27. > :08:31.what it does is it distinguishes between tiny differences in the, and
:08:32. > :08:38.creates an image from that. Let us go live to the thermal camera. Let
:08:39. > :08:42.us see what we have got. They often say all the books say it is very
:08:43. > :08:47.rare to get more than five or six of these deer together. Look at that.
:08:48. > :08:52.The books aren't quite right. These are all Hinds. Female deer. Let us
:08:53. > :08:58.go in closer. One is lying down there. Just a little bit early, we
:08:59. > :09:03.saw a fox and badger in among them. They have come out into this rich
:09:04. > :09:07.sward, that one is feeding and feeding. Now, what we expect to
:09:08. > :09:13.happen, during the night, what I hope will happen, is that a large
:09:14. > :09:18.stag will come out, we keep seeing him, roving round here, because so
:09:19. > :09:24.many Hinds together during the rut, can we pan along, we are bought to
:09:25. > :09:28.bring a stag in, can you see anything there Pete? Have you seen
:09:29. > :09:36.the stag at all. Has he disappeared off? What is that, we go in a little
:09:37. > :09:42.bit. That is the badger. This is a remarkable camera. Badger and a fox
:09:43. > :09:46.there, think. A rabbit. It picks up all these different creatures. OK,
:09:47. > :09:50.we will keep watching these deer all the way through the evening, and
:09:51. > :09:53.hopefully the stag will come in, there has been a youngster running
:09:54. > :09:57.round as well and the big stag, there is one massive stag that keeps
:09:58. > :10:01.appearing and he will see off that youngster, but we will keep
:10:02. > :10:04.watching. It is amazing, they are just eating away, I suspect we will
:10:05. > :10:09.see a bit of action during the night.
:10:10. > :10:13.Now it is difficult to judge just how big those deer are, I have some
:10:14. > :10:18.props here. It got stuck under the hide. This is the skull of a sika
:10:19. > :10:25.deer. It is quite a big magnificent looking animal. They generally have
:10:26. > :10:29.just four on each antler. Eight tines, points here, compare it to a
:10:30. > :10:35.red deer that we have often seen on Autumnwatch. A red deer much bigger.
:10:36. > :10:40.You see the difference there. Here is something for anyone who is
:10:41. > :10:45.interested in serious ID. Look at that the angle between that brow
:10:46. > :10:50.tine and the main shaft is less than 90 degrees and on a red deer it is
:10:51. > :10:56.great for pub facts, the angle is greater than 90 degrees. Let us just
:10:57. > :11:00.compare it finally, with a roe deer skull. Much, much smaller all
:11:01. > :11:05.together. These are magnificent animals and I an hoping we can work
:11:06. > :11:09.out what is happening out there during the rut. They rut in very
:11:10. > :11:13.different ways. Hopefully we will get an indication of what is going
:11:14. > :11:16.on. We will watch, if anything dramatic happens we will go straight
:11:17. > :11:22.back to the live camera. Hang on, what do we have now? We have a
:11:23. > :11:28.badger, we have a rabbit and a deer in the background. Just an
:11:29. > :11:35.astonishing bit of kit this camera. They have very very dramatic range
:11:36. > :11:39.of vocalisation, they are the most vocal of the species of deer. We
:11:40. > :11:44.will keep watching. Meanwhile, over to Chris. The calls of the deer
:11:45. > :11:48.really are very spooky, I was out in the woods in the New Forest waiting
:11:49. > :11:53.to photograph them, and one called right alongside me, I jump out of my
:11:54. > :11:57.skin, this piercing screamle as Michaela said, we have the place
:11:58. > :12:01.bugged as usual with lots of cameras and one of the ones we are keen on
:12:02. > :12:08.is the carcass cam. Let us go live to our carcass cam now.
:12:09. > :12:14.So this carcass is all the way down on the beach. I better tell you what
:12:15. > :12:19.animal it is. It's a common dolphin. It was found washed up in the West
:12:20. > :12:25.Country and with permission we moved it up here to Arne, it might sound
:12:26. > :12:30.grisly to you moving a dolphin about but this is a massive resource. It
:12:31. > :12:34.weighings 68 kilograms, that is a lot of meat out there. There is a
:12:35. > :12:39.chance we will see things at night. We might see crabs on it and plenty
:12:40. > :12:44.of fox prints Downton shore, so we might see foxes too. During the day
:12:45. > :12:49.it has been busy, this bird has come down. It doesn't surprise me, this
:12:50. > :12:55.is one of the buzzards here, you see them circling over the reserve, and
:12:56. > :12:59.they are doing that to look for things to scavenge, they are using
:13:00. > :13:04.their eyesight to find them. There are birds of prey in the New World,
:13:05. > :13:10.things like king vulture, they have keen senses of smell, we don't think
:13:11. > :13:15.the buzzard has that sense of smell. It is using its eye, up to eight
:13:16. > :13:18.times Bert than ours in terms of definition. It has found the
:13:19. > :13:25.carcass, it has it pretty much to itself. It is enjoying a male. Look
:13:26. > :13:29.at that rich red meat. That muscle it is taking out. I wouldn't be
:13:30. > :13:32.surprise if we see this bird come back and back to this carcass,
:13:33. > :13:36.having its fill each day and leaving but we hope that other things will
:13:37. > :13:41.find it too. But while we are on birds of prey cast your mind back to
:13:42. > :13:46.Springwatch. What a year it was. For years we had wanted to put a camera
:13:47. > :13:51.on a golden eagle's nest and this was the year that we succeeded. We
:13:52. > :13:55.got some fantastic pictures from western Scotland of these birds at
:13:56. > :14:00.the nest. It was extraordinary to be able to watch this youngster, from
:14:01. > :14:06.just five days old, being tended by both parents. These delicate scenes
:14:07. > :14:13.early on with the mother feeding it the food. So carefully.
