:00:20. > :00:25.Thank you very much indeed. Thank you very much. Hello and welcome to
:00:26. > :00:30.Springwatch Unsprung. I'm Chris pack ha. You have before you a fine
:00:31. > :00:34.Suffolk audience with smiles on their faces because the downpour has
:00:35. > :00:37.stopped and the sun has come out! CHEER
:00:38. > :00:42.Just about. But it had has been raining a lot today. Now that's not
:00:43. > :00:46.too much trouble for us or our wildlife either.
:00:47. > :00:52.# I'm singing in the rain # Just singing in the rain
:00:53. > :00:57.# what a glorious feeling # I'm happy again
:00:58. > :01:02.# I'm laughing at clouds # So dark up above
:01:03. > :01:06.# the sun's in my heart # And I'm ready for love
:01:07. > :01:15.# Come on with the rain # I've a smile on my face
:01:16. > :01:19.# I walk down the lane # With happy refrain
:01:20. > :01:25.# Singing, just singing in the rain#
:01:26. > :01:30.We will crack on tonight in honour of our first guest. You see n 2002
:01:31. > :01:36.she was treading out quite a fast 400 m, but then she fell for a bloke
:01:37. > :01:40.called skeleton Bob and after an eight-year relationship which went
:01:41. > :01:44.very fast downhill shee, scored the first Olympic gold in the Winter
:01:45. > :01:48.Olympics for 30 years for a British person. She is also into wildlife.
:01:49. > :01:52.Amy Williams is with us tonight! Thank you very much, Amy. Thank you
:01:53. > :01:57.for coming in. My second guest is part of a new
:01:58. > :02:00.guild of nature writers that are reinventing this art and sticking it
:02:01. > :02:04.forward for the Britons as well proximity dues regular markable
:02:05. > :02:09.stuff. Her first novel -- producing remarkable stuff. Her first novel
:02:10. > :02:14.was award winning and her second one was in the summer reading list. Now
:02:15. > :02:19.she has turned her laptop to a subjected on our minds, if not on
:02:20. > :02:22.our minds, dripping down our neck, Melissa Harrison has written about
:02:23. > :02:26.rain. Thank you for coming in. We will catch up with you shoredly.
:02:27. > :02:30.Lyndsey. ! We have had every weather we could possibly have had today.
:02:31. > :02:35.The camp is sodden but the sun has come out. The wellies are off
:02:36. > :02:42.trainers are on. We have had a good day. Philip, on my computer, he has
:02:43. > :02:47.been to Minsmere and saw a by the earn within 20 feet. Good going
:02:48. > :02:50.today. Our live-cam radios have had a brilliant today and a lot of
:02:51. > :02:54.interest from a clip from last night's Springwatch. If you missed
:02:55. > :02:58.it, here is what happened... Yes this is our bullfinch nest. We are
:02:59. > :03:03.filming this at night. It is in total darkness. The finch is
:03:04. > :03:08.sleeping away, but a wood mouse has come up to sniff around, has a
:03:09. > :03:14.nibble at the bird's tail. It gets away with but doesn't get away with
:03:15. > :03:18.nibbling at the break. We postulated the wood mouse was after eating the
:03:19. > :03:24.young as they will do That interesting. We had so muchp sent N
:03:25. > :03:31.we saw this piece of footage, which is similar. Look at this. OK, a
:03:32. > :03:36.magpie and a fox. And then... . That old country sport - peck the fox on
:03:37. > :03:41.the bum. Not many practitioners these days. You need a fox and
:03:42. > :03:47.magpie. We have two scavenging animals that know about each other.
:03:48. > :03:54.The fox is ignoring the magpie because it has nothing to prove and
:03:55. > :03:58.the magpie is cautious of the fox, I admire his gusto. I do. In my peaky
:03:59. > :04:03.blinder's section I was trying to sneak this in. Look at this,
:04:04. > :04:09.brilliant. A fly in a conservatory roof.
