:00:08. > :00:15.Each year as summer fades and creeps timidly towards winter it dances
:00:16. > :00:20.briefly with autumn. What's this autumn like? Colourful leaves, a
:00:21. > :00:26.taste sensation of autumn nal berries and a marvellous medley of
:00:27. > :00:29.migrating birds. And one of the strangest looking migrants of all is
:00:30. > :00:30.out there somewhere, and we're looking for it. Welcome to
:00:31. > :01:01.Autumnwatch! Hello! Welcome to Autumnwatch 2016.
:01:02. > :01:04.Coming to you from the beautiful and wonderful RSPB Arne Reserve in
:01:05. > :01:07.Dorset. We are live tonight and for the rest of the week. If you were
:01:08. > :01:10.watching last night you will know our mission remains the same, to
:01:11. > :01:14.bring you the best of British wildlife and to reflect this unique
:01:15. > :01:19.season. We are bringing you up to date with our live cameras. We have
:01:20. > :01:22.had lots of action on our badger-cam and we have seen, guess what, a
:01:23. > :01:26.badger! It's not the only mammal that made an appearance so we will
:01:27. > :01:34.show you more later. We will also cut back to our mouse maze. Remember
:01:35. > :01:39.testing the capabilities, will they succeed in their task? We will find
:01:40. > :01:43.out about a different mouse t may look cute but it's causing havoc and
:01:44. > :01:48.Lucy Cook will tell us more about that. What about today? It's been a
:01:49. > :01:53.wonderful day here. It's been so mild at Arne. It's been very mild.
:01:54. > :01:58.Hope you have been enjoying it. But how did it start this morning? It
:01:59. > :02:03.started of course with the sunrise over a fresh misty, slightly damp
:02:04. > :02:07.start to the day but our stars were out there, the sika deer and the
:02:08. > :02:14.wonderful wildlife that we see all around Arne. The waders flying in to
:02:15. > :02:19.overwinter on the wetlands. It's a gorgeous place, it's been a gorgeous
:02:20. > :02:24.day. It's a season of mist and mellow fruitfulness. Did you just
:02:25. > :02:31.say the season of misand mellow fruitfulness? I quite like that.
:02:32. > :02:35.It's poetic. You had that absurd tough about the richness of the
:02:36. > :02:38.season and the berries! Goodness knows what I will come out with the
:02:39. > :02:42.rest of the show! Let's hope we never find out! Listen, it's an
:02:43. > :02:47.bountiful season this year. There were lots of fruits out there and
:02:48. > :02:51.lots of berries and nuts. It is the case down here, although there is
:02:52. > :02:57.some geographical variation. Nationwide there is lots of berries
:02:58. > :03:00.and Hawthorne and Holly and BlackBerries like the one this
:03:01. > :03:04.blackbird is enjoying. In some places acorns are doing well. Not
:03:05. > :03:08.here in the south it seems. But, you know, here all of these animals are
:03:09. > :03:14.taking advantage of this harvest, but the plants are doing their best
:03:15. > :03:20.to fight back. These chestnuts are losing the battle with the grey
:03:21. > :03:25.squirrel. Look at this. It gingerly but effectively peels back the
:03:26. > :03:33.prickly cover, the plant failing there, to remove the sweet chestnut
:03:34. > :03:39.inside. Then, turns it around and around until it can lift off the
:03:40. > :03:42.outer casing. And begin to nibble that tasty sweet chestnut. Obviously
:03:43. > :03:45.this is one it's going to eat, not one it will cash now it's stripped
:03:46. > :03:50.of that covering. With all of these fruits and these
:03:51. > :03:53.berries what is going on? Well, it is an intricate and
:03:54. > :03:58.essential ecological relationship here with plants and birds. How does
:03:59. > :04:00.it work? Well the first thing is those berries are advertising
:04:01. > :04:06.themselves to the birds, just look at this. Here are holy berries,
:04:07. > :04:11.bright red. Birds can see the red. They can note
:04:12. > :04:16.the contrast between it and the green leaves. We typically find red
:04:17. > :04:21.berries on plants with evergreen leaves or plants that retain leaves
:04:22. > :04:26.late in the season. There are lots of BlackBerries about, as well.
:04:27. > :04:30.If I can pick them up. These typically form on plants that lose
:04:31. > :04:33.their leaves, or where the leaves fade to brown and then the black
:04:34. > :04:37.shows up. Strong contrast means the birds can
:04:38. > :04:40.find them. Why do they want the birds to find them? I can
:04:41. > :04:46.demonstrate is that by pretending to be a bird myself. Let me just hover
:04:47. > :04:53.around here, taking some of these little damsons off here. The benefit
:04:54. > :04:58.for the bird is that it gets a meal. The soft fleshy bit around the seed
:04:59. > :05:04.is undoubtedly very tasty. Sweet in the case of these and in the case of
:05:05. > :05:08.Rowan too. The birds eating that gets nutritional sweet reward, but
:05:09. > :05:13.inside of that is the seed. Of course, this is the essential part.
:05:14. > :05:18.I have spat it out but the birds don't spit it out. They keep it.
:05:19. > :05:22.They digest it. They fly around and they move from one place to another.
:05:23. > :05:27.After a couple of hours of digesting the seed it passes down through
:05:28. > :05:30.their gut and then they make a small deposit somewhere.
:05:31. > :05:36.The seed passes through them. In some cases that is a necessary
:05:37. > :05:40.process, in juniper there is a better germation rate if the seed
:05:41. > :05:45.has been through the bird. This is a way that plants move. They only have
:05:46. > :05:49.two ways of moving. Pollen and then they are seeds. They are using the
:05:50. > :05:57.birds to get from A to B. So there is a benefit for the berries and a
:05:58. > :06:01.benefit for the birds. It's a rather beautiful combination, a beautiful
:06:02. > :06:08.piece of co-evolution. I have a question, it was a good impression
:06:09. > :06:14.of a bird, but what were you? Constipated actually! We would like
:06:15. > :06:18.you to send in pictures of birds eating berries wherever you are.
:06:19. > :06:21.Send them in the usual way. Now, I wonder where Martin's deposited his
:06:22. > :06:27.seed, where has he planted himself tonight?
:06:28. > :06:31.Michaela, I am down here on the shore. Where my exactly? On the edge
:06:32. > :06:39.of the sea here. Over there is Poole. Can you see it there?
:06:40. > :06:44.Over on this side is a huge marshy area and it's one of the best places
:06:45. > :06:49.to come bird-watching here at Arne. I will tell you a little story.
