:00:16. > :00:21.raven, four extra presenters, a live audience, and bags of facts and fun.
:00:22. > :00:33.It is the last in the current series of Springwatch Unsprung!
:00:34. > :00:41.CHEERING CHEERING Wow! We've got more people.
:00:42. > :00:46.This is a record, the most people we've managed to squeeze into the
:00:47. > :00:53.studio. I would like to thank Julian, the landlord of the local
:00:54. > :00:58.pub, for this shirt. We like shirts on this show. This is your show. We
:00:59. > :01:03.love your photographs, good and bad. We love hearing your comments and we
:01:04. > :01:08.love your questions. We want you to keep sending them in, which seems
:01:09. > :01:15.like a strange request as the series is winding up, but the web carries
:01:16. > :01:16.on. You can get in touch with us via the website - bbc.co.uk/springwatch.
:01:17. > :01:35.You can get us on Twitter: The more than capable lawyerra is
:01:36. > :01:40.scanning the Interweb. What are they saying? Tremendous. We asked
:01:41. > :01:50.everyone today what their highlights were. The low was the hen eagle,
:01:51. > :01:56.ospreys fledging, adders. Have you got a favourite moment? I really
:01:57. > :02:03.liked adder in the nest. Hey, there is a dark side to you. I know. I
:02:04. > :02:09.have never seen it before. I liked the water beetle. I have more bug
:02:10. > :02:18.moments later in the show. Shall we have some quick fire? Die get first
:02:19. > :02:22.go? Don't cheat. This is oryou. Phil Jones wants reassurance about false
:02:23. > :02:29.widow spired. Don't worry about them. I share my house with dozens
:02:30. > :02:33.of them, they are by my fish tank, under the bed. They were lovely.
:02:34. > :02:39.They can bite but just don't squeeze them. Good advice. Michaela. Pauline
:02:40. > :02:47.Garlic says thank you for the last few weeks. Where can we get therapy
:02:48. > :02:51.for withdrawal symptoms? Sing you can get therapy from the great owl
:02:52. > :03:01.in the sky. I will give you a very good rate. Martin. Should we disard
:03:02. > :03:05.old swallow nests when they leave? I've got loads in the stables? No,
:03:06. > :03:10.because sometimes they will re-use them. They will come and repair
:03:11. > :03:15.them. Leave them there. I know Chris is itching for a question but he
:03:16. > :03:18.isn't going to get one. Instead, you've got a more practical
:03:19. > :03:25.challenge. This is from nine-year-old Lottie. She found
:03:26. > :03:29.these on Skomer. She sent them in to you because she knows you are
:03:30. > :03:32.fascinating these things. She thought they were owl but was
:03:33. > :03:38.surprised by the presence of fish scales. I know what they are but I'm
:03:39. > :03:45.keeping my mouth shut. Have a poke around. Martin. We know you're one
:03:46. > :03:50.for the birds. Yes. Don't deny it. What's coming next? We have
:03:51. > :03:57.photographic evidence somewhere. Oh, come on. I was hoping you wouldn't
:03:58. > :04:02.do that. Come over here. Back by popular demand. And that means you
:04:03. > :04:11.asked for this, and they came number three in the great Springwatch
:04:12. > :04:18.moments, we have Lloyd Buck and his amazing starlings.
