:00:19. > :00:33.Welcome to a brand new series of Springwatch Unsprung,
:00:34. > :00:35.coming to you live from Suffolk, in front of this feisty
:00:36. > :00:37.and boisterous audience, drawn from the beautiful countryside
:00:38. > :00:43.around us and the RSPB Minsmere staff and volunteers.
:00:44. > :00:56.I'm Chris Packham, and I will be your host for the next three weeks
:00:57. > :01:02.Full stop and this is what we gain to show you. Some of the most
:01:03. > :01:09.fascinating and beautiful wildlife in the region. Have a look at this.
:01:10. > :01:17.Frolicking in the fields. The birdsong sometimes produced by these
:01:18. > :01:24.beautiful wrens. But all of a sudden a predator is lacking in the grass.
:01:25. > :01:33.Perhaps chasing bad little money. And the magnificent sparrowhawk.
:01:34. > :01:38.This camera is live from the woods about 700 metres away. And you can
:01:39. > :01:40.watch these images live on your screen immediately after the
:01:41. > :01:46.programme and throughout the next three weeks. The programme is a
:01:47. > :01:52.little less about the wildlife and a bit more about the people who engage
:01:53. > :01:55.with it. That is you. We really want to engage with the audience and to
:01:56. > :02:00.help us we have experts in the studio and a few famous guests. It
:02:01. > :02:05.is my pleasure to introduce our first guest this evening. Number one
:02:06. > :02:08.and gentle man who used to be a barrister but has been guilty of
:02:09. > :02:15.appearing on television rather a lot. Is extremely eloquent and
:02:16. > :02:20.erudite and has a razor wit. I bet you do not know that he is president
:02:21. > :02:31.of the Woodland Trust. Mr Clive Anderson! We will be talking to you
:02:32. > :02:39.shortly. And the second guest gave up hunting, pop and rock stars and
:02:40. > :02:45.made tracks into the world of wildlife. To find out if she's just
:02:46. > :02:52.sweet or a fox on the run, we will be looking later at book. It is
:02:53. > :02:58.Lucie Jones. As I was saying, this programme is all about the viewers.
:02:59. > :03:06.Lindsay Chapman, nice to see you again. How are you? I trod on your
:03:07. > :03:14.foot! You did, quite a lot of weight. How do people get in touch?
:03:15. > :03:18.In so many ways. And so much stuff is coming in all day. They are
:03:19. > :03:23.talking about tonight 's live show, what we might see later on and in
:03:24. > :03:27.particular the live cameras. You can watch those on the website right
:03:28. > :03:32.now. If you have never watched Springwatch this is one of the best
:03:33. > :03:39.things about it. We have got this whole place wired with cable
:03:40. > :03:45.everywhere and it is bringing images from nest cameras. That is the Stone
:03:46. > :03:53.Curlew, rather strange looking, it is a wading bird. And crepuscular,
:03:54. > :03:55.so active in the evening in low light. And we will tell you a lot
:03:56. > :04:00.more about these birds in the programme at eight o'clock over the
:04:01. > :04:07.next three weeks. Beautiful and rare. And also things you might
:04:08. > :04:14.recognise from your own garden. This camera is the bluetit camera. Very
:04:15. > :04:30.sleepy. And the great fit camera as well, let's take a look at that. --
:04:31. > :04:35.great tit. You cannot see if it is the male or the female but feeding
:04:36. > :04:48.is going on. It looks like it was a spider. Now rapidly becoming part of
:04:49. > :04:52.a bluetit! Let's move on. A bit of life feeding straightaway,
:04:53. > :04:58.brilliant. Those cameras are live, they're free and they are there for
:04:59. > :05:03.three weeks 24 hours a day. We have been seeing a lot of pictures of
:05:04. > :05:09.people who have their own nest box at home. This is fabulous, Trevor
:05:10. > :05:13.Baker has a nest box with two bluetit is just meeting each other
:05:14. > :05:19.are apparently they keep banging into each other. A bit of congestion
:05:20. > :05:28.so the brood is probably prospering inside. Fabulous, looks like a
:05:29. > :05:32.mirror. We may only pop up on your television screens once every season
:05:33. > :05:38.but we are here all year online and we would love you to send in your
:05:39. > :05:46.pictures and videos. People have been doing that and here is how you
:05:47. > :05:53.do it. All you have to do is go to the BBC website and look for
:05:54. > :05:58.Springwatch. Hit the play button if you want to see the live cameras.