:06:50. > :06:54.About ten years ago I was bird-watching at my local patch, it
:06:55. > :06:58.was near Bristol. I finished bird-watching and rode off on my
:06:59. > :07:05.motorbike and up in the sky and there, ladies and gentlemen, was an
:07:06. > :07:09.apparition. It was a big white bird with those enormous beaks. Let me
:07:10. > :07:14.show you something. Here is one of those beaks or bills. I think you
:07:15. > :07:18.will agree it's pretty weird. I thought this animal must have
:07:19. > :07:26.escaped from somewhere. Well, I was wrong. It was a spoonbill. Focus,
:07:27. > :07:30.they're back. After a time of about 400 years they were hunted to
:07:31. > :07:39.extinction, sadly. But now they've come back. They're from probably
:07:40. > :07:44.populations over in the Netherlands and they come over here in quite
:07:45. > :07:50.large numbers. Now, we heard reports that they come
:07:51. > :07:55.to roost over there about 300 metres from where I am standing now. We
:07:56. > :07:58.want to try to get ipt mat views of these spoonbills at night. How are
:07:59. > :08:07.we going to do that? Well, we have a secret weapon.
:08:08. > :08:11.Here it is. It is the spoonbill camera. Here we are putting it out
:08:12. > :08:16.on the land. This camera is going in about 300 metres from me. Nice and
:08:17. > :08:21.firmly down. We got the angle right. Look at those electronics inside it.
:08:22. > :08:25.In front there is a camera and a light source, infrared light source.
:08:26. > :08:29.Also one at its bottom, as well. So we covered it up. It will act as a
:08:30. > :08:34.decoy, we hope. Maybe it will bring in spoonbills that we can film and
:08:35. > :08:41.get those intimate views of this really extraordinarily rare bird.
:08:42. > :08:45.Now it's got gears inside it. The spoonbill can rotate. Look at that!
:08:46. > :08:49.Perfect! OK. Now we hope we have other
:08:50. > :08:53.cameras looking down here, as well, but we hope that the camera is
:08:54. > :08:56.working now. Let's try and go to it live.
:08:57. > :09:00.There is the camera. Another camera is looking at it. Is there anything?
:09:01. > :09:04.Let's look at the pictures from the camera.
:09:05. > :09:08.That is fascinating. That isn't a mistake. Those are sandHoppers,
:09:09. > :09:11.thousands of them jumping in front of the camera. But where are the
:09:12. > :09:15.wading birds? They're not there. I can tell you why they're not there.
:09:16. > :09:22.Because we saw this just before we came on air. A fox!
:09:23. > :09:26.Obviously there is lots of wading birds there and that fox is being
:09:27. > :09:31.opportunistic and has come down and is hoping to get an easy meal in the
:09:32. > :09:35.dark. So, that slightly spoilt it for us
:09:36. > :09:38.tonight. The prize is a spoonbill. We hope they'll fly in and we will
:09:39. > :09:41.be able to see them. Other wading birds may turn up, as well. If they
:09:42. > :09:47.do, we will record them. Meanwhile, back to Chris and Michaela.
:09:48. > :09:50.Not great to see a predator there. I know, I love foxes but not there
:09:51. > :09:55.tonight. That's a shame. Hopefully it will move away and the birds will
:09:56. > :10:01.come back. Yesterday we unveiled our new mouse maze in a shed behind the
:10:02. > :10:05.barn back there. It's a complicated maze. Let's see what happened
:10:06. > :10:12.yesterday. This is the maze. Our mouse managed
:10:13. > :10:18.to crack the maze by doing it eight times to get it down from about 67
:10:19. > :10:23.seconds to eight seconds. Then it did it time and time again. We
:10:24. > :10:31.wanted to test our mice so we turned the maze. What we want to find out
:10:32. > :10:34.is how the mice learn the maze. Are they using visual cues, smell, is it
:10:35. > :10:39.memory or is it all about the whiskers? Let's see how they got on
:10:40. > :10:46.last night with the turned maze. This is the first mouse that came
:10:47. > :10:54.in. You can see he is much slower. He is obviously confused. He has a
:10:55. > :11:00.little look around. A little sniff. Then very quickly, in 12 seconds,
:11:01. > :11:04.gives up. Is he a man or a mouse? He is a mouse, he came back! That was
:11:05. > :11:11.good for you that one. He took quite sometime to explore the whole maze.
:11:12. > :11:16.He doesn't get to the nuts. He gives up in 134 seconds. He comes back
:11:17. > :11:20.with renewed determination and energy.
:11:21. > :11:23.He knows the maze a little bit now because he has been in a couple of
:11:24. > :11:27.times before. He looks around. Is he going to solve the maze? It's his
:11:28. > :11:34.third attempt? He is almost there. Is he going to make it? It's a dead
:11:35. > :11:41.end. He comes out and yes he cracks it in 46 seconds. He now knows where
:11:42. > :11:44.the nuts are. Look at this, it's absolutely incredible, isn't it,
:11:45. > :11:52.Chris? He comes straight in this time. He gets it in nine seconds. He
:11:53. > :11:57.comes back. I say he, I don't know whether it's he or she. Comes back
:11:58. > :12:00.time and time again. So what's going on? It's not rigorous science, we
:12:01. > :12:05.have to admit that but we do have a graph. Here is the graph showing the
:12:06. > :12:09.number of attempts here against time on the side.
:12:10. > :12:12.This is the mouse when they first learned it, before we turned it
:12:13. > :12:19.around. You can see that initially it takes a long time to get there.
:12:20. > :12:24.After, they get it down to about eight seconds.
:12:25. > :12:28.But, when we twist the maze around the mice have to relearn it. Look,
:12:29. > :12:32.initially they're completely confused so it's taking longer. Even
:12:33. > :12:36.when they perfect it it still is taking them longer after that number
:12:37. > :12:41.of trials. What's going on there? Basically, they're confused. It does
:12:42. > :12:45.appear they might have been using visual signals, something in the
:12:46. > :12:48.shed, maybe the apex, a crack of light or something, to orientate
:12:49. > :12:53.themselves as they entered the maze. Because it has a glass top and
:12:54. > :12:56.bottom perhaps they were looking through it and remembered that and
:12:57. > :12:59.that's how they were finding it. That's how they were probably doing
:13:00. > :13:04.it. But we have another trick up our sleeves. Now they've learned that
:13:05. > :13:09.with the maze twisted around we will do something more devious. We are
:13:10. > :13:19.going to flip the maze. It's got a glass bottom and a glass top. What
:13:20. > :13:24.this means is that previously the food... It's so squeaky! The food
:13:25. > :13:29.was in the bottom left. It's now in the top left corner. What this means
:13:30. > :13:33.is that the floor has become the roof. Left has become right, top has
:13:34. > :13:37.become bottom. The mice should have to learn the thing again, unless
:13:38. > :13:42.they're using a different method. We haven't cleaned it out this time. It
:13:43. > :13:46.might well be they're using scent to find their way back. I think we
:13:47. > :13:53.might have a mouse live, is there a mouse there now? It's gone!
