:00:29. > :00:36.Who's in the house tonight? We have Lloyd Buck and the incredible
:00:36. > :00:42.raving -- waving raven. We have Kate and her amazing frocks.
:00:42. > :00:49.We have the inkprobl brain that is Chris Packham.
:00:49. > :00:55.Sophisticated, glamorous, it's Michaela. We also have our live
:00:55. > :01:01.audience. And a live crew. And most important,
:01:01. > :01:06.we have you! It must be time for the first Springwatch Unsprung of
:01:06. > :01:11.2012. Let's go! APPLAUSE
:01:11. > :01:16.Right, excuse me, settle down now. Was that part of the dancing over
:01:16. > :01:20.the music? I meant to jump, but I've got a bad knee. This is
:01:20. > :01:24.programme where we answer your questions, look at your photographs
:01:24. > :01:29.and your videos. Straight away I have questions for you. Ready --
:01:29. > :01:35.are you ready? Mel Jones would like to know, a few years ago when I was
:01:35. > :01:44.living in central Britney, I heard a cook coo, it was roosting at the
:01:44. > :01:51.edge of my rural garden. And it went cook coo, but coo-er. Cook coo
:01:51. > :02:01.with a sor throat. They are quite versatile. They make a whole series
:02:01. > :02:04.
:02:04. > :02:13.of different calls. We can hear it. Let's hear the cook coo first.
:02:13. > :02:23.Do you have a bubbling cuckoo. Now perhaps shall we join them
:02:23. > :02:29.
:02:29. > :02:33.together, male and female. Indeed. Incredible. Did you know that
:02:33. > :02:37.cuckoos made all those noises? thought it was maybe a French
:02:37. > :02:42.cuckoo. They have a great repertoire. Two of them together
:02:42. > :02:48.they get excited. They droop their wings and flutter them and it's
:02:48. > :02:52.exciting. It's years since I've seen it because cuckoos are in
:02:52. > :03:02.serious decline. Here's another one, this is a bit gruesome, it's from
:03:02. > :03:05.Debbie Ward on Facebook, moments after admiring the fledgling
:03:05. > :03:09.starlings, then I heard a magpie and it pecked the head off one of
:03:09. > :03:15.the starlings. I was hoping something would eat the remainder
:03:15. > :03:22.of the bird, but I had to dispose of the body, not pleasant. Do paing
:03:22. > :03:27.pies only like heads? Some birds like only selected bits? Do -- they
:03:27. > :03:31.do. Sparrowhawks in particular, the first thing they'll eat if they've
:03:31. > :03:35.killed the bird or even before they finish killing it, they bite off
:03:35. > :03:39.the top of the head and eat the brain, if they're disturbed and
:03:39. > :03:44.don't eat anything else, it's one way to identify the bird that's
:03:44. > :03:54.handled the corpse. You can be a detective by telling what bit has
:03:54. > :04:00.been eaten. I am regularly a corpse detective. I keep a few in my
:04:00. > :04:07.freezer in case I'm bored. Shall we dot quiz, take over and do the quiz.
:04:07. > :04:11.The quiz is fantastic. It's all to do with fashion. Now take a look,
:04:11. > :04:15.hello level headed Jo, she's here. Give her a round of applause.
:04:15. > :04:21.APPLAUSE Thank you. Behind level headed Jo,
:04:21. > :04:31.we have this beautiful dress. This dress has been inspired by wildlife.
:04:31. > :04:31.
:04:31. > :04:36.Audience, any guesses? Don't be shy. Did I hear someone say a
:04:36. > :04:42.Kingfisher? Yes! It's a Kingfisher. It's absolutely stunning. But the
:04:42. > :04:44.quiz is, what inspires these dresses: this is the first one.
:04:44. > :04:52.dresses: this is the first one. It's a medieval looking number
:04:52. > :05:01.there. It's gorgeous. B, this orange number. What animal do you
:05:01. > :05:05.think inspired this dress? And C is our live model, here she is. Amy
:05:05. > :05:10.Hemmingway looking very gorgeous there. We want to know what
:05:10. > :05:19.inspired these three dresses and we will let you know a bit later on.