:04:10. > :04:15.Hello. I like that. Here I am! Look at this one, fierce. Yes, very
:04:16. > :04:20.glowing of a little owl, the shadow on the left... And spot peaky
:04:21. > :04:24.blinder in this one. Can anyone spot it at home. Let's get a close up
:04:25. > :04:33.there. It is. A husband sparrow s it peaking over
:04:34. > :04:37.a wall? Yes. . It is peeking so hard you have to peek to see
:04:38. > :04:46.T We sent set you a quiz in unsprung.
:04:47. > :04:51.This week, it is set but a group of young naturalists. Look at this.
:04:52. > :04:58.Wetter RSPB Minsmere young wardens, this is our quiz. This poo is
:04:59. > :05:04.floppy, dark and colour. Who's is that?
:05:05. > :05:12.Nice floopy poo, it is what we want. It is a pity the viewers at home
:05:13. > :05:19.can't smell T so much of the clue is in the smell Our young detectives
:05:20. > :05:22.keeping you businessy. Spend your answers using the hashtag
:05:23. > :05:26.#springwatch. I'm watching all the time. The links are on our website.
:05:27. > :05:30.Because we have Amy in, I thought we'd look at some photographs of
:05:31. > :05:34.animals attempting skeleton racial. I can't disappoint. There are a few.
:05:35. > :05:40.Look at this. This is an incoming blue tit. It is. Which is brilliant
:05:41. > :05:43.And this white throat has been practising his technique. Look at
:05:44. > :05:48.that. What do you think, Amy? Good streamline there, I like that.
:05:49. > :05:56.So, keep sending them n thank you very much. Amy I will come over to
:05:57. > :05:59.you. APPLAUSE
:06:00. > :06:04.Well, the 400 m, it was going well but you weren't getting in the team
:06:05. > :06:08.No. How do you get into a tea tray with rails on. We are in a country
:06:09. > :06:13.without snow, we don't do winter sports, normally No, I grew with up
:06:14. > :06:18.a garden that was very steep. We used to get bin bags and when it was
:06:19. > :06:22.snowy off we go and in Bath we have a skeleton start track. I took
:06:23. > :06:25.myself one day and this is' where I would practise the sprint start,
:06:26. > :06:30.where you are pushing it and then I went out and had a go on the ice.
:06:31. > :06:34.Look at that. Eight years later, you got the Olympic gold? Yes, a pretty
:06:35. > :06:37.fast track in that sense but we would spend six months of the year
:06:38. > :06:42.in the cold, around the world, competing and training. You couldn't
:06:43. > :06:46.bring skeleton bob with you, Arthur, we called him Arthur, what happened
:06:47. > :06:52.to him? He has kind of been pulled apart. I have the belly pan and
:06:53. > :06:56.runners and saddle. An amount of him. Great photography. A very good
:06:57. > :07:00.photography. That's good apart from the guy in dark clothing. If he was
:07:01. > :07:05.in red that would be absolutely super. Amazing stuff. Aside from
:07:06. > :07:14.skeleton bob and speeding downhill you are into wildlife as W As well.
:07:15. > :07:19.What are you into? My family, we have brought up, outside. This was
:07:20. > :07:24.my great spotted wood pecker I saw T I had to zoom in a lot. I'll refrain
:07:25. > :07:29.from offering a critique of that foe. In a really restrained fashion.
:07:30. > :07:37.It is not the best quality. On my phone. Good bird, though. We haven't
:07:38. > :07:41.have a TV growing up my family, we were always outside in the garden,
:07:42. > :07:45.country walks with my dad. So many guests have come in and talked about
:07:46. > :07:50.when they were kids and talked about they and we were outside. The
:07:51. > :07:53.audience agree it is a shame the kids aren't outside. You have been
:07:54. > :07:57.outside today. You have picked the right day for T make sure you are
:07:58. > :08:01.outside tomorrow, on a bin bag, going down a steep slope. I'm always
:08:02. > :08:07.in the garden, always looking out at birds. I have noticed there are more
:08:08. > :08:11.bees night. ' A honey monster. I'm into making sure I have all the
:08:12. > :08:15.flowers to make sure the bees are kept happy and spotting. My grandpa
:08:16. > :08:21.was a massive kingfisher fan, we were always trying to spot them when
:08:22. > :08:26.we went for walks and grey tits, blue tit, chaffinches, whatever.