:05:59. > :06:05.And for live coverage, you could choose any of those cameras. We will
:06:06. > :06:09.alternate those. And in the course of the day if something exciting is
:06:10. > :06:14.happening we will put that camera up. People have been getting in
:06:15. > :06:20.touch all year and sending in pictures and video. I just wanted to
:06:21. > :06:24.build a picture of what has been happening since Winterwatch on the
:06:25. > :06:34.online community. Take a look at this first picture. This is from Ian
:06:35. > :06:44.Ledley, Canada goose, Gosling. And this as well, it really shows Spring
:06:45. > :06:55.for me. Gratuitous bluebells! And that is rather good. The action is
:06:56. > :07:03.fantastic. Sometimes birds of prey grapple with the talent but that was
:07:04. > :07:07.holding its tail. Lots of ways to get in touch and this is exactly
:07:08. > :07:12.how. It has never been easier to get in touch with us here on spring.
:07:13. > :07:17.Wherever you are and whether you use the phone, laptop or tablet. The
:07:18. > :07:22.easiest way is to go online and be our friend on social media. Like as
:07:23. > :07:26.long Facebook and you can post comments and victories on the wall.
:07:27. > :07:31.Follow us on histogram and Taggart into your photographs or get in
:07:32. > :07:36.touch on twitter using the hashtag Springwatch. And if you cannot
:07:37. > :07:43.remember all this it is explained on the website. It is as easy as that,
:07:44. > :07:48.head straight to the website. And one more thing we would love you to
:07:49. > :07:51.get involved with and this is the quiz. Over the next three weeks we
:07:52. > :07:58.will set the quiz every night by a young viewer. This week it is
:07:59. > :08:01.Melanie and she has an incredible collection of skulls. I will hand
:08:02. > :08:07.over to Melanie to set the first question.
:08:08. > :08:13.I'm Melanie, this is my quiz for you. On this skull, this animal had
:08:14. > :08:23.huge eyes so excellent night vision. It has a huge pointed set of
:08:24. > :08:30.canines. What do you think it is? I love that. It is a mystery. I had a
:08:31. > :08:35.massive collection of skulls myself, I started when I was younger than
:08:36. > :08:42.Melanie. I like it when young people get hands-on with nature. Would you
:08:43. > :08:47.like a skull like that? Yes! They beat we could arrange that. I'm sure
:08:48. > :08:53.we could slip Q1. Get in touch and send us your answers on the hashtag
:08:54. > :09:06.Springwatch. Over to our first guest. Welcome, Clive Anderson.
:09:07. > :09:11.Famous for entertaining as in chat and quiz shows. But there has been
:09:12. > :09:22.another side to you we did not know about, the passion for wildlife.