:13:54. > :13:59.We have a live fox. Let's look at a fox instead then. This is on our
:14:00. > :14:05.badger camera. Look at what a gorgeous fox. This is a young fox,
:14:06. > :14:09.isn't it? It is, yeah. Licking its lips, it's just eaten the mouse!
:14:10. > :14:13.That's fantastic. We will have more from the fox later on. Yesterday we
:14:14. > :14:17.caught up with our golden eagle chick we were privileged enough to
:14:18. > :14:22.watch on Springwatch go from five days old, and we watched it develop.
:14:23. > :14:27.Yesterday, we saw Chris go up to Scotland where he helped put on a
:14:28. > :14:31.hi-tech satellite tag. At that stage it was eight weeks old. It hadn't
:14:32. > :14:40.fledged. That's what we were all rooting for.
:14:41. > :14:48.It's been 58 days since our eagle chick hatched.
:14:49. > :14:54.The previous afternoon, she was fitted with a satellite tag and she
:14:55. > :15:08.already seems accustomed to a new backpack. Even if she is a little
:15:09. > :15:18.unsteady on her feet. I want for the female is left alone most of the
:15:19. > :15:22.time. -- our fluffy female. Any adult feathers of growing from the
:15:23. > :15:28.same sockets as the original baby down. As they emerge, they push
:15:29. > :15:34.these out, leaving our chick covered in that fluffy coating. Just like a
:15:35. > :15:42.toddler, the chick is discovering the world for the first time.
:15:43. > :15:56.Everything is new. Everything is interesting. And the wagtail seems
:15:57. > :15:59.just as curious. It is a moment of entertainment, to
:16:00. > :16:25.break the monotony of the day. Dawn is not too bright and a 59 in
:16:26. > :16:36.the eagle nest. -- one day 59. Dad and mum had a welcome visit.
:16:37. > :16:43.Cleaning duties go to dad. Whilst mum sorts out dinner.
:16:44. > :16:47.Although this chick is capable of feeding itself, it is nice to be
:16:48. > :16:51.looked after, she has tripled her weight since hatching and continues
:16:52. > :17:02.to eat 20% of her body weight every day.
:17:03. > :17:13.This protein rich diet is certainly doing her good. With each meal, she
:17:14. > :17:24.gets closer to fledging. Ten days later, the eagle nest is
:17:25. > :17:35.empty. Has our female decided to spread her
:17:36. > :17:44.wings? Well, not quite. But she is getting bolder. And
:17:45. > :17:56.looking increasingly like an adult. Only remnants of her original fluffy
:17:57. > :18:00.down feathers remain. At ten weeks old, her muscles still
:18:01. > :18:09.not quite strong enough for flight, but it will not be long.
:18:10. > :18:17.Today, her parents have left a freshly killed fox cub. Although she
:18:18. > :18:19.has mastered feeding herself, she will soon have to learn to hunt for
:18:20. > :18:31.herself as well. The next morning, any thoughts of
:18:32. > :18:39.fledging have been put off by the weather. At least her new feathers
:18:40. > :18:47.provide some protection from the downpour.
:18:48. > :18:57.Just over a week later, 78 days after hatching, our check has taken
:18:58. > :19:10.the plunge. She has at last left the safety of the nest -- chick. But she
:19:11. > :19:18.has not gone far. And dad is nearby with some food.
:19:19. > :19:26.Over the next couple of months, she will learn to hunt and rely less and
:19:27. > :19:30.less upon her parents. We have been extraordinarily privileged to watch
:19:31. > :19:34.this female since she was just five days old. Over the past three
:19:35. > :19:44.months, she has transformed into a young adolescent.
:19:45. > :19:52.And finally, she takes to the air. The efforts and hard work of her
:19:53. > :19:57.parents have paid off. She is fully fledged.
:19:58. > :20:20.What about that? It is fantastic and that satellite should last about
:20:21. > :20:24.five, six years and we can give you updates. We certainly hope so and it
:20:25. > :20:30.is giving us a lot of data already and tells us the position of the
:20:31. > :20:34.bird, the time and altitude of the bird and the temperature. The
:20:35. > :20:39.question is, what has it been doing since it has fledged? We have been
:20:40. > :20:42.following it, David Anderson. If Mike assisted holds this, I will
:20:43. > :20:48.demonstrate what it has been up to. All right, this is not a 1960s quiz.
:20:49. > :20:54.This is the nest, the young bird has been going out from the nest and
:20:55. > :20:59.coming back always. Sometimes short journeys and sometimes much longer,
:21:00. > :21:03.in all sorts of directions. David thinks this is because it does not
:21:04. > :21:08.want to leave that nest area and it never really goes Out of Sight. It
:21:09. > :21:13.can cover a great distance because it has got altitude and it can still
:21:14. > :21:18.see that area it was fledged from. A couple of exceptions, one time, it
:21:19. > :21:23.took a journey eastwards and went back against some distance. On
:21:24. > :21:27.another occasion, it went all over here to be used, travelling a few
:21:28. > :21:32.kilometres, and it went South and West and came back making a strange
:21:33. > :21:36.rectangular shape. When it moved out of its territory here, it was
:21:37. > :21:41.meeting other eagles, but what is it doing hanging around the house like
:21:42. > :21:46.some teenager, refusing to clear off out? It is taking advantage of the
:21:47. > :21:50.food. And what we think is there is plenty of food and the parents have
:21:51. > :21:55.got enough and they are tolerating the youngster staying. By winter,
:21:56. > :21:59.things could be very difficult and do things run short, they will
:22:00. > :22:02.certainly drive this bird out of their territory. We will watch
:22:03. > :22:05.closely as we move now towards winter and we will give you updates
:22:06. > :22:10.on its progress. Yesterday, we did ask for
:22:11. > :22:16.suggestions of names for this worry is golden eagle and we have been
:22:17. > :22:22.inundated and we have really good suggestions. Rona, meaning powerful.
