:00:22. > :00:28.APPLAUSE Thank you very much indeed. Possibly
:00:29. > :00:33.the warmest welcome we have had for Springwatch Unsprung. You are not
:00:34. > :00:39.watching me at the moment, I am not here. I am in a suburb of
:00:40. > :00:44.Southampton and getting out of my car. I am having a haircut, this
:00:45. > :00:50.programme was recorded on Thursday. We have had a fantastic time here at
:00:51. > :01:14.the RSPB Minsmere reserved. Let's see some of the highlights.
:01:15. > :01:50.APPLAUSE Amazing three weeks here. I am going
:01:51. > :01:56.to sneak an opportunity here, Adam, the warden, thank you so much.
:01:57. > :02:01.APPLAUSE Thank you to all of the RSPB team,
:02:02. > :02:08.so helpful and so hospitable, we are so grateful. Let's move onto our
:02:09. > :02:21.first guest, an author, entomologist and broadcaster. Has made a couple
:02:22. > :02:24.of fabulous programmes. Afterlife, catch up with that one. He is
:02:25. > :02:30.passionate about insects, but he thinks we should eat them and be
:02:31. > :02:40.farming them. He will invest in farming insects. It is George
:02:41. > :02:46.McGavin. We will find out more about that later. My next guest did spend
:02:47. > :02:49.a lot of time in South America and was going for the glamorous, the big
:02:50. > :02:56.and the exotic but then he came back to the UK and he was... Awoken by
:02:57. > :03:02.the wealth of wildlife we have here. He started photographing it and then
:03:03. > :03:06.started writing about it. He came up with a book which describes 100
:03:07. > :03:11.things to do on 100 days throughout the course of the British summer.
:03:12. > :03:24.James, thank you very much for coming in. There was a huge
:03:25. > :03:34.outpouring of emotion after Springwatch last night, but the
:03:35. > :03:39.wildlife are the stars. What an amazing opportunity to watch those
:03:40. > :03:50.animals. We have stuck with them throughout the three weeks and the
:03:51. > :03:58.final scene of all of those kids with their mother. Another tweet
:03:59. > :04:05.says thank you for the privilege. We have also had another tweet,
:04:06. > :04:08.downloading all the available episodes of Springwatch to watch
:04:09. > :04:19.later as a boxed set. It is a great idea. We have had so many questions
:04:20. > :04:25.in. I wanted to ask of you. The first one is to do with the sparrow
:04:26. > :04:29.hawk. The chicks have hatched, but we had them making noises from
:04:30. > :04:34.inside the shelves. Steve wants to note how do they breathe in the egg
:04:35. > :04:37.before they hatch? Eggs are porous and they have to be breathing
:04:38. > :04:43.through the course of their development. In the structure of the
:04:44. > :04:48.egg, there are tiny pores and they are small enough to allow air in,
:04:49. > :04:53.but not a gain of to allow water in. Water can move out through them so
:04:54. > :05:00.the structure of the egg shell is complex. Constantly, the young are
:05:01. > :05:05.perspiring inside it. It is amazing. Onto the blue tits story. We talked
:05:06. > :05:09.about how the great tit wouldn't be able to breed because it had
:05:10. > :05:12.imprinted on the blue tit. Katherine wants to know why doesn't this
:05:13. > :05:21.happen with cookies because they are raised by other birds. There is a
:05:22. > :05:26.behavioural difference, when does the birds learn what it is? It is
:05:27. > :05:33.controlled genetically. If blue tits rare great tit 's, the great tit 's
:05:34. > :05:38.rarely successfully breed. If great tit 's rear blue tits, higher
:05:39. > :05:41.percentage of the blue tits can actually go through the breeding
:05:42. > :05:45.process. It depends on the genetics of the bird and how they learn. It
:05:46. > :05:52.is a simplistic way of answering that in that time. Now, I would like
:05:53. > :05:59.to show you some animals peeking out from different places. Look at this
:06:00. > :06:08.first one here. Can you spot it? Mouse in a bird feeder. I really
:06:09. > :06:14.like this one. This is from Mark and you can see the emotion in its eyes.
:06:15. > :06:19.It is looking at the photographer but I like the way its nose is
:06:20. > :06:23.missing and you have just the eyes and the ears. The out of focus lock
:06:24. > :06:31.on the left-hand side channels your attention. Chris! That is a good
:06:32. > :06:41.thing. I like that one, I am a bit perturbed by the metal on the left.