:04:19. > :04:26.APPLAUSE This is what hats, out come the -- this is what happens, out
:04:27. > :04:31.come the starlings. I thought we would do something high risk. They
:04:32. > :04:35.love their bath and they haven't had their bath today. I thought, if we
:04:36. > :04:40.put the bath on the table, just maybe they might have a bath. You
:04:41. > :04:50.don't look that confident. It is unlikely but we'll give it a go. I
:04:51. > :04:56.think there's too much going on. Royston's become a perch. Give us
:04:57. > :05:03.the background of these birds. Rose and I have had these since they were
:05:04. > :05:09.five days old. She put all the work on these, they are very impresented
:05:10. > :05:15.on her, but they know me as well. We never realised how intelligent
:05:16. > :05:21.starlings are. They were so clever. You've got owls. Everyone thinks
:05:22. > :05:25.owls are clever but compared to the starlings, these are way smarter
:05:26. > :05:34.aren't they? Owls are very good at what they do, but starlings have a
:05:35. > :05:38.broader spectrum intelligence. And they can mimic really well can't
:05:39. > :05:43.they? These guys do. We have them in the house in the evening and the
:05:44. > :05:49.telly triggers them to go through a repertoire. They all speak. And some
:05:50. > :05:58.of them have rather bad language don't they? I hope not! This is
:05:59. > :06:04.pre-watershed! They do. They do bird calls, the ducks and the tawny
:06:05. > :06:10.eagle. There is no point asking if they will do this to command. No,
:06:11. > :06:17.they mimic when they feel like it. And they live inside the house with
:06:18. > :06:22.you and Rose? In the evening they have their carry pits. I'm going to
:06:23. > :06:31.leave you guys to continue having fun. Is he foraging or is it worse?
:06:32. > :06:37.LAUGHTER Now, it is the last day of pitch and therefore it was my last
:06:38. > :06:43.time to go on to the reserve for the my one-hour lunch break challenge.
:06:44. > :06:50.I'm on a mission to find myself, the last creature on my Minsmere bucket
:06:51. > :06:54.list. It is a green-eyed beauty that's made my otherwise brown eyes
:06:55. > :07:01.turn green. Everyone else seems to have seen it except me, so we are on
:07:02. > :07:07.the quest for a Norfolk Hawker dragonfly. It is not the dragonfly I
:07:08. > :07:11.set out to see but that is still a very special thing. That's a
:07:12. > :07:16.four-shotted chaser but it is a slightly different colour form. You
:07:17. > :07:22.don't see them very often. A stunning is insect. I've got an
:07:23. > :07:27.adder who is just shrinking off, you can make out the end of his tail as
:07:28. > :07:33.he disappears into the foliage. I suspect he was basking when he was
:07:34. > :07:38.disturbed by us. And we've got one right at the top of that Scots pine
:07:39. > :07:43.tree. It has literally just landed there. It might as weld be just
:07:44. > :07:47.another pine needle on the tree, but it is there. We have succeeded in
:07:48. > :07:52.our mission. As if that isn't enough, we know we've got another
:07:53. > :07:56.one in there. We've seen a third individual fly up into that tree. So
:07:57. > :07:59.we are in the presence of three of these glorious insects. We've
:08:00. > :08:05.succeeded. There's no question about it. We've had Norfolk hawkers coming
:08:06. > :08:11.out of our ears. In fact we've got one just there right now, honest,
:08:12. > :08:16.right above us. In fact there's another one. They are famously
:08:17. > :08:21.hyperactive. Today the weather is made for dragon flies. We have
:08:22. > :08:27.succeeded in our lunchtime mission and I'm praying and hoping you've
:08:28. > :08:32.scented -- sent in some fantastic pictures of Norfolk hawk hearse with
:08:33. > :08:37.everybody. Brilliant -- hawkers with everybody. Brilliant. Job done.
:08:38. > :08:43.APPLAUSE Not bad, we succeeded. We found one, more than one. Filming
:08:44. > :08:50.them, however, was rather difficult. Well done Henry. He didn't have the
:08:51. > :08:54.best camera or the most time. Do we have any images that give us the
:08:55. > :08:59.essence of this wonderful dragonfly? Yes, we do. Look at that. They don't
:09:00. > :09:06.get much better than that. They are wonderful. Any others? That's just
:09:07. > :09:10.that for now. If you haven't seen a Norfolk haircut, come to the Fen
:09:11. > :09:16.lands. You've got about a month left before they all perish, basically. I
:09:17. > :09:20.mean they die. Their lives come to an end. Have a look at them on the
:09:21. > :09:25.wing. They are stunning. We've been asking you what you got
:09:26. > :09:33.up to on your wild lunch break event been busy. Iolo, have you done
:09:34. > :09:38.anything in your lunch break? I went to Minsmere for the first time since
:09:39. > :09:47.1986. What did you see they? Bitterns, har yes, occur clue,
:09:48. > :09:53.silver-studied blues. How come you've seen a Norfolk hawker?
