:00:40. > :00:44.We're having a party! Throw out the tables and chairs. Join the party.
:00:44. > :00:49.Maybe not. We'll have more of that later. Welcome to Unsprung.
:00:49. > :00:53.Nice one. Come on, Chris - Stevie Wonder. Diplomatic - no comment.
:00:53. > :00:57.Right. Welcome tow Unsprung. Remember, this is your programme.
:00:57. > :01:03.It's about your photographs, your questions. We'll try to answer
:01:03. > :01:07.those, a few things thrown in. Who is here? It's a fairly motley crew.
:01:08. > :01:13.They are. Good dancing, though - nice. They have been practicing
:01:13. > :01:16.that for weeks. Have they? Then we've got level-headed Jo. Hello,
:01:16. > :01:22.APPLAUSE She's waiting for all your comments,
:01:22. > :01:25.all your questions. Get them in to her. First, we ought to do that
:01:25. > :01:29.quiz again, that really, really difficult quiz. Sorry. Actually,
:01:29. > :01:39.nobody on Twitter has got it right yet. I am not surprised. Shall we
:01:39. > :01:48.hear the quiz once again, please. We'll hear these sounds.
:01:48. > :01:57.( Moaning sound) OK. Next one -
:01:58. > :02:00.# Wee-ee - (Squealing) The third one, the hard one -
:02:00. > :02:04.(Deep thumping noise) They're absolutely fascinating.
:02:04. > :02:10.We're going to reveal all. The man who actually recorded those songs
:02:10. > :02:16.is going to be with us later on. Is Liz there? Hello. Did you dance,
:02:16. > :02:21.Liz? Hello. Was she dancing? Very sensible. Right. Shall we get
:02:21. > :02:26.straight on with the question? think we should. Sorry. Here we go.
:02:26. > :02:32.Karren's four-year-old daughter - she wants to know, if bees poo, and
:02:32. > :02:37.if they do, are we eating it in our honey? A great question. What's her
:02:38. > :02:42.name? The four-year-old daughter? It doesn't say here, but... Karren.
:02:42. > :02:47.The mum, I guess. Do bees poo, and if so, are we eating it in the
:02:47. > :02:52.honey? You'll be delighted to know that bees do poo, but they don't
:02:53. > :02:57.poo in your honey. To produce your honey, you're actually eating sick,
:02:58. > :03:02.you'll be delighted to know, so yeah, that's the short answer. I
:03:02. > :03:08.could tell you how they produce honey, but basically it's bee sick.
:03:08. > :03:17.They do poo. They poo out of their hives because otherwise it wouldn't
:03:17. > :03:21.make them very well. They actually go down to the entrance of the hole,
:03:21. > :03:28.having pseudocopulated, I'll - they hang with their bag legs trailing,
:03:28. > :03:36.abdomens down, and they poo out the nest to keep it clean. You get a
:03:36. > :03:42.small pile underneath the nest. they leave the hive to poo - that's
:03:42. > :03:47.even cleaner. That's going away to poo. That's long distance pooing.
:03:47. > :03:52.Bees are domesticated, and wasps are wild. Let's move on. Quickly,
:03:52. > :03:57.before there is trouble. Wild With Plants and Cheeky Monkey - sorry -
:03:57. > :04:01.they want to know what stops nestlings from dehydrating. We have
:04:01. > :04:05.seen our owl chicks there. Do they get water? Why don't they
:04:05. > :04:09.dehydrate? They do get water and get most from their food, of course.