:09:23. > :09:27.Exactly. I have always liked wildlife. I wish I had brought in a
:09:28. > :09:31.photograph, a couple of years ago I was photographing beavers in
:09:32. > :09:37.Scotland, they had been released back into the wild. That is quite
:09:38. > :09:40.the borders, you have to sit there for two hours waiting for them to
:09:41. > :09:46.turn up. If you make any noise they do not come. You have also been
:09:47. > :09:51.overseas in the Masai Mara. We have got a clip. We have seen an
:09:52. > :09:58.elephant, the sun is just coming up over the forest. A perfect day to be
:09:59. > :10:03.trampled to death by a rogue elephant enraged by crowds of people
:10:04. > :10:08.shooting at it! Thankfully not trampled to death. We were trying to
:10:09. > :10:14.scare the elephant away from the crops because the Maasai people are
:10:15. > :10:17.taking up farming, which they did not used to do. There is a bit of
:10:18. > :10:22.conflict there and that was the problem that we were looking up. The
:10:23. > :10:32.wildlife scares the elephant away for them. They tried all kinds of
:10:33. > :10:37.things, bumblebees, all sorts. It was quite dangerous. Sometimes an
:10:38. > :10:43.elephant will come towards you and trample you to death. Your interest
:10:44. > :10:48.goes back further, you did an A-level of the I did science
:10:49. > :10:52.subjects at school, I had an idea to become a doctor so I did zoology and
:10:53. > :11:01.things like that. So I did things on humble bees and termites. Social
:11:02. > :11:10.insects. Why did you turn your back on wildlife? To enter the legal
:11:11. > :11:16.world. If I knew I was going to go into broadcasting I would've stuck
:11:17. > :11:19.with science and nature and I have been co-presenting with you! I do
:11:20. > :11:25.not know, I was unimaginative, becoming a doctor or a lawyer. And
:11:26. > :11:32.the Woodland Trust, you have been present for some time. It is a grand
:11:33. > :11:38.title, I'm just an adornment! Your familiar probably with a wooden
:11:39. > :11:42.trust. Of course, we work with them constantly. Looking to preserve
:11:43. > :11:51.ancient woodland, and new woodland and battling disease. These are some
:11:52. > :11:55.Twitter pictures. These are good. Sometimes a tree can be hard to
:11:56. > :12:02.capture on camera. You want to get the size and the beauty. That is
:12:03. > :12:08.excellent. It is nice. I do not know what that in the middle is. It is a
:12:09. > :12:18.hawthorn. And this is nice as well. In the UK we have less woodland than
:12:19. > :12:23.any other country in Western Europe. Since every man arrived we have been
:12:24. > :12:28.cutting down trees. But recently with the work of the Woodland Trust
:12:29. > :12:34.and others, ancient woodland we're worried about losing because once it
:12:35. > :12:38.has lost it is lost for ever. It develops an ecology of hundreds of
:12:39. > :12:44.years. And people when they want to build something, but you have got to
:12:45. > :12:48.wait 400 years to get the same. And old trees are especially good for us
:12:49. > :12:55.because they have got holes in big enough to hide a substantial bird.
:12:56. > :13:00.This is not the most inspiring view but this is a little owl inside a
:13:01. > :13:06.hollow oak tree. We had a barn owl inside. This is live now. She has
:13:07. > :13:12.three young and she is putting them at the moment. She will be active in
:13:13. > :13:21.the next hour or so. Not keen on appearing in the programme! This is
:13:22. > :13:27.real life wildlife, you cannot beat that. Do not clap your hands! Here
:13:28. > :13:37.we have one of the adults feeding one of the young. It has got a large
:13:38. > :13:42.beetle. Appearing on your show is life and death, sometimes you either
:13:43. > :13:50.start and sometimes you're being fed to the real star! A lot like show
:13:51. > :13:56.business! One last thing, tree of the year, it is something run by the
:13:57. > :13:59.Woodland Trust. There is a European competition and you have got to find
:14:00. > :14:07.the English tree of the year, Scottish, European. A little bit
