:00:24. > :00:29.They said it would never work. They said, we needed a script. They said,
:00:29. > :00:37.we needed to be more serious. They were totally wrong. Welcome to
:00:37. > :00:42.Unsprung. APPLAUSE
:00:42. > :00:47.Right, what is Unsprung? Let's clarify that again. Some meem
:00:47. > :00:53.people might not have seen. We try to answer your questions, look at
:00:53. > :00:58.your pictures and look at dodgy videos and add in extra things as
:00:58. > :01:03.well. Who have we in the room tonight? Let's look around. We have
:01:03. > :01:12.a hand-picked audience. Hand-picked. This is all you could find? Best we
:01:12. > :01:22.could do at short notice. We hope, I -- we have Charlie. There he is.
:01:22. > :01:24.
:01:24. > :01:32.Hello, Charlie. Sorry, mate. Loving this delay. I know. There is a
:01:32. > :01:41.little bit of a delay in sound. Delay in sound, about 10 seconds.
:01:41. > :01:45.We also have somebody important. We have level-headed, Jo. Some people
:01:45. > :01:49.may not know who she. Is she is a producer. We have her because she
:01:50. > :01:54.is level-head and keeps us in order. She is the point of contact for you
:01:54. > :02:00.out. There you can talk to her directly on the website, on the e-
:02:00. > :02:05.mail on the twitter. All those things, Facebook. Thank you. Are
:02:05. > :02:10.they talking to you? They are. Online already. Right. The very -
:02:10. > :02:13.we always have a quiz. Our first quiz. Can we have these pictures,
:02:13. > :02:21.please. I have to explain this quiz. please. I have to explain this quiz.
:02:21. > :02:25.OK. I rather like that. It's nice. This is, actually, an animal. We
:02:25. > :02:32.have to show you. Run a bit of film. We will show you how we have done
:02:32. > :02:39.this. It's a King Fisher. We have taken a slice down through it. We
:02:39. > :02:49.rotate. It by magic it turns into a kind of glamorous bar code. Yeah.
:02:49. > :02:56.Have you nothing better to do? didn't do it, HE did it! Hello, Sam.
:02:56. > :03:00.I know what that is. Don't show them the back. Show them around.
:03:00. > :03:06.Now, there are some people in here who work for the RSPB. If they
:03:06. > :03:14.don't know, you know what it is, don't you Caroline? I do. We will
:03:14. > :03:23.not tell you what it is. That one is, a. This one, b. Oh, yes, you
:03:23. > :03:31.see. There are some wise nodding going on., "yes, we know what that
:03:31. > :03:41.is". This one, c. Yeah this - that one, believe it or not. I like
:03:41. > :03:42.
:03:42. > :03:52.that. At the back. You nearly took my nose off. D, quite tricky.
:03:52. > :03:53.
:03:53. > :03:57.Lovely. There we are. What you have to do, go on to the website now.
:03:57. > :04:03.to the blog. Tell us what they are. They are all birds. We were going
:04:03. > :04:09.to cheat and throw-in a butterfly, to cheat and throw-in a butterfly,
:04:09. > :04:13.but we didn't. Please continue voting for your favourite action
:04:13. > :04:17.picker -- picture. You can still vote. We will cut it off in a few
:04:17. > :04:20.moments. Look at that. Beautiful. moments. Look at that. Beautiful.
:04:20. > :04:30.High action. Can you see them audience? We will ask you as well.
:04:30. > :04:36.Don't think you will get it easy. love that. I'm not saying anything.
:04:36. > :04:43.There is one... What about... Chris? Say nothing. We would like
:04:43. > :04:48.to thank Lynne Hardman, who sends us these wonderful tea cosies. We
:04:48. > :04:54.have some more. Yes. That is for you, Kate. This came in too late
:04:54. > :05:00.for the Christmas Special. Next Christmas. That is beautiful after
:05:00. > :05:10.our butterfly film. Absolutely lovely. Thank you very much.
:05:10. > :05:20.wonder if she knits anything else? Or is it just tea cosies. First
:05:20. > :05:21.
:05:21. > :05:31.question from Zach Slater, aged 4. He says," do dung beetles eat their
:05:31. > :05:32.
:05:32. > :05:37.own poo? Do dung beetles eat fly poo? Do dung beetles eat other dung
:05:37. > :05:43.beetles poo? Why are you asking Chris? Zach Slater. What a top
:05:43. > :05:45.question. I like a young man who has his nose into poo. It's
:05:45. > :05:55.has his nose into poo. It's important stuff. To the best of my
:05:55. > :05:56.