:04:09. > :04:14.Bearing in mind most nestlings are fed on invertebrates, thinking
:04:14. > :04:17.about living things here, up to 60% of that is water, so they recover
:04:17. > :04:23.all the water they need from their food essentially without drinking,
:04:23. > :04:27.then what they do is conserve that water. I know we're always looking
:04:27. > :04:31.at baby birds producing faecal sacks. It's very concentrated, so
:04:31. > :04:35.they reduce the amount of water they waste to urinate and produce
:04:35. > :04:42.faeces. That's another reason they keep them in these sax, so they can
:04:42. > :04:47.be taken away. Pigeons produce milk for their chicks. Full of fat. The
:04:47. > :04:53.fat gets them to grow. The only other birds that do that are
:04:53. > :04:57.flamingos and puffins, a little known fact there. Wow. One more
:04:57. > :05:04.thing, the most extreme version of that is the sand grouse. We have
:05:04. > :05:09.some footage of the sand grouse. It lives right in the desert. It dunks
:05:09. > :05:14.its feathers in the water, flies back to the nest with wet feathers
:05:14. > :05:19.- you're not going to believe that - there are the chicks drinking the
:05:19. > :05:22.water. I can't help noticing when you were gesticulating, you have
:05:22. > :05:32.that green watch on, I have actually grown to like it, and I
:05:32. > :05:37.thought I might get one of my own. Why can't that be mine? Look. It
:05:37. > :05:43.goes with my clothing much better. Rather pleased with that - I've got
:05:43. > :05:50.my own green watch. Right, Liz, are you there? We have a question for
:05:50. > :05:54.you. Let me just find it. I am. Hello. She's got a lovely voice,
:05:54. > :05:59.hasn't she? Whoa! Liz, Steve Gunnard wants to know, "How is it
:05:59. > :06:03.that animals such as foxes and gulls can scavenge food from a
:06:03. > :06:09.landfill that would make us humans ill or possibly even kill us? How
:06:09. > :06:14.do they do it?" She's thinking. very good question. Scavengers tend
:06:14. > :06:17.to have a naturally higher amount of stomach acid that helps break
:06:17. > :06:21.down all the nasty stuff and certainly kill a lot of the bugs,
:06:21. > :06:27.so they've evolved to be able to deal with the bugs better. They
:06:27. > :06:31.also have a naturally higher amount of immunity. If the animal is a
:06:31. > :06:35.mammal it's going to get that from its mother in the womb, but as the
:06:35. > :06:38.youngsters are being fed little tidbits, they're beginning to build
:06:38. > :06:41.up even more and more immunity to the stuff. They're basically
:06:41. > :06:47.tougher than us humans. Good answer, very good. Here's a quick review,
:06:47. > :06:52.Chris, on the back of that... you, Liz. Have birds got taste
:06:52. > :07:02.buds? Let's do a little check. Who thinks that birds can taste? Have
:07:02. > :07:03.
:07:03. > :07:08.More yes's, I would say. Have they got taste buds, Chris? You know, I
:07:08. > :07:12.don't know the definitive answer to this in my book of bird physiology,
:07:12. > :07:16.page 232 - I sipped it, to be honest with you. I can imagine they
:07:16. > :07:20.must have taste buds because they would have to learn what to eat, so
:07:20. > :07:25.when they hatch, they peck at everything - as we have seen our
:07:25. > :07:28.herons doing, as we have seen our wrens doing and these sorts of
:07:28. > :07:33.things. Surely if they peck at the wrong thing, it's not just the
:07:33. > :07:37.texture and the density of it, it would be the taste of it. Surely
:07:37. > :07:43.they must have taste buds unless they rely on their sense of smell
:07:43. > :07:51.which can be keen in many species. What about their sight? A lot of
:07:51. > :07:54.bugs try to make themselves look unpalatable. What about weighing
:07:54. > :07:58.birds? They have to discern what they really want to eat. Go on.
:07:58. > :08:02.Tell us. I haven't got a clue, except everything comes from
:08:02. > :08:05.chickens in the end. What about your chickens and ducks? Do they
:08:05. > :08:12.like things and not other things? They're not that discerning.