:14:08. > :14:16.like Eurovision. This is the pear tree. It is magnificent. And this is
:14:17. > :14:21.the major oak, Robin Hood is said to have hidden inside it but I'm afraid
:14:22. > :14:25.it would have been a sapling when he was around. We're not sure whether
:14:26. > :14:30.or not he existed at the European competition is normally one by a
:14:31. > :14:35.tree in Romania. Terry Wogan sadly is no longer with us or he could
:14:36. > :14:42.have done the commentary. As with a lot of things, the English element
:14:43. > :14:49.came in last, Scottish, Irish and Welsh were ahead. But we could win
:14:50. > :14:57.four. What are you up to next? A mini nine miles from here, on with
:14:58. > :15:05.the London Palladium. With the show, whose line is it anyway. -- million
:15:06. > :15:11.miles. So if you want to see Central London and wildlife onstage, I would
:15:12. > :15:17.imagine tickets are available. Do come along. Thank you very much. We
:15:18. > :15:22.set all our guests a challenge and they have been tricky. We had to
:15:23. > :15:25.make a wildcat from plasticine and draw barnacle geese and take
:15:26. > :15:29.photographs on mobile phones. This year we offer a range of artist
:15:30. > :15:41.materials and people have got to, with the visual representation of
:15:42. > :15:45.Minsmere. Clive, going first. This is a painting in acrylic, ten
:15:46. > :15:55.minutes is not longer enough for me to get beyond that. You have got a
:15:56. > :16:03.tree. I was going to do the water, I did not get around to that. I love
:16:04. > :16:08.it. This is a bit or John Nash over that side. Maybe another ten days.
:16:09. > :16:15.Ack Van Gough did not paint as quickly as this! He only had one
:16:16. > :16:22.ear! He did not sell many paintings in his life! It is a competition. A
:16:23. > :16:26.representation of your work here. I will put it in the middle, because
:16:27. > :16:34.we don't know if anybody will get any better. Slightly below the
:16:35. > :16:41.middle! Mike Hedges too big, it is waiting it down! That is pretty
:16:42. > :16:44.good. What do you think? It is top of the leaderboard, not bad.
:16:45. > :16:47.It's time for a new feature that we are calling Hide Share,
:16:48. > :16:49.where well-known faces have the dubious honour of sharing
:16:50. > :16:52.time in a small bird-watching box with our very own Chris here.
:16:53. > :16:54.It's two people sharing a bird-watching hide,
:16:55. > :17:16.They told me I would find you here. What I do looking at? One of your
:17:17. > :17:23.LPs, making sure it has got no scratches. I have not changed a bit!
:17:24. > :17:30.Seriously, we have all aged a bit, but you have not changed that much.
:17:31. > :17:35.You are a smooth talker! Can I get you to sign them? You can be
:17:36. > :17:42.self-effacing, but 7 million albums! It is amazing! I have been doing it
:17:43. > :17:48.an long time. In four years I made 16 albums as a kid. Spitting image
:17:49. > :17:53.happy in the studio and I had to keep going, walking in the air, and
:17:54. > :17:58.my voice started breaking, and somebody would kick me and the voice
:17:59. > :18:03.would shoot back up, and they would say, ten minutes before his voice
:18:04. > :18:10.breaks, that is 37 albums! It felt a bit like that. Have you been here
:18:11. > :18:20.before? I live around the corner, I used to bring the kids here all the
:18:21. > :18:24.time. I am looking at this gull. The surface of the water is alive with
:18:25. > :18:30.insects. I swallowed 30 of them on my way to meet you. It is not good
:18:31. > :18:34.for a single! But it is good for the birds. It is thick with insects. If
:18:35. > :18:44.you can it is from the centre of London. It is stunning.
:18:45. > :18:53.All I do is to see was roosters like this. At 8am I have got a jam some
:18:54. > :18:58.edge in my pocket, my mum does not see me until tea-time, I was out
:18:59. > :19:05.running through rivers and climbing trees. We went out in those days. It
:19:06. > :19:11.did not matter if you cut your on, you did not go home until it was
:19:12. > :19:18.dark. Your dad was into wildlife? He could not believe we were in London.