:08:27. > :08:29.There is one bird in your garden you have struggled to identify not
:08:30. > :08:34.because you can't see it, you can hear it. Yes, the owl. I have heard
:08:35. > :08:38.t I have never spotted T it is always at 10.00 at night, I can hear
:08:39. > :08:42.it through my bedroom window. I aim to please. We have three calls of
:08:43. > :08:46.owls, the most likely you will hear in the UK. We'll play T see if you
:08:47. > :08:53.can match the sound you hear with the owls. -- we'll play it.
:08:54. > :08:55.Here is the first one. BARN OWL
:08:56. > :09:02.CALL NEXT UP.
:09:03. > :09:09.NO. Little owl call
:09:10. > :09:13.No. The last one. That's my owl. That's most people's owl. That's
:09:14. > :09:17.tawny owl. The commonest species we have in the UK. A widespread
:09:18. > :09:22.distribution just about from the south to the entire north. Also very
:09:23. > :09:27.common in towns. It'll come into towns, nest in parks or even in
:09:28. > :09:32.buildings. Feeds on birds as well as mammals. I was going to say what can
:09:33. > :09:40.I leave out that it might come more? I met a bloke who used to feed the
:09:41. > :09:45.owls in his garden, he used to feed day-old chicks. You would have to
:09:46. > :09:53.get yourself a freezer, order dead chickens, defrost them, he had a
:09:54. > :09:59.pulley system. He put them up, to the velux window. So if you within
:10:00. > :10:04.the to go to that trouble I'll let it the be. -- so if you want to go.
:10:05. > :10:08.So when you were speeding down, what was your terminal velocity? 92 miles
:10:09. > :10:14.per hour. On a detray. Amy, come over -- on a tea tray. Amy come over
:10:15. > :10:21.here. We have speedy animals. First, we have a badger, OK. Then we have a
:10:22. > :10:24.roe deer in action. Then we have a hare, famed of course for racing
:10:25. > :10:29.tortoises and loosing but nevertheless fast. A bird, which by
:10:30. > :10:34.its very name defines speed, a swift, of course and lastly at the
:10:35. > :10:37.end a peregrine falcon. I would like you to place yourself in a position
:10:38. > :10:43.whereby you thinker faster than those, but not quite as fast as
:10:44. > :10:48.those. Tricky. I hope I'm faster than the badger. Bless him but he is
:10:49. > :10:53.trying hard but he has to be pretty slow. Yes, running away from prey,
:10:54. > :10:56.he has to be quick. They have definitely a good, old leapy bound.
:10:57. > :11:01.I think I'm going to be somewhere either between the hare and the
:11:02. > :11:08.swift or - I mean I know they are super fast. Um, mind you - do I go
:11:09. > :11:12.in here or in there? I'm going to go for it and go in here. OK. You think
:11:13. > :11:16.that the only thing faster in our line-up is the peregrine falcon? !
:11:17. > :11:21.OK, we have the badger, I'm not entirely sure how fast the badger is
:11:22. > :11:26.going even if it has been on steroids roids and being trained by
:11:27. > :11:31.East Germans in 1970s, but not much more than 15 to 20 miles per hour
:11:32. > :11:38.running downhill. The roe deer, they have to scope walls, as you said.
:11:39. > :11:43.They'll put on a turn of speed. I'll go for 30 to maybe 40 miles per
:11:44. > :11:46.hour. Hare, short bursts of speed, being predated by all sorts of
:11:47. > :11:51.things that are going to chase them. I don't know what to says on the
:11:52. > :11:55.back in kilometres an hour, it says 72, so we are looking at about 50
:11:56. > :11:59.miles per hour for the hare, then up to swift. So you are auto in the
:12:00. > :12:02.right position as it stands. Shall you are in the right position. Swift
:12:03. > :12:05.they look like they are moving fast because they are smaller but they
:12:06. > :12:09.probably aren't moving that fast. I'm going to go between 50 and 60
:12:10. > :12:14.miles per hour. It says 112 kilometres. That's about 80-odd I
:12:15. > :12:23.suppose. 80 or 90 Don't forget they are eating as they are going, it is
:12:24. > :12:26.not easy. So, that leaves with us with the peregrine falcon, which, as
:12:27. > :12:31.we know, can stoop at speeds of up to 200 miles per hour for a short
:12:32. > :12:34.space of time. So I think that we are going to offer you silver medal
:12:35. > :12:38.here, because you got yourself in the right position. Faster than a
:12:39. > :12:45.swift. But not as fast... Oh, thank you.