:08:12. > :08:15.They're just out-and-out greedy. With Ping, the duckling, she's
:08:15. > :08:20.called Ping, she's very, very sweet. She sort of lives in the kitchen,
:08:20. > :08:25.and my dog has fallen in love with her - that's just an aside. What is
:08:25. > :08:33.really interesting is her starting to learn how to feed, pecking at
:08:33. > :08:38.bits of straw which she can eat and toast crumbs which she really likes.
:08:38. > :08:43.They are discerning? Yeah. Mine won't eat citrus, but everything
:08:43. > :08:52.else. Puffin news. Last week, I have to confess, I made a mistake.
:08:52. > :09:02.We showed the wrong video down the puffin-cam. No! Let us have a look
:09:02. > :09:03.
:09:03. > :09:09.at the proper puffin-cam. Remember, that's mum and dad.
:09:09. > :09:13.( Rrr) Ooh, more curry! That's the puffins
:09:14. > :09:17.swapping over. Remember, this is a camera down a puffin hole in
:09:17. > :09:22.Schettlan. That egg hasn't hatched out yet, but it's due to hatch out
:09:22. > :09:26.today or tomorrow. Will she phone us and let us know?
:09:26. > :09:31.She will, but it will take three days to come out of the egg. It
:09:31. > :09:34.pips first of all. We have the link on our website. You can actually go
:09:34. > :09:39.and watch that puffin-cam, and it will hatch out this weekend
:09:39. > :09:43.hopefully. Lots of puffins are coming in and around that nest, so
:09:43. > :09:48.others are hatching as well. I have done my bit. Right. Now, somebody
:09:48. > :09:53.who recorded those sounds that we just heard there - "Rrr" is
:09:53. > :09:57.actually with us tonight. Here he is. Can you come here? He's the
:09:57. > :10:06.legendary - the edgend that is - PROBLEM WITH SOUND
:10:06. > :10:11.Right. Now, Chris also set that quiz and recorded those sounds.
:10:11. > :10:15.He's now going to reveal all to us. OK. Let's just see. Everyone on
:10:15. > :10:21.Twitter was wrong. Really? Tom on the blog thinks the last one is
:10:21. > :10:27.someone in the bath, not doing very well. It's a right medium... Yes!
:10:27. > :10:32.Kirsty on Facebook thinks it's owl, fox and frog - no, Kirsty. Anyone
:10:32. > :10:36.at all level headed? No-one has it completely right at all. One person
:10:36. > :10:42.is getting the last one. The last one is foxing. It was tricky. You
:10:42. > :10:49.asked me to make it difficult. Thanks, Chris.
:10:49. > :10:59.Shall we hear them in order? Let's hear the first one again, please.
:10:59. > :11:00.
:11:00. > :11:05.(Moaning, whining sound) There is no point in asking them -
:11:05. > :11:10.(Woo-ooh!) It actually sounds like people after a really big party.
:11:10. > :11:14.Perfect Springwatch party music - the wild music of nature. OK. Wait
:11:14. > :11:21.a minute. OK, Chris, tell us, please, what is that? They are the
:11:21. > :11:25.hauntingly beautiful siren songs of female grey seals hauled out on
:11:25. > :11:33.some rocks. Fantastic. Although having seen a grey seal in the
:11:33. > :11:36.estuary early in the week, put their voices in. So weird, like the
:11:36. > :11:46.mermaid song, haunting... Hauntingly beautiful. Second one,
:11:46. > :11:47.
:11:47. > :11:49.may we hear the second sound, please?
:11:49. > :11:55.(Whee-eee - squeaking) People who don't know in here -
:11:55. > :12:04.because you do. Have a guess. Gene, what do you think? Putting you on
:12:04. > :12:12.the spot. What do you reckon? No. Anyone else? Anymore ideas?
:12:12. > :12:16.Come on, Caroline? Crows? No. on, Patrick. Have a guess. That
:12:16. > :12:23.might be cheating. Give us the answer. Shall I give you the
:12:23. > :12:27.answer? Give us the answer. It's an orca.
:12:27. > :12:33.APPLAUSE No, it's several Orca. Come on.