:22:23. > :22:29.A good Scottish name. John said, the Gay liquefy radiant. Alistair,
:22:30. > :22:35.goddess of the skies. And Roman ward, he is aged eight, he said
:22:36. > :22:43.Hermione, meaning well-born. I like that. What about a normal name,
:22:44. > :22:48.Bernadette, Silvia? Or beaky big face? No, no! Keep the names coming
:22:49. > :22:53.in and we will pin one onto that word -- onto that bird by the end of
:22:54. > :22:59.the week. On the budget camera, we have a fox. The same animal we
:23:00. > :23:06.looked at a while ago -- badger. This year's cub, it looks like a
:23:07. > :23:13.female. And a very attractive young fox. We have seen a lot of activity
:23:14. > :23:20.on this camera, not just boxes, sometimes they turn up and they find
:23:21. > :23:24.the food, this is another of the pair that we have seen, we have seen
:23:25. > :23:29.them together at some stage and the years go up because it is hearing
:23:30. > :23:33.something behind it. In the corner of the screen, you can see it is the
:23:34. > :23:38.badger. Interesting that they can obviously see each other and they
:23:39. > :23:41.know about each other but they do not investigate each other. No, they
:23:42. > :23:51.look fairly comfortable, these foxes might have not close to the badger
:23:52. > :23:56.sett, the badger is always dominant to the fox, far more robust, but it
:23:57. > :24:00.leaves the fox to dig down towards the camera. And it here's something
:24:01. > :24:05.else and it is looking around, is it the badger coming back? No, it is
:24:06. > :24:12.another fox. You can see they are very comfortable with each other. So
:24:13. > :24:15.we presume this is a sibling. These are from this year, these cubs, they
:24:16. > :24:23.know each other well, both very curious. Interesting behaviour. Very
:24:24. > :24:30.interested in that soil, doing some digging. In good condition. Yes, a
:24:31. > :24:35.bit of friction here. This week, they are in the same social group
:24:36. > :24:39.and likely to be siblings, but there is always a dominant hierarchy and
:24:40. > :24:44.it looks like the animal on the left is top fox. On the right, this is
:24:45. > :24:48.clearly more nervous, the other is arching its back, the years have
:24:49. > :24:55.gone back, the signals that give out, I am boss. As the years. They
:24:56. > :25:00.look so much like dogs. I have a poppy and you have a poodle and we
:25:01. > :25:03.have seen that behaviour, the years go down and they did and they do
:25:04. > :25:08.that dog kind of stuff. Indeed, those behaviours replicated and you
:25:09. > :25:14.can see that with a dog bickering over a bone with another in the
:25:15. > :25:18.garden. We will bring you that and also regular updates online and we
:25:19. > :25:22.have plenty of ways to stay involved. It has never been easier
:25:23. > :25:27.to follow Autumnwatch wherever you are. By going to the Autumnwatch
:25:28. > :25:35.website on your laptop, phone, tablets, you can get the latest news
:25:36. > :25:39.at any time of day. On CBBC, that is quizzes and things to do and more.
:25:40. > :25:45.And you can join in the conversation on Facebook, Twitter and the
:25:46. > :25:50.Springwatch group. So much to do and see, but just to
:25:51. > :25:54.remind you, I am down here on the shoreline because we have got
:25:55. > :26:00.reports of spoonbills roosting over there. And we have got a robotic
:26:01. > :26:06.spoonbill camera and we can go to it live, that is the robotic camera,
:26:07. > :26:16.can we see anything? No. Let's have a look on our Selex Cam. The fox
:26:17. > :26:22.came earlier and it frightened away the wildfowl and they are beginning
:26:23. > :26:28.to return. But have we got that Spoonbill? We have not, not yet. If
:26:29. > :26:32.you come here during the day, it is a great place to come bird watching
:26:33. > :26:39.because it is teeming with wildfowl. Loads of them. That is the camera
:26:40. > :26:45.again and it is completely surrounded with birds. Dublin. Black
:26:46. > :26:51.godwit in the background, oystercatchers. Lots of those here.
:26:52. > :26:54.Obviously, there is lots and lots because this seems to be a perfect
:26:55. > :27:01.place for them to, and feature during the day. Enormous numbers of
:27:02. > :27:06.them. -- to feed during the day. But why? What is so special about this
:27:07. > :27:14.place here? If we go up into the air during the day, you can see. Look at
:27:15. > :27:20.that. Enormous number of invention nations, the water goes into a lot
:27:21. > :27:25.of tiny channels. When the water goes in and out, that reveals a huge
:27:26. > :27:29.amount of mudflats as the tide goes in and out and it constantly
:27:30. > :27:34.changes. If you imagine if you stretched out those little bit into
:27:35. > :27:39.one long line, it would be a huge coastline. The tide also has a part
:27:40. > :27:45.to play because, because of those inmates, it does not come in once
:27:46. > :27:51.and out again, it is in and up and down and round things and that
:27:52. > :27:57.reveals the mod and it covers it over so there is constant food
:27:58. > :28:01.supply for the birds. The birds themselves, the different species
:28:02. > :28:08.can occupy the same space and they can all be feeding, how does that
:28:09. > :28:15.work? We are about to do the Great British beak off. This is how it
:28:16. > :28:23.works, it is to do with their beaks. Let me get my tools. First, let's
:28:24. > :28:31.look at a grape love. This bird jumps around one the beach pinking
:28:32. > :28:39.of sandhoppers, how? Look at the tiny beak, like my tweezers here.
:28:40. > :28:42.Can you see my tweezers? Let's go down. They are going along picking
:28:43. > :28:51.of sandhoppers like this, nipping around like that. Now let's look at
:28:52. > :28:59.a red shack. A much longer bill and it is probing down into the sand,
:29:00. > :29:06.into the mud, looking for crustaceans, worms. How does that
:29:07. > :29:11.beak work? Like this, but much longer so it plunges down deeply
:29:12. > :29:19.looking for things. So the two of those, they can eat together. What
:29:20. > :29:23.about the kill you? It has got that long beak and it feeds on a
:29:24. > :29:31.completely different way, dipping it into the water. This is my Turkey
:29:32. > :29:38.-based, how on Earth does that relate to the curlew? In it goes, it
:29:39. > :29:40.dips in the bill. Hang on. And then it sucks up the fluid. I am not
:29:41. > :29:51.doing it right. Got it there. It sucks it up into
:29:52. > :29:57.its bill. Finally, the one we are most interested in, the spoonbill.