:05:56. > :06:00.knowledge, dung beetles use the poo of elephants and rye nos Russ. They
:06:00. > :06:07.are all using that to feed their larvae. The one that is roll it
:06:07. > :06:12.into a ball. A ball of that die amateur. They roll it across the
:06:12. > :06:19.plains of Africa, away from the area where they found the poo so
:06:19. > :06:24.they have it for themselves. They dig a hole and bury it. There is a
:06:24. > :06:29.huge range of these things. Some of them are very small. They have very
:06:29. > :06:35.chemical senses. As soon as the poo comes out it releases a certain set
:06:35. > :06:42.of smells which only they can detect. A couple of hours later it
:06:42. > :06:49.is releasing different smells which other beetles smell. A succession
:06:49. > :06:55.of dung beetles move through the dung to use it. If they didn't do
:06:55. > :06:59.that we would be up to here in dung. Or the people in Africa will be.
:06:59. > :07:04.Brilliant question to start with. APPLAUSE
:07:04. > :07:09.Very good. Here is one for everyone from skylark Sue. This is something
:07:09. > :07:16.I wondered for years. You will answer it, be prepared. Hang on. I
:07:16. > :07:22.need my paper for this. There are 40,000 feathers on a thrush. How
:07:22. > :07:31.many feathers are there really on a bird? Let's take that thrush, who
:07:32. > :07:41.think it is's 400? A show of hands? Not a single taker. One. Not just
:07:42. > :07:46.
:07:46. > :07:55.hands, folded arms. 4,000 then? A few more takers. 40,000? How many
:07:55. > :08:01.then? A suggestion? Silence. One of those is right. Kate, enlighten us
:08:01. > :08:09.I had no idea how many feathers there were on a thrush. But we have
:08:09. > :08:14.the BTO. They said that a thrush has about 3,000 feathers, but,
:08:14. > :08:21.here's a challenge for our Unsprung viewers, no-one has actually ever
:08:21. > :08:29.counted them. The BTO said, "if anyone would like, to please use a
:08:29. > :08:33.dead thrush said, we would love to know the answer". I have a few
:08:33. > :08:39.other facts. The bird with the smallest number of feathers. Anyone
:08:39. > :08:47.want to make a guess. Don't say, a plucked chicken. The hummingbird.
:08:47. > :08:54.He only has 9 40 Feeters. Largest number of feathers? Any ideas?
:08:54. > :09:03.swan, with a long neck or a penguin. They have masses of tiny feathers.
:09:03. > :09:11.Swan. Particular swan. Trumpeter swan. Whistling swan. There you go,
:09:11. > :09:16.mostly on the neck. We like to see your videos. Marcus Lord sent us a
:09:16. > :09:21.more peculiar crow. Have a look at this, please. He said, "we couldn't
:09:21. > :09:31.this, please. He said, "we couldn't believe our eyes". Look. It's
:09:31. > :09:31.
:09:31. > :09:35.having such a laugh. I love that What do you think is going on
:09:35. > :09:42.What do you think is going on there? What is it doing? It's like
:09:42. > :09:49.the rest of us. It sees snow and goes, "I have to roll in it".
:09:49. > :09:56.animals appear to play. There is always a function. Is that it's
:09:56. > :10:03.trying to bathe in the snow, wash itself. OK. We should ask Charlie.
:10:03. > :10:09.He is always out there. What is he doing? Hello. I think it's playing.
:10:09. > :10:18.You think it's playing. It looks very cute, doesn't it. Maybe I'm
:10:18. > :10:27.being unscientific. Maybe it is playing. I'm sure some animals play.
:10:27. > :10:36.We saw chuffss playing? They were learning. OK. We are having a bit
:10:36. > :10:41.of a tawny owl, owl generally fest today. The man with the
:10:41. > :10:49.sparrowhawks has sent us footage of tawny owls. They are doing a
:10:49. > :10:54.beautiful love thing. Have a look at this. Tawny owl love. Isn't that
:10:55. > :10:59.gorgeous. Ah... Are you going to tell us now that owls don't love?
:10:59. > :11:07.Exactly. It's not unusual to be in love with anyone. I don't think
:11:07. > :11:13.that tawny owls actually love. They are preening to seal the pair bond,
:11:13. > :11:17.honestly. OK. Am I the old scientists in the corner? Never.
