:00:32. > :00:35.is. With his brushes working away. Take a bird of prey. A beautiful
:00:35. > :00:40.Take a bird of prey. A beautiful British snake, a very attractive
:00:40. > :00:50.audience and a little dash of level headed joe, mix it altogether and
:00:50. > :00:51.
:00:51. > :00:58.simmer for the next half-hour. You have Springwatch Unsprung. YEAH!
:00:58. > :01:02.CHEERING AND APPLAUSE Now, what is Springwatch Unsprung?
:01:02. > :01:06.We try to answer some of your questions and observations on the
:01:06. > :01:10.wonderful world of wildlife. We throw-in things of our owns. We ask
:01:10. > :01:16.you for questions. Look at what we have? We will try to get through as
:01:16. > :01:23.many as we can. You have sent us lots of things as well. We will be
:01:23. > :01:29.examining some of those later on. Right. Our world-class artist, we
:01:29. > :01:34.will come back to him. It's Darren Woodhead. We will look at his work.
:01:34. > :01:40.We have set him a task. He is trying to produce a fabulous work of art.
:01:40. > :01:44.There he is, work of art, while the programme is on. He has started
:01:44. > :01:49.earlier. He is looking at the birds he is painting through his telescope
:01:49. > :01:53.as he works. We will go back to him in a minute. We received a
:01:53. > :01:59.photograph from Charlotte, she was inspired by wildlife she has had a
:01:59. > :02:09.tattoo. There it is. It's a long-tailed tit on her wrist.
:02:09. > :02:11.
:02:11. > :02:16.Lovely. It inspired us for our quiz tonight. Our quiz is - Whose
:02:16. > :02:23.Tattoos. It is slight slightly risque. Look at these pictures. Now,
:02:24. > :02:30.you have to match the tattoos to the faces underneath. You will see that
:02:30. > :02:33.it's me. We have Kirstie, who works on the programme and Chris Packham.
:02:33. > :02:39.These tattoos have to be matched to these people. That is the quiz.
:02:39. > :02:43.There is a supplementary quiz, that tattoo, which may or may not be my
:02:43. > :02:50.tattoo. That tattoo has a special significance that tattoo. You have
:02:50. > :03:00.to tell us what is that special significants? Level-head headed Joe
:03:00. > :03:05.are you standing by to receive the answers. Yes.Will you ring the bell
:03:05. > :03:13.when the first correct answer comes on. Do we need to guess where they
:03:13. > :03:22.are. You said wrist, it looks like a arm. Isn't the wrist part of the
:03:23. > :03:31.arm? I beg to differ. We will have quick-fire questions. This has come
:03:31. > :03:39.from Joffy Hill in Moray. Will you, please, Chris examine the object. He
:03:39. > :03:44.says, "we have a wildlife pond, frogs, newts with a healthy
:03:44. > :03:49.population of snails. We find half a dozen caches of 50 snail shells
:03:49. > :03:56.buried under the grass at the side of the pond. Who is eating them?
:03:56. > :03:59.These are ram horns snails. They are rams horned shape. They are nice big
:03:59. > :04:05.snails. That is a healthy pond, that is good. They have been opened on
:04:05. > :04:08.the side here. Had they been broken up by a song thrush she would not be
:04:08. > :04:11.buried under the ground, they would be smashed to pieces. These have
:04:11. > :04:16.been opened by a mammal that chewed through the side here. Just to the
:04:16. > :04:22.point where it is able to get a grip on the animal's body and pull the
:04:22. > :04:27.remainder of the flesh out of it. In the past, I have found water volves
:04:27. > :04:33.that have eaten snails and hidden them in their runs and rats will
:04:33. > :04:40.that eat these. I'm going for rodent. Without the context of
:04:40. > :04:46.seeing where the pond is, I'm going for brown rrat. Answered it. Now, a
:04:46. > :04:56.sound one. We have a question from Martin Barber about this glorious
:04:56. > :04:56.
:04:57. > :05:03.sound. Everyone know what it is? Come on, don't be shy what is it?
:05:03. > :05:10.Skylark. Knows, skylarks. If you notice, it seems to go on and on and
:05:10. > :05:20.on. We have noticed birds right here in Ynys-hir doing the same thing.
:05:20. > :05:30.