:12:33. > :12:38.Close, but not good enough. So you recorded that. That's - I don't
:12:38. > :12:43.have favourite animals, but I have the greatest respect for that
:12:43. > :12:47.animal. It's the top marine predator. We get them in British
:12:47. > :12:51.waters. Gordon Buchanan got us some wonderful stuff last year. And they
:12:51. > :12:56.have a voice that carries many kilometres through the oceans. I
:12:56. > :12:58.just love this idea of this social group of animals and this
:12:58. > :13:01.incredible vocabulary and communication that they have, and
:13:01. > :13:05.perhaps even this idea of culture, which is being currently
:13:05. > :13:14.investigated with the voices. Here's the last one, the really
:13:15. > :13:20.tricky one. Here we go. ( Deep bumping noise)
:13:20. > :13:25.We've got the theme. They're all underwater. This is the weirdest.
:13:25. > :13:32.Chris, what is it? That is the territorial call of the male cod
:13:32. > :13:36.fish. I thought I had heard that before! Chris, yeah. How on earth
:13:36. > :13:40.did you make that sound? That was recorded just the other side of the
:13:40. > :13:45.North Sea in some Norwegian water where they have a marine reserve,
:13:45. > :13:49.where they had been - they had stopped boats with engines coming
:13:49. > :13:53.in during the boating season, which is February-March to listen for
:13:53. > :13:57.these sounds because they are incredibly quiet. That's what I
:13:57. > :14:02.think of fish - they don't sound like... Well, more and more -
:14:02. > :14:06.that's why I love this idea of fishing for sound under waters.
:14:06. > :14:10.Every day more and more is being discovered in this environment, the
:14:10. > :14:14.largest habitat on earth, the most rich, sound habitat on earth - we
:14:14. > :14:19.say we live on planet earth - it's planet ocean. 70% of our world are
:14:19. > :14:26.the oceans, and they're full of sound. Very quickly, you went out,
:14:26. > :14:33.didn't you, Chris, to the water there. You put your hydrophones in
:14:33. > :14:37.the water, and can we hear what he managed to record just out there?
:14:37. > :14:41.(Cricket-type noises) Fantastic. We can actually see what
:14:41. > :14:49.was - it was a bit of a mystery because you didn't know what it was.
:14:49. > :14:59.No, I didn't. (Crr-rr)
:14:59. > :15:00.
:15:00. > :15:10.(Clicking) Not making a noise, but a sound. I think that is a str idu
:15:10. > :15:10.
:15:10. > :15:19.lating water boatman. The whole audience share your view! I like a
:15:19. > :15:24.grasshopper in air - stridulating is a song. Unless you dip your
:15:24. > :15:27.equipment into the water, you won't hear that sound. I think this is a
:15:27. > :15:31.series highlight. I am not joking, seriously, because this is a whole
:15:31. > :15:34.spectrum of experience that we just don't normally experience, and out
:15:34. > :15:40.there there is so much of it, so much to learn. If you were a young
:15:40. > :15:45.scientist, this might be a direction to go in. You can make
:15:45. > :15:55.hydrophones for coppers, and listening to places like... I don't
:15:55. > :16:01.
:16:01. > :16:07.Thank you very much, Chris! A legend!
:16:07. > :16:17.Straight on to prune now. Those were difficult questions. We had to
:16:17. > :16:19.
:16:19. > :16:23.go for a tough one. Terry Phillips, we have to have this. He told us
:16:23. > :16:33.that he lives in an old mill and has discovered lots of the spoof of
:16:33. > :16:43.
:16:43. > :16:46.the attic. Can you identify it? -- lots of this poo. It is too big for
:16:46. > :16:55.a fox. We're looking at an intermediate animal, perhaps a
:16:55. > :17:04.stoat. Where does he live? In Devon. I guess we're looking at a ferret
:17:04. > :17:11.or restored, will stops do not going to the loft. I used to live
:17:11. > :17:19.in the attic of my house and I used to hear rats. I got a trap. Why am
:17:19. > :17:25.I telling us on television?! In the night, I heard the trap close and I
:17:25. > :17:34.thought, I have got you! In the morning, when I went up, there was
:17:34. > :17:39.a stoat. And you love them! They do come into houses and the hunt mice.