:11:17. > :11:22.will do something we never attempted before now. We have to
:11:22. > :11:27.shut the doors. Shut the doors and put up the blinds. OK. I will ask
:11:27. > :11:35.everyone to be very, very quiet. This is really important. Just keep
:11:36. > :11:42.your voice right down. OK. Have we got the blinds up? OK. You will see
:11:42. > :11:47.why in a minute. All the doors are shut, the windows are shut. Right.
:11:47. > :11:55.Friends, you can hear what that noise is. I said we were having an
:11:55. > :12:00.owl fest. Friend of Unsprung come on over, Lloyd. Hi. Sit down a bit.
:12:00. > :12:06.Are you all right there? Let me perch up here. We have seen barn
:12:06. > :12:11.owls. Tell us about this beautiful owl. It's Johan ya. She is a tawny
:12:11. > :12:18.owl. She is one--year-old. You have seen her before, if you remember.
:12:18. > :12:26.We did see her before. Then she was a he. We didn't know. We didn't
:12:26. > :12:32.know if she was male or female. We now know that Johan is Johan ya.
:12:32. > :12:36.Why do we have to put everything up around the walls and be quiet?
:12:37. > :12:40.her safety. A lot of owls are not particularly good at seeing glass
:12:40. > :12:43.and windows. I want want her to think, I'll have a fly out there,
:12:43. > :12:48.it wouldn't be a problem, it wouldn't be a problem with the
:12:48. > :12:55.glass being there. She may not see it. It's nice abs and safe for her.
:12:55. > :13:00.We have to be quiet? Her world, as you know, resolves -- revolves
:13:00. > :13:05.around sound. If we want her to do something it's nice if it's quiet
:13:05. > :13:13.for her. She lives in the wood and has to be agile as she moves
:13:13. > :13:19.around? They are like a nocturnal gos hawk I always think. We will
:13:19. > :13:23.spry an experiment to see how agile she is. Can I borrow you two,
:13:23. > :13:29.please. Can you come up and stand here. Kate, if you would like,
:13:29. > :13:32.thank you very much, if you'd like to, hang on, right, let's have a
:13:32. > :13:38.look. What have we got here. A little bit of that. If you would
:13:38. > :13:46.like to stand, Kate in front there, towards Lloyd. OK. Chris, stand in
:13:46. > :13:56.position. Closer to Kate. That is it. You take over. Make a, like
:13:56. > :13:57.
:13:57. > :14:07.this. Like the YMCA video. No. way. She is not going to fly
:14:07. > :14:10.
:14:10. > :14:20.through here. Keep your head back. You know the call. And again.
:14:20. > :14:21.
:14:21. > :14:31.Martin, you are so good with birds. Come on, girl. She's not going to
:14:31. > :14:53.
:14:53. > :14:59.do it. A bit of patience. Shall we Closer, please, Martin.
:14:59. > :15:09.Johanna. Come along. Is this the point where you tell us
:15:09. > :15:43.
:15:43. > :15:53.Johanna. What's that? She's not Come on, darling.
:15:53. > :15:59.
:15:59. > :16:04.Good girl! Ah, that was amazing. It worked. Thank God for that.
:16:04. > :16:14.Shall we do it again? We can see it on the telly.
:16:14. > :16:19.
:16:19. > :16:25.Let's sit down and watch the replay. And now we can applaud.
:16:25. > :16:30.That was fantastic. That was a telly first. She went
:16:30. > :16:37.going to go, was she? On next week's Unsprung we are not going to
:16:37. > :16:46.sit and watch voles dry, are we? LAUGHTER How much longer have we
:16:46. > :16:56.got? 12 minutes? Can we ski Tony Higgins' fly, please?
:16:56. > :17:00.
:17:00. > :17:10.-- can we see. Tony Higgins wants to know - we've got a video of one
:17:10. > :17:22.