:09:54. > :09:59.Whittled them down. Andy is our cameraman. They don't have much of a
:10:00. > :10:04.lunch break. Let's have some sympathy. In the few seconds they
:10:05. > :10:10.gave them to bolt down a sandwich, he was sitting on the deck. Look, a
:10:11. > :10:15.hummingbird hawk moth and that was taken on your phone. Brilliant
:10:16. > :10:23.stuff. That means there is a bit of a migration going on, so keep your
:10:24. > :10:27.eye out in the next couple of weeks. If you see a humming bird in your
:10:28. > :10:33.garden, it is not a humming bird. Michaela, many you don't get any
:10:34. > :10:47.lunch breaks. You sit in your caravan. I'm fading away. I'm
:10:48. > :10:53.fading! We've got some great pictures. Peter spotted on his
:10:54. > :10:58.lunchtime at the Grand Union Canal in Ealing, the centre of London.
:10:59. > :11:07.This is a skim ser, a female. I think I saw one of those today. This
:11:08. > :11:11.one has a damsel fly photograph. I saw loads of these while we were
:11:12. > :11:18.filming. Do you know what they are doing? The male is dragging the
:11:19. > :11:23.female after she laid eggs. We did something about it. By his anal
:11:24. > :11:32.class pers. Can you say that? Fantastic. Trevor the botanist. A
:11:33. > :11:38.lovely one. A bee orchid on his lunchtime. You might think that's a
:11:39. > :11:46.clean picture of an orchid but orchid means testicles. So you keep
:11:47. > :11:52.telling us! I just like the word. This is biology, a nice big sexy
:11:53. > :12:00.female bee to lure the bee be, and it deceives the bee and shoves
:12:01. > :12:07.pollen capsules. Thank you, do keep them coming in. : We enjoy hearing
:12:08. > :12:11.from you. We've been giving the you all sorts of things to get involved
:12:12. > :12:16.with, particularly good old science projects. With all the wonderful
:12:17. > :12:23.apps available, it's a lot easier. We've launched a few on the show and
:12:24. > :12:32.we've had amazing stats. The great British bee count. Our coverage
:12:33. > :12:41.helped them to achieve 38,000 new bee records since Tuesday. And they
:12:42. > :12:52.appeared in a certain auction site's app charts. The i Record app, and
:12:53. > :12:59.19,000 butterflies counted so far. Michaela has some stats. We did the
:13:00. > :13:05.national hedgehog survey. We asked people to send off for a kid. The
:13:06. > :13:08.people's trust who run the hedgehog survey have received a thousand
:13:09. > :13:13.e-mails. They said they are sorry they are having a bit of trouble
:13:14. > :13:15.replying to them all but will reply as soon as possible. The ladybird
:13:16. > :13:18.survey, 10% as soon as possible. The ladybird
:13:19. > :13:22.survey, of all downloads happened in the last two days, so thank you so
:13:23. > :13:28.much for getting involved. It is brilliant. And we've got a new one
:13:29. > :13:34.for you, just when you, you might have to delete some photos on your
:13:35. > :13:40.phone. This is the mammal tracker app, by the Mammal Society. Another
:13:41. > :13:48.beautiful quality production. Let's choose this one. If you see one of
:13:49. > :13:51.these mammals you click the button. It has an ID guide, so you can see
:13:52. > :13:54.where its distribution. It It has an ID guide, so you can see
:13:55. > :14:04.where its distribution. has an image gallery. It's my fantasticers again.
