:00:31. > :00:35.Some of you felt something was missing from Springwatch. Some of
:00:35. > :00:39.you, well it's important to you. Tonight, for one night only, my
:00:39. > :00:47.spectacles, thank you very much. APPLAUSE
:00:47. > :00:48.The buffing cloth. And now, we're ready for everything,
:00:48. > :00:58.even including Unsprung. Good evening!
:00:58. > :01:05.
:01:05. > :01:09.We are sitting here panting. Welcome to Unsprung. What is
:01:09. > :01:12.Unsprung? It's where we pant a lot. We are Unsprung. It's where we
:01:12. > :01:16.answer your questions, look at your pictures and videos and throw in
:01:16. > :01:21.extra things as well who. Is in the house tonight? We have a big
:01:21. > :01:24.audience here. We have. Look at them ought. It's huge. Did we go to
:01:24. > :01:32.the Jobcentre? Dodgy characters as well. Level-headed Joe.
:01:32. > :01:34.APPLAUSE She's standing by to receive your
:01:34. > :01:39.questions, more information anything you want to talk about,
:01:39. > :01:43.get in contact with Jo. Can we get a wave from Lynsey. Thank you for
:01:43. > :01:47.our dipper stuff. Yeah, fantastic dipper material.
:01:47. > :01:52.APPLAUSE Top stuff. Let's hope this works.
:01:52. > :01:59.We start with a little quiz. Tonight's quiz has a twist. These
:01:59. > :02:03.are photographs of creatures that live on us. I hope people in the
:02:03. > :02:12.audience, where are they? Down there. Person A, what animal is
:02:12. > :02:22.living on you? That's A. Now person B, what animal is living on person
:02:22. > :02:31.B? I hope not. Person C, please hold it up. Oh, dear! And finally D,
:02:31. > :02:37.can you hold up D, Jo! I so hope not. So that's A, B, C and D, get
:02:37. > :02:41.your answers in now. Is Iolo with us still? Are you there? Yes, I am.
:02:41. > :02:46.I can hear you loud and clear. You've got none of those things
:02:46. > :02:49.living on you. We're back with you in a second. Hang on please. We
:02:50. > :02:54.have coasters, where are the coasters? These have been sent in,
:02:54. > :02:59.can you hold them up please, Kate, Amy Whitewick has sent us lovely
:02:59. > :03:04.coasters to put our cups of tea. Our cups of tea that we never get
:03:04. > :03:08.to drink because we're too busy. The tea is stone cold. There's mine.
:03:08. > :03:12.Thank you very much. Martin there's yours. Beautiful. My favourite
:03:12. > :03:17.animal too. That's a stoat. Thank you, very much indeed. Those are
:03:17. > :03:21.stunning. I'm not putting that miserable cup of tea on it though.
:03:21. > :03:28.Straight away a very good question. Charlotte McWilliam, oh, where is
:03:28. > :03:35.it, come on find it. She said, "I ate a double yoked egg for my lunch.
:03:35. > :03:39.If it had been fertilised would two chicks have grown from the one egg,
:03:39. > :03:42.who thinks that the chicks, two chicks would have hatched out?
:03:42. > :03:46.Anyone thinks they would have hatched out? Not many. Who thinks
:03:46. > :03:50.they wouldn't have hatched out? More think they wouldn't. Over to
:03:50. > :03:53.our expert. It is very interesting, in fact, I had an extraordinary
:03:54. > :04:00.morning one morning when I went to collect my chicken eggs and I
:04:00. > :04:05.cracked open one and it was a triple yoker. -- yolker. I didn't
:04:05. > :04:10.know the answer. But I did check with the BTO. They said that
:04:10. > :04:14.actually they will hatch out. So anyone who put their hands up and
:04:14. > :04:19.said they will hatch out, so sometimes they come across this
:04:19. > :04:23.very confusing thing where they see four eggs in a nest and suddenly...
:04:23. > :04:27.Blackbirds. Yes, and there will be five chicks. There you R I hope
:04:27. > :04:31.that answers your questions. Can we quickly see the picture of a happy
:04:32. > :04:39.I vent that happened at Kate's house, I think only this morning.