:17:22. > :17:28.Chris, can you please tell us what is it? It is a bee fly, so named
:17:29. > :17:35.because of its fluffy body. It has two wings and hairs at the back. It
:17:35. > :17:40.has this extraordinary proboss is which it will sip nectar from
:17:40. > :17:45.plants with deep tubes in their flowers. I saw a lot of these
:17:45. > :17:52.insects this year on prim roses. it is a bee fly. Beautiful aren't
:17:52. > :17:59.they? Kate, here is a question for you. Matt said I was in the sea off
:17:59. > :18:05.the north Cornish coast today when I saw... Today? 30th May, sorry. He
:18:05. > :18:10.saw blue jelly-like animals floating near the shore. They
:18:10. > :18:14.looked like Portuguese man of war. Do we get them? Very occasionally
:18:14. > :18:18.you do get Portuguese man of war in British waters, but more likely
:18:18. > :18:22.they were blue jellyfish, beautifully named. There was a big
:18:22. > :18:26.bloom of them off the coast of Cornwall. That's most likely what
:18:26. > :18:31.he was looking for. But Matt, a great spot. Anyone out there going
:18:31. > :18:38.to the beach, celebrate our jellyfish. Don't get too close.
:18:38. > :18:48.They will sting you. It is nor like a nettle sting, it won't kill you,
:18:48. > :18:48.
:18:49. > :18:54.like the Portuguese man of war might do a bit of harm. The British
:18:54. > :18:57.Marine Society wants to do a survey of our jellyfish. The details are
:18:57. > :19:04.on our website - bbc.co.uk/springwatch. Thank you.
:19:04. > :19:11.Here is one for Charlie. Can Charlie see our videos up there? He
:19:11. > :19:19.can. He can't? Well, I can't give him... He is saying he. This is
:19:19. > :19:29.live telly, folks! Okay. Can we see Dr Andy Hibberd's video. It is a
:19:29. > :19:42.
:19:43. > :19:51.hare. Charlie, try and watch this That's a hare and it has come right
:19:51. > :19:56.up to him. OK, that's unusual. That's happened to me. I have no
:19:56. > :20:02.idea what's going on but a hare did exactly the same thing to me once
:20:02. > :20:07.when I was sitting on a bridge. But I don't know. Why with woo a hare
:20:07. > :20:14.run up to you and sniff you? Probably inquisitive. The I was on
:20:14. > :20:18.a bridge on the Somerset levels and a hare runs up and sniffs my boot.
:20:18. > :20:22.I have no idea why. I have to apologise for the delay, I believe
:20:23. > :20:29.I'm suffering from the same thing that Lloyd's owl is suffering from.
:20:29. > :20:34.Just eat a vote, mate. That will perk you um. Chris? If they catch a
:20:34. > :20:37.sight of you, they go in the opposite direction. Sometimes
:20:37. > :20:43.people get approached by wild rabbits and unfortunately it could
:20:43. > :20:52.be the early stages of myxomatosis, as they become a bit Dopey at that
:20:52. > :20:58.time. Are hares affected by myxomatosis? I don't know.
:20:58. > :21:04.Obviously the rabbit is the main host of flea which transmits the
:21:04. > :21:08.disease. Sometimes before the symptoms develop they will come up.
:21:08. > :21:12.I've had the same experience, sniffed by a hare. Because they've
:21:12. > :21:20.got vision all the way round, this is my theory, they see a big leg
:21:20. > :21:24.and think, "What's this?" The man who sent in that film was wearing
:21:24. > :21:34.camouflage trousers. We always have a guest. We've got a very special
:21:34. > :21:36.
:21:36. > :21:44.guest tonight. It is Ben gar odds. Ben, where are you? -- Ben Garrod.
:21:44. > :21:53.Ben, tell us what this is, please. This is a skeleton of a kestrel
:21:53. > :21:59.with a bluetit in its clutches. And it is a moment, Victorians used to
:21:59. > :22:04.do it, but they were taxi determinists, with a whole animal.
:22:04. > :22:10.It really died out and very few people work with skeletons nowadays.
:22:10. > :22:15.It is something that I am passionate about. Is the fox there?
:22:15. > :22:24.passionate about. Is the fox there? This is fantastic, this jumping fox.
:22:24. > :22:33.Let's make a space for it. Mind that green fridge nest.
:22:33. > :22:40.Wow! Look at that! Look at the cowering rat. How did it all start?
:22:40. > :22:48.How did you start to do this? grew up in Norfolk. What a great
:22:49. > :22:54.place to grow up, mate, in pubs. was. We had a lecturer who brought
:22:54. > :22:59.in a sheep's skull one day. I was fascinated and two weeks later I
:22:59. > :23:07.had a Stanley knife and a Dead Sea gull on mum's kitchen table and
:23:07. > :23:11.that was it... As you do. What do you actually do, we've got a
:23:11. > :23:16.videotape of you in action. Talk us through what is going on here?