:17:39. > :17:44.Along with fishing for sound, that might be a chapter in your
:17:44. > :17:52.autobiography. Let us have a look at some extraordinary footage of a
:17:52. > :17:59.stoat hunting. I think they are extraordinary. Look at the size
:17:59. > :18:03.difference between this stork and the rabbits. He has got it!
:18:03. > :18:11.Absolutely extraordinary! I did not believe it was possible that they
:18:11. > :18:20.did that before. And we can very quickly, Adrian has sent us some
:18:20. > :18:25.some fast that -- some fantastic photographs. That is incredible.
:18:25. > :18:35.is a whole sequence that he filmed. This boat went down to the water to
:18:35. > :18:40.
:18:40. > :18:49.This boat went down to the water to A quick question for less. How is
:18:49. > :18:57.it that sea gulls, of which you have millions down there, how do
:18:57. > :19:04.they always seem to find plumbing tractors? How do they get to them?
:19:04. > :19:07.The same way as all sea gulls find the food sources that they do. They
:19:07. > :19:12.use their side first. They are always on the lookout for birds
:19:12. > :19:20.that are swirling over anything. Once they find that, they tend to
:19:20. > :19:25.approach the area. If it is a tractor or a landfill site, they
:19:25. > :19:32.get their share, and then they might come back at the same time.
:19:32. > :19:36.Then they start to learn what time of day the tractor is working and
:19:36. > :19:42.then it becomes a habit. That is how they get their regular food
:19:42. > :19:52.sources. Very clever birds. Shall we have a quick look at her
:19:52. > :19:54.
:19:54. > :19:59.gallery? Yes. Let's have a look of a here. We have to say a huge
:19:59. > :20:04.thank-you to all the people who sent us end these fantastic photos
:20:04. > :20:09.and pictures. Thank you for replacing my pie charts. Thank you
:20:09. > :20:15.very much. Look at this, some of them are in 3-D. Just absolutely
:20:15. > :20:25.them are in 3-D. Just absolutely glorious pictures. This was sent in
:20:25. > :20:32.
:20:32. > :20:40.by Ben, who is four. Look at that - poodles! I particularly like the
:20:40. > :20:50.happy beaver. We're going to sit down because we're about to have a
:20:50. > :20:50.
:20:50. > :21:00.Earlier today, Kate Humble went out and had a close encounter with a
:21:00. > :21:03.
:21:03. > :21:13.very special guest. Have a quick look at this. What is the cold?
:21:13. > :21:17.
:21:17. > :21:23.is called Bran. I have a soft spot for ravens. I read a book when I
:21:23. > :21:33.was little about a little girl with one. I have always wanted one. I
:21:33. > :21:36.
:21:36. > :21:42.have got the next best thing, which is Lloyd. Cumin, Lloyd. -- come in,
:21:43. > :21:52.Lloyd. This is a really privileged view of a fantastic bar. We have
:21:53. > :22:05.
:22:05. > :22:09.seen a lot of court bids of the last few days -- corbids. They are
:22:09. > :22:14.incredibly intelligent. How does that manifest itself? They are
:22:14. > :22:17.always studying and looking for opportunities. He is scanning round
:22:17. > :22:21.now to see if there is any food. You have a lovely social bond with
:22:21. > :22:30.them. They are very time-consuming, a massive commitment. They can live
:22:30. > :22:37.up to 40 years. The look incredibly fear some. Come and see me, good
:22:38. > :22:42.boy. They have that extraordinary bill. We saw how agile he is in a
:22:42. > :22:48.bit of film, do the use that to hunt or do the pecking the ground
:22:48. > :22:57.like rooks? What do they feed on in the wild? Pretty much anything.