:04:39. > :04:48.have got them here. So, I've got Aylesbury ducks and we put some of
:04:48. > :04:52.the eggs in an incubator and... That little event started this
:04:52. > :05:02.morning and lovely Paul Carter who is looking aafter my house at the
:05:02. > :05:04.
:05:04. > :05:10.moment, sent me this photograph and then this... How adorable is that?
:05:10. > :05:14.How wrong is Chris Packham? It's not a pure bred species though. If
:05:14. > :05:19.it were a harl Quinn or Eider... It's mine and that's all that
:05:19. > :05:29.matters. If anyone wants to think of a name for the new little duck
:05:29. > :05:33.
:05:33. > :05:38.let us know. Now... What? Elle. Very good. Excellent. Chris this is
:05:38. > :05:42.from Susie 882, my favourite question, "What do female bats do
:05:42. > :05:48.with their babies when they hunt? Do they carry them or just hang
:05:48. > :05:52.them up somewhere?" Great question. Actually, when they give birth they
:05:52. > :05:57.initially nurse them and they don't hunt. They stop feeding for a while.
:05:57. > :06:02.The bats are obviously hanging up with them and they're suckling them
:06:02. > :06:06.in there. Then in some species they have nursery roost, where they
:06:06. > :06:10.normally give birth to their young, in a specified place. Extra females
:06:11. > :06:15.take care of the youngsters whilst they forage and replenish their
:06:15. > :06:18.energys. They will hunt with the baby? They leave the baby behind
:06:18. > :06:23.with the other bats hung up in the nursery roost. My friend said they
:06:23. > :06:26.go flying with them. Yeah, they do. Some of the females in some roots
:06:26. > :06:33.have nurseries where they leave them behind. Like nanny bats.
:06:33. > :06:43.Fantastic question. Shall we look at some beauty? A quick bit of
:06:43. > :06:44.
:06:44. > :06:54.beauty. We get so many Flikr photographs. We never do them
:06:54. > :07:23.
:07:23. > :07:28.APPLAUSE Impressed? Some of them were quite
:07:28. > :07:33.good, yes. LAUGHTER
:07:33. > :07:38.Yeah OK. I liked one with all the dew over the head of the insect. It
:07:38. > :07:43.wasn't symmetrical... But nevertheless an interesting concept
:07:43. > :07:50.that I'm going rip off later. go to Iolo, I don't know if you can
:07:50. > :07:55.hear me, this is a question, after Monday's programme, I got tweeted
:07:55. > :08:02.by Jeanette Millward who said, because you showed us angel wings
:08:02. > :08:07.and said that the black bat girls had nailed the Manx Shearwaters.
:08:07. > :08:14.What she wants to know is this - oh, wrong question! I'll get there in
:08:14. > :08:23.the end. How does a Manx Shearwater become the victim of a black bat
:08:23. > :08:28.girl when they're nocturnal and they can't hunt at night? Good
:08:28. > :08:34.question. Yes they are mainly nocturnal, but they will arrive off
:08:34. > :08:39.the island before it's fully dark. If you get moon light the black
:08:39. > :08:44.gulls will hunt them then. They will put their heads down entrance
:08:44. > :08:49.to burrows. Sometimes sheer waters come out to the entrance, if they
:08:49. > :08:55.time that time that incorrectly they end up as food. This island is
:08:55. > :09:00.scattered with angel wings. There's the answer then. That was a great
:09:00. > :09:05.question. Thank you Iolo. Right, here's some now it's a bit ropey,
:09:05. > :09:09.this footage, sorry, Anthony Allen and Kate Tomkins, who I've just
:09:09. > :09:19.insulted quite badly - but it's robins doing something very
:09:19. > :09:20.
:09:20. > :09:30.unusually. Have a lock at this: Look at this: We have called this
:09:30. > :09:33.
:09:33. > :09:37.This is Kate's footage. We saw the green wood peckers during that
:09:37. > :09:40.strange dancing. Sort of Vogueing. Yeah, now we've been sent this.