:06:42. > :06:47.Brilliant. Check this one out. We have seen a lot of that. This is
:06:48. > :06:53.them learning how to focus and judge distance. They are frequently
:06:54. > :07:03.twisting their heads about. I like that, it is cheeky. Now it is time
:07:04. > :07:10.for the quiz. It has been said by the RSPB Young wardens. We are the
:07:11. > :07:16.young wardens at Minsmere and this is our quiz. It has a white feather
:07:17. > :07:28.next to it. It has Russ and vegetation inside it. Who's scat is
:07:29. > :07:33.that? We are not alive tonight, so don't get in touch with your
:07:34. > :07:42.answers, but play along at home. We will ask at the end. George, thank
:07:43. > :07:49.you very much for coming in. We finally meet after years of
:07:50. > :07:55.correspondence. Let's talk about oak tree. I enjoyed this documentary. On
:07:56. > :08:00.the surface it is simple, but you get into some fantastic science?
:08:01. > :08:04.Absolutely, one of the great thing about oak trees is how long they
:08:05. > :08:09.live. I live not far from Windsor great Park and I can walk past a
:08:10. > :08:19.tree that was knee-high when Henry VIII wrote past to hear a Canon
:08:20. > :08:27.being fired from the tower to tell him that and Berlin's head had been
:08:28. > :08:35.shot. It is 1200 years old. This is a clip. This may not look very much,
:08:36. > :08:39.but it is one of the oak's most fearsome enemies. This little chapel
:08:40. > :08:45.eat an incredible amount of food to become an adult. It will eat up to
:08:46. > :08:49.27,000 times its own weight in young oak leaves. There are countless
:08:50. > :08:55.thousands of bees infesting the tree.
:08:56. > :09:03.The 0 minutes and I was gripped the whole way through. But you are
:09:04. > :09:06.passionate, George but insects.ent moll guilty is your background. You
:09:07. > :09:13.found a super species here? Absolutely. I think insects should
:09:14. > :09:17.be valued a little more. Your blue tits, all of the blue tits in the UK
:09:18. > :09:22.in a year will eat 35 billion insects. That is a staggering
:09:23. > :09:27.amount. If there is a decline of insects, the first thing you will
:09:28. > :09:34.see is a decline in birds. But I find it fantastic. I filmed a
:09:35. > :09:41.documentary called the Ant Lion, it is fantastic to see it here, all of
:09:42. > :09:45.the way from Africa. They have been discovered in recent times? They
:09:46. > :09:51.have been around for 30 to 40 years but it is something you think you
:09:52. > :09:59.might only see... Look at the jaws! This is the laugha of an ant family.
:10:00. > :10:06.It has made a pit in the sand. It is incredible.
:10:07. > :10:10.It flicks the sand grains. They flick the grains to make an
:10:11. > :10:16.avalanche so that the ant tumbles down. It is a genius trick. A few
:10:17. > :10:23.have long necks. They are deep down with their jaws poking out.
:10:24. > :10:29.You know my favourite thing? They don't defecate. They store that Is
:10:30. > :10:34.pupil case, is that right? It is a useful trick if you are on a long
:10:35. > :10:39.trip! Let's have a rummage through your bag. This is good.
:10:40. > :10:46.If you are a bug man, this is all you need. A bug man or a girl. You
:10:47. > :10:50.need a potatoer. I make these ones. This is for collecting the small
:10:51. > :10:54.animals. We suck them up by the tube.
:10:55. > :10:59.Suck them up with the blue on it. Colour coded, sensible.
:11:00. > :11:05.It does not go down the throat. You need a small net and suck it up.
:11:06. > :11:11.You can't handle insects easily. Now, a pair of binoculars. You may
:11:12. > :11:16.think that they are good for birds but these focus really close. The
:11:17. > :11:21.one thing about insects that is annoying, you can't see them without
:11:22. > :11:25.getting on top of them. About with these you confocus to about... There
:11:26. > :11:29.and see the ants behaving without interruption. They are brilliant.
:11:30. > :11:35.But the best thing, the thing that everybody should buy when you you
:11:36. > :11:42.are 10 years old, is a times ten hand lens. This is a simple piece of
:11:43. > :11:47.kit. It costs about ?8 to ?10. You can spend more if you want a
:11:48. > :11:55.gold-plated one! But it opens up a world of wonder.
:11:56. > :11:59.You can as spire to a Cartier-made one.
:12:00. > :12:03.A window to the world. We have images of some of the
:12:04. > :12:09.insects we recorded. Oh! Green Tiger Beetle! Face of
:12:10. > :12:16.death. I was going to say that, you read my
:12:17. > :12:20.mind! The scales of a Moth Wing. Munch, munch.