:23:16. > :23:21.Charlie, can we see this videotape, please. Here is a not very well
:23:21. > :23:28.badger. I found a badger by the road. I picked her up, took her
:23:28. > :23:35.home, stuck her in the shed. what happens next? I usually take
:23:35. > :23:39.out as much as I. To see why they died, and then take as much of the
:23:39. > :23:45.soft tissue off and get into it a skeleton. Her I left on the verge a
:23:45. > :23:50.couple of days to loosen up a bit and stuck her in as it for a couple
:23:50. > :23:54.of weeks. I used to use beetles. Knees are beetles that eat
:23:55. > :24:00.everything but the bofpblt unfortunately if they escape they
:24:00. > :24:08.eat your -- everything but the bone. Unfortunately if they escape they
:24:08. > :24:11.eat the house. This one you discovered was shot? If fox had
:24:11. > :24:16.been shot. There were lots of pellet marks on the skull, and it
:24:16. > :24:23.was dumped by the road. And you had a bit of trouble on the golf
:24:23. > :24:27.course? I did. Mum and dad run a golf course in Norfolk. A bird
:24:27. > :24:37.watcher happened to walk through the forest, which is fair enough,
:24:37. > :24:42.but he happened to come across the sheet covering up an 8 foot grey
:24:42. > :24:48.seal. And he phoned the police. Five police cars turned up full of
:24:48. > :24:52.police officers, two forensic teams and a vet. Cordoned off the golf
:24:52. > :25:00.course on the busiest day of the year, a Championship tournament.
:25:00. > :25:05.Nice! Were you forced to leave home? These bird bones are
:25:05. > :25:10.incredibly fragile. This is testament to a steady hand. It is a
:25:10. > :25:13.dying art. When you've finished them? Some I keep and some go to
:25:13. > :25:21.educational collections - zoos, muse yuplsz, universities. There's
:25:21. > :25:26.a couple hanging -- museums, universities. Ben, when my time
:25:26. > :25:31.runs out. LAUGHTER We have to move on, Chris. Carry on this
:25:31. > :25:38.conversation afterwards... Joe, which quiz shall we resolve first?
:25:38. > :25:47.The colour scheme one. It is very popular. 850 entries so far. We can
:25:47. > :25:57.see them being resolved. Here is the first one. This one was
:25:57. > :25:57.
:25:57. > :26:00.a Jay. The next one, what do you reckon? Bluetit. The next one...
:26:00. > :26:08.reckon? Bluetit. The next one... Did you get it? And the last one,
:26:08. > :26:16.which is difficult. Tought fin. Who got it right? Zoe, Little Owl
:26:16. > :26:22.95 and Katherine 4. We should try to resolve the vote for the
:26:22. > :26:32.favourite photograph. Which one, please. In reverse order? The top
:26:32. > :26:35.
:26:35. > :26:45.three. Three was bluetit. In second was
:26:45. > :26:47.
:26:47. > :26:55.the swan. But favourite it was badger, by Tim.
:26:55. > :27:01.Well done, Tim. The airborne badger. Swan as Tony McLean and the flu at
:27:01. > :27:08.this time was glen Dinning. That was robbed. That was by far the
:27:08. > :27:15.best. You can't say that! I'm sorry. They were all fabulous. We've got a
:27:15. > :27:25.goody bag full of inexpensive items. I've got to say that. It's BBC
:27:25. > :27:26.
:27:26. > :27:33.policy. We are going to send that off to Tim Bird, for the badger.
:27:33. > :27:39.Charlie has been trying to tell us about these animals. If you could
:27:39. > :27:49.reintroduce an animal to the UK, what would it be? Clearly lions,
:27:49. > :27:51.
:27:51. > :27:57.Martin. No, I don't know. I would like to say Wolves, but maybe that
:27:57. > :28:05.would be going a bit too far. Lynx would be good. They used to be here.
:28:05. > :28:14.Thank you Charlie. Kate? Woolly mammoth. A sense you
:28:14. > :28:20.believe one for you! I'm going for lynx. They were incredibly shy and
:28:20. > :28:25.would keep the number of deer down. With Charlie on this one. I have to
:28:25. > :28:31.tell you, I will tell you mine first of all. I would like to have
:28:31. > :28:39.alligators. I would put them in all these ponds that Fishermen go to to
:28:39. > :28:49.level it out a bit. It seems that we might by a miracle have a lynx
:28:49. > :28:53.in the studio next week. Do you think we might? Look at them
:28:53. > :28:56.looking frightened. Anyway, thank you very much for joining us today.