:14:14. > :14:19.We watched throughout under the guidance of David Anderson, our
:14:20. > :14:25.legal expert, and it was a treat to see the youngster growing but it did
:14:26. > :14:30.not fly the nest because it takes 70 days. By the time Springwatch had
:14:31. > :14:34.concluded, it was still in the nest and shortly afterwards, I was
:14:35. > :14:39.afforded an extraordinary treat, to meet the Eagle in person and carry
:14:40. > :14:43.out an important scientific challenge.
:14:44. > :14:52.I last visited the Trossachs in south-west Scotland before
:14:53. > :14:58.Springwatch. Now it is Midsummer and I have returned with David Anderson
:14:59. > :15:03.to hopefully fit our chick with a satellite tag. What can I say, the
:15:04. > :15:08.last time we were standing here, it was IFS, buts and maybes and it paid
:15:09. > :15:12.off. Big time. Thank you, that was a summer of fun watching that eagle
:15:13. > :15:19.Grove. You will see a big difference today. Eight old and hopefully we
:15:20. > :15:23.can get the tag fitted and find out its sex. Fulham get around this part
:15:24. > :15:30.of Scotland will be fantastic. Let's get kitted out -- of following it
:15:31. > :15:35.around. The Eagle family have built their nest in an imposing spot, an
:15:36. > :15:40.imposing crack 470 metres above sea level so we have a backbreaking
:15:41. > :15:43.uphill climb, something Dave and his team is used to ask they monitor
:15:44. > :15:53.most of the nest in this rugged area. I am too embarrassed to say,
:15:54. > :15:57.we nearly there yet? Now the chick is eight weeks old, the parents only
:15:58. > :16:04.visit when they drop of food so that is little chance we will see them
:16:05. > :16:12.today. After more than one hour, we reached the base of the nest and it
:16:13. > :16:17.is time to split up. The rope team continue their climb
:16:18. > :16:30.is the only way to reach the chick is abseiling from above.
:16:31. > :16:54.To minimise disruption, just one of the experts team enters the nest.
:16:55. > :17:01.Having worked with raptors for many years, Simon knows to approach the
:17:02. > :17:26.Czechs slowly and calmly. -- chicks. That is the bag on it. OK? Yes. I
:17:27. > :17:32.had picked up some old bags in my time, but never won with something
:17:33. > :17:43.this valuable in it! Dave, here we are. Precious cargo. Not sure no
:17:44. > :17:47.more bird back. It is not, is it? Dutch it is not your normal. What
:17:48. > :17:51.they like, not very stressed in these situations? No, they are quite
:17:52. > :17:56.relaxed because it is a top predator and they do not fear anybody. We
:17:57. > :18:01.watched this our screens the three weeks and we revelled in it and now
:18:02. > :18:11.to see it in the flesh, to be able to touch it. Amazing. It is like a
:18:12. > :18:19.recalcitrant small child! A tatty small child.
:18:20. > :18:27.To enable it to be identified in the future, Dave put a ring on the
:18:28. > :18:34.chick. There we are. 207. I don't normally like feet, not human feet.
:18:35. > :18:40.Eagle's feet, amazing. Look at the size of my hand, it can easily go
:18:41. > :18:46.straight through it. Yes. Look at the depth of it. The J point one.
:18:47. > :18:57.The chick point one. These measurements feed into his 30 year
:18:58. > :19:02.database. -- 30 8.1. 4.0 five. With these measurements, what you reckon?
:19:03. > :19:06.Male or female? I reckon it is female. The females, they are
:19:07. > :19:12.interesting, they range over a much bigger distance so hopefully we will
:19:13. > :19:19.find that out. When we put the tag on. When we fit this on. This tag is
:19:20. > :19:24.extraordinary. It should last for the next six years, and not only
:19:25. > :19:32.does it tell us the location of the female, it also gives her altitude
:19:33. > :19:38.and body temperature. And hopefully, we will be able to follow her until
:19:39. > :19:41.she has her own chicks, what about that?
:19:42. > :19:43.That would be amazing! And now it is time to put her back where she
:19:44. > :19:57.belongs. Our mission to fit a satellite tag
:19:58. > :20:19.to the chick has been successful. Today, this eagle has our eagle. How
:20:20. > :20:26.fantastic is that?! -- has become our eagle.
:20:27. > :20:36.I feel like a proud parent watching our eagle. I mean our eagle, because
:20:37. > :20:40.the Springwatch viewers watched that eagle growing up from a white fluffy
:20:41. > :20:44.thing to the beautiful bird it is now. You are very excited about
:20:45. > :20:48.that. But we are going back to the Eagle in a second but seconds ago,
:20:49. > :20:55.we saw this on our live by the camera. And we saw a fox, beautiful
:20:56. > :21:00.looking fox. Is this young, do you reckon? I think it is young. And I
:21:01. > :21:05.think we might be able to identify it if it returns, it has a mark on
:21:06. > :21:10.its tail and look at the markings on its face. It has that Delta running
:21:11. > :21:15.down from its eyes, a lot of black on the face towards its nose. Keep
:21:16. > :21:21.an eye on those, they are diagnostic in foxes and we should identify it.
:21:22. > :21:28.Almost like a cheater, those markings. Fabulous. Beautiful!