:09:40. > :09:45.There's communication going on between those two. I've not seen
:09:45. > :09:50.this. There's a great book you can refer to by David Lack, who studied
:09:50. > :09:55.them for a long time. They are very aggressive birds. So there's one or
:09:55. > :09:59.two things. This is prior to fighting, two Robyns seeing who is
:09:59. > :10:02.toughest. Or it could be a male and female. Male and females look the
:10:02. > :10:06.same. You can't sex them in the field. It could be a male
:10:06. > :10:11.displaying it a feel mail. I'm going to plump for the latter. When
:10:11. > :10:16.I see robins fighting they don't bother with preamble. The signs
:10:16. > :10:20.they are able to read are so subtle that they can go immediately into a
:10:20. > :10:26.frenzied bout of fighting, if they're evenly matched. Should we
:10:26. > :10:33.have an ask the audience. They might know a bit about birds?
:10:33. > :10:41.Anyone with any thoughts? mentioned David Lack I was taught
:10:41. > :10:49.by his son Andrew. Yeah, I think I've been told that they have UV
:10:49. > :10:53.cryptic chests like a lot of other birds. I just wonder whether they
:10:53. > :10:57.could be perhaps showing off that in some way because although they
:10:57. > :11:01.all look the same and have the same red chests, they actually are
:11:01. > :11:08.subtly different. I don't know, I'll throw that into the ring.
:11:08. > :11:11.APPLAUSE Very good. That is our top geeky
:11:11. > :11:17.story developer there. Thank you very much.
:11:17. > :11:27.He's won an award already. He's heading for another one. Last week,
:11:27. > :11:29.
:11:29. > :11:34.I promised you a lynx in the studio. Royston? Hold on. It's the best I
:11:34. > :11:40.could do. That's rubbish. Unfortunately I failed. But we've
:11:40. > :11:46.got something better. So now if everyone can be quite quiet again,
:11:46. > :11:51.please, could Pauline please come in, where are you? Just outside.
:11:51. > :11:56.Where do we want Pauline to go? I'll sit on the edge. Kate can you
:11:56. > :12:04.talk to Pauline. I can. Love to talk to Pauline. We hope this is
:12:04. > :12:10.going to work. In you come. look at that! If we can just, I
:12:10. > :12:13.know everyone wants to go aawww. We need to be very quiet. Yes, if you
:12:13. > :12:18.would. Tell me about this little creature. This is a little one
:12:18. > :12:23.we've had in nearly a fortnight now. She's just about eight weeks old.
:12:23. > :12:28.She's still on the bottle, but starting to take fish. She's a baby
:12:28. > :12:32.otter. But how on earth did you come to get her? We are a rescue
:12:33. > :12:38.centre and she actually just turned up in somebody's shed during the
:12:38. > :12:43.day. One of our release managers went down and quite rightly put her
:12:43. > :12:46.in a cage and waited in case mum turned up. But she didn't. We've
:12:46. > :12:50.been looking after her. We have heard there was an otter found
:12:50. > :12:54.killed on the road. It's likely that it was mum, but she was a long
:12:54. > :12:57.way from a waterway. We have to think of these things when these
:12:57. > :13:01.animals come in. It was very important that you did watch her
:13:01. > :13:06.through the day, because mum could have come back. Absolutely. That's
:13:06. > :13:10.the thing with wildlife, a lot of them get picked up too early. It is
:13:10. > :13:14.important to see, to give them the chance to go back with mum. Eight
:13:14. > :13:17.weeks old. You're bottle feeding her. You're handling her. Is there
:13:17. > :13:22.any chance she's going to get back to the wild? Absolutely. That's why
:13:22. > :13:27.we do it. It's a long rehab programme of 18 months. We copy the
:13:27. > :13:31.time the mother would normally chase them away. We have pens with
:13:31. > :13:35.ponds in. She will go into a pen with eight metre pools and we try
:13:35. > :13:40.to rear them in pairs and no doubt, another one will come along. People
:13:40. > :13:44.are surprised how big they are. Aren't they. Only eight weeks old
:13:45. > :13:50.and she is a really robust baby. And just to have this privilege to
:13:50. > :13:53.really get a good look at an otter. Can we see some of these features.
:13:53. > :13:57.The fantastic tail, which is a third of the body and so important
:13:57. > :14:04.for them for swimming. The fact that they've got these wonderful
:14:04. > :14:10.webbed feet which help is really great. That fabulously thick fur
:14:11. > :14:16.insulating them. You can't experience this, but I can, that
:14:16. > :14:26.wonderful musky smell. Absolutely. She's absolutely gorgeous. Thank
:14:26. > :14:40.