:05:19. > :05:24.Send in your answers to level headed Jo on the blog. And the
:05:24. > :05:26.answers will be revealed by the person who created these dresses,
:05:26. > :05:34.which is Kate, who's in the audience.
:05:35. > :05:39.APPLAUSE It's a good quiz. Actually, is it
:05:40. > :05:44.hard? Tricky? It's very tricky. I think I might have one of them. I'm
:05:44. > :05:50.not going to say anything. On we go, here's an interesting one, this is
:05:50. > :05:55.about a bee swarm from Mandy F1968 on flicker, over the last three
:05:55. > :06:01.days I've had a swarm of bees under my chimney. Last night was cold.
:06:01. > :06:07.Some of them are dying on the patio. I posted photos. What's going on.
:06:07. > :06:16.Where are the photos? Am I holding them up? Oh, they're on the thing,
:06:16. > :06:20.there they are. Another one. She says is this usual? Can you tell us
:06:20. > :06:23.what is going on? Sometimes the Queen will move from the hive.
:06:23. > :06:27.Sometimes another Queen will emerge from the hive and move some of the
:06:27. > :06:33.workers with her. That's something that's quite typical as far as I'm
:06:33. > :06:38.aware. I'm in the a great expert on domestic honeybees. But I had a
:06:38. > :06:42.swarm that came out of a nest at my house last year. Having seen those
:06:42. > :06:45.photographs as people wearing them as beards and things, I plucked up
:06:45. > :06:50.the courage to go out and stick my hand into the heart of them, and
:06:50. > :06:54.they did nothing at all. It was cool inside. Amazing. That is
:06:54. > :07:00.amazing. I didn't know you were going to say that because I've
:07:00. > :07:10.lined something up. Let us watch what he's just described. This is
:07:10. > :07:27.
:07:27. > :07:32.my friend Steve Leonard doing what That isn't as brave as you think,
:07:32. > :07:35.it is a queen, the swarm surround the queen, she's looking for a new
:07:35. > :07:41.place to form a colony. The scouts are looking everywhere. They come
:07:41. > :07:45.back and they tell the rest of the hive, the rest of the colony that
:07:45. > :07:50.they've found a good place. The key thing is they've got nothing to
:07:50. > :07:58.defend. There's no honey. There's no babies. There's no Harvey,
:07:58. > :08:08.nothing. They're very docile. If you want to you can put your hands
:08:08. > :08:12.in. There's no point in attacking if you have nothing to defend.
:08:12. > :08:21.Could you please have a lock at that, it's a bit smelly. Tell us
:08:21. > :08:31.what it is. It does smell a bit I'm sorry. Shall I get it out? Yes.
:08:31. > :08:36.It's sent to us by Peter and his you know what it is? They're
:08:36. > :08:40.slipper limb pets. They smell very mariney. What's happening is
:08:40. > :08:50.they're changing sex. We're watching a sex change in action.
:08:50. > :08:52.
:08:52. > :08:56.The animals at the bottom as I recall, are the male... The female
:08:56. > :09:00.on the bottom. That's correct, they grow and grow, others attach at the
:09:00. > :09:08.top. The bigger they get they will become the females to produce the
:09:08. > :09:13.eggs. You get this kolum of limpets. The biggest at the about the om are
:09:13. > :09:18.females. As they move down the kolum, they change from one set to
:09:19. > :09:25.another. That's right. How does he know this stuff? When the female
:09:25. > :09:31.gets too old, the male above takes 60 days, she dies and the male
:09:31. > :09:41.changes into a female. That's extraordinary. I found that quite
:09:41. > :09:42.
:09:42. > :09:50.coning. -- confusing. We've been sent an extraordinary picture by
:09:50. > :09:58.Bob Sharples. Oh, it's in my notes apparently. Look at that, Can you
:09:58. > :10:03.see that? It is a raven and in its mouth, it's carrying an entire
:10:03. > :10:10.rabbit. That gives you an idea of just how big ravens are. We can get
:10:10. > :10:17.a better idea of that because we've got one. Please Lloyd bring on Bran.