:29:58. > :30:05.Let's look at the spoonbill. Look at the way it is shaking its head. That
:30:06. > :30:11.huge bizarre bill, side-to-side. How does it work? It works like a
:30:12. > :30:18.hydrofoil. Imagine that's the bill, as it passes over the water, let's
:30:19. > :30:23.do it, it actually disturbs the sand underneath. As it goes across it
:30:24. > :30:29.disturns it and up will come any little grubs. It comes back with the
:30:30. > :30:36.bill open, whack, grabs them! That's how it works.
:30:37. > :30:41.It's one of the only ones that's ever been discovered, that hydrofoil
:30:42. > :30:44.bill. We will keep looking. Let's go live again to see if anything has
:30:45. > :30:52.turned up. Across the water we have deer coming down here.
:30:53. > :30:55.Actually I have seen lots and lots of deer footprints here in the sand,
:30:56. > :30:59.there's loads of activity on the water's edge.
:31:00. > :31:06.A couple of weeks ago we sent Lucy Cook out, I have to read this and
:31:07. > :31:07.get it right, to the Royal ForestRy Society's wood in the Chilterns,
:31:08. > :31:32.it's home to a mysterious mammal. Can you hear that?
:31:33. > :31:37.This forest is full of animals that we know very little about.
:31:38. > :31:44.And I can hear them calling all around.
:31:45. > :31:51.I am watching them leap around, they look like squirrels, but they're
:31:52. > :31:55.not. They're edible dormice. It looks like what we have here is a
:31:56. > :32:01.family. The youngsters are just having a lot of fun running around
:32:02. > :32:04.in the tree. But they've got a hole they keep running in and out of,
:32:05. > :32:09.whether that's somewhere they plan on spending the winter or whether
:32:10. > :32:16.it's a nest or now, but I think I have seen them taking what looks
:32:17. > :32:19.like bedding in. What's really thrilling is no one's
:32:20. > :32:28.really seen them behave like this in the wild in the dark before.
:32:29. > :32:35.In fact, these secretive nocturnal mammals are full of surprises.
:32:36. > :32:41.They're the subject of a rather important long-term study. Roger
:32:42. > :32:44.leads a team of volunteers monitoring 230 nest boxes twice a
:32:45. > :32:50.month in this small Buckinghamshire wood.
:32:51. > :32:57.It's half-asleep. Its eyes open. Isn't that amazing.
:32:58. > :33:02.Today, I am part of Team Edible Dormice and I am determined to do my
:33:03. > :33:08.bit. I am going to do it. Goodness me! So you screw it in, rather than
:33:09. > :33:11.push it. That's right. Screw the soft toy into the hole. That's
:33:12. > :33:19.right. OK. Then lift gently from one side
:33:20. > :33:24.and down it comes. We have to catch, identify and weigh every dormouse we
:33:25. > :33:31.find. OK. So there is your first little
:33:32. > :33:35.edible dor mice. Aren't they gorgeous? No, unfortunately they're
:33:36. > :33:41.a non-native species and they're actually a problem in the woodlands
:33:42. > :33:52.as well as in houses. In 1902, several edible dormice
:33:53. > :34:02.escaped. Now they're perfectly at home here in the Chilterns. Look at
:34:03. > :34:05.the way they can hang on. That makes them such fantastic arborial
:34:06. > :34:08.animals. They produce a sticky substance out of their feet that
:34:09. > :34:13.makes them grip even better. They were eaten by the Romans as a
:34:14. > :34:17.delicacy, a prize for their ability to put on lots of body fat.
:34:18. > :34:28.There you are. That's a good sized one. It's big! Hardly gets in one
:34:29. > :34:34.hand. This one has already been fitted with a microchip so Roger can
:34:35. > :34:38.monitor its life history and work out the dynamics of the population.
:34:39. > :34:42.While mum goes back in the box, Roger let's me get a closer look at
:34:43. > :34:47.one of the youngsters. He is getting ready for his first
:34:48. > :34:51.winter. The adults will put on two to three times their body weight in
:34:52. > :34:58.fat. It's amazing, but they're they do sleep for seven months.
:34:59. > :35:00.But they can only achieve this fantastic physicallogical feat in
:35:01. > :35:08.certain years. What makes a good year and a bad year? It's simply the
:35:09. > :35:14.amount of tree flowering and if all goes well you get a lot of seeds.
:35:15. > :35:18.Oak is one of their favourites. The animals we are seeing now are
:35:19. > :35:23.getting large. How does this year compare with other years? Last year,
:35:24. > :35:30.2015, not a single baby was born on site. This year, we have had at
:35:31. > :35:35.least 650 babies born on site that we know of. The numbers are going up
:35:36. > :35:42.all the time. Nest box after nest box is full of edible dormice. How
:35:43. > :35:46.many are there in this wood? In this wood it's going to be thousands. Can
:35:47. > :35:52.you work out how many there are in the Chilterns? We are working in one
:35:53. > :35:55.part of one wood. The Chilterns, it's going to be towards the
:35:56. > :35:59.million, if it's not past that already. Gosh! We really don't know,
:36:00. > :36:04.we have evidence from one wood. That's... That's a lot more than I
:36:05. > :36:11.thought there would be! As well as nuts and acorns they also
:36:12. > :36:15.eat birds and their eggs. Roger's study has shown they destroy up to
:36:16. > :36:17.50% of the nests he is monitoring in this wood and there is mounting
:36:18. > :36:27.evidence that it's not just the birds they're after.
:36:28. > :36:31.The native hazeldormice numbers are down and they've even found them
:36:32. > :36:36.displacing bats. It's clear they're having a major impact on the local
:36:37. > :36:42.wildlife. I have learned a lot in the last 24 hours. But I am still to
:36:43. > :36:50.prove myself a fully fledged edible dormouse researcher.
:36:51. > :36:53.It's escaped almost! I think I failed as a member of the team. I
:36:54. > :37:01.think that was the moment I failed. It's laughing at me from that tree!
:37:02. > :37:03.They may look cute, but as Roger's data proves, they're having a huge
:37:04. > :37:14.impact in this wood. I am pleased to say that Lucy is
:37:15. > :37:20.able to join us. Thank you for coming in. My pleasure. You met an
:37:21. > :37:24.undeniably attractive animal but one in the wrong place. Yes, absolutely.
