:00:23. > :00:31.Ladies and gentlemen, tonight we have a treasure trove of natural
:00:31. > :00:35.wonders. We have a pink Parada us, we have parasites, we have a little
:00:35. > :00:41.hair who has just escaped from outside of the jaws of death. Even
:00:42. > :00:46.more exciting, we have the jaws of death themselves in the studio.
:00:46. > :00:50.Three stoats. Lady Zenden Common, I do not think there is any other
:00:50. > :00:59.place on British television tonight that you will have such a
:00:59. > :01:04.sensational smorgasbord of nature than on Springwatch Unsprung. --
:01:04. > :01:11.ladies and gentlemen. Let's remind ourselves what this is
:01:11. > :01:15.about. That was very brave of you to attempt to says smorgasbord.
:01:15. > :01:23.This is your show. It is about your questions, pictures and the films
:01:23. > :01:30.that you send. And we will give you a little quiz. Straight away, let's
:01:30. > :01:36.do some questions. Chris, are you ready? Is your brain ready? I do
:01:36. > :01:40.not know. Chris, Howard wants to know, I have wondered if birds can
:01:40. > :01:45.count. How does a mallard know if she has gathered her family? Can
:01:45. > :01:50.they count? They have done experiments with crows which have
:01:50. > :01:53.proved they can count. They have trained some ravens to count. It
:01:53. > :01:58.had stopped -- it has to be an adaptive advantage, otherwise you
:01:58. > :02:01.will just leave you chicks scattered around. What about
:02:01. > :02:07.cuckoos? They need to count because they are looking into nests where
:02:07. > :02:16.they will deposit their eggs. they can count. Right, here is a
:02:16. > :02:21.dinosaur egg. There we go. Someone has put Sellotape on to it! Hang on.
:02:21. > :02:29.Chris, it is a dinosaur egg. While you examine it, I will tell you
:02:29. > :02:34.about its history. This letter came from Pauline. She says, I found
:02:34. > :02:37.this in a hold a in my out house about two years ago and it has
:02:37. > :02:42.become a talking point among family and friends. One of my
:02:42. > :02:46.grandchildren will be over the moon if it is a mini dinosaur egg.
:02:46. > :02:53.not a dinosaur egg. I am sorry to shatter the illusion of any child.
:02:53. > :02:58.As much as we would like to be, it is not. Can I give you a clue? Have
:02:58. > :03:02.a look at this. We sent this off to the radiology department at a
:03:03. > :03:10.hospital in Aberystwyth. They have done an X-ray of the inside of it.
:03:10. > :03:17.As you see, there is a dinosaur inside it, kids, maybe. Where is my
:03:17. > :03:22.penknife? There is something inside it. We could try to open it. Will
:03:22. > :03:29.they be upset? I am not familiar with the operation of this gadget.
:03:29. > :03:36.Is it yours? I would like a knife, if that is OK. Watch your fingers,
:03:36. > :03:43.Chris. OK, mum! I think this is the pupil case of an animal called a
:03:43. > :03:49.sawflies. They make these hard cases when they pupate. They are
:03:49. > :03:52.not actually fly is. They are related to bees and wasps. I am
:03:52. > :03:59.trying to do this without destroying what is inside.
:03:59. > :04:09.Beautiful. Thank you. I used to be a surgeon! This is the moment of
:04:09. > :04:10.
:04:10. > :04:16.truth. What is inside? You cut through it! I cannot be held
:04:16. > :04:24.responsible for killing it. It is long dead. But it looks like it was
:04:24. > :04:32.a sawflies. Extraordinary! Not a dinosaur but just as exciting.
:04:32. > :04:38.There it is. It has been dead for some time. Pauline, thank you for
:04:38. > :04:45.that. He goes one more. Does anyone in here think that birds can
:04:45. > :04:52.foretell the weather? What do you reckon? Yes? Any examples of that?
:04:52. > :04:56.Let's have a go. Ian on Facebook has said he overheard an elderly
:04:56. > :05:04.woman saying that it was going to rain and she could tell because of
:05:04. > :05:11.the way the blackbird was singing. 10 minutes later, it rained. Bunkum.
:05:11. > :05:14.The whole room disagrees with you! Nothing unusual about that. Birds
:05:14. > :05:17.are obviously in tune with the weather but I don't think they
:05:18. > :05:27.foretell it in that way. Why would they need to communicate to one
:05:28. > :05:30.