:10:17. > :10:24.How is she? All right, very well. Where would you like to sit? Take
:10:24. > :10:34.my chair. No, I'll put him in from this end. Let's see just how smart
:10:34. > :10:34.
:10:34. > :10:41.Bran is, we hope. We hope. What do you call him? The great Ravenello.
:10:41. > :10:51.He has to find the food. He's done this one before. He's done this ten
:10:51. > :10:58.
:10:58. > :11:06.times. He's not keen. There's a good boy. I think it's the screen.
:11:06. > :11:16.I need to help him out by ate by moving this from the TV. He's not
:11:16. > :11:23.
:11:23. > :11:30.too keen on the screen. Can I put it on the ground? For some reason
:11:30. > :11:40.he's taken a dislike to the screen. Now do you know what to do. Now he
:11:40. > :11:40.
:11:40. > :11:44.should do it. There he goes. There is food in there. He's now trying
:11:44. > :11:54.to work out how to get it out. What's going on. There's a
:11:54. > :12:01.
:12:01. > :12:06.distraction. There's a good boy. See him looking.
:12:06. > :12:16.APPLAUSE Shall we risk it, trying him on one
:12:16. > :12:18.he's never seen before. We can do. It only took him 30 seconds to work
:12:18. > :12:24.that out from never seeing it before. But this is something he's
:12:24. > :12:34.never seen, OK. There's a good boy. We can put it on the ground. I will
:12:34. > :12:35.
:12:35. > :12:45.distract him. Where is the other one? Blimey, here we go. There's a
:12:45. > :12:45.
:12:45. > :12:49.good boy. What's in there? He has to work out how to get in? He's
:12:49. > :12:54.never seen that before. No, so that's a big risk and there's lots
:12:55. > :13:04.of distractions in here. What's this? There's a good boy. What's
:13:05. > :13:06.
:13:06. > :13:11.that? He's a bit jumping Jack, it's probably because it's wobbling a
:13:11. > :13:21.bit on the ground. Ah, yes, that's why. It's moving. That's it. Come
:13:21. > :13:31.on lad. Go on then. That's better. There is a weak point to get in and
:13:31. > :13:31.
:13:31. > :13:36.it looks like, now he has... can't believe it. Wow. He's got to
:13:36. > :13:46.think, is it safe to put his head in? He's never seen this before. Do
:13:46. > :13:48.
:13:48. > :13:54.you know what to do. Go on. Go on. Because it's new and he doesn't
:13:54. > :13:58.know if it's a trap. He's just checking it out. I'll see if I can
:13:58. > :14:08.help him out a little. There's a good boy, what have I got. What's
:14:08. > :14:16.
:14:16. > :14:23.there. CHEERING
:14:23. > :14:27.What a bird. He wants to share it with you Chris. How extraordinary.
:14:27. > :14:33.They've done experiments where they've reared ravens from eggs and
:14:33. > :14:36.in the absence of adults and other raven chicks, they put them in so
:14:36. > :14:40.they don't have any experience like this and they've had a piece of
:14:40. > :14:48.string hanging from a branch and they have gone along and lifted it
:14:48. > :14:52.up, put their foot on it and got the meat. It's innate intelligence.
:14:52. > :14:56.He's obviously an older birds and he's been trying all sorts of
:14:56. > :14:59.trials and learning all sorts of tricks. As soon as they come from
:14:59. > :15:07.the egg, they have innate intelligence. We're learn soing
:15:07. > :15:14.much more, you know they're no longer bird brains. I have to say,
:15:14. > :15:19.I thought you did a great effort to continue that while everyone was
:15:19. > :15:29.giggling. Take us to junior school, LothesDale primary school have sent
:15:29. > :15:34.