:14:40. > :14:46.sow much for bringing her in and What's she called? Tan. We try to
:14:46. > :14:49.give them water names. That was very special. Thank you. Thank you.
:14:50. > :14:53.You never know, do you, but she was calm. It's a lovely story that.
:14:53. > :15:01.Everything worked well and she's going to go back to the wild.
:15:01. > :15:10.other otter is called Cistern and it's leaking everywhere! OK, next
:15:10. > :15:15.question. You are You are rubbish! While we are at it... No, we are
:15:15. > :15:21.not not being nasty about the watch any more. What is it? It's high
:15:21. > :15:25.fashion, you wouldn't get it. being disingenious here, because
:15:25. > :15:30.your daughter loves that watch. can love it as much as she wants.
:15:30. > :15:35.If she goes to a fairground and plays with one of those things
:15:35. > :15:40.where you put a pound in and grabs something, she might get one as
:15:40. > :15:43.well. Later! Serious thing. This is from Pat, having seen all the
:15:43. > :15:47.toadlets in last night's programme and hearing kphepb about black
:15:47. > :15:53.birds taking them made me think about something in our garden, a
:15:53. > :15:58.black bird took a shrew. Birds condition be readily available. I
:15:58. > :16:01.suppose it phus be needs must. rare event. Predators of any kind
:16:02. > :16:04.always want to pick on things they can overcome without the risk of
:16:04. > :16:08.injury, because if they're injured in any way, any simple way, the
:16:08. > :16:13.next time they go huping they might be at a disadvantage. The balance
:16:14. > :16:17.of nature is so fine that that disadvantage means they won't be
:16:17. > :16:23.hunting effectively. A black bird can easily murder a worm or a slug
:16:23. > :16:27.but there's always a risk of getting bitten by a shrew. It might
:16:27. > :16:32.get infected, it's a risky proposition. We don't see this an
:16:32. > :16:36.but occasionally we might. I spoke to the BTO and they say our black
:16:36. > :16:39.birds are in trouble and that might be happening because it's so dry
:16:40. > :16:47.they can't get worms so that's why. People at home, you can help our
:16:47. > :16:51.black birds. You can put out these. Meal worms, they like them. Even
:16:51. > :16:55.better if you can do them live, actually. You can get them live.
:16:55. > :17:00.You can go on to the internet and buy live ones and they're great.
:17:00. > :17:06.They wriggle and scare your mum. You can also open your compost heap.
:17:06. > :17:11.What about the grass snakes though? Cancel that last idea!
:17:11. > :17:17.Our black birds are in trouble. Body weight is down to less than
:17:17. > :17:21.100 grams. Iolo is back with us. had a question from Sue and she
:17:21. > :17:25.actually asked exactly what you explained, how do the puffins
:17:25. > :17:30.manage to hold the sand eels in their beaks, thanks for that. She
:17:31. > :17:34.also said, why are their beaks so fantastically colourful? What is it
:17:34. > :17:38.for? Well, the beaks are fantastically
:17:38. > :17:44.colourful because it's used in courtship. They use that beak. The
:17:44. > :17:50.male and female puffin come together and they'll fence, they'll
:17:50. > :17:55.nibble and use that and it's also a sign of just how healthy the bird
:17:56. > :17:59.is. So, a female puffin seeing a male puffin with a whacking great
:17:59. > :18:04.big colourful blue, red and yellow bill is going to think, that's the
:18:04. > :18:08.chap for me. He is in peak condition. He is the strongest,
:18:08. > :18:16.biggest puffin around. That's what that beak does. Brilliant.
:18:16. > :18:20.Fantastic. Thank you very much. you showed us the shearwaters, down
:18:20. > :18:27.the burrow. We might be able to top that. We might be able to go live
:18:27. > :18:32.now down a puffin's burrow. Let's see if this is going to work. It's
:18:32. > :18:37.a bit dodgy, but she's asleep down there. We can probably speak live,
:18:37. > :18:42.I hope, to the person who put the camera down, because that's in
:18:42. > :18:49.Shetland. Helen, can you hear me? Yes, I can. Hello. This is Helen
:18:49. > :18:54.from the RSPB in shuthand. -- Shetland. How did you get the
:18:54. > :19:00.camera down? We managed to find a burrow with two entrances a little
:19:00. > :19:07.down the cliff. We managed to get a small camera and secure is in using
:19:07. > :19:17.it. When did you put the camera in, ahead of them coming back in, I
:19:17. > :19:22.