:37:25. > :37:28.They're cute but they can have a significant impact on our native
:37:29. > :37:34.birds, especially ones that nest in holes in trees. Roger told me that
:37:35. > :37:40.the pied flycatcher and our native tits are being hard hit in the
:37:41. > :37:44.Chilterns. They have been there a time but haven't spread that far,
:37:45. > :37:50.about 350 metres a year which is not far. It's not far. I have brought a
:37:51. > :37:55.map, I know you like a graphic. Ten points, Lucy! This is the main
:37:56. > :37:59.population here, it's reasonably well contained because of the extent
:38:00. > :38:02.of the beech wood and roads that encircle it. These small satellite
:38:03. > :38:07.populations only exist because we have moved them there. We have moved
:38:08. > :38:11.them, which is an ecological disaster. It is and basically it's
:38:12. > :38:17.happened by accident because they don't just nest in trees, they also
:38:18. > :38:21.trick to take up residence in our homes. They also get moved
:38:22. > :38:29.deliberately because they make for irritating neighbours. If you have
:38:30. > :38:32.them in your attic they make a lot of noise and gnaw through cables.
:38:33. > :38:37.They're too cute to exterminate. I had them in my attic in France and
:38:38. > :38:41.they're noisy. If you are not like myself you wouldn't want to put up
:38:42. > :38:45.with them. If you are living in this area and you get them in your roof,
:38:46. > :38:50.what is the plan? We should note five the mammal society, I presume?
:38:51. > :38:55.Exactly, let them deal with it, don't deal with it problem yourself,
:38:56. > :38:59.you might do something wrong. Don't spread these animals around, try and
:39:00. > :39:03.contain them. It's too late to get rid of these animals now, nearly a
:39:04. > :39:09.million of them, we have to live with them but don't want them to
:39:10. > :39:14.spread too widely. Exactly. Unlike another animal you met in France.
:39:15. > :39:22.This is less cute. It's the Asian hornet. I actually visited them in
:39:23. > :39:28.France. They're considered to be a menace there because they attack
:39:29. > :39:33.bees. We can see them doing that. I saw this in action. It's really
:39:34. > :39:37.quite impressive. The hornets hang outside the hives where they hover
:39:38. > :39:42.like helicopters and then swoop down and grab the poor bee as it is on
:39:43. > :39:45.the way back from a hard day foraging and they rip their heads
:39:46. > :39:50.off, fly them back to the nest and they chew them and feed them to
:39:51. > :39:56.their larvae. It's every bee's nightmare. I shouldn't laugh really.
:39:57. > :40:00.It's not funny if you are a bee. Is there evidence they are predating
:40:01. > :40:05.bees more frequently than our native Hornets. I watched them do pretty
:40:06. > :40:09.much the same thing? There's been a lot of alarmist headlines for sure.
:40:10. > :40:13.We do know that they are more aggressive than our native European
:40:14. > :40:18.Hornets. But we don't know to what extent they're actually more of a
:40:19. > :40:23.threat to the native bees than the European Hornets are. The thing is
:40:24. > :40:27.at the moment there's still a chance we can slow their spread to the UK.
:40:28. > :40:33.Exactly and whatever happens, the British bees will be better off if
:40:34. > :40:37.they weren't here. So this is actually a way that viewers can be
:40:38. > :40:42.helpful because they can be vigilant and know their Hornets. Know your
:40:43. > :40:48.Hornets! Here we go. They're actually really easy to tell them
:40:49. > :40:53.apart. The European is a souped up wasp. Then the Asian hornet which is
:40:54. > :40:58.browner and it's got this one orange band and it's smaller. If you see
:40:59. > :41:02.one of these guys, let the national bee unit know. All the details are
:41:03. > :41:09.on the website. Exactly. Look, we must not demonise
:41:10. > :41:15.Hornets. No, because... They're brilliant. They do a good ecological
:41:16. > :41:21.job and are an important part of the system. Evenly a few hours ago in
:41:22. > :41:26.Arne we filmed this. Extraordinary, European Hornets taking that, that
:41:27. > :41:30.is... Harlequin ladybird. One of the most invasive species on the planet.
:41:31. > :41:33.They're custodians of our native wildlife and are doing a good job.
:41:34. > :41:38.You know, you have to admire the European hornet. I have to say they
:41:39. > :41:43.form relatively small colonies, European Hornets. They're more
:41:44. > :41:48.passive than the wasp that might be annoy -- annoying you. I live with
:41:49. > :41:51.them happily. I rarely get stung. I am a champion of the hornet. Thank
:41:52. > :41:59.you very much for coming in. Hope to see you again soon. Michaela. From
:42:00. > :42:03.unwelcome visitors to ones that we welcome with open arms, migrant
:42:04. > :42:09.birds. Autumn is a great siem to see loads of migrants coming to the UK.
:42:10. > :42:12.Some are difficult to spot, others you can't miss like these swans,
:42:13. > :42:20.large white birds. Having said that they're the smallest of the three
:42:21. > :42:23.swans we get in the UK, they're fantastic, long-lived birds, live up
:42:24. > :42:27.to 30 years animate for life. Some of them come back to the same
:42:28. > :42:37.wetlands year after year. Where are they coming from? Chris showed us
:42:38. > :42:41.briefly yesterday they're coming from the Arctic Tundra in Russia.
:42:42. > :42:47.They make their way through Europe, some stop in the Netherlands, some
:42:48. > :42:52.carry on to the UK. Sadly, what we are noticing is fewer of them are
:42:53. > :42:57.arriving here and that's because numbers have dropped dramatically in
:42:58. > :43:03.the last 15 years. They've dropped by a third across Europe. More than
:43:04. > :43:07.59% in the UK. Some of the threats we know about, some we don't fully
:43:08. > :43:12.understand. One way that would really help us to understand the
:43:13. > :43:16.problems that they face on that migration would be to fly with the
:43:17. > :43:22.swans as they migrate through Europe. But surely that would be
:43:23. > :43:27.impossible? Surely that would be really dangerous and slightly
:43:28. > :43:36.foolish? Well, there's one remarkable woman that thinks she can
:43:37. > :43:41.do it. Sasha from the Wildfowl and wetland
:43:42. > :43:45.trust cares so much about the swans she's decided to take on an
:43:46. > :43:49.extraordinary personal voyage. She wants to understand the challenges
:43:50. > :43:55.the swans face and draw attention to their problems. So, she hopes to be
:43:56. > :44:02.the first person ever to follow the swans on their epic migration.