:21:29. > :21:34.Stunning! Absolutely stunning. As was the Eagle! Be eagle! You
:21:35. > :21:37.thoroughly enjoyed that? It was a sweaty slog up the hill carrying
:21:38. > :21:43.equipment, I carried the tripod and it was heavy and I got to smell it
:21:44. > :21:48.up there. What did it smell like? Typically like a bird of prey, a bit
:21:49. > :21:53.musty and dried but it definitely had a different sort of smell to it.
:21:54. > :21:56.And with the tag on it, it is incredible we followed it from a
:21:57. > :22:00.couple of days old and we can follow it for six years, is it all right
:22:01. > :22:04.with the tag? It will be fine, we left the cameras in the nest to
:22:05. > :22:11.watch the fledgling process and it allowed us to check it was happy
:22:12. > :22:14.with the tag. These were from the very next day and it settled beneath
:22:15. > :22:18.the feathers, happily greening away. David has fitted a lot of these with
:22:19. > :22:24.no problems whatsoever. It is a real privilege. The key thing is,
:22:25. > :22:29.Michaela, this was an eagle and it has become our eagle and we should
:22:30. > :22:33.follow it as it matures and may be fined territory for itself and start
:22:34. > :22:37.to breed and if anything goes wrong, we know exactly what has happened to
:22:38. > :22:43.that eagle and exactly where it happened. We cannot keep calling it
:22:44. > :22:46.it, we have to have a name. We know it is a female and we want you to
:22:47. > :22:51.suggest names for this beautiful golden eagle. Look at its now and
:22:52. > :22:58.get inspired and sending your suggestions. Either by Facebook by
:22:59. > :23:02.Twitter. And tomorrow, we will catch up on the fledgling process, all the
:23:03. > :23:11.way through to the time it fledged. An idea for a name, Martin, what do
:23:12. > :23:16.you think of broadsword as a name? I think Carly is good because she is
:23:17. > :23:23.fabulous and she can be quite dangerous as well. In June God.
:23:24. > :23:27.Let's go live immediately because something interesting is going on --
:23:28. > :23:35.and in June God. Perhaps the two stags gone? What of
:23:36. > :23:38.them has run off. Oh, no! There were two young ones and you can see that
:23:39. > :23:44.and others, they would play fighting. About three years old.
:23:45. > :23:50.Going a bit closer, earlier, can you see the antlers? That is the end of
:23:51. > :23:56.the lens, we cannot. Earlier, we saw the big one we have seen kicking
:23:57. > :24:00.around. Look at this. You cannot see the antlers very clearly. But he is
:24:01. > :24:07.absolutely huge. In fact, he is one of the biggest sika year they have
:24:08. > :24:14.seen here, you can see the enormous neck and incredibly powerful muscles
:24:15. > :24:20.they develop. Very shaggy, I will call him rocky. He has been out and
:24:21. > :24:23.about. I would expect a big guy like that to the sea of those two
:24:24. > :24:28.youngsters because at that age, about three, they could mate so he
:24:29. > :24:33.could come in he could, enjoying the programme and kick them off. We had
:24:34. > :24:42.been filming these beautiful sika deer during the day as well. Very
:24:43. > :24:49.delicate and very beautiful. These are the kinds, slight spotting. A
:24:50. > :24:55.diagnostic feature is the romp. That is called a caudal patch, some
:24:56. > :25:00.people call it a target. And when they have an alarm, they can flare
:25:01. > :25:08.the patch, there it is! Exactly right, that is it, bouncing around.
:25:09. > :25:15.They do that sometimes when they are alarmed, just to show, I have seen
:25:16. > :25:20.new, don't attack me. Here he is, the big stag, he is magnificent!
:25:21. > :25:24.Rocky. We have seen him in the last couple of days, this was filmed
:25:25. > :25:32.yesterday. You can see the size of him. There is another stag, to the
:25:33. > :25:38.right, he is absolutely enormous. Now, these male deer at this time of
:25:39. > :25:44.year, though the rest of the year, they are relaxed but now it is a
:25:45. > :25:50.different matter in the rut and they will fight and we have seen fighting
:25:51. > :25:54.here. A VC, armed with weapons like that, this is extremely dangerous
:25:55. > :25:59.for both of them. -- obviously. If they fight head-to-head, it is a
:26:00. > :26:04.Titanic wrestling match and if one turns and the other drives home and
:26:05. > :26:09.attack, they can get terrible wounds. Look at that! That has taken
:26:10. > :26:15.a terrible hit in the side. Horrible. Perhaps the most
:26:16. > :26:21.interesting thing we have seen about these sika deer is the way they
:26:22. > :26:26.mate. Fascinating, it is quite unlike mating I have seen in red
:26:27. > :26:33.deer. The Mail, it is very polite, almost as if the Mail is asking
:26:34. > :26:38.permission. He sniffs the rear end of the female to check and he mounts
:26:39. > :26:44.her but he does not mate. He then gets off her. And the female comes
:26:45. > :26:50.around and there is muscling and mutual grooming. And only then, she
:26:51. > :26:55.moves forward and she flicks her tail a little bit to spread those
:26:56. > :27:04.hormones, the pheromones. Like she is saying, all right, you can make
:27:05. > :27:09.to me now, almost soliciting mating. And then he mates with her and that
:27:10. > :27:15.was it. That was not a one-off, we have seen that same behaviour,
:27:16. > :27:19.solicitors behaviour, with three different meetings. If anything else
:27:20. > :27:27.happens with this camera, we will return. Let's have a quick look
:27:28. > :27:33.live, what have we got on the Selex Cam? Two badges and a deer, we have
:27:34. > :27:37.also seen rabbits cavorting around and no stag! Never mind. Over the
:27:38. > :27:43.last few weeks, Gillian Burke has been out on a safari, scientific
:27:44. > :27:49.Safari around Dorset. In her first report, she has something quite
:27:50. > :27:55.shocking the show was. -- the show was. Round the island. A
:27:56. > :28:04.pocket of wilderness in the heart of Poole Harbour. And a great place to
:28:05. > :28:10.see rare red squirrels. In autumn, it is a great time to see them, down
:28:11. > :28:13.on the ground rather than in the canopy, feasting on sweet chestnut
:28:14. > :28:18.and pine cones, stockpiling to get themselves through the winter.