:15:34. > :15:39.as you can see, loads of them here. The first one is, "How long will it
:15:39. > :15:43.take for the chicks to fly?" I should explain they have put nest
:15:43. > :15:47.boxes up in their school with cameras, and they have had some
:15:47. > :15:51.blue tits in. "There are nine eggs in the nest. We know how many there
:15:51. > :15:57.are because we have a camera in there, so how long will it take for
:15:57. > :16:00.the chicks to fly?"? From hatching, it will depend on how wet it is,
:16:00. > :16:05.but somewhere between 14 and 18 days will be average. They all tend
:16:05. > :16:09.to hang on. They want to get out at the same time so when parents come
:16:09. > :16:14.back, we find them all together. If you're lucky, you see them popping
:16:14. > :16:20.out one after the other. Make sure they have somewhere to perch
:16:20. > :16:24.outside so they can land safely. That's from Alys, aged eight. She
:16:24. > :16:28.sent that a couple of days ago. She might have seen them already. Look
:16:28. > :16:33.at the writing. I don't know if you can see that - that's so sweet. It
:16:33. > :16:38.had to have a little bit of adult writing at the bottom, and it says,
:16:38. > :16:41."Will the mummy carry water in her beak to the babies?" that's from
:16:41. > :16:44.Ellis. That's very interesting because we did that in the main
:16:44. > :16:51.programme, didn't we? We did, but they don't require any water
:16:51. > :16:56.because the caterpillars are so full of water - I should imagine
:16:56. > :17:00.75-80% of moisture, and they get all the water from those
:17:00. > :17:10.caterpillars. Another question, Michaela? Another from Ed Wood.
:17:10. > :17:12.
:17:12. > :17:20.you see how he wrote it? He spelled "grow" - "groa" - he's only little.
:17:20. > :17:25.How do the eggs crack? They grow a tooth on top of the beak. Sometimes
:17:25. > :17:29.it falls off, sometimes it absorbs. They have a special pipping muscle
:17:29. > :17:32.which runs from the neck all the way down the back. They're able to
:17:32. > :17:39.contract this muscle which makes them tense up inside the egg, and
:17:39. > :17:43.it is that that helps them crack. They have what's called a pipping
:17:43. > :17:48.muscle to give them superstrength to get out of that eggshell. What's
:17:48. > :17:52.fantastic is if you think about an arch or a bridge, you squeeze it,
:17:52. > :18:00.and you can't break it, but if you're pushing from inside, it's
:18:00. > :18:03.slightly easier to get out. A bit of biology. Shall we recap the quiz,
:18:03. > :18:06.Michaela? A fantastic quiz, which was, what has inspired these
:18:06. > :18:13.dresss? Just to remind you, the dress at the back, we know the
:18:13. > :18:20.answer to that one. Shout it out, audience. Kingfisher. The lady who
:18:20. > :18:24.made that dress, Kate Plumtree - here she is - was unspired by a
:18:24. > :18:29.kingfisher to make that dress, but what was she inspired by to make
:18:29. > :18:34.this dress, this rather medieval- looking number - that's A, this
:18:34. > :18:40.dress, B, the orange one, and C, the one worn by our model - let us
:18:40. > :18:49.know what you think. Get on to the website and give us your answers.
:18:49. > :18:54.Have there been any right answers? A few. Has anyone got it right?
:18:54. > :18:59.someone suspiciously called Chris Packham - secretly on your laptop!
:18:59. > :19:08.Some people have managed to get them right? Yes. Nice one. We'll
:19:08. > :19:12.reveal all a little bit later on. Right. We do love your videos, and
:19:12. > :19:18.very kindly, you have cement us a couple. Let's have a look at this
:19:18. > :19:28.one from Lucy Boynton. This is a very, very strange-looking thing.
:19:28. > :19:30.
:19:30. > :19:34.I have never seen anything like Michaela, do you know what that is?