:22:57. > :23:02.They are pretty opportunistic. They are one of the few birds that does
:23:02. > :23:10.acrobatics. We're now go into have a demonstration of just how how
:23:10. > :23:16.smart he is. He just wants to show us how clever he is. This is a
:23:16. > :23:23.problem that very few animals, let alone birds, can work out. Can he
:23:23. > :23:33.do it? I have made the string thinner today, which is more tough
:23:33. > :23:36.
:23:36. > :23:46.for him. Is he going to do it? on! I want to go and help them. --
:23:46. > :23:53.
:23:53. > :23:58.help him. Yes! Brilliant! Did you have to train him to do that or is
:23:58. > :24:02.it something that you realised he could do because he is naturally
:24:02. > :24:05.inquisitive and clever? Did the work it out himself? I never
:24:05. > :24:10.trained him to do anything. He worked it out. The first time I
:24:10. > :24:15.showed him that, when he was the Mike Mansell, he went down to the
:24:15. > :24:19.ground, got back up on a perch, let go of the strength and then thought,
:24:19. > :24:23.that is not working. He had mastered it in ten minutes. They
:24:23. > :24:29.must be quite difficult birds to keep because they must need an
:24:29. > :24:35.awful lot of stimulation and very special care. Yes, we have put a
:24:35. > :24:39.lot of time into him. He goes out for a fly or a walk every day. They
:24:39. > :24:42.have a very songs Roth at -- strong social bond with you. If you are
:24:42. > :24:46.ever thinking about it you must realise it is a massive commitment.
:24:46. > :24:54.He said that, even if you try and change anything in his aviary, he
:24:54. > :25:04.makes a bit of a farce. He notices the smallest thing -- a bit of a
:25:04. > :25:12.
:25:12. > :25:22.Thank you very much indeed for bringing an end. Absolutely
:25:22. > :25:25.
:25:25. > :25:32.delightful. A fantastic bar. Thank you.
:25:32. > :25:39.Let's carry on with a few more questions quickly. Susan Penman
:25:39. > :25:45.send us this strange footage. Have a look and try and see what is
:25:45. > :25:52.going on. It is a bit wobbly, Chris, but what is happening? It looks
:25:52. > :25:56.like a carrion crow. It looks like it is smoking itself. We have seen
:25:56. > :26:00.this in other species. The thought is that it is using the small to
:26:00. > :26:04.get rid of an infection, in terms of lice or something in its
:26:04. > :26:14.feathers. I have seen that before. It will smoke itself to get rid of
:26:14. > :26:16.
:26:16. > :26:23.exactly that - if it is infested with fleas and so forth. The crow
:26:23. > :26:33.family are very good at doing this sort of thing. Shall we go to our
:26:33. > :26:36.
:26:36. > :26:46.beautiful montage? I do not know how many photos we have had on the
:26:46. > :27:19.
:27:19. > :27:24.website. Around 50,000. Take a look Nice highlights on that last one.
:27:24. > :27:30.We have had a letter from Bethany. She said, I made a comment in the
:27:30. > :27:34.Radio Times that there were not enough children out in the
:27:34. > :27:38.countryside. She says, I get out there every day. I am so lucky in
:27:38. > :27:48.my garden, I am surrounded by wild life. It is the best thing. Here
:27:48. > :27:56.she is with a young Matt pie, which she later released. -- magpie. Get
:27:56. > :28:04.out and enjoy the countryside. have you got one as well? Yes. This
:28:04. > :28:14.came in. It came in From Our Sound man's daughter, Rose. She said, I
:28:14. > :28:15.
:28:15. > :28:23.have grass snakes in my garden, are the good? -- are the good? I would
:28:23. > :28:29.say they are pretty sensational. Very quickly, Margaret has sent us
:28:29. > :28:35.this photograph. It is this St Peter's Green Village fun day. They