:05:30. > :05:33."how do skylarks sing so constantly?" In simple terms they
:05:33. > :05:39.can sing whilst they are breathing in and breathing out at the same
:05:39. > :05:43.time. We normally speak as we breathe out. We can speak as we
:05:43. > :05:48.breathe in, it doesn't work well for us. Birds can sing as an equal
:05:48. > :05:58.volume when they breathe in and out. They have a different structure in
:05:58. > :06:03.
:06:03. > :06:09.their throat we have a larynx, they have something called a sirynx. They
:06:09. > :06:14.are produce two parts of a song at the same time. If we had one we
:06:14. > :06:19.could talk to yourselves. It would be disastrous in some instances, I
:06:19. > :06:25.would have to say. They have a different structure. The muscles
:06:25. > :06:31.there are the fastest record recorded vertebra muscles ever, not
:06:31. > :06:34.as fast as the frog happener, faster than the blinking eye. They can use
:06:34. > :06:43.one to sing at one point whilst they are using the other breathing in to
:06:43. > :06:53.sing at the same time. Wonderful People can do circular breathing. It
:06:53. > :06:55.
:06:55. > :07:00.takes practice. Tell me you can?I can't. It's really hard. A lot of
:07:00. > :07:10.practice. Nick. This is one for you. We have been sent some wonderful
:07:10. > :07:13.
:07:13. > :07:18.footage. This is from Neil and Caroline Smith. What is this? Under
:07:18. > :07:24.snow. There it is.It's a mole running around. They saw it. They
:07:24. > :07:29.were going ice climb climbing in the Cairngorms in spring and they
:07:29. > :07:34.managed to film that mole. We know it's a mole, what is it doing in the
:07:34. > :07:39.snow? I can only guess. It sometimes happens in the summer for the same
:07:39. > :07:43.reason. You see them on the surface, it's what they feed on. They feed on
:07:43. > :07:47.invert bras, mainly worms. They live in the soil. If the soil is frozen
:07:47. > :07:52.these animals aren't going to move anywhere. They will be hide hiding
:07:52. > :07:58.out. The mole needs them. They are desperate. They will bust out of the
:07:58. > :08:02.soil and find a new site. It happens in the summer when the soil is dry.
:08:02. > :08:07.Worms will hibernate in the summer because it's dry. The worms aren't
:08:07. > :08:15.active. That is what we are seeing there. A desperate mole looking for
:08:15. > :08:22.food. Ah. The Ground is frozen, can't get food. A white mole... A
:08:22. > :08:32.black mole on white snow... I have gone completely negative. Nothing
:08:32. > :08:34.
:08:34. > :08:44.unusual there. Stuart Robinson says, "is the kestrel the only bird of
:08:44. > :08:48.prey that can hover? " This us see a kestrel. This is Greaves. She is
:08:48. > :08:55.five years old. You answer that question. Is the kestrel the only
:08:55. > :09:01.bird of prey who hovers? No barn owls will hover. You will see
:09:01. > :09:07.buzzards doing a short hover. They can't do a long hover as these can.
:09:07. > :09:15.We have footage. We never get tired of watching this. Absolutely
:09:16. > :09:21.beautiful. Head is rock solid. When you take Greaves out, presumably she
:09:21. > :09:27.will fly like this? She will hover. She is a bit lazy. She will hover
:09:28. > :09:33.and get lower and lower and lower. You know exactly what you want, she
:09:33. > :09:39.will do it. Birds of prey have to Mott, they have to change their
:09:39. > :09:43.feathers. The bird of prey like a kes reif they Mott they won't go
:09:43. > :09:49.hunting. How do they do it? It's really cool. When the female starts
:09:50. > :09:54.to lay eggs, once she has start started sitting she will throw out
:09:54. > :10:00.as many feathers as she can. Her husband will work hard to bring in
:10:00. > :10:05.food to feed her. She has 31 to 33 days of incubation. While the babies
:10:06. > :10:11.are getting their secondary down and keeping warm. She is through the
:10:11. > :10:15.Mott by then. She joins hubby, helps getting food for the kids. He starts
:10:15. > :10:21.to Mott when the things he is going to catch have got young, which are
:10:21. > :10:25.easier to catch. How amazing.It is cool. Fascinating. She is not very
:10:26. > :10:32.good at hunting she is Motting, he looks after her while she is in the
:10:32. > :10:42.nest all that time? Absolutely.How do they Mott? They don't chuck out
:10:42. > :10:43.