:28:19. > :28:24.Britain has lost 95% of its red swirls through habitat loss and a
:28:25. > :28:28.grey squirrel invasion from North America. I have not seen one of
:28:29. > :28:32.these since I was a child and I don't think I realised how special
:28:33. > :28:42.they were. Now the dwindling population faces a
:28:43. > :28:45.new threat. Leprosy. Two years ago, Professor Adam Meredith discovered
:28:46. > :28:52.this worrying disease in Scottish red squirrels. Since then, it has
:28:53. > :28:56.been reported across the UK. Previously found only in humans and
:28:57. > :29:04.armadillos, there are concerns that it could spell disaster for the
:29:05. > :29:07.country's red squirrels. This 200 strong colony could hold the key to
:29:08. > :29:09.understanding this latest danger to one of Britain's most threatened
:29:10. > :29:21.native mammals. That looks OK, I can't see any
:29:22. > :29:25.obvious marks on it. They get really Big Ears and a big swollen mudsle so
:29:26. > :29:31.in its severe stages it is obvious to see, even from a distance away. I
:29:32. > :29:35.find that really sad, to think those lesions get so big, is that not
:29:36. > :29:39.uncomfortable for them? We don't know for sure, if it is anything
:29:40. > :29:43.like human leprosy it attacks the never endings in the skin, so it
:29:44. > :29:46.makes your skin go numb and you can't feel it, so I am hoping that
:29:47. > :29:53.is the same in squirrels and they are not suffering too much.
:29:54. > :29:57.Brownsea makes the perfect study site. Small and contained with a
:29:58. > :30:03.dense population of easily studied animals.
:30:04. > :30:06.So this is it. This is the lab. This is where it all happens. Anna and
:30:07. > :30:10.the team are suited. They have gloves on and they assure me as long
:30:11. > :30:19.as I don't touch anything, I will be safe.
:30:20. > :30:26.It is male, adult. Body condition is normal. That is 66.6. All the sixes.
:30:27. > :30:31.This is a nice well rehearsed routine, it is like clockwork It is
:30:32. > :30:34.great and my trustty assistant here keeps me right so I don't forget
:30:35. > :30:40.anything. I have to admit when I first heard about this story, I
:30:41. > :30:43.realised that my view of leprosy is is stuck in the biblical disease
:30:44. > :30:47.where bits are falling off. The truth is that leprosy a really
:30:48. > :30:52.difficult disease to contract and it can be treated. Here on Brownsea
:30:53. > :30:58.Island there is very little risk to humans. It is the squirrels I am
:30:59. > :31:02.more worried about. The team hopes to find out how leprosy affecting
:31:03. > :31:05.the population, how it is transmitted and whether any
:31:06. > :31:09.individuals are immune We have a lesion of leprosy here. This is
:31:10. > :31:15.interesting. This one has an active infection? It does appear to. It
:31:16. > :31:19.tends to start on the ear and we have a swelling here, and the skin
:31:20. > :31:23.has lost the hair and it has gone shiny. This one doesn't seem to have
:31:24. > :31:28.any lesions on its feet. It seems to be restricted to the ears. What is
:31:29. > :31:31.surprising to me, is that although this animal has leprosy, in all
:31:32. > :31:36.other indicators it is really healthy. It has good body size, good
:31:37. > :31:40.weight and that is not what I expected.
:31:41. > :31:43.These squirrels, as you can see with this one, especially round the head,
:31:44. > :31:48.which is where they get the leprosy lesion, they often have huge numbers
:31:49. > :31:52.of tick, all these little back dots are tick, so one thing we want to
:31:53. > :31:59.see, is the bacterium in the ticks as well? What implication that might
:32:00. > :32:03.have. They could be carriers, the ticks and flees could be carriers?
:32:04. > :32:09.We don't know, we want to find out. Although leprosy can be cured with a
:32:10. > :32:14.course of antibiotics it would be unfeasible to treat these wild
:32:15. > :32:18.animals three times day for six month, once he is revived we release
:32:19. > :32:25.this one back where he was caught. Come on little guy. Wrong way.
:32:26. > :32:32.That's it. Wow, I am really amazed how quickly it just shot out, didn't
:32:33. > :32:37.it. Straight up a tree. He has every chance of a normal
:32:38. > :32:41.life. Now, the team will follow his progress, and data coming from him
:32:42. > :32:47.will help to understand this mysterious disease.
:32:48. > :32:51.The results from Brownsea will be used to help led squirrels across
:32:52. > :32:59.the country, which makes these squirrels very special indeed.
:33:00. > :33:04.What an extraordinary story, I think we really must stress that it is
:33:05. > :33:09.highly unlikely that you will catch leprosy from a red squirrel. Many
:33:10. > :33:14.reasons for that, one 95% of us are immune to it. And Anna has evidence
:33:15. > :33:18.it is probably existed in British squirrels for the last 40 years and
:33:19. > :33:21.there has been no cases of anyone catching leprosy off a squirrel in
:33:22. > :33:26.all that time. It is not like biblical time, you can treat it with
:33:27. > :33:30.antibiotics. I have a question, if, this is metaphorical. Imagine you
:33:31. > :33:35.are on a day out there, and you have the opportunity to snog a squirrel.