:14:05. > :14:13.But you get the -- it's my fingers again, but you get the idea. You can
:14:14. > :14:19.record all your mammals on that. He's been behind the scenes, we know
:14:20. > :14:24.that he is a mammal. Where are you? A small and cuddly mammal I think
:14:25. > :14:32.you will find. We were in one of the hides to unveil a stunning piece of
:14:33. > :14:41.graffiti art. The bearded tit. He featured on the programme. It is
:14:42. > :14:46.tremendous. This is the star of the show, the bittern, look at the eyes,
:14:47. > :14:51.foliage and colour. Finally, the other set. Look at the curve of the
:14:52. > :14:57.beak and the colours. It is truly stunning -- the avocet. Matt is with
:14:58. > :15:03.us. We set up a time-lapse photography kit. We saw your images
:15:04. > :15:11.appear on the wall. You had helpers as well. It wasn't just me. I wish I
:15:12. > :15:20.could paint that fast normally. It is transforming what is pretty much
:15:21. > :15:25.a dull hide, isn't it? Every hide should have a make over. Hide is a
:15:26. > :15:31.dreary place, usually. Suddenly it is colour, fun, drama, terrific.
:15:32. > :15:37.Thanks very much. I love my job. What can I say? You are happy man.
:15:38. > :15:46.You made the rest of us happy. At the end of the day it is only a bit
:15:47. > :15:52.of graffiti, isn't it? Spray can paint, how hard can it be? Look at
:15:53. > :16:02.this, fantastic. There we have the bearded tit. Then we have the eye.
:16:03. > :16:06.We have our very own Birds Eye pie chart. That is a stunning piece of
:16:07. > :16:13.work! From all of us in the studio, in hide, goodbye. Low-carbon Matt,
:16:14. > :16:18.you had better paint over that quickly. Thank you for your
:16:19. > :16:24.enlightening insights, that is the best thing to call them this week.
:16:25. > :16:29.Thanks to and from the red button team for keeping him under control.
:16:30. > :16:33.Wright, Chris, pellet analysis. I did not know if the young lady
:16:34. > :16:47.wanted them back. These are pellets made by a gull species. These fish
:16:48. > :16:51.scales are clearly visible. It has been scavenging fish. There is quite
:16:52. > :16:54.a lot of glass material in here. These gulls will pick this up when
:16:55. > :17:00.they are foraging for other things. I opened this slightly, filled full
:17:01. > :17:04.of fish bones. It is probably catching or scavenging fish from the
:17:05. > :17:08.shore. It is not only birds of prey is not only birds of. Anything which
:17:09. > :17:14.eats something in the adjustable will take it into its crop and
:17:15. > :17:20.regurgitate it. It does not want it passing through its got, even small
:17:21. > :17:25.birds like Robins will inject a pellets like this. This is a
:17:26. > :17:29.receptacle of great joy. When you are a kid and you can break this
:17:30. > :17:35.open you can find all sorts of interesting things. I thought for a
:17:36. > :17:38.long time rather than small plastic models, cereal manufacturers should
:17:39. > :17:43.have one in each box so the kids can open them at the breakfast cereal.
:17:44. > :17:50.Some kids almost certainly do that. We have been contacted by Saint
:17:51. > :17:54.Mary's primary class. They have just coughed up these pellets
:17:55. > :18:00.themselves! They have been doing this in the classroom. This is some
:18:01. > :18:09.of their work here. Look at this, they have glued down all the bones
:18:10. > :18:15.onto there. Look at that! Oh, no, I will stick them back on later! Mrs
:18:16. > :18:20.Jenkins, where are you? Mrs Jenkins is here, their teacher. She has to
:18:21. > :18:25.be teacher of the year. I would vote for that. Did you do about pellets
:18:26. > :18:32.at school? Only under the covers, just me in class for B. They have
:18:33. > :18:35.all the bones out, I like the idea of articulating a skeleton and
:18:36. > :18:39.sticking them on, because it teaches them which animal they found and
:18:40. > :18:45.also how the animal works in terms of its skeleton. Top work. Thank
:18:46. > :18:52.you. Do you have any questions? We have time for one. Why do owls heat
:18:53. > :19:00.-- eat whole bodies, not just the meaty bits? A good question.