:10:43. > :10:47.all the feathers -- Mott. The first feathers are the centre two tail
:10:47. > :10:52.feathers. That carries her bell. It does. She drops those two. They come
:10:52. > :10:57.half way down. The next two go. The first two are fully down, the next
:10:57. > :11:03.two half way down. The next two go. The same thing happens in the wings,
:11:03. > :11:07.it happens in pairs all the way across. Fascinating. We. We have a
:11:07. > :11:15.question from the audience. Where is Maureen. I wanted to know. What do
:11:15. > :11:21.we have to do to encourage kestrels to nest in our gardens? Nestboxes
:11:21. > :11:25.are really important. Birds are having a bad time at the moment. Not
:11:25. > :11:30.just kestrels. If you put up nestboxes it is great. There are
:11:30. > :11:35.tonnes of different designs on Google. If you Google bird nestboxes
:11:35. > :11:39.there is lots there. It is where you put them. Don't damage the tree.
:11:39. > :11:44.Face them into your warmest wind, probably south or South West. Put a
:11:44. > :11:48.perch on the outside so when they do have babies, the babies can come out
:11:48. > :11:55.onto the perch and practice flapping. It's important to put
:11:55. > :12:02.something in the base of the nestbox because kestrels don't build a nest,
:12:02. > :12:07.neither do owls, they dig a hole in the bottom of a tree. Put in dry
:12:08. > :12:11.mole hill soil, dry leaves about that deep. They dig a little and lay
:12:11. > :12:15.the eggs. Imagine having one of those in your garden it would be
:12:15. > :12:21.fantastic. They need your help at the moment. Absolutely.Insects need
:12:21. > :12:31.our help. A young man, Connall Rhodes, has decided on his bat to go
:12:31. > :12:37.
:12:37. > :12:46.out and try to help our insects. years old. I have made an insect
:12:46. > :12:54.hotel. An insect hotel is where where insects can go and live safe
:12:54. > :12:59.from birds and all of those animals who would eat insects. My grandma
:12:59. > :13:09.got a booklet to plan the insect hotel. It took two months to build
:13:09. > :13:13.
:13:13. > :13:20.it. I filled it in with cones, wood with holes in, bricks with holes in.
:13:20. > :13:26.Bamboo. The holes are for the insects to go in and live in there.
:13:26. > :13:32.Some of the holes I have things in that the insects can eat. I think
:13:32. > :13:41.it's quite big for some insects. It looks more like someone who is about
:13:41. > :13:48.five could fit in it if they had big enough doors. I think that wood lice
:13:48. > :13:55.would go in and live on the wood, beetles would as well. Spiders would
:13:55. > :14:00.go in and live there in some holes and make webs in the big ones. So
:14:00. > :14:06.far, I've seen a beetle and some flying insects. Martin, I would like
:14:06. > :14:16.to know how to attract hedgehogs to come and live in my insect hotel.
:14:16. > :14:26.
:14:26. > :14:29.I've put signs by the hedgehog Brilliant. Really good. But I guess,
:14:29. > :14:33.there was a bit of round the entrance already, but you want to
:14:33. > :14:37.put logs and twigs round the entrance, not only does it stop the
:14:37. > :14:41.wind going in, but they like to sneak into their houses, so that
:14:41. > :14:46.will be my first tip. Second tip is try and draw them in by feeding
:14:46. > :14:52.them. Never put milk out, but dog food out. Mincemeat. Chopped egg,
:14:52. > :14:58.and see what happens. Good luck, but you are doing a very good job at
:14:58. > :15:03.encouraging wildlife. Level-headed. First time of the
:15:03. > :15:08.tinkly bell. A few people have it right. The whole thing?Nearly. I
:15:08. > :15:11.think a flash of flesh has sent everyone into a frenzy. Hundreds of
:15:11. > :15:16.answers. There is a few wrong answers for C.
:15:16. > :15:22.A few people, good guesses. Shall I give you some wrong answers.