:44:03. > :44:13.Head across here... So experience the journey like the swans do, Sasha
:44:14. > :44:17.is going to fly in a paramotor. A paramoat certificate one of the
:44:18. > :44:24.most vulnerable and fragile of all aircraft. The pilot is exposed to
:44:25. > :44:27.the elements. It was a ridiculous project that most paramotorists I
:44:28. > :44:34.mention it to, all bar one said ridiculous, you can't do it. But
:44:35. > :44:40.local pilot Vlad is sure it can be done and he agrees to support Sasha
:44:41. > :44:47.in her attempt. He knows the Tundra almost as well as the swans.
:44:48. > :44:53.Unlike the Swans, a migrating human needs 24 hour back-up on the ground.
:44:54. > :45:01.It is hard to predict where swash will land but the support he must
:45:02. > :45:09.keep up. It is September and Bewick swans are leaving the tundra before
:45:10. > :45:13.the Arctic winter sets in. They are long haul flight specialists, able
:45:14. > :45:23.to fly 48 hours at a stretch. But Sasha can fly a maximum of three
:45:24. > :45:27.hours at a time. As the swans can fly faster than Sasha, she will not
:45:28. > :45:34.actually be able to fly amongst them, she will fly in their wake.
:45:35. > :45:42.As soon as you get airborne, it is totally awe-inspiring.
:45:43. > :45:48.Although the swans fly on ahead, Sasha can experience the world as
:45:49. > :45:52.they do. We basically just flew 60 kilometres across some of the most
:45:53. > :45:57.beautiful landscape, nothing like I have seen before. That was great!
:45:58. > :46:03.For the first leg of the expedition, that was fantastic!
:46:04. > :46:08.But Sasha's look is short lived. Her engine fails. And Vlad and his
:46:09. > :46:16.helicopter have to take the paramotor away to be fixed.
:46:17. > :46:21.Really disheartened, we got to this point on day one. But while she
:46:22. > :46:26.waits, Sasha enjoys the local cuisine. Wild mushroom venison
:46:27. > :46:35.students. Thanks to some friendly reindeer herders.
:46:36. > :46:38.-- students. Bewick swans face many threats, power lines, loss of
:46:39. > :46:43.habitat and a third of them arriving in the UK have been shot at. By
:46:44. > :46:51.following their roots personally, Sasha is hoping to find out why.
:46:52. > :46:59.Next morning, Sasha has found a new way of flying. And Vlad has got the
:47:00. > :47:06.engine fixed. Thank God.
:47:07. > :47:13.Vlad's hard work has saved Sasha's mission and she makes it back into
:47:14. > :47:25.the air! She can now follow the Swans Westwood, towards the coast of
:47:26. > :47:27.the Baltic Sea. -- Westwood. Swans, they are beautifully aerodynamically
:47:28. > :47:32.adapted and they can cope with the cold and wind much better than a
:47:33. > :47:38.human can. This is what in a couple of days
:47:39. > :47:45.across flying -- of flying across the tundra is doing to my face, I
:47:46. > :47:50.have put the eyes, hydration, so perhaps I have not been drinking
:47:51. > :47:53.enough in flight. After five gruelling days, Sasha makes it to
:47:54. > :47:58.the Southern edge of the tundra, she has completed the first stage of the
:47:59. > :48:03.journey of the swans but she has to say goodbye to her Arctic hero Vlad
:48:04. > :48:07.and carry on without him. He has gone all the way. From being
:48:08. > :48:11.the first person to stop, just asking me who is the pilot of the
:48:12. > :48:19.paramotor going to be? Assuming it could not be me, and saying it was
:48:20. > :48:24.impossible to cross, Vlad said first of all, yes, it is.
:48:25. > :48:28.I think she can do it. As Sasha takes to the air again, the scale of
:48:29. > :48:34.the next stage of her journey is revealed. The dense tiger forest.
:48:35. > :48:41.This is the world's greatest expanse of trees. It has very few places to
:48:42. > :48:48.land. I have found this quite physically
:48:49. > :48:53.challenging, to be honest. Sasha still has 4,000 miles to go.
:48:54. > :49:01.Through her eyes, we get an unprecedented view from the swans of
:49:02. > :49:11.the most challenging migrations in the world.
:49:12. > :49:14.What an incredible and brave lady, she has taken on such a challenge
:49:15. > :49:20.and already faced so many problems. If I show you on the map, in those
:49:21. > :49:25.first seven days, she went from here, she has just reached that
:49:26. > :49:29.point in Russia. If I go to a different colour here, some of the
:49:30. > :49:33.birds have already crossed Europe. They have crossed over here and
:49:34. > :49:36.arrived here. I know what you're going to say, I
:49:37. > :49:40.think I did really well, that is the first time he has allowed me to go
:49:41. > :49:46.on the touch-screen, we will have to share it in future! I think I was
:49:47. > :49:51.really rather good! Was at one hour or two that you spent this afternoon
:49:52. > :49:55.messing around practising on that? All afternoon! It was not bad. It
:49:56. > :50:03.really was not bad. Martin, any spooning out there? No,
:50:04. > :50:07.Chris, not yet. Sorry about this, I know I look like WSDL Bromwich!
:50:08. > :50:14.Strap has gone on that side, apologies. -- was all gone each. We
:50:15. > :50:19.are trying to get live pictures of the exotic Eurasian Spoonbill and it
:50:20. > :50:25.should be out in the dark. We can have another look and see if it is
:50:26. > :50:32.there, anything there? Nothing at all, any other cameras? What else is
:50:33. > :50:35.out there? Anything at all? No, that is our special heat sensitive
:50:36. > :50:43.camera. I am afraid the appearance of the fox has scuppered the
:50:44. > :50:47.spoonbills tonight. Sadly, but that is natural history for you. We have
:50:48. > :50:54.heard that there are spoonbills moving around and over on Brownsea,
:50:55. > :51:01.we have heard them. So we sent one of our top wildlife cameraman over
:51:02. > :51:07.there to see if he could film them. And of course, he could! He went to
:51:08. > :51:12.the National Trust Brownsea reserve and this is where they are, look at
:51:13. > :51:17.all those spoonbills. They look like an egret but they are bigger and
:51:18. > :51:22.they do not talk in their necks. 43 of them, they tend to stick together
:51:23. > :51:27.in groups like this, in a big flop. Nobody knows what the collective
:51:28. > :51:34.name is for a flock of spoonbills. Some say a canteen. I prefer a
:51:35. > :51:41.canteen, others say it is a ball. That is a very exotic site.