:05:31. > :05:36.another about what the weather was going to do? Listen to this. This
:05:36. > :05:43.is the Rain Song of the chaffinch. The chaffinch is purported to make
:05:43. > :05:53.this sound when it is going to rain. I rang up an hour ago my friend who
:05:53. > :05:59.is an RSPB warden on a Scottish island. He has become rather senior
:05:59. > :06:03.now. He said golden eagles would never fly when a storm was coming.
:06:03. > :06:08.Red throated divers came off the seat of the loch and they called
:06:08. > :06:13.and called. Green woodpeckers made a sound when it was going to rain.
:06:13. > :06:17.And most interesting of all, if a storm was coming, he said, the thaw
:06:17. > :06:23.Meuse would evacuate the cliffs. If he went out and they were not there,
:06:23. > :06:33.he knew a storm was coming. It is like cow was. Don't they sit down
:06:33. > :06:43.before the rain comes? Do they? Chris, have you got the items for
:06:43. > :06:51.
:06:51. > :07:01.Right, tonight's quiz. We need Gary. Gary is our top sound recordist. We
:07:01. > :07:02.
:07:02. > :07:08.need his key ring. What are these three items? You have to work out
:07:08. > :07:15.which one it is, and how are they linked? Any ideas? Do not say, if
:07:15. > :07:20.you can. Anybody know what that is? Spare tube for a bicycle? What are
:07:21. > :07:25.these three items? Have you been into some of those strange shops in
:07:25. > :07:30.Amsterdam. I have never seen anything quite like it. I think
:07:30. > :07:35.they have something to do with cars. You have car keys. That is
:07:35. > :07:41.something you mend your radiator with. I am not sure what matters.
:07:41. > :07:45.And my way off? We will have more clues later. I promised stoats.
:07:45. > :07:49.Before they come in, you have to know why we have got them here.
:07:49. > :07:52.Earlier in the year it was pouring with rain and lots of rescue places,
:07:52. > :07:58.like one in Somerset, were inundated with fox cubs, badger
:07:58. > :08:08.cubs, because they got flooded. But they also have some more unusual
:08:08. > :08:11.
:08:11. > :08:21.creatures. This is where it all goes horribly wrong. Judith, cumin.
:08:21. > :08:22.
:08:22. > :08:32.-- come in. There is a real treat in here, isn't there? Would you
:08:32. > :08:39.
:08:39. > :08:47.I think we need to see them before we ask Judith any questions. Hello.
:08:47. > :08:53.You can certainly smell them! Look at those! I am going to pick one up
:08:53. > :09:00.because they are the friendliest little creatures. They are like
:09:00. > :09:06.miniatures, and they like to bite. How old are they? About four weeks.
:09:06. > :09:13.They develop quickly. We think they are around four to five weeks.
:09:13. > :09:20.you ever had them before? Not since I have been there. What are their
:09:20. > :09:24.stories? How did you come across them? I had just started going out
:09:24. > :09:28.on calls and I got a phone call about them at a local fisheries
:09:28. > :09:33.near where I live. They were found in the cold, squeaking, very wet
:09:33. > :09:38.and cold. I went out and people had taken them inside and warned them
:09:38. > :09:48.up gently, which is the right thing to do. They have probably lost
:09:48. > :09:51.their mother. Yes. Did you have to bottle feed them? No. I gave them
:09:51. > :09:56.some food when they first came in, because they were cold, wet and
:09:56. > :10:00.week. But they have teeth, so we have not had to do anything like
:10:00. > :10:06.that. We provide them with a milk substitute, to help them to grow
:10:06. > :10:12.and develop. Now, the aim is to get them back into the wild. How
:10:12. > :10:15.difficult will that be? What will you have to do? This will be the
:10:15. > :10:19.last time anyone door handle them. It will be a hands-off policy. It
:10:19. > :10:23.will literally be a couple of weeks of putting them into a pen with
:10:23. > :10:27.lots of activities to build up their strength and then we will
:10:27. > :10:32.find a suitable release site. If not the side where they were found,
:10:32. > :10:41.to be honest, because it was a lovely place. Are you hopeful they
:10:41. > :10:45.will cope in the wild? I should think! Their reactions are very
:10:45. > :10:51.quick so I do not think they will have a problem Hunting. It is
:10:51. > :10:58.instinctive. And they play together very well. I have to say, you smell
:10:58. > :11:02.lovely now. Don't you think, audience? Thank you very much,
:11:02. > :11:09.Judith, for bringing them in, and good luck with getting them back
:11:09. > :11:13.into the wild. Thank you. Right, now, because we thought they might
:11:13. > :11:23.get out and buy it everyone, we have a safety here. We are going to
:11:23. > :11:23.
:11:23. > :12:35.Apology for the loss of subtitles for 71 seconds
:12:35. > :12:42.look at some photographs you sent. I thought we were going to get
:12:42. > :12:49.badly bitten. There was a little bit of me hoping. They just nibbled.
:12:49. > :12:55.Very small teeth. Chris, something for you to inspect, rather odd.
:12:55. > :12:59.That was sent in by Rita. "I found being closed nest behind my garage.
:12:59. > :13:05.I assumed it had come from a third tree which overhangs the path,
:13:05. > :13:15.although there were other trees and shrubs nearby. No eggs, no birds.
:13:15. > :13:15.
:13:15. > :13:20.Can you tell me what made it?" It is unusual in that it has two cups.
:13:20. > :13:25.There is one here and won here. My thought is that a bird started to
:13:25. > :13:31.make a nest like this and perhaps was disturbed. It twisted and it
:13:31. > :13:35.decided to use it as the base for another one. That is a remarkable...
:13:35. > :13:41.That is the only thing I can come up with. Any idea what would have
:13:41. > :13:49.made it? Well, it uses a spider web and it has Moss in there as well. I
:13:49. > :13:56.am going with a goldfinch, because it has like come on the outside.
:13:56. > :14:01.Where did it come from? I do not know. She just said by her garage.
:14:01. > :14:05.I think that is what happened. It started like that, had a twist and
:14:05. > :14:12.then it decided to finish it off like that. It looks like something
:14:12. > :14:20.you would do the plumbing with! a curious photograph has come. Have
:14:20. > :14:30.a look at this. Can you hang on to the photograph? You can try and
:14:30. > :14:33.
:14:33. > :14:37.pronounce who sent it in? Thanks. She says, found this in a plant pot
:14:37. > :14:45.next to where a blackbird nest used to be. I have never seen such a
:14:45. > :14:50.thing as an egg without a shell. Extraordinary. It is a mallard's
:14:50. > :14:54.egg. A lot of people think that the birds put the shell onto the egg
:14:54. > :14:59.but it does not work like that. The egg puts the shell on to itself
:14:59. > :15:04.while it is travelling down before it is laid. On the outside of the
:15:04. > :15:09.membrane, there are funny little souls and they are responsible for
:15:09. > :15:13.depositing the calcium in layers. And they build up. The one that I
:15:13. > :15:16.found was not completely soft. It was as if it was covered in
:15:16. > :15:23.thousands of modules, each corresponding to the soul there was
:15:23. > :15:28.laying down the calcium. It would join together to produce a
:15:28. > :15:38.particular eggshell. This one has nothing on the outside. There has
:15:38. > :15:45.
:15:45. > :15:55.been a malfunction in the calcium It is not coming back! Our top team,
:15:55. > :15:56.
:15:57. > :16:05.John and Sam. If you want to make your own shellless egg, you can!
:16:05. > :16:13.Sue Reid this? -- are you serious? Yes, with vinegar, it takes a long
:16:13. > :16:23.time. If you put the torch behind it, you can see the way the a joke
:16:23. > :16:24.
:16:24. > :16:34.floats around -- the yoke of. Hours of fun at home making your own.
:16:34. > :16:35.
:16:35. > :16:42.Added to the smell of the stoats, the vinegar... Absolutely lovely!
:16:42. > :16:47.Birds carrying things in their beaks. From David. On the blog. How
:16:47. > :16:53.many black birds get so many grubs without dropping them? I know
:16:53. > :17:03.puffins have things on their tongues to grip their prey. But I
:17:03. > :17:12.
:17:12. > :17:20.I hope Chris will be able to answer this. That chaffinch has loads. How
:17:20. > :17:26.do they do it? We have been filming that all week. The world record for
:17:26. > :17:31.puffins is 60 to the sand eels at one time. How can they do that? --
:17:31. > :17:36.62. They have a barbed tongue. If you find a dead bird on the road,
:17:36. > :17:41.you can learn a lot from its anatomy. If you open its beak and
:17:41. > :17:47.look inside, there are spikes on its tongue and little ridges and
:17:47. > :17:51.they have facing spines within the mouth, and these are the things
:17:51. > :17:58.that the food catches on, so when the Boat opens its beak again it
:17:58. > :18:04.doesn't drop what is already in there -- when the bird. So BT's a
:18:04. > :18:12.combination of the spiky tongue and ridges, at which it presses the
:18:12. > :18:18.food on took. I have some sand eels. We will see how many we cannot... I
:18:18. > :18:28.am joking but I wish I had thought of that! Let's do it with a nose
:18:28. > :18:30.
:18:30. > :18:40.them! -- with an egg. What about the story of the little baby hare.
:18:40. > :18:43.
:18:43. > :18:48.What happened was a farmer was going out, lambing, and he saw the
:18:48. > :18:57.dead body of the hare. He got out his penknife, did a Caesarean, and
:18:57. > :19:07.got out a live little baby hare. Is anyone on the phone? It should be
:19:07. > :19:11.
:19:11. > :19:15.memory. Yes! -- Marie. This is incredible. A baby taken from a
:19:15. > :19:21.dead hare and it is still alive. The farmer put it on the bonnet of
:19:21. > :19:27.its card to keep it warm and sensibly, he took it to someone who
:19:27. > :19:37.could look after it. How long ago was that? That was on 2nd May that
:19:37. > :19:38.
:19:38. > :19:43.he found her. He also took her home He kept her overnight and gave her
:19:44. > :19:50.a feet and then he brought her to us the next day. Did you think for
:19:50. > :19:55.one minute that it would survive? Not really! But there you go. It is
:19:55. > :20:00.amazing, isn't it. I bet that is the first time it has ever happened.
:20:00. > :20:10.It is the first time I have ever heard of it. Have you given him a
:20:10. > :20:13.
:20:13. > :20:19.name? Lucky leucine leverets! how is she doing now? She has
:20:19. > :20:22.luckily been able to reach five weeks of age. We would like to
:20:22. > :20:28.release her at six weeks because they get very hyperactive in
:20:28. > :20:35.captivity. So you will be able to release her? Hopefully. We don't
:20:35. > :20:41.like to keep them longer than six weeks. What an amazing story.
:20:41. > :20:50.you so much. That is incredible, I reckon that will be a fast. And how
:20:50. > :20:56.brave to cut it open! They poison the adult, the farmer turns up,
:20:56. > :21:04.sees movement of... And cut them open and rescued them from a poison
:21:04. > :21:12.that blocked, it is amazing. you give us a clue on the quiz?
:21:12. > :21:22.Just a clue. Can you hear that? That would get my Jack Russell
:21:22. > :21:41.
:21:41. > :21:48.Has anyone got it right? A lot of people are in the right areas.
:21:48. > :21:57.Would you like me to expand? Imitating certain animal calls.
:21:57. > :22:04.That was a big expansion, Jo! LAUGHTER. Sorry! You did say yes!
:22:04. > :22:14.OK! Luckily there is no money involved! Just credibility! Listen,
:22:14. > :22:37.
:22:37. > :22:42.everyone, if you will. We will play Compare that to this sound.
:22:42. > :22:48.WATER AND BIRDSONG. Apart from the petrol heads, which did you prefer?
:22:48. > :22:53.It is pretty obvious. We are about to meet a man who has made it his
:22:53. > :23:03.life's mission to make our will sound better. Julian! Please come
:23:03. > :23:04.
:23:04. > :23:11.in! You are a sound expert. What sort of sounds do we humans like?
:23:11. > :23:17.W P. Wind, water, and I bet you can guess the third one. Birds. The
:23:17. > :23:22.sounds we have evolved to over hundreds of years, or composed of
:23:22. > :23:29.lots of individual elements to make a pleasing mixture. We find them
:23:29. > :23:35.soothing. What effect does birdsong have on us? When birds are singing,
:23:35. > :23:39.things are safe. It makes people feel secure. Birds are nature's
:23:39. > :23:45.alarm clock so when birds are singing, we feel alert. Body
:23:45. > :23:51.relaxed, mind alert, it is a good state. So you have started to put
:23:51. > :23:56.natural sounds in our world around us. What have you been doing?
:23:57. > :24:01.have done some interesting things. For example, birdsong in toilets in
:24:01. > :24:08.service stations. People may have come across that. Anyone heard
:24:08. > :24:13.that? You will! Coming to a service station near you. It is nice if we
:24:13. > :24:18.have real nature around us. I was in the Dolomites at the weekend and
:24:18. > :24:26.she could not hear a human sound at all, it was heaven, but only 7% of
:24:26. > :24:30.the Earth has that so human sound is around us all the time. I have
:24:30. > :24:36.heard in duty-free... Has anyone been struck by natural sounds, at
:24:36. > :24:41.airports? I understand that you can manipulate us a little bit in the
:24:41. > :24:45.shops with your sound. Only in the sense that if you make a place
:24:46. > :24:53.sound pleasant, people tend to stay longer and if people stay longer in
:24:53. > :24:59.this shop, you know what they do. Spend, spend, spend. If this was a
:24:59. > :25:03.smell, a lot of places really stink, for your ears. We don't design for
:25:03. > :25:07.the ears. Architects and interior designers are focused on what
:25:07. > :25:11.things look like and we have to put up with places that sound terrible
:25:12. > :25:17.a lot of the time, so this is a message about designing for your
:25:17. > :25:22.ears. The sound of nature is a beautiful thing to put into spaces.
:25:22. > :25:24.Perhaps one of the most extraordinary things you did was to
:25:25. > :25:34.put British bird sounds and other beautiful sounds, let's just hear
:25:35. > :25:44.
:25:44. > :25:52.it. BIRDSONG Feeling relaxed? Perfect. Where did you put that
:25:52. > :25:57.sound and what were the effects? That kind of sound was in an
:25:57. > :26:01.airport, where it relaxed people. Airports are stressful. The other
:26:01. > :26:06.was the Citicorp Lancaster in California, where we put it into a
:26:06. > :26:11.long, Central Street at the request of the mayor, and according to the
:26:11. > :26:15.chief of police, crime has gone down by 15% in that town. That is
:26:15. > :26:21.not my number, it is their number. The shopkeepers are incredibly
:26:21. > :26:25.happy. It is a barren place in the Mojave desert, with no birds. We
:26:25. > :26:31.put in the sound of British birds and it seems to have a wonderful
:26:31. > :26:35.calming effect. What a fabulous export. British birds stopping
:26:35. > :26:41.crime in America. We will be hearing a lot more of those sounds
:26:41. > :26:51.in our world by hope. It is all about designing for the ears.
:26:51. > :26:53.
:26:53. > :26:55.Fabulous. I want some of that! More stuff now. Here we go. Bumble bees.
:26:55. > :27:05.Gladiatorial bumble bees. They haven't given me the right
:27:05. > :27:07.
:27:07. > :27:13.question! We have got a question, why do bees fight to the death?
:27:13. > :27:17.They also do other things. Another person has seen bumble bees around
:27:17. > :27:27.a wasp. What are they doing clustering around a wasp? Have a
:27:27. > :27:32.
:27:32. > :27:36.UK ones will do it. They will surround an invader, in this case
:27:36. > :27:43.it was a Hornet. From the thermal camera, you can see they are
:27:43. > :27:52.hitting it to death. Oh my word. Using heat to kill things. They do
:27:52. > :27:59.it in the UK to British hornets. Yes. That was foreign. Yes, in
:27:59. > :28:04.Japan. We have to hurry up. Shall we do the quiz? This has been
:28:04. > :28:10.fabricated by his slightly eccentric Frenchman and it is said
:28:10. > :28:18.to replicate the sound of a flock of young starlings. Of the is!
:28:18. > :28:22.don't know what else he does in his spare time. -- obvious. This one is
:28:22. > :28:28.meant to be the sound of house sparrows on the gutter outside.
:28:28. > :28:33.Beautiful. The same Frenchman, dreaming about a far Guth. And the
:28:33. > :28:41.last one, Gary, come and demonstrate. It is another bird
:28:41. > :28:51.calls. You have that on your cue ring? Yes! Anything else you can do
:28:51. > :28:52.
:28:52. > :29:00.with it? You can do a robin. Someone got it down to the right
:29:00. > :29:08.species. Very good! Well done! APPLAUSE. How long have we got? 30
:29:08. > :29:14.seconds! Have we got anything in? Do spiders get tangled in another
:29:14. > :29:21.spider's webs? The pink Prowler! There is no time to talk about the