:33:36. > :33:40.Yes. Would you snog a squirrel? No, I definitely would not snog a
:33:41. > :33:45.squirrel. Would you Metaphorically I might, but I wouldn't go for
:33:46. > :33:50.tongues, not now I know about leprosy. For goodness sake! I
:33:51. > :33:56.promise you don't panic it is safe to go areas where there are red
:33:57. > :34:03.sqirls, in fact we encourage it. Go out to Brownsea Island. I have been
:34:04. > :34:06.there I am sure you have. Now we showed you it on Springwatch, we
:34:07. > :34:11.improved it. We brought it back for Winterwatch. It was a rounding
:34:12. > :34:14.success, it was massive, you asked for more, we listened, we are
:34:15. > :34:21.bringing it back, what am I talking about? I am talking about this.
:34:22. > :34:27.In 2015 we brought you The Iron mouse challenge. Where the mice were
:34:28. > :34:31.put through their paces in an increasingly difficult assault
:34:32. > :34:36.course. They outmanoeuvred our toughest
:34:37. > :34:39.water hazard. Next we probed their problem solving brainpower in
:34:40. > :34:47.Scotland where we created the mouse Maze. Testing the small mammal's
:34:48. > :34:51.navigational no how. Our mouster-mind rose to the
:34:52. > :34:57.challenge. Procuring the peanuts everyone in total darkness.
:34:58. > :35:08.But this autumn, we have come up with a twist. Mouse Maze 2. The
:35:09. > :35:12.Squeakquel. Will the mice of Arne be up to the challenge.
:35:13. > :35:19.What about that? It is fabulous. It is a, who of art. It a wonder of the
:35:20. > :35:22.rodent age. It is beautiful. It is situated in a shed just behind the
:35:23. > :35:26.hedge here. Just behind the hedge. It is important to say of course
:35:27. > :35:30.that all of the animals going in there are wild animals. They are
:35:31. > :35:35.going in through their own choice because we have put food in there.
:35:36. > :35:39.We have the new mouse Maze, we have it set up. The first thing we need
:35:40. > :35:44.to do is let them get in there to explore, this would give us an
:35:45. > :35:47.opportunity to see if the southern mice are any smarter than the
:35:48. > :35:52.Scottish mice, how long would it take them to learn to find their way
:35:53. > :35:56.through the Maze? This is what we have seen so far. First tentative,
:35:57. > :36:02.they need to find their way in. So here is the first mouse. Following a
:36:03. > :36:09.train of food. Into the maze. Hops on top. You can see, it has a glass
:36:10. > :36:14.top and a glass bottom. It really is a splendid piece of kit this. Mouse
:36:15. > :36:18.goes in, and this is the first time it has been into the maze. It
:36:19. > :36:22.doesn't know where the nuts are and it is making some mistake, if we
:36:23. > :36:26.speed it up we see it gradually gravitates towards the nuts. Maybe
:36:27. > :36:30.it is using a sense of smell. Maybe it can smell them through the
:36:31. > :36:36.tunnels in the maze. It goes all the way through, and
:36:37. > :36:40.eventually, it gets to the nuts. First attempt, 67 seconds. What we
:36:41. > :36:44.know is, what we learned in Scotland, is that typically, it
:36:45. > :36:48.takes them about eight or ten goes, to maximise their time and when they
:36:49. > :36:53.do maximise that time they simply remember it and they keep going back
:36:54. > :36:57.straightaway without any errors, this is typical of other experiments
:36:58. > :37:00.with the mouse. This mouse has been through the maze several times
:37:01. > :37:04.before. It is not making a single mistake and it gets into the nuts in
:37:05. > :37:11.eight seconds flat. Pretty impressive. Pretty good. Viewers who
:37:12. > :37:15.remember Winterwatch, the Scottish mouse terse mindses will say it got
:37:16. > :37:19.in in six seconds. The maze is more complicated now. The question is,
:37:20. > :37:25.OK, they have got in there, how are they doing it? Once they have
:37:26. > :37:29.learned that route, how are they following it it might be a scent
:37:30. > :37:34.trail. Experiments done with other rodents suggest they are using
:37:35. > :37:37.markers in the environment outside the mazes, so they are using light
:37:38. > :37:42.source, trees, in our shed it could be the apex of the shed, and once
:37:43. > :37:46.they go into the maze, they use these as points of reference to test
:37:47. > :37:51.their working memory and make a map they remember to get to the nuts. So
:37:52. > :37:58.let us test that. How do we test it? Very simple. We turn the maze
:37:59. > :38:07.around. So if the rodent is using any of those external stimuli, it's
:38:08. > :38:12.a bit squeaky. It is not a mouse. Just we need some lubrication on the
:38:13. > :38:16.hinge. If those mice are using external stimuli then they are going
:38:17. > :38:21.to have to flip their map. Now the nuts appear to be down in the bottom
:38:22. > :38:24.left and the entrance is on the right-hand side not on the left-hand
:38:25. > :38:29.side. So what we might expect here is they go in, they won't be doing
:38:30. > :38:35.it in eight seconds, we will have to see, let us go live to the maze now,
:38:36. > :38:40.we have a live mouse in there. OK. He is on the floor of the shed. He
:38:41. > :38:44.can't find the entrance because we have moved it. It hasn't taken him
:38:45. > :38:50.or her to find that. Hold on. Has it given up. I think it has. There is
:38:51. > :38:54.no spirit in these Dorset mice, is there? We will keep an eye on that
:38:55. > :38:58.mouse, if it gets in the maze we will cut to it straightaway. You
:38:59. > :39:02.know, Chris, there are some amazing spectacles that happen in our
:39:03. > :39:07.country, from early autumn on wards, some of them are very visual and
:39:08. > :39:13.there for us all to see and enjoy, but others are more mysterious,
:39:14. > :39:18.extremely difficult to cam charm on film. This year Andy Jackson was
:39:19. > :39:22.lucky with patience, being in right place, the right time. He managed to
:39:23. > :39:31.capture on film an extraordinary seasonal event.