:19:19. > :19:25.A swift here as well. I am wrong, it is a swallow. I thought you were
:19:26. > :19:30.never wrong! I spoke before I looked, which is a fatal mistake in
:19:31. > :19:35.the world of birding. Always look first, especially when you squinting
:19:36. > :19:39.into the sun! I once thought a plastic bag was a kingfisher, I made
:19:40. > :19:45.somebody reverse of a busy road so we could look out across the river
:19:46. > :19:53.at a plastic ack! I was only 15! Everybody believes what you say. You
:19:54. > :20:11.shouldn't! A blue plastic bag over their! It is a kingfisher!
:20:12. > :20:18.His musical success is remarkable, he has a new album, him duetting
:20:19. > :20:23.with himself as a boy. I will be honest, it looked like you were
:20:24. > :20:28.having problems identifying a kingfisher. I have got a couple of
:20:29. > :20:32.pictures. Here is the first one, this is a kingfisher coming out of
:20:33. > :20:40.the water, quite easy to identify. Very striking. Fabulous photograph.
:20:41. > :20:48.This is absolutely gorgeous, a baby kingfisher. This has had over 25,000
:20:49. > :20:51.likes on our Facebook page already. It is a treat. Everybody goes for
:20:52. > :21:11.the cute! The kingfisher for you! Do come and join us, Lucy! You have
:21:12. > :21:17.done a U-turn, you were writing for the NME, interviewing Bjork, into
:21:18. > :21:22.Radiohead, and now you have written about foxes. I am still into
:21:23. > :21:28.Radiohead! Nature and wildlife has been a lifelong passion. I decided
:21:29. > :21:33.that is the area I wanted to move into, especially when I started to
:21:34. > :21:37.learn how much we stand to lose. Foxes, it is an interesting topic
:21:38. > :21:41.for a journalist, because they incite so much opinion, they can be
:21:42. > :21:47.contentious. I wanted to get my teeth stuck into that. You learned
:21:48. > :21:51.at a young age, with your grandfather? He was into fox
:21:52. > :21:57.hunting? He was a Foxhunter, there was hunting in my family, and
:21:58. > :22:02.farming. I became aware of the fox being more than an animal. Hunting
:22:03. > :22:05.is part of the reason why the Fox has an ambiguous and complex
:22:06. > :22:10.relationship in this country, I wanted to look at that. Lots of
:22:11. > :22:16.cultural references, fabulous Mr Fox here. Very much intertwined with our
:22:17. > :22:23.culture. There is a rich cultural history. Traditionally, he has
:22:24. > :22:29.always been demonised, a devil preacher in Church art or a chicken
:22:30. > :22:34.pincher, the villainous character, until you get to fantastic Mr Fox,
:22:35. > :22:39.with Roald Dahl. He starts to change and becomes a hero, which is
:22:40. > :22:45.mirrored in the way attitudes changed as well. Most people love
:22:46. > :22:50.them these days. You start with urban foxes, the foxes you meet,
:22:51. > :22:59.they are the world's most successful carnival. They go well in our
:23:00. > :23:04.cities. There are 10,000 in London, my patch is Walthamstow marshes. I
:23:05. > :23:09.had a frustratingly few months when I could not find any. In Stoke
:23:10. > :23:13.Newington, it is very built-up with pubs and restaurants, I saw one.
:23:14. > :23:17.That is one of the wonderful things about being a city dweller and
:23:18. > :23:23.seeing them. I live in Highbury, just down the road. There are
:23:24. > :23:28.hundreds of boxes. Come to my back garden or hang around my dustbins!
:23:29. > :23:40.Even if you can't see them, you can hear them. Let's listen to this.
:23:41. > :23:47.They are very vocal. Here is another one.
:23:48. > :23:57.But the complaint I heard, people don't like the vixen scream, it is
:23:58. > :24:03.quite chilling. We hear that in their mating season. Is that their
:24:04. > :24:09.mating? When they make, they remain in the mating process, given that we
:24:10. > :24:17.are before the watershed, for quite some considerable time. Minutes, but
:24:18. > :24:24.nudging two hours. They are mobile, moving around. I would be screaming!