:12:46. > :12:48.As the world's fastest an marblings the peregrine falcon. All of our
:12:49. > :12:52.guests when they come on to the programme face a challenge. In this
:12:53. > :12:55.case it is not about speed. It is an artistic challenge. We give them ten
:12:56. > :12:59.minutes and a range of artist materials, they have to go out here
:13:00. > :13:03.with guidance, find something, it could be the landscape oer something
:13:04. > :13:10.they see or find and do an artistic representation. What have you come
:13:11. > :13:15.up with today then with your ten minutes' of artistry. I have more
:13:16. > :13:19.nervous doing this, than standing on the start line. I was panicking.
:13:20. > :13:24.This is what I drew. Inspiration from my top. Would you like to
:13:25. > :13:31.identify the species? I'm going to struggle? This is the new fire bird
:13:32. > :13:37.that has yet to come to the UK. And this is the pink-motled, slight
:13:38. > :13:42.cousin of the swift. A pink-motled swift and the Asiatic firebird. What
:13:43. > :13:45.do the audience think? A few cameramen and bird boxes hid in the
:13:46. > :13:54.trees. Glad you pointed those out. What do we think, then?
:13:55. > :13:58.APPLAUSE We liking on tholing onical
:13:59. > :14:04.imagination. There is no doubt about that -- on tholing onical.
:14:05. > :14:10.Nature comes with up dull birds. I like the idea of a new species of
:14:11. > :14:28.swift flower he issing in the skies above Minsmere and the firebird
:14:29. > :14:36.disturbing them -- f locks uresin. There are flourescing.
:14:37. > :14:40.I'll go in here. George has been in touch in Twitter and asked if Chris
:14:41. > :14:46.is going to do a ten manufacture minute drawing as part of the series
:14:47. > :14:50.maybe I can judge. I'll tribe get it down hill at 90 miles per hour. This
:14:51. > :14:53.year we're celebrating hundreds of people up and down the country who
:14:54. > :14:57.devote their time to vital conner have vagus work. Today it is Steve
:14:58. > :15:01.Roberts who is our -- vital conservation work. Today it is Steve
:15:02. > :15:04.Roberts. He does important work throughout the country, breeding
:15:05. > :15:10.birds and also does lost of research into bird nesting hab tatss. His
:15:11. > :15:15.research has helped us understand much more about different species
:15:16. > :15:18.including the honey buzzard. Springwatch presenter, Martin
:15:19. > :15:37.Hughes-Games went to meet him. Here is our unsprung hero.
:15:38. > :15:43.I have never really properly understood the tapping stick. What
:15:44. > :15:47.do you do? Well some species sit tight and you can tap the
:15:48. > :15:51.undergrowth quietly, a little tap and you can hear the bird fluttering
:15:52. > :15:54.off in the vegetation or you can see it fluttering off. That's some.
:15:55. > :15:58.Other species won't do that, some you have to watch, some you can tap,
:15:59. > :16:01.others you have to listen for movements.
:16:02. > :16:05.Because it is dense vegetation. Basically, folks, if we didn't have
:16:06. > :16:13.this bloke, we wouldn't have Springwatch. That is an actual fact.
:16:14. > :16:18.! I would have to say that Steve is a top nest finder in the whole of
:16:19. > :16:22.the UK. His outstanding contribution is for the study of honey buzzards.