:15:22. > :15:28.Sam thinks it is the left overs from a bunch of grapes. Julia thinks it
:15:28. > :15:33.could be a poodle. Is that a hint? And Vicky says it looks like a maths
:15:33. > :15:37.equation. None of them quite right. Somebody has it right. We will come
:15:37. > :15:43.back to this in a minute. OK. Shall we remind ourselves what the quiz
:15:43. > :15:49.is. Here you go. I wonder how the audience are doing in here. That is
:15:49. > :15:57.it, you have to match the faces to the tattoo. Whose tattoos? Lovely.
:15:57. > :16:03.That is a beauty, isn't it. Now, let us move on. I love this
:16:03. > :16:08.one. We have been sent some of these lovely objects, this has come from
:16:08. > :16:11.Mrs Vine, she said no poo for Chris to play with, but I found this skull
:16:11. > :16:18.on a National Trust volunteer holiday. We are going to pass it
:16:18. > :16:23.over to Nick. I thought it was a pie! I was looking forward to that.
:16:23. > :16:29.What is it? The give away is the fact the jaw is still articulated to
:16:29. > :16:34.the skull. The tooth just fell out. The weasel family do that, they have
:16:34. > :16:40.a jaw that, well not, it will won't love the top part of the skull. That
:16:40. > :16:46.big crest on the back is where the jaw muscles attach. Lions have that.
:16:46. > :16:53.You think this is going to be a big vicious predator but it eats, earth
:16:53. > :16:57.worms. This is a badger skull. Very good find. One of my favourite, the
:16:57. > :17:02.most sculptural skulls. You don't have to have a fox skull with you?
:17:02. > :17:06.Funny you should mention this. I have this one here, I have a one
:17:06. > :17:11.here, the jaw has fallen off. That wouldn't happen with the badger. You
:17:11. > :17:15.have a fox skull. You have an idea of the size difference. If it had
:17:15. > :17:19.teeth I would have show you, none of them have teeth, so I give up. There
:17:19. > :17:25.is no point in talking about it! Beautifully done mate. Let us take
:17:25. > :17:29.in a spot of art. Excuse me. Darren. Look at this. Absolutely fantastic.
:17:29. > :17:35.Round of applause for this. Look at them.
:17:35. > :17:41.APPLAUSE Darren, you like to do these, how
:17:41. > :17:45.long do they take do? Everything I do outside, so less than a day, it
:17:45. > :17:51.happens in that one day. It happens in one day? Sometimes less than
:17:51. > :17:56.that, the studies are quicker than that. Some of them may take a
:17:56. > :18:01.winter's day. Everything is done outside and it is direct in brush.
:18:01. > :18:07.Some are splodged. Yeah.And why is that? It is because it is done
:18:07. > :18:10.outside, I am out in all weathers so rain, snow, if the paint freezes, it
:18:10. > :18:14.is something to work with, when something like that happens it is
:18:14. > :18:19.excitement. It is part of the day, it is what was happening then, the
:18:19. > :18:24.environment has come into the paintings. So that, if it rains that
:18:24. > :18:29.that runs a bit, that is part and parcel. The texture is caused by
:18:29. > :18:33.rain. They are beautiful. Long tail tit family, the wax wing, beautiful.
:18:33. > :18:38.You have been out on the reserve. Yes. We have a film of you out
:18:38. > :18:43.there. Let us look at you at work on the reserve. There you are.
:18:43. > :18:48.Take us through it. Here you are. When I am out, for me it is about, I
:18:48. > :18:52.am out, I am looking, observering, I am finding subjects, but I like to
:18:52. > :18:56.be in one place, I like to know my environment, so here on the reserve
:18:56. > :19:01.I found this one spot where the pied flycatcher, I don't see them much at
:19:01. > :19:05.home. I was there, pied fly catch evers great. I was there for the
:19:05. > :19:09.whole day. -- catchers. I saw another one fledge this morning.
:19:10. > :19:15.is magical. It is amazing how a couple of these strokes from your
:19:15. > :19:20.brush and it just, it just appear, just comes to life on the page.