:19:01. > :19:04.Kestrels and buzzards are annoying. They test things up before you eat
:19:05. > :19:09.them, they smash up the schools and they are difficult to identify. Owls
:19:10. > :19:14.have a massive throat and can swallow these things whole, which is
:19:15. > :19:17.what they tend to do. They will turn up to feed their chicks at that time
:19:18. > :19:22.and if they get something really big like a young rat or a rabbit, they
:19:23. > :19:29.will tear that up as well but typically the big wide mouth enables
:19:30. > :19:34.them to swallow them whole. Even better, I had the remains of an owl
:19:35. > :19:46.pellet in my necklace. I thought you would be impressed with that. Look
:19:47. > :19:49.at that. It is a shrew. If you want any more information about owl
:19:50. > :19:53.pellets, how to pull them apart, there are resources on the website.
:19:54. > :20:04.There is a storm brewing, you can hear it in the distance. This is a
:20:05. > :20:13.special treat. Please welcome back Lloyd and Bran the Raven. Bran has a
:20:14. > :20:18.TV phobia, it turns out. We have seen just how smart Corvids can be.
:20:19. > :20:22.We have seen them in action, up to all sorts and they don't get much
:20:23. > :20:30.more intelligent than a Raven, do they? No. Tell us a little bit about
:20:31. > :20:41.Bran. I have had him since two weeks old. He has a lovely temperament. He
:20:42. > :20:46.is a bit clumsy! A bit like me. He is also very clever and cheeky. He
:20:47. > :20:53.is going to go for all the schools. We are going to be in trouble. Mrs
:20:54. > :20:58.Jenkins is here. There was a little demonstration, Mrs Jenkins will put
:20:59. > :21:04.me in detention! There is a tray of stones, somewhere. Is it under the
:21:05. > :21:10.table? He has spied it. I will try and distract him. Now, there is a
:21:11. > :21:20.particular item there. I don't know which one it is! It it's -- was it
:21:21. > :21:28.that one? It is a stone. When I say the magic word. There it is, we will
:21:29. > :21:34.hide it. Bran can't see it. Make sure he can see all the food. I have
:21:35. > :21:42.concealed it. See if Bran can find it. Where is your stone? Where is
:21:43. > :21:47.your stone? Look at that, straight in. That is absolutely amazing. He
:21:48. > :21:51.has had that's done, he found it when he was small and he goes
:21:52. > :21:57.everywhere with it. He can spot it anywhere. Why that stone? He took a
:21:58. > :22:04.liking to it. I took it home and I hide all over the place. He is a
:22:05. > :22:08.smart bird. Do you remember when I set him up against the poodles? The
:22:09. > :22:12.poodle is meant to be intelligent and we had a chamber which they had
:22:13. > :22:17.to try to pull open and they failed completely. We gave it to Bran and
:22:18. > :22:26.he did it in 12 seconds. He thrashed the poodles. We had a trick earlier
:22:27. > :22:31.on. One of the tea cosy spot it, unfortunately. He is trying to raid
:22:32. > :22:41.me. He knows that there is good is in my pocket. -- there are good
:22:42. > :22:43.things in my pocket. At is water, OK!
:22:44. > :22:53.LAUGHTER Sorry about that. Right, there is
:22:54. > :23:02.food somewhere on this table, Bran. Bran. There. Not the glove. Thank
:23:03. > :23:08.you. There. What is that? Leave the badge alone. Maybe this is where the
:23:09. > :23:13.birds get their own back with the badgers. He is more interested in
:23:14. > :23:24.the pile of... I was testing him with that earlier. Bran. We will
:23:25. > :23:28.have to make up how intelligent Bran is. Fabulous stuff. I have to leave
:23:29. > :23:34.you guys to play. I have to go over here because you have been sending
:23:35. > :23:35.in loads of your... Hello, Bran. You have been sending in loads of your
:23:36. > :23:38.photos, good and bad. All you have been sending in loads of your
:23:39. > :23:42.photos, good and bad. wonderful Flickr images will be on the website
:23:43. > :23:50.has a slide show, at some point, when Laura has recovered. How many
:23:51. > :23:55.have we got? 350,000. That is a big slide show. But you accidentally
:23:56. > :23:59.came up with a good idea whilst photo file a couple of weeks ago. It
:24:00. > :24:04.is the other end of the photographic spectrum. You have done us proud. We
:24:05. > :24:10.have a few of the best of the ones we haven't shown.