:16:23. > :16:26.We know so much more worldwide about them now than we did 20 years ago
:16:27. > :16:28.because of Steve. The vast majority of what he does is unpaid in his own
:16:29. > :16:56.time. There is your Lined a. #1234r where
:16:57. > :17:02.-- linard. Oh, look at, that a beautiful little
:17:03. > :17:04.nest in there. Five pegs. Isn't it lovely -- five eggs.
:17:05. > :17:10.How could you find that? Unbelievable. I right, let us get
:17:11. > :17:25.out of here and let the bird come back in. I think you manage it think
:17:26. > :17:30.like a bird put your head in like a honey finch or whatever. Nine times
:17:31. > :17:33.out of ten, he is right. He has never lost that child-like
:17:34. > :17:39.enthusiasm for T it is really good thing. How old did you say you were,
:17:40. > :17:48.Steve? 63. 63 years' young. Oh, there is a nest
:17:49. > :17:52.up here. Is there? Oh, it is a thrush. Still working on it. Oh, we
:17:53. > :18:10.might have found a new nest. A world class ornithologist He can't
:18:11. > :18:13.be here tonight. He is up a mountain in Finland, searching for snow
:18:14. > :18:19.buzzards. He will find them. We presented him with his certificate
:18:20. > :18:25.and badge last week. Here it is. Nest-finder extraordinaire. Steve it
:18:26. > :18:29.gives me no end of pleasure to present you with this Unsprung Hero.
:18:30. > :18:34.It is a small badge but a means a lot and it has a certificate to go
:18:35. > :18:37.with it. We are not worthy but you certain will you are, Sir, one of
:18:38. > :18:38.Britain's greatest nesters, we salute you.
:18:39. > :18:48.APPLAUSE Thank you.
:18:49. > :18:55.It is so, so, important. You can see our unsprung heroes on the website V
:18:56. > :18:58.a look and if would you like to suggest one, please do so, using
:18:59. > :19:02.#springwatch. There are many more out there. If you know one, let us
:19:03. > :19:08.know. Melissa, thank youp very much for coming in today. Before we move
:19:09. > :19:12.on to your books and writing, you are a London dweller, in the city
:19:13. > :19:16.but you like living in the city, there is plenty of wildlife? When I
:19:17. > :19:19.first moved to London I became disconnected from the natural world.
:19:20. > :19:23.It is not inevitable by any means but it is easy in a city to loose
:19:24. > :19:28.touch. It made me miserable. Eventually I found my way back to
:19:29. > :19:31.you nature, partly through getting a dog and walking her and discovering
:19:32. > :19:35.places to walk here and through reading and literature. We have an
:19:36. > :19:39.amazing tradition of nature writing in this country, that goes back all
:19:40. > :19:42.the way to Gilbert White. I found my way back to the natural world
:19:43. > :19:46.through books and decided that I'd try and contribute to that. Your
:19:47. > :19:49.first book was a novel, play, and it was about a young boy growing
:19:50. > :19:54.newspaper a very urban envoornment. That is he a right. It was based on
:19:55. > :19:58.south London and the streets around my home. It started off as
:19:59. > :20:02.nonfiction, as a series of sketches about the natural world, really and
:20:03. > :20:06.people began creeping into the sketches and before long I realised
:20:07. > :20:10.it was turning into something bigger and stitched them together and
:20:11. > :20:13.created a novel. My feeling was that there are a lot of people that
:20:14. > :20:17.perhaps wouldn't pick up a book about urban wildlife but would pick
:20:18. > :20:22.up a novel and I could get the messages that I wanted to get out
:20:23. > :20:26.there, to a range of people that perhaps wouldn't otherwise hear it.