:12:21. > :12:27.That is a hunting moth. A hot moth. Very nice. Beautiful. I
:12:28. > :12:38.would like a shirt in that colour! We have a cool picture of a moth.
:12:39. > :12:44.This is from Ace, a bugmadgirl, moustache! That is a film? Close. It
:12:45. > :12:48.is fantastic. Absolutely fantastic. Before we move from the insects, I
:12:49. > :12:55.have to ask you quickly, why should we be eating them? We can't feed the
:12:56. > :13:00.world on beef or fish. It is simfully just that there is not
:13:01. > :13:08.enough around. When I was born there were 2.4 billion people, now there
:13:09. > :13:12.are 7.4 billion. Insect protein is efficient in converting into animal
:13:13. > :13:16.protein. Which is what we need. Farming them is a doddle. Anywhere
:13:17. > :13:22.in the world where it is hot, insects are large, they are eaten.
:13:23. > :13:30.That makes sense but you have to get people to put them in their mouths?
:13:31. > :13:35.Have it as a dry flour, as a bread. I showed Heston how to make bread
:13:36. > :13:38.flour with insect flour in it. He thought that my bug bread was pretty
:13:39. > :13:42.good. Is he serving it in his restaurant?
:13:43. > :13:49.He would be. He is. Now each guest has a challenge, to
:13:50. > :13:53.make them wild. They have a range of artist materials to produce a piece
:13:54. > :13:59.of art while this they are out there. George, what did you come up
:14:00. > :14:07.with? It is embarrassing. I wanted to make a sponge... I wanted to make
:14:08. > :14:17.something ethereal. What do we have? Oak leaves! Oak leaves. It is my
:14:18. > :14:22.duty to pronounce judgment. Of course on our board tonight we will
:14:23. > :14:29.reveal who has won this. There is a range of talent, ranging from Ed
:14:30. > :14:35.Byrne. Not even on the board it is on the floor it was appalling. There
:14:36. > :14:41.is Wolfgang, Martin. I don't mind the oak leaves too much. But it must
:14:42. > :14:45.be here, George. Honourestly, you are a brilliant entomologist, you
:14:46. > :14:49.have made remarkable documentaries but stick with that.
:14:50. > :14:55.Not so bad. Now the last high chair of the series. This is where Chris
:14:56. > :15:04.meets a famous face in a bird watching hive. Tonight he is hoping
:15:05. > :15:11.to hit the headlines. Hello! How lovely. What a window you
:15:12. > :15:17.have. A window on the water. Look at that.
:15:18. > :15:20.These are swifts. I saw them. They have just arrived.
:15:21. > :15:26.They are the latest of the three that we have here. There are some
:15:27. > :15:32.over there. Those are the sand martins. See they
:15:33. > :15:37.bank, that is an artificial sand martin nesting bank. The sandbanks
:15:38. > :15:41.are in short supply and the birds have taken to them. They are in
:15:42. > :15:46.short supply in London. Given we are in London, there is a
:15:47. > :15:51.huge variety along the Thames here. Lots and lots of herons. In fact,
:15:52. > :15:58.one landed in our garden recently it just sat that. I see herons,
:15:59. > :16:02.cormorants and shags, and all of the amazing birds.
:16:03. > :16:09.You have been before but you are not a regular. This worries me, Sophie!
:16:10. > :16:16.You are right, it is the first time I have had a look at the birds with
:16:17. > :16:24.a pair of binoculars since Is with with my grandfather as a kid. He had
:16:25. > :16:27.all kinds of birds from his garden near the mill pond and watch the
:16:28. > :16:38.birds. All kinds of things.
:16:39. > :16:43.What about Chelsea? I am tempted to do a Springwatch garden. You should,
:16:44. > :16:47.why don't you? Next year. I will help you plant it.
:16:48. > :16:51.It would put a message out. Consult the viewers. There are enough
:16:52. > :16:55.gardening viewers amongst the audience to come up with good ideas.
:16:56. > :17:03.Get a designer in. And make sure that we cater for a great range of
:17:04. > :17:08.Flora and fauna. 2017, Chelsea. Springwatch Garden. What do you get
:17:09. > :17:14.if I win? I love it. You benefit the birds! Oh, that kind of thing. But
:17:15. > :17:24.they do judge them, don't they? They do! Are you judging? I will not have
:17:25. > :17:28.any influence. None at all. It is the prestige, thing of the
:17:29. > :17:35.benefit you are doing, the wildlife. Britain