:19:34. > :19:40.Yes, I do, actually. I do. Do you know why I know? Because we asked
:19:40. > :19:44.somebody else. I actually have into idea what that
:19:44. > :19:51.is, but the information from the Marine Conservation Society says
:19:51. > :19:55.it's an Akira Bola ta. Who has heard of one of those? I know what
:19:55. > :20:01.it is but I have never heard of that particular species. They come
:20:01. > :20:04.in a range of colour. Apparently it's a darker move. The Marine
:20:04. > :20:09.Conservation Society says they get a lot of reports at this time of
:20:09. > :20:17.year. They seem to be quite active. It's not a jellyfish, but it's a
:20:17. > :20:22.species of shelled sea slgu. Try saying that. Shelled sea slug,
:20:22. > :20:26.shelled sea slug! Not sure what it's doing - possibly reproducing.
:20:26. > :20:31.They said at the Society a lot of people there had never seen it
:20:31. > :20:34.before, and they thought that footage was absolutely fantastic.
:20:34. > :20:38.Lucy Boynton, thank you very much indeed. That's another first. Here
:20:38. > :20:42.is a slightly curious one. I won't give it away. Peter Bell has sent
:20:42. > :20:47.Us this lovely footage of a little blue tit in its nest. Oh, look.
:20:47. > :20:51.It's probably a little chick, isn't it? It's going to make its first
:20:51. > :21:01.little flight. It's just going to - LAUGHTER
:21:01. > :21:02.
:21:03. > :21:07.Oh, no! Can we see that again? Oh. That's terrible! Now, magpies have
:21:07. > :21:12.got a pretty bad made, but let's face it... Woodpeckers do a lot of
:21:12. > :21:15.predation, to be honest with you. Sometimes they open nest holes.
:21:15. > :21:20.That's why we put metal guards over the nest hole. Sometimes they're
:21:20. > :21:26.not defeated by that because they'll listen for where the chicks
:21:26. > :21:30.are and hammer a hole at nest level and get in and pinch them.
:21:30. > :21:34.Woodpeckers have increased a lot - 161% in the last 25 years. We think
:21:34. > :21:41.they might be exacting a lot of pressure in the wild by eating
:21:41. > :21:51.young birds, particularly the young of spotted woodpeckers, which have
:21:51. > :21:51.
:21:51. > :21:54.gone into decline. We're not sure about that. They don't exist, the
:21:55. > :21:59.spotted woodpeckers. Now, another question on buzzards - I can't find
:21:59. > :22:04.it. I have lost it. Anyway, this chap - Simon Hill on the blog - he
:22:04. > :22:08.says he saw up to 60 buzzards all in one place over a hill together.
:22:08. > :22:11.Now, have you ever seen anything like that, Chris? In winter, large
:22:12. > :22:17.number, not at this time of year, though. If you talk about it, I'll
:22:17. > :22:22.try and find it. I think in winter you an unsee buzzard, and they'll
:22:22. > :22:28.aGregg ate into fields where they're going worming. I have seen
:22:28. > :22:33.20-25 buzzards just off the A36 all in one field wandering around lax
:22:33. > :22:42.daysically picking up worms. If lots of worms come to the surface
:22:42. > :22:48.of a field, they'll aggregate there. They'll disperse themselves out. I
:22:48. > :22:51.can't see it at this time of year. On the 19th of May. I found it now.
:22:51. > :22:57.Maybe it was a buzzard fest on. LAUGHTER
:22:57. > :23:02.I have seen 32 above a field, and I have never had a good explanation.
:23:02. > :23:06.Even the BTO couldn't give a clear explanation. So did you out there
:23:06. > :23:09.think you know why buzzards gather together in such numbers in May,
:23:09. > :23:14.please let us know. We'd love to hear from you. We never do gist to
:23:14. > :23:24.the photos you send in, but here is our little homage to some of the
:23:24. > :23:24.
:23:24. > :24:18.Apology for the loss of subtitles for 54 seconds
:24:18. > :24:23.extraordinary pictures you have pictures. Thank you. Please keep
:24:23. > :24:30.them coming in. Michaela, time to reveal the quiz, I think.
:24:30. > :24:37.Absolutely. Here we go. I think this is a really special quiz. This
:24:37. > :24:42.is the woman who made the dresses. You're incredibly clever. Thank you.