:19:22. > :19:29.suppose? We hid it in place last We can look at footage you recorded.
:19:29. > :19:35.Here is the puffin itself. Can you tell us, are these the same puffins
:19:35. > :19:40.back to the same burrow? They do return each year. So you know these
:19:40. > :19:47.two? Have they laid an egg down there? They have, yes. Do they take
:19:47. > :19:52.it in turns, they come and go into the burrow? That's right. They've
:19:52. > :19:57.shared responsibility so the mum and dad take turns. It's a 40-day
:19:57. > :20:05.incubation period. So you know when the egg is going to hatch? We are
:20:05. > :20:15.expecting it somewhere in the 17th June. We might just be able to see
:20:15. > :20:24.
:20:24. > :20:27.that. We are off air on 16th. Hello, Helen! If we get one
:20:27. > :20:33.hatching that will be fantastic. Let's move on quickly. We have
:20:33. > :20:41.something dear to your heart. We have some art. I will move over.
:20:41. > :20:47.Let's all go over and see this. Hello, Kate. Kate, a lady who uses
:20:47. > :20:52.natural fabrics in the form of feathers to make exquisite works of
:20:52. > :20:55.art. Combining nature with a human device. Which is the one you have
:20:55. > :21:05.made for us? This over here, inspired by your programme last
:21:05. > :21:10.week, where you showed a Jay feather and also the features on
:21:10. > :21:20.otter. It's beautiful. What is so amazing is just the feathers seem
:21:20. > :21:21.
:21:21. > :21:25.to take on a totally different texture. Do you go out shooting a
:21:25. > :21:31.lot, sorry, how do you get hold of these wonderful feathers? These
:21:31. > :21:37.over here are pigeon feathers. I have about 200 people over the UK
:21:37. > :21:41.who are pigeon fanciers, I write to them and send them photographs of
:21:41. > :21:48.what I am going to do and they send me moulted feathers twice a year in
:21:48. > :21:53.April and and October. Fantastic. The other sorts of feathers, - can
:21:53. > :22:01.we have a look at this one. It's fantastic. If you rotate that in
:22:01. > :22:06.front of the camera, does it change colour? Is that the mallard? Yes.
:22:06. > :22:09.Fascinated by the fact it's a common bird we see all the time and
:22:09. > :22:13.it's this miraculous colour. We had somebody who contacted the
:22:13. > :22:19.programme and asked why British birds were so dull in colour and
:22:19. > :22:21.all you have to do is look at that. Look at the Jay and the mallard and
:22:22. > :22:28.realise they're anything but. Didn't you also keep in contact
:22:28. > :22:35.with game-keepers as well and they provide you with feathers? Yes, I
:22:35. > :22:42.did a project last year, game birds would have been shot and cooked in
:22:42. > :22:48.the kitchen of Tatten Park. So they lived on in your... Can we look at
:22:48. > :22:56.more of Kate's work. Some of the pieces, which are particularly
:22:56. > :23:05.large, some of the larger pieces need to be seen. This is the Tatten
:23:05. > :23:14.Park piece. Mostly tpezant, quail. What about this one? This is magpie.
:23:14. > :23:19.Tail feathers? These were wing feathers. This is crow. How many
:23:19. > :23:22.feathers did you use in that one? Can you remember? Something lying
:23:22. > :23:28.20,000 feathers. How long did it take? It took me about four years
:23:28. > :23:32.to collect enough feathers to make that piece. It was from game-
:23:32. > :23:37.keepers who control the bird population on their farms. Did you
:23:37. > :23:43.sketch it out, the idea first? Have you stuck them on to
:23:43. > :23:48.something? Yes. So you have built a frame? A form. That's about four
:23:48. > :23:54.metres long. It's sensational. a shame we couldn't have it in here.
:23:54. > :23:58.Thank you very much indeed. Who is going to have that one then? Later!