:39:32. > :39:34.Late August, and around our coast, the sea temperature is reaching its
:39:35. > :39:39.peak. In a sheltered bay off south-west
:39:40. > :39:52.Wales the stage is set for something truly remarkable.
:39:53. > :40:00.A spider crab arrives. Normally a AstraZeneca of the deep. And it is
:40:01. > :40:06.not alone. -- denizen. A cast of thousands is coming together. Two
:40:07. > :40:10.years old, with shells 15 centimetres across these adolescent
:40:11. > :40:21.crustaceans have travelled up to 160 kilometres.
:40:22. > :40:25.All with one common goal. As numt befores grow, testimony performances
:40:26. > :40:35.fray. Normally solitary males are losing their cool.
:40:36. > :40:38.-- tempers fray. The smaller camouflaged females stay
:40:39. > :40:49.clear. I know what you are thinking but they are not here to mate.
:40:50. > :41:00.One days, tens of thousands cover the bay. A crusty carpet of
:41:01. > :41:04.carapaces and claws. Both males and females have reached
:41:05. > :41:15.a critical moment in their lives. They are about to come of age. And
:41:16. > :41:23.to do so, they must moult. This is why they have come to -- together.
:41:24. > :41:29.Replacing their ex sow skeleton will leave them vulnerable but there is
:41:30. > :41:38.safety in numbers. Inside rigid shells a moulting hormone stimulates
:41:39. > :41:47.the crabs to swell. Their outer casing split, peeling
:41:48. > :41:54.open like the lid of a can. Soft and exposed, they carefully withdraw.
:41:55. > :42:05.Delicately ex tracking each intricate limb. It takes 15 minutes
:42:06. > :42:12.of careful contraction, to shuffle free. Over the next few days, every
:42:13. > :42:39.single one will moult. 30% bigger. They are now adult
:42:40. > :42:43.crabs. They may look robust but they are
:42:44. > :42:51.completely defenceless. It will take several days to harden up.
:42:52. > :42:56.Not all of them make it. But nothing goes to waste. The survivors Maiken
:42:57. > :43:06.Caspersen Falla short work of any that fail. They need to fuel up for
:43:07. > :43:08.one final journey. Bigger. They are now adult crabs.
:43:09. > :43:10.They may look robust but they are completely defenceless. It will take
:43:11. > :43:13.several days to harden up. Not all of them make it. But nothing
:43:14. > :43:16.goes to waste. The survivors Maiken Caspersen Falla short work of any
:43:17. > :43:18.that fail. They need to fuel up for one final journey. -- the survivors
:43:19. > :43:22.make short work. They must head back to the dark sea floor where they
:43:23. > :43:27.will mate in a few month's time. As quickly as they arrived, the
:43:28. > :43:33.spied ever crabs vanish. -- spider crabs vanish. All that is
:43:34. > :43:39.left of this seasonal spectacle are hollow reminders littering the bay.
:43:40. > :43:46.I loved that. That is, that is extraordinary. An amazing thing to
:43:47. > :43:50.see, I know what a lot of you are thinking, you are thinking how come
:43:51. > :43:55.the crab comes out of the shell and it is bigger than the shell. It's a
:43:56. > :44:01.good question, and we are going to demonstrate that with Chris. Trustty
:44:02. > :44:05.assistant! I am going to come to strait this. You will be familiar
:44:06. > :44:09.with the Russian doll, where one smaller one comes out from the
:44:10. > :44:14.larger one, imagine this is the crab, a couple of weeks before the
:44:15. > :44:20.moult it starts to selectively absorb some of the calcium of the
:44:21. > :44:24.shell. So that it can reuse it. Then it secretes an enzien that disolves
:44:25. > :44:30.that body that sticks it to the shell so it becomes separate. Then
:44:31. > :44:35.it starts to regrow a paper thin shell, inside the original one.
:44:36. > :44:44.The day before it starts to moult, it enjoys a rise in hormone which
:44:45. > :44:48.causes it to take on a lot of sea water. It begins to swell up and
:44:49. > :44:58.that causes the shell to split and slowly the clap forces the shell
:44:59. > :45:04.away and it emerges from inside like that -- too. And it eases out its
:45:05. > :45:09.legs gently one by one, leaving the shell behind and also some of its
:45:10. > :45:13.mouthparts. Indeed, its stomach lining and oesophagus and part of
:45:14. > :45:20.its intestine and then it emerges like that. It swells up and at this
:45:21. > :45:24.point, it is very, very soft, and it takes a couple of weeks before it
:45:25. > :45:30.hardens like the original crab and by that stage, it is much bigger.
:45:31. > :45:35.That is genius! That is a BAFTA winning demonstration! It is a BAFTA
:45:36. > :45:42.winning demonstration! I could not have said it better myself even if I
:45:43. > :45:46.tried! That really is astonishing, watching those spider crabs, you
:45:47. > :45:51.would be really lucky to experience. But if you come to Arne, there is a
:45:52. > :45:56.seasonal spectacle anyone can enjoy. Chris got up early a couple of days
:45:57. > :46:06.ago and he took his binoculars and he went to revel in it.