:24:42. > :24:46.So are you. Mutual appreciation. So if we come this way, what is this
:24:46. > :24:51.dress? What was your inspiration? This was inspired by the golden
:24:51. > :24:55.eagle, and I wanted to give the impression of it being very sleek
:24:55. > :25:02.and streamlined, the flight - but also show a bit of shagginess about
:25:02. > :25:07.it. I have worked in he isian, which is an incredibly versatile
:25:07. > :25:13.fabric, because not only can it be sculptural, you can rip into it,
:25:13. > :25:17.tear into it and create Textural effects with it. It also has a very
:25:17. > :25:25.long train to highlight the imagine industry of the bird. This is part
:25:25. > :25:30.of my Born to Be Wild Exhibition. It is a collection, of which each
:25:30. > :25:34.has been inspired by a different bird or mammal. Let me ask the
:25:34. > :25:41.audience - what did you think it was? You didn't have a clue! Before
:25:41. > :25:46.you tell me, what do you think B was inspired by? Red squirrel?
:25:46. > :25:52.Were any of them right, Kate? have been the fox, yes. I wanted to
:25:52. > :25:57.get across the impression of the foxes - the kind of urban fox,
:25:58. > :26:02.really, so although, you know, it's obviously seen in amongst the
:26:02. > :26:07.countryside, it also goes into urban territory, so it starts to...
:26:07. > :26:14.Yeah, the colour gave that away a little bit. Let's go to our live
:26:14. > :26:23.model, Amy. What do you think that is? A raven? A crow? No. Look at
:26:23. > :26:28.the gossamer-like bottom of the dress. Give us the answer. It's a
:26:28. > :26:32.Pippa-industrialed bat. How long does it take to make these? A
:26:32. > :26:38.Roughly to completion, three weeks. That's putting in a lot of hours.
:26:38. > :26:46.How many have you done? 17. What's the most unusual? That's a good
:26:46. > :26:50.question. The jay! The jay is bizarre. That's inspired by a '60s
:26:51. > :26:57.dress. They're all inspired by different periods of fashion. You
:26:57. > :27:01.have crinoline here. The jay is inspired by the dresses of Pacco
:27:01. > :27:05.Rabanne. It's made of little plastic circles that I have put
:27:05. > :27:10.laminated fabric and cut the circles and linked them together. I
:27:10. > :27:15.have used the abstract patterns of the jay, a little bit like part of
:27:15. > :27:20.what was going on in the '60s. I combined different things together.
:27:20. > :27:23.If I am going out tonight, could I borrow one?Ing You can. I think you
:27:23. > :27:29.would look fantastic in the kingfisher. I thought I would see
:27:29. > :27:34.if I could get it on before the show, but there wasn't enough time.
:27:34. > :27:39.Actually, there is a link between you two in your distant past.
:27:39. > :27:47.only found this out. When I was 16, I was in a band in Surrey, and when
:27:47. > :27:57.I left the band, guess who took my place! Tah-dah! Seriously!
:27:57. > :27:58.
:27:58. > :28:01.Can you tell us, who got it right? Quite a few. Jackie and Ann were
:28:01. > :28:09.amongst the first. Fantastic. We're running out of stuff now. Quickly,
:28:09. > :28:13.Chris, we have had another question - Ronna on Twitter - "Can birds
:28:13. > :28:19.taste?" Yes, they must be able to because they make selective choices,
:28:19. > :28:23.particularly those birds tunnelling down into the mud. I should imagine
:28:23. > :28:28.they make a choice. What's the point of ladybirds if they can't
:28:28. > :28:34.taste? If they picked them up and tasted awful, they wouldn't do it
:28:34. > :28:40.again, would they? As ever, he has the answer. How much longer do we
:28:40. > :28:45.have to go? 30 seconds. Quickly, Lynne Hardman has sent us our
:28:45. > :28:49.traditional tea cosy. But where is the teapot to put it on? That's
:28:49. > :28:54.what I want to know. Oh, here it is. Hey! Thank you very much, Lynne.
:28:54. > :28:57.Oh. Never mind. We'll do that - thank you very much indeed. Please