:24:25. > :24:31.We don't want to be thinking about you! Your book is experiential, you
:24:32. > :24:34.went fox hunting with the Hunt saboteurs and you met people who
:24:35. > :24:42.don't like them and many that do. It is very rational. I enjoyed the book
:24:43. > :24:47.greatly. How did you feel, trying to reconcile these polarised opinions
:24:48. > :24:51.about the animal? It was challenging at times. I wanted to approach it as
:24:52. > :24:55.a journalist and be as impartial as possible and present the different
:24:56. > :25:02.agendas, let the reader decide. That was my intention. I love foxes. My
:25:03. > :25:06.motivation for writing it was to investigate them as a wild animal
:25:07. > :25:11.and get past the myths and rumours that you hear and explore them,
:25:12. > :25:17.their social groupings, which are interesting and complex, how they
:25:18. > :25:23.hunt. You have completely turned! You have gone from the NME to fully
:25:24. > :25:27.appreciating the science of boxes! What a transformation! Did you name
:25:28. > :25:33.them after your favourite bands? I should have done! It is a fantastic
:25:34. > :25:40.book. I should not be advertising get. Other Fox books are available!
:25:41. > :25:44.If you are into foxes and you want a balanced view from both sides of the
:25:45. > :25:50.argument, which lays some of the myths to rest, the psychopathic
:25:51. > :25:56.henhouse nonsense, this is the book for you. You have got to show us
:25:57. > :26:01.your artwork, ten minutes, what have you come up with? This is inspired
:26:02. > :26:14.by our trip today. This is what we saw. What do we think about this? It
:26:15. > :26:24.is pretty good. Clive, you did quite well. The three-dimensional aspect
:26:25. > :26:29.of the mixed media, as they say... And difficult the fact of what we
:26:30. > :26:39.saw, which was fantastic. Pretty good. That is really good. We are
:26:40. > :26:48.running out of time. We have got to get to the quiz. Those pictures are
:26:49. > :26:54.on our Flickr page. Go to the website, follow the link, so much to
:26:55. > :27:01.see. Go and have a look. This is one of the pictures on the Flickr site.
:27:02. > :27:05.Have a look at this. It is a Flickr picture of a weasel that we were
:27:06. > :27:12.sent, a baby weasel. How cute is that? Getting out of control! Cute
:27:13. > :27:18.rabbits, cute kingfishers, and now weasels. It will turn into a
:27:19. > :27:27.voracious predator, ripping the heart out of old. Sorry! Josh, who
:27:28. > :27:36.took that, is 13. The quiz answer, my Twitter feed went crazy. Loads of
:27:37. > :27:46.people said Badger, pine Martin, Yorick, but this is what it is.
:27:47. > :27:55.This is a red box. A red Fox! Anybody in the audience
:27:56. > :27:59.get that? One or two. Those large canine teeth are gripping teeth,
:28:00. > :28:04.they are therefore piercing the prey, hanging onto wet, shaking it
:28:05. > :28:11.about. That is typical of that. Well done if you got it right. More quiz
:28:12. > :28:23.tomorrow. If you want to follow Melanie, she is on Twitter.
:28:24. > :28:28.MelanieGBones. It has been a great first programme. Thank you to our
:28:29. > :28:32.guests. We are back at 6:30pm tomorrow.
:28:33. > :28:35.We are back in an hour, where we will be finding out more
:28:36. > :28:40.But before that, if you head to the website now, you can
:28:41. > :28:42.join our expert commentators and Clive for a sneak-peek
:28:43. > :29:05.Thank you, see at 8pm, and tomorrow at 6:30pm.
:29:06. > :29:12.As they come in towards the home straight,
:29:13. > :29:16.Jessica Ennis challenges Brianne Theisen-Eaton.