:24:11. > :24:19.This is my favourite. This is called red squirrel. I assume that is the
:24:20. > :24:27.red squirrel, the smudge in the middle. It is all about the
:24:28. > :24:38.environment. This is a skylark. It is my favourite! That is good, the
:24:39. > :24:43.-- the emphasis on the sky. This is barn owl, from previous night. You
:24:44. > :24:51.have to look at that. It looks like Greece on his lens. It is all --
:24:52. > :24:54.annoying. That is closer than the background but he managed to get the
:24:55. > :25:03.background. Thank you for being brave enough to send those in. Do
:25:04. > :25:08.keep sending them in. Whilst photo fail. Who notes what we will do with
:25:09. > :25:13.these images. Top ten, we have been asking for your top ten favourite
:25:14. > :25:18.Springwatch moments throughout the series and we are down to number
:25:19. > :25:23.one. Which is... Everything. Everything. They just couldn't
:25:24. > :25:25.choose. You mean everyone gets a lollipop? Very convenient and PC,
:25:26. > :25:45.but shall we see them anyway? The beak is under the wing and that
:25:46. > :25:51.was a water rail having a little dream. What was it thinking about #
:25:52. > :25:58.Hopefully will fledge and survived to next year. That is the cutest
:25:59. > :26:06.thing I have ever seen. An adult male would mouse and everything must
:26:07. > :26:12.go. It is climbing the greasy pole and it will end with a comedy fall.
:26:13. > :26:18.Wait for it! In fact, each snail has both male bits and female bits, so
:26:19. > :26:25.they do it to each other at the same time. Twice the fun? When she does
:26:26. > :26:30.settle to feed it gives me my opportunity to get my annual otter
:26:31. > :26:44.fix. I can't resist trying to get that close. The little female. It
:26:45. > :26:52.was a buzzard, a very good one. The great news is that we do have a
:26:53. > :27:06.buzzard nest again this year. So... Oh, you idiot!
:27:07. > :27:28.APPLAUSE A combination of much mirth and
:27:29. > :27:32.emotion, that is pretty much what Springwatch is all about and we have
:27:33. > :27:36.pretty much come to the end of the three-week long roller-coaster ride.
:27:37. > :27:41.It has been fun, hasn't it? It has been fun. A huge thank you to the
:27:42. > :27:45.RSPB at Minsmere, who have made us so welcome, and to the other
:27:46. > :27:49.wildlife organisations we constantly phoning up and say, can you tell us
:27:50. > :27:55.the latest statistics? They always help us. Thank you very much, it is
:27:56. > :27:57.appreciated. We want to see thank you to the camera teams all around
:27:58. > :28:05.us. APPLAUSE
:28:06. > :28:08.And Q. The people who put all the films together for us, the producers
:28:09. > :28:13.and directors who are talking to us in our ears and the people behind
:28:14. > :28:18.the scenes who enable us to put this programme together and never get any
:28:19. > :28:27.sex. I would like to thank the animals myself, they are very much
:28:28. > :28:32.in our debt -- they never get any thanks. The badgers, the bitterns,
:28:33. > :28:39.we will have to put up the price of the licence fee. More importantly,
:28:40. > :28:44.we thank you, the audience. You have been brilliant. We cannot do it
:28:45. > :28:48.without all your feedback and input. Both Springwatch and Unsprung thrive
:28:49. > :28:54.on that. We love what you are doing out there. Keep doing it. We may be
:28:55. > :28:57.off the box but nature is continuing out there and we are online all the
:28:58. > :29:02.way through the summer and hopefully with a bit of luck we will see you
:29:03. > :29:05.in the autumn for Autumnwatch. Goodbye!