:46:07. > :46:10.Poole Harbour is a magnet for migrating birds. Because of the
:46:11. > :46:15.resource they have come for, you can see in front of me, it is the mod
:46:16. > :46:21.which is packed full of life, which they are going to harvest. That is
:46:22. > :46:31.why these birds are here, it is absolutely packed with birds, what a
:46:32. > :46:41.site that is! Widgeon. Godwit. My goodness me! There is at least 200
:46:42. > :46:48.avocet which have swept across the silvery mud in front of me.
:46:49. > :46:57.Potentially one of the best birds in the world, the Audrey Hepburn of
:46:58. > :47:02.birds. No question. And at this time of year, it is a sense of an event
:47:03. > :47:07.taking place here. And these birds have come from great distances and
:47:08. > :47:14.different parts of our planet out there together, using the large
:47:15. > :47:19.number of security. If you are out in the mud on your own, you are
:47:20. > :47:26.constantly worried about predators and you cannot concentrate on
:47:27. > :47:29.feeding. If you have 200, 2,000, you have 4,000 eyes looking for
:47:30. > :47:42.predators which means you can spend more time feeding.
:47:43. > :47:49.They have flitted into the water, something... There must be a
:47:50. > :47:58.predator here, there has got to be. They piled into the water, into one
:47:59. > :48:06.great mass of birds. Avocet... Hold on, what is that? We have a Harrier
:48:07. > :48:11.here, that is what it is. No, it is a buzzard, sorry, grotesque error, I
:48:12. > :48:22.will just have to go outside. There is a fantastic natural masterpiece.
:48:23. > :48:27.No painter, sculptor, artist could have made it. Just these birds
:48:28. > :48:31.coming together from all over Europe in this one place, at this one time.
:48:32. > :48:36.I think of all the places I could have spent the morning in the UK
:48:37. > :48:40.today, the top of the Shard overlooking the capital -- the
:48:41. > :48:46.capital, dinosaur museums, natural history museum, fabulous, but
:48:47. > :48:54.nothing compares to this. This is the best there has to be in Britain
:48:55. > :48:59.and it was free! That is why we are here! Because it
:49:00. > :49:06.is so gorgeous name down on the weapons. The avocet, twisting like
:49:07. > :49:10.that, it was fantastic! And you can see that every day. At this time of
:49:11. > :49:17.year, there was a mass of birds moving around Europe, any excuse to
:49:18. > :49:21.get to my touch-screen. One of the birds we saw, stunning, they move
:49:22. > :49:26.from Iceland and they fly over to the UK. They do not stop in one
:49:27. > :49:30.place, they move around, and they might go down to Dorset and they
:49:31. > :49:34.might continue to migrate through France, all the way down to
:49:35. > :49:39.Portugal. This old idea birds go from A to B and spend the entire
:49:40. > :49:43.winter in B and go back to A, not the case. Another species we might
:49:44. > :49:48.see on the move at this time of year is the Goldcrest that only weighs
:49:49. > :49:55.about six grams, tiny, but it can move great distances. Some of them
:49:56. > :50:00.from Scandinavia, some from Germany and Poland. And there is the
:50:01. > :50:05.waxwing, a dandy of a bird, very beautiful and get the bird watchers
:50:06. > :50:09.out, from Scandinavia. At least 60 have arrived in the UK this week,
:50:10. > :50:16.some had been seen in Shetland and some as far as Dorset here. What
:50:17. > :50:20.about this? The Siberian accentor. We have never seen one in the UK
:50:21. > :50:25.until a couple of days ago and proving like birds, they are like
:50:26. > :50:31.buses, eight have turned up from Western Russia, from the durables,
:50:32. > :50:38.to the UK. Eight down the East coast. And our old friend, the
:50:39. > :50:42.Bewick's swans, from the North, they fly across the land into the low
:50:43. > :50:46.countries and then they hop over into the UK. Some of them have
:50:47. > :50:51.already arrived in places like the East of England and we will find a
:50:52. > :50:56.lot more about these birds and their migration tomorrow.
:50:57. > :51:00.As Chris said, it has been an extraordinary autumn for rarities
:51:01. > :51:03.arriving in the UK and if you have got photographs of rare migrants, we
:51:04. > :51:07.would love to see them so please send them on Facebook or Twitter.
:51:08. > :51:12.The reason we have so many rare birds coming in is because of them
:51:13. > :51:16.weather pattern we have had recently. Is it going to stay like
:51:17. > :51:21.that and remain good for those migrant birds? Only one way to find
:51:22. > :51:26.out, to get a weather forecast from Nick Miller. Hello, Nick!
:51:27. > :51:31.Hello, Michaela, stand-by for weather changes on the way and it
:51:32. > :51:34.will get drier where you are after a wet start to the week. Another will
:51:35. > :51:39.affect bird migration and we will get to that in a moment. First, a
:51:40. > :51:45.look back at autumn so far. It got off a really warm start in September
:51:46. > :51:49.and has cooled down. With high pressure, October has given us try
:51:50. > :51:52.and quiet and kind weather for wildlife. Because of the woman, some
:51:53. > :51:56.birds have stayed longer than they would before migrating away for the
:51:57. > :52:01.winter such as the swallow -- because of the warm weather. And
:52:02. > :52:06.that's still active, not yet hibernating. With high pressure, we
:52:07. > :52:09.have had easterly winds which is a good direction for the birds from
:52:10. > :52:17.Scandinavia and Eastern Europe, those redwings. Easterly, it is
:52:18. > :52:21.easy, but this is the change and we get a westerly coming back which may
:52:22. > :52:26.discourage the migration because it becomes a headwind for the birds and
:52:27. > :52:32.it brings the north-western parts of the UK more unsettled weather than
:52:33. > :52:36.we saw in October. There may be a shower tomorrow but it is getting
:52:37. > :52:41.drier and a bit brighter. That is the change of wind direction and it
:52:42. > :52:47.is mild by day and night. There is nothing in this forecaster cold the
:52:48. > :52:52.Passion of those sika deer. It is a noisy week so on your marks, get
:52:53. > :52:56.set, rut! I love it and I love a mild autumn
:52:57. > :53:01.because we do not like the cold weather. We have said it was a mild
:53:02. > :53:06.autumn here and around the country we did ask you to send your
:53:07. > :53:12.sightings and reports of that. These are a couple of photographs. This is
:53:13. > :53:16.Christian masts in London. It is a grass snake. Still out and about.