:23:58. > :24:08.Fight you for it! Thank you so much for bringing them in. They're
:24:08. > :24:14.fabulous. APPLAUSE.
:24:14. > :24:18.That's a challenge. Caroline, from the RSPB here, I think you should
:24:18. > :24:22.start collecting feathers for Kate and then maybe she can build an
:24:22. > :24:26.installation for you guys here. would be fantastic. If anyone at
:24:27. > :24:30.home, we love it, if you are inspired by any of the artists we
:24:30. > :24:38.show, get out there and make something and take a photo and send
:24:38. > :24:43.it to us. I am going to do one quickly, excuse me, right Robin
:24:43. > :24:50.wrote how do lizards detach their tails and does it hurt? OK, I don't
:24:50. > :24:54.know whether it hurts but it's called autoony and it's under
:24:54. > :24:59.nervous control, they have a weakening in the tail, it doesn't
:24:59. > :25:05.split between two vertbrae, they decide, a muscle activates and
:25:05. > :25:09.shatters the vertbrae, the muscle blocks detach. A nervous programme
:25:09. > :25:16.is switched on in the tail that's detached to wriggle about to detach
:25:16. > :25:25.a predator. All that happens in a split second. Most species can grow
:25:25. > :25:30.a stump back, not a perfect tail, not just lizards, crustaceons. Even
:25:30. > :25:37.if spiders lose a leg they can, when they next moult. I want to
:25:37. > :25:43.look at this. Can Iolo see what we see? It's a little test. I can see
:25:43. > :25:53.bits of them. Vince has sent us a video of something that happened in
:25:53. > :25:59.
:25:59. > :26:05.his bird box. OK. Have a look at It's obviously a dispute here with
:26:05. > :26:11.two blue tits. Like a blue tit boxing ring in there. This is blue
:26:11. > :26:18.tit cage fighting. Got you! could make a lot of money out of
:26:18. > :26:22.this chaps. It's just a dispute over a box involving probably two
:26:22. > :26:26.males there fighting over ownership of that box and the successful one,
:26:26. > :26:33.I would imagine, would then have got a female and would have built a
:26:33. > :26:39.nest. I still reckon we can make money out of that! Who was the guy
:26:39. > :26:49.that sent that? I have lost it now. It was Vince. Clearly you have a
:26:49. > :26:51.
:26:51. > :26:56.very lovely bird box there. We have to watch this programme, pole
:26:56. > :27:02.dancing and cage fighting. My nine- year-old daughter, questions about
:27:02. > :27:09.hedgehogs, do they lose their prickles, are baby hedgehogs born
:27:09. > :27:19.with prickles and do old hedgehogs turn grey? Have a look at this
:27:19. > :27:23.
:27:23. > :27:27.picture. Baby hedgehog. It's here. There it is. Look, they're by a 10
:27:27. > :27:32.10p coin. I would suggest hedgehogs don't give birth to their young
:27:32. > :27:35.with spines. 50% of the audience have been through that process, and
:27:35. > :27:38.it would be too painful. They have them held beneath the skin and the
:27:38. > :27:43.follicles break and they begin to develop immediately. They don't
:27:43. > :27:47.lose them. They're actually made of fur. They're a modified type of fur
:27:47. > :27:52.and they will stay with the hedgehog throughout its life.
:27:52. > :27:55.Individual spines are shed and they regrow new ones and to the best of
:27:55. > :28:00.my knowledge and I have seen a few in my time, they don't go grey at
:28:00. > :28:05.the end of they've life. -- their life. Now the quiz. What's
:28:05. > :28:11.happening? Few people have got it completely right. It's reassuring
:28:11. > :28:21.really that they don't know what they are. But Rich on Twitter and
:28:21. > :28:24.
:28:24. > :28:30.Rose. What is A, please. It's a tick. B? It's a human flea. C is
:28:30. > :28:33.the eyelash mite. Most ladies in this room will have them. The make-
:28:34. > :28:43.up means they can't escape from underneath the eyelashes and
:28:44. > :28:50.
:28:50. > :28:54.they're common in women. What have you got pubiclice. We want to
:28:54. > :28:57.celebrate wildlife champions. If you are a wildlife champion and