:51:42. > :51:47.Beautiful. I'm going to show you the bar chart of optimism. There it is,
:51:48. > :51:54.look at that! This is the numbers of spoonbills that have appeared here
:51:55. > :51:59.in Brownsea over the years. 2005, gradually, the numbers go distinctly
:52:00. > :52:03.up and up. Until last year and this year, 60 spoonbills. They do not
:52:04. > :52:08.stay here all winter, some of them just stop over and feed and move to
:52:09. > :52:14.France or Portugal. Some do stay here all winter. We are going to
:52:15. > :52:18.keep that camera going so that we hope we can get intimate views of
:52:19. > :52:23.spoonbills sometime during this run of Autumnwatch.
:52:24. > :52:27.Gillian Burke has been out and about looking at the animals around us
:52:28. > :52:37.here in Arne and she took advantage of the Indian summer to go out on a
:52:38. > :52:42.reptile hunt. Because Arne is this incredible
:52:43. > :52:46.mosaic of heathland and scrub and woodlands, it is one of the best
:52:47. > :52:53.places in the country to see all six of the British reptiles. The RSPB
:52:54. > :52:58.undertake monthly reptile surveys here. This year for the first time,
:52:59. > :53:04.the survey has been expanded right across the reserve. This will help
:53:05. > :53:07.to assess the health of the reptile population on Arne. Robert
:53:08. > :53:11.Barrington is leading the study and I am joining him on the last day of
:53:12. > :53:14.data collection before the end of the season.
:53:15. > :53:20.So this is much more conducive to your classic habitat of adders so I
:53:21. > :53:29.am using my stick to lift it. That is a grass snake. There we go. Not
:53:30. > :53:35.the adder, a young grass snake. Look at that. Yes, please! I don't know
:53:36. > :53:38.if you can see that creamy coloured collar behind the neck. That is one
:53:39. > :53:42.way to tell if you have the rest snake.
:53:43. > :53:48.A surprise is that Rob has found grass snakes and they are in a lot
:53:49. > :53:55.of different habitats, especially as they mostly hunt amphibians. I think
:53:56. > :54:00.we can let this little fellow back. But the biggest surprise result is
:54:01. > :54:03.from the last two species of snake. You would expect to find the adders
:54:04. > :54:08.across most of Arne but they were missing from one key site, the
:54:09. > :54:16.heats. Instead, Rob has found a lot of smooth snakes here. Oh, yes, well
:54:17. > :54:21.seen, that is a smooth snake. Smooth snakes freeze when observed,
:54:22. > :54:27.making themselves almost invisible. Yes.
:54:28. > :54:32.That is a beauty! These snakes do not have scales like a grass snake
:54:33. > :54:38.or the adders, they really do feel super and polished.
:54:39. > :54:45.This is a male and this is a very large male. Pretty much as long as a
:54:46. > :54:48.smooth snake would get. Impressive, I am so happy. The
:54:49. > :54:52.rarest snake in Britain and a big specimen as well. What is
:54:53. > :54:56.interesting is the head shape because normally, they have bullet
:54:57. > :55:01.shaped heads. That is right, this guy is doing
:55:02. > :55:06.something you more often seen with grass snakes, flattening his head.
:55:07. > :55:13.Probably to try and trick us into thinking he has venom glands like an
:55:14. > :55:17.adder which they do not, they are constricted and Thomas. Look at that
:55:18. > :55:27.now, it is looking really adder like. Take his weight. There we go.
:55:28. > :55:31.Time for your close-up. Perfect. You will take that photo back and check
:55:32. > :55:35.if this is an individual you have come across before? Yes, but I am
:55:36. > :55:39.confident it is not. This is the first time I think we have recorded
:55:40. > :55:44.smooth snakes on this bank here, which is fantastic.
:55:45. > :55:50.So why does rob think they do not find smooth snakes and adders
:55:51. > :55:54.together? It could be smooth snakes, they are reptile Hunters and they
:55:55. > :55:58.could be eating big young adders. They specialise on hunting snakes
:55:59. > :56:03.and lizards? The other reptiles do not? I find that neat. You have got
:56:04. > :56:08.the grass snake which is the biggest reptile. You have got the adder,
:56:09. > :56:12.Britain's only venomous. But it is the smooth snake that is running
:56:13. > :56:19.around terrorising a lot of them. So as well as the twist in the tail
:56:20. > :56:23.of the smooth snake's surprising dominance in heathland, this year's
:56:24. > :56:28.biggest ever survey showing city pub -- shows that city's reptiles will
:56:29. > :56:36.thrive if the right mix of habitats become available.
:56:37. > :56:40.-- Arne. Interesting that the smooth snakes might have eaten the adders
:56:41. > :56:45.but the adder is in big trouble in the UK, declining here on Arne and
:56:46. > :56:51.all over. A couple of thoughts, some people think it could be pheasants.
:56:52. > :56:59.They eat a lot of snakes, young snakes in particular, and also the
:57:00. > :57:01.buzzard, think -- the population has increased and they will take adders
:57:02. > :57:06.as well. At the beginning of the show, we did
:57:07. > :57:11.ask for pictures of birds on the autumn bounty of berries. You sound
:57:12. > :57:17.great pictures and I love best. This is a robin on hawthorn berries. A
:57:18. > :57:23.difficult jigsaw, a 5,000 piece jigsaw at Christmas, keep you busy
:57:24. > :57:29.until Easter! This is on rowan berries from David
:57:30. > :57:35.in Dartmoor. That is nice. It has caught it in its mouth. Finally, a
:57:36. > :57:38.blackbird and hawthorn berries from Paul Johnson. That is in
:57:39. > :57:43.Lincolnshire. That looks like it might choke. They are used to
:57:44. > :57:48.swallowing them whole, they like that with the seeds inside.
:57:49. > :57:53.Tomorrow, we are on later at night p.m., it is to do with soggy bottoms
:57:54. > :57:56.and a lot of fans like Bake Off and wildlife. Enjoy the Bake Off and
:57:57. > :57:59.switch over at nine o'clock to BBC Two.
:58:00. > :58:05.Do not miss our programme tomorrow, we have one of the sexiest animals
:58:06. > :58:08.in Britain, ladybird spider, that is phenomenal!
:58:09. > :58:13.We will be following the action of the sika deer and meeting this
:58:14. > :58:18.handsome chap. Michaela heads to Somerset to catch
:58:19. > :58:24.up on these rescued grey seals. Don't forget, you can catch up the
:58:25. > :58:28.latest updates online. Enjoy your cakes! Make the most of them! We
:58:29. > :58:33.will be on at the later time of nine o'clock, BBC Two, be on your sofas,
:58:34. > :58:40.see you then. I buy! The night! -- goodbye! Good