:20:27. > :20:29.British writers are enjoying a renaissance when it comes to
:20:30. > :20:34.wildlife writing, why do you think that? We have a rich tradition but a
:20:35. > :20:40.resurgence taking place? There is. It has been an unbroken line. There
:20:41. > :20:43.hasn't been a period when we haven't written about the natural world. But
:20:44. > :20:48.certainly at the moment I think - perhaps it is the fact that a lot of
:20:49. > :20:52.wruters at the moment are from the same generation of me, pretty much
:20:53. > :20:55.the last generation that were allowed to play outside unsupervised
:20:56. > :20:58.all day and are now looking at the world and finding it a different
:20:59. > :21:05.place and there is some anxiety about that. Let's move to the book
:21:06. > :21:10.you have written here, and it is pertinent after today. Rain, you
:21:11. > :21:12.have taken four walks across the UK and you are talking about it
:21:13. > :21:17.impacting immediately on the wildlife that lives there. It is
:21:18. > :21:21.partly about the landscape and countryside in weather but when I
:21:22. > :21:24.was researching it, I found out a bit about what happens to animals.
:21:25. > :21:30.Things like owls find it difficult it hunt in the rain, partly because
:21:31. > :21:35.of their feather structure and there is that lovely world, finbriate to
:21:36. > :21:41.the margins, and they become easily waterlogged. A long period of wet
:21:42. > :21:48.weather is bad for owls. But hares do well. They have two layers of
:21:49. > :21:52.fur, they have guard fur and insulating level underneath. I spoke
:21:53. > :22:00.to a farmer in Norfolks to a great hare lover. He told me about seeing
:22:01. > :22:04.ha wreckses swi. When part of his land became flooded they struck out.
:22:05. > :22:12.-- seeing ha wreckses swim. They are not famed for that Rabbits would
:22:13. > :22:17.suffer more than hears. -- more than hares. We havep been
:22:18. > :22:21.sent some soggy birds because of the weather. This is a soggy blue tit
:22:22. > :22:26.and this is a damp Starling for you there. I had a haircut like that. A
:22:27. > :22:32.like the Starling. Now there is this old thing, do you remember, people
:22:33. > :22:35.used to say that the Eskimo, the Inuit people have a tremendous
:22:36. > :22:39.number of words for snow. Of course we have so few in our language but
:22:40. > :22:44.there are plenty of words for rain. That's right. One of the best parts
:22:45. > :22:49.of writing this book was researching the words. I came up with a glossary
:22:50. > :22:53.at the back of the book of 100 different words and terms. 100. I
:22:54. > :22:57.would have done more. I thought it was a round big. We have some of
:22:58. > :23:01.them. I'll hold them up and ask the audience whether you think they are
:23:02. > :23:08.true or false. OK. So we have four of these. So is, fox's wedding a
:23:09. > :23:11.term we in the UK use for rain, true or false?
:23:12. > :23:16.False. They are saying pretty much false.
:23:17. > :23:21.Melissa? It is true. A fox's wedding is when drops of rainfall from a
:23:22. > :23:24.clear sky. It is a term in use almost all the way around the world
:23:25. > :23:33.and usually in that form or sometimes monkey's wedding. I have a
:23:34. > :23:39.another one here. Dringey, a term for rain in the UK?
:23:40. > :23:43.OK. It is a type of rain that is incredibly fine but nonetheless can
:23:44. > :23:50.soak you to your skin. Not a fan of that the a all. The next one,
:23:51. > :23:57.drooling. What do we think? A mix there. Largely false, I think. It is
:23:58. > :24:00.false. We all do drooling, I do drooling over male spar yes halks
:24:01. > :24:07.but nothing to do with rain. -- sparrowhawks. And the last one,
:24:08. > :24:10.then, cow-quacker. True. A sudden storm in May after the cows have
:24:11. > :24:16.been turned out to pasture. Wow, there we are. Thank you very much
:24:17. > :24:21.for introducing us to those. The one I didn't know was dringey. I will
:24:22. > :24:25.incorporate that in my vocabulary. With a about your artistic skills?
:24:26. > :24:30.You have risen to our challenge. You are great on the keyboard. This was
:24:31. > :24:35.so hard. I I had plans, I thought it would be easy. Ten minute, under
:24:36. > :24:42.pressure with people watching... Or pointing And laughing. I will show
:24:43. > :24:49.you what I managed to produce. This is the Springwatch s stoat.