:53:17. > :53:23.That is unusual. Like the smooth snake here, it is not cold so they
:53:24. > :53:30.do not go down to hibernate. This is a bat from James Miller, Blackheath
:53:31. > :53:33.in Surrey on October two. Bats keep moving around in the autumn
:53:34. > :53:37.especially those that do not find the winter roost, that is not
:53:38. > :53:45.unusual although it is still mild. Good to get a photo. Or, dragonfly.
:53:46. > :53:49.They will go on for weeks or months in the adult stage. If it emerged
:53:50. > :53:53.late in the season and it has been mild, plenty of food around, so not
:53:54. > :53:59.surprising it is still active and about. Talking about active and
:54:00. > :54:06.about, I wonder if any of the deer Martin getting molested out in the
:54:07. > :54:11.field? Martin. We are still inside the Autumnwatch deer hide and
:54:12. > :54:18.interesting things going on. We can go live now to our deer outside.
:54:19. > :54:23.That is a young male, he has just moved in amongst the hide and they
:54:24. > :54:27.get in and run away. We had a moment of great excitement. He is just
:54:28. > :54:35.checking them to see whether they are ready to mate. There is a fox in
:54:36. > :54:39.the background. This camera is quite extraordinary. Helicopter coming
:54:40. > :54:46.over! The question is, what type of rotting strategy of these sika deer
:54:47. > :54:51.using? We had been filming and I think I can answer that. This is the
:54:52. > :55:01.last couple of nights. That is the wrong one, that is not quite right!
:55:02. > :55:08.Here we go. Work the stags trying to hold it like that? No, they are not,
:55:09. > :55:12.the stags were not. Sometimes they establish a deep gash a geographical
:55:13. > :55:17.territory and they encourage the females to comment by whistling. And
:55:18. > :55:24.that is not happening. What is happening now is the female deer,
:55:25. > :55:29.they are on the best feeding area, the lovely grassy area and they
:55:30. > :55:36.drive the rut because the stags, they are coming to the females. The
:55:37. > :55:43.females in the lovely, delicious grassy area, that is what is going
:55:44. > :55:48.on here. We have a helicopter flying around! We will keep filming, very
:55:49. > :55:51.exciting, and if anything happens again, we will record it and go back
:55:52. > :55:58.to it later in the week. All right? We will come back in the infrared.
:55:59. > :56:05.Here we go! That is ours out here and we will keep with Pete watching
:56:06. > :56:11.and waiting to see if that big stag returns. New like it is not just
:56:12. > :56:15.birds migrating, moths do as well and sometimes leave a legacy, look
:56:16. > :56:21.at this, Michaela. That is incredible, that is a huge
:56:22. > :56:25.Caterpillar. It is, it is a hawk moth, an African species that
:56:26. > :56:32.migrates through Europe. That is an anti-predator response because it is
:56:33. > :56:36.on its way to pupate. They start off in Africa like painted Lady
:56:37. > :56:40.butterflies and an enormous came to the UK in September this year.
:56:41. > :56:46.Martin Cade, at the Portland Bird Observatory, Sorbus adult one
:56:47. > :56:55.fluttering in Portland. They have a wingspan of up to 12 centimetres and
:56:56. > :56:59.they have a long proboscis, tongue, and they stick that deep into the
:57:00. > :57:06.plants to get the nectar. A soupy year and this one in my hand,
:57:07. > :57:10.hopefully this will now burrow into the soil and pupate and if we look
:57:11. > :57:15.after it, it might emerge next year. Hopefully. Have you been listening
:57:16. > :57:19.and can you hear the sika deer in the background? I can. That is
:57:20. > :57:24.incredible, that is fantastic to hear. We are nearly at the end of
:57:25. > :57:31.the show, almost. Yes, we have time to go to a live camera, the carcass
:57:32. > :57:37.camera just in case. We have seen a lot. There is something on it. These
:57:38. > :57:41.are signed poppers. I would not be surprised if there were hundreds or
:57:42. > :57:47.thousands of those doing their small bets the breakdown the carcass. And
:57:48. > :57:53.hopefully then we get other things coming. Indeed, that is all we have
:57:54. > :57:57.time for but join us tomorrow when we reveal the truth about edible
:57:58. > :58:01.dormouse, and it is not that they spread Ebola or anything nasty but
:58:02. > :58:07.they are up to nefarious things. An update on our golden eagle and send
:58:08. > :58:11.in your suggestions for names. And we will be using some rather
:58:12. > :58:15.advanced technology to put this bird among a flock of others on the shore
:58:16. > :58:19.to see what we can see. Don't forget to check the information on our
:58:20. > :58:26.website and the Red Button where it is Autumnwatch in a nutshell, but
:58:27. > :58:31.make a date, eight p.m., on your sofa, BBC Two, you do not want to
:58:32. > :58:32.miss it. We will be back with more Autumnwatch tomorrow, see you then.
:58:33. > :59:07.Good night! MUSIC: Hoppipolla
:59:08. > :59:12.by Sigur Ros