:19:20. > :19:25.brush itself is fascinating, you can do, line, colour, shape, form, just
:19:25. > :19:33.with the flick of the hand. But you keep looking as well. You keep
:19:33. > :19:36.watching, just to get the feel of the bird itself. As natural laze we
:19:36. > :19:41.observer, we look to understand, we look to learn. It's the same with
:19:41. > :19:46.art and drawing, you are looking to observer and learn. That is
:19:46. > :19:50.fantastic. It is hard to portray a bluetit head unless you draw it then
:19:50. > :19:55.you can recognise the markings. we got that picture, the picture, so
:19:55. > :20:00.this is the one we saw you doing. That is right. Look at that.The
:20:00. > :20:03.white of the paper is the key. I want it to move round. We can
:20:03. > :20:07.suggest, we don't have to pick out everything on the bird. We can
:20:07. > :20:13.suggest an outline. I love the way. It is what you don't put paint on
:20:13. > :20:18.that brings it to light. You are working in negative in many ways.
:20:18. > :20:25.Are you still working? We will see that one, thank you for joining us.
:20:25. > :20:30.Round of applause. APPLAUSE
:20:31. > :20:35.Thank you. Now, talking of observering nature,
:20:35. > :20:45.we quite often on Springwatch sea birds mating -- see birds mating. It
:20:45. > :20:46.
:20:46. > :20:53.is not an elegant thing to watch. Of course, birds don't have a proper
:20:53. > :21:00.penis. So it is really difficult for them, as you can see to ensure they
:21:00. > :21:06.mate. And... My friend Greg the climber would, he looks pleased with
:21:06. > :21:13.himself. Greg the climber wants to know, how do birds do it? It looks
:21:13. > :21:22.very ungainly. It is hit-and-miss, because they don't have what we call
:21:22. > :21:26.organs that will ensure the sperm gets into the female. They have a
:21:26. > :21:30.cloaca. They literally have to put the two
:21:30. > :21:35.orifices together. When you are wobbling round on the back of a bird
:21:35. > :21:40.and you are trying to squeeze round and it is windy, it is unsuccessful,
:21:40. > :21:47.that is why we see bird mating so often. When it came to kestrel, in
:21:47. > :21:51.order the fertilise one egg they may have to cop late up to 25 times. Now
:21:51. > :21:57.evolution works in devious ways, when it becomes difficult, when you
:21:57. > :22:00.have water involved, some of the ducks they have begun to develop
:22:00. > :22:05.rudimentary penis, I have read somewhere in proportion to its body
:22:05. > :22:10.size the Ruddy duck has the largest pee ni, it is a small bird but it
:22:10. > :22:14.has to guarantee to deliver that sperm. Fascinating. There you go
:22:14. > :22:18.Greg the climber. This complicated business. We promised you grass
:22:18. > :22:24.snakes, we have them. Let us go to the grass snakes immediately.
:22:24. > :22:29.brilliant. It is gorgeous. We have noticed, I was under
:22:29. > :22:33.misapprehension. Has it pooed on you? Yes. Timing in Springwatch, we
:22:34. > :22:41.struggle a it be. Look at this for good timing. It is shedding its
:22:41. > :22:48.skin. In one nice bit. It looks at its brightest. I have got to ask
:22:48. > :22:54.though, literally, was that poo? is skin. It is shedding live on
:22:54. > :22:58.television. Crikey. Chris, very quickly, we, we saw, I thought that
:22:58. > :23:05.snakes either were constrictors that squeeze their pre-or they were like
:23:05. > :23:09.an add adder they were venomous, when the adder took the chicks it
:23:09. > :23:13.was neither It was brute strength. They will grab it by the head. The
:23:13. > :23:17.further or the feathers will be facing in the opposite direction. In
:23:17. > :23:21.order to get the animal down, if it is larger than them, they have a
:23:21. > :23:26.skull which can virtually disconnect. Held together. The
:23:26. > :23:31.plates with lack us the fibre, the only bits that don't separate are
:23:31. > :23:36.the brain case and eye, they can open their mouth and they produce an
:23:36. > :23:43.excess of saliva so it slides down easily, they don't need a pint of
:23:43. > :23:48.beer! Back do you, Nick, how do you get snake, Nigel, sorry. I am being
:23:48. > :23:56.told I should ask you this. How do you manage to get them, I
:23:56. > :24:01.want them in my garden. How can you encourage them in? You have to be
:24:01. > :24:07.connected to habitat. Putting a pond in because you attract amphibians
:24:07. > :24:12.they eat. Refuge piles for them to go into, but also as they are the
:24:12. > :24:18.only egg laying snake, a compost heap. Lovely. Have you got them in
:24:18. > :24:23.your garden. Sadly not. We have had two of my favourite animals snakes
:24:23. > :24:30.and dresses. You love that smell, don't you? I don't mind I I remind
:24:30. > :24:34.me of my childhood. Let us leave that quickly! Let us go outside and
:24:34. > :24:40.see how Darren is getting on. Thank you for bringing them in, the snakes
:24:40. > :24:47.are gorgeous. Look at that. What have you seen out here, now,
:24:47. > :24:51.that you have been watching? willow warblers in the hawthorn. The
:24:51. > :24:54.flower are dying down, the greens, the dampness we have got, for me is
:24:54. > :25:01.what painting outside is about, it is the environment, and the way the
:25:01. > :25:06.paint is reacting with the dampness. And, it hasn't been raining on you?
:25:06. > :25:10.It was drizzling a bit. If it rains too hard it will give you trouble?
:25:10. > :25:14.The paper is working for me, which is great. It is lovely. Beautiful.
:25:14. > :25:19.That bird is magically, like, again, you have left out, it is the white
:25:19. > :25:23.isn't it. The paper you leave behind. You say, the paper moves
:25:23. > :25:28.round, the weather conditions affect the paper. Exactly. When I brought
:25:28. > :25:33.it out this morning it weighed qlefr than it normally does because of the
:25:33. > :25:38.moisture absorbed. As soon as I put paint on it behave behaves
:25:38. > :25:42.differently. It is a wonderful things. Such a complex thing.Water
:25:42. > :25:47.colour is the simplest of mediums but it is so complex at the same
:25:47. > :25:51.time. I will speak to you about that later on. After the show. Thank you
:25:51. > :25:55.Darren. It is now time to resolve our
:25:55. > :26:02.mystery quiz. Let us remind ourselves, what the
:26:02. > :26:10.questions really were, once again. I might ask the audience. Here are
:26:10. > :26:14.the tattoo, which tattoo, this ugly person has? Any ideas? Any advance
:26:14. > :26:24.on sun? I would like to think you were a wall creeper kind of man.
:26:24. > :26:31.are right. What about this fellow here? ? Got to be bird?A bit on the
:26:31. > :26:37.end? Chris has got that beautiful, can you tell us what it is? A wall
:26:37. > :26:43.creeper. One of my favourite species of birds. Not a UK species, you find
:26:43. > :26:47.it all over Asia as well. Now, Kirstie has got perhaps the most
:26:47. > :26:54.fascinating one. Kirstie, can you, well, hang on a minute. Let me get
:26:54. > :26:59.this right. Did, who got that, any other odd Suiing suggestions as to
:27:00. > :27:06.what it was? Part of river maps, and... That is a good one. I could
:27:06. > :27:11.be a river. DNA, there was a lot of DNA. OK. Kirstie, will you tell us
:27:11. > :27:18.what this curious tattoo is? It is a copy of the tree of life drawn by
:27:18. > :27:22.Charles Darwin in 1837. You can see, it says I think, and why did you go
:27:22. > :27:27.for that momentous thing? I am interested in biology and natural
:27:27. > :27:31.history, I think Darwin, his work and life are really interesting, and
:27:31. > :27:37.inspirational. Fascinating, you were spot on. We won't ask to see it
:27:37. > :27:45.live. Thank you very much indeed. Where it is. Well done.
:27:45. > :27:49.APPLAUSE We have just got time, I have lost
:27:50. > :27:56.all the question, they have been blown over, we have time for another
:27:56. > :28:02.one, Robin says spider, Why don't they stick to their webs? This is
:28:02. > :28:10.one filmed in our wonderful macro studio. Why don't they stick to
:28:10. > :28:14.their own ewebs? They make three different types of silk. They make a
:28:14. > :28:20.silk that radiates out. That holds the web, that is the basic
:28:20. > :28:25.foundation, then they make spiral silk, which will give it further
:28:25. > :28:29.structure, last they spin something called capture silk. That is sticky
:28:29. > :28:34.stuff they put in a certain part of the web where they hope to catch the
:28:34. > :28:37.insect, that is how... Why don't they stick to it? Because they have
:28:37. > :28:42.tiny hairs on their feet which stop them from sticking to it.
:28:42. > :28:47.Fascinating. There is more to that. Thank you very much indeed. It has