:24:50. > :24:55.APPLAUSE Liking the Springwatch stoat very
:24:56. > :24:59.much. I'm thinking that's quite like a wallpaper T could be repeated in
:25:00. > :25:06.that pattern, perhaps flipped over. It was the one that went in the oak
:25:07. > :25:11.tree and predated... It is a robust stoat. I can't see it catching too
:25:12. > :25:15.many rabbits or scaling a tree to get to the wood peckers to be honest
:25:16. > :25:17.with you, but it is good as a rechlingts it has been
:25:18. > :25:22.characterised, I have to say. I'm liking it. I will score it highly.
:25:23. > :25:28.I'll demote Germaine Greer's land scale of the that's coming down. I
:25:29. > :25:33.will put it into second or third place. I think you are right, for
:25:34. > :25:37.once I'll go with the audience. I'm putting it into second place.
:25:38. > :25:45.APPLAUSE It is good. Not bad at all. Actually
:25:46. > :25:48.we havep been sent lots of art. At the beginning we said it send us
:25:49. > :25:54.your drawings and creations. Lots of people have been doing that. Look at
:25:55. > :25:58.these. We have been sent this rather fabulous crocheted kestrel.
:25:59. > :26:03.Look at that. I have seen one before. Do you know where? Go on. In
:26:04. > :26:10.my office. I have one. It is brilliant. I love this. This is
:26:11. > :26:16.watercolours. The cheeky rabbit. This is by Owen and eight years'
:26:17. > :26:23.old. Inspired by the sea birds. Full of clucks excessive use of felt
:26:24. > :26:27.tips. Look at, that a golden eagle by Barry Johnson, done in pastels.
:26:28. > :26:33.Be a I come accomplished illustration. And look at this, just
:26:34. > :26:37.the species. What is it made of? It is a hare made of wool around
:26:38. > :26:42.driftwood. Mixed media put to good use. Excellent stuff. I set myself a
:26:43. > :26:46.challenge. In the first week I picked a picture, you gave it nine
:26:47. > :26:51.out of ten. I thought I would try to beat it. Yesterday I selected this
:26:52. > :26:55.picture. I thought was stung. I was generous with 6.1. I want to revise
:26:56. > :27:02.that down a bit. I will probably get told off. Go on. Here is my picture
:27:03. > :27:09.of the day for today. Have a look at this. That's called Caught in a
:27:10. > :27:13.Webb, it by Jo 1966. There are flies there. Given the rain theme I
:27:14. > :27:18.thought you would like the lines on that. I do. It is a good picture.
:27:19. > :27:23.You want a marks don't you? Yes. One more time I don't think it is quite
:27:24. > :27:26.up there with the mouse but it is close. I like the fact that someone
:27:27. > :27:30.has made something out of virtually nothing and separated it from the
:27:31. > :27:36.background. I'll score that... 7.8.
:27:37. > :27:43.That's high. Very high. Very high. But a which to go for 9. I like the
:27:44. > :27:47.simplicity is superb I'll take it for tonight. Now the quiz, at the
:27:48. > :27:53.beginning of the show we showedes you some picture of some poo. I have
:27:54. > :27:58.a live specimen. I have had various answers N Andrew says is it a stoat,
:27:59. > :28:01.Claire says, a fox, I have had hawks and bullfinch. Audience, any ideas?
:28:02. > :28:02.Badger. Would you like to sniff it, ma'am?
:28:03. > :28:18.! Well, here it is... This is the poo of a badger.
:28:19. > :28:25.It is the poo of a badger. Well done to Alan, aknee too,
:28:26. > :28:30.Lyndsey, Darren and one person who be wanted a smell for confirmation.
:28:31. > :28:33.It's not that good. I have never been turned down before, madam, when
:28:34. > :28:38.I have offered someone the chance it smell poo live on BBC Two. I have
:28:39. > :28:42.never been turned down. We must have words after. Finally, this poster
:28:43. > :28:53.has been sent in by Thames College. It is wonderful. A fantastic little
:28:54. > :28:57.study of those pine martens. Thaw to our guests, Melissa and Amy for
:28:58. > :28:59.coming in. We'll -- thank you to our guests.
:29:00. > :29:01.We'll leave you with views of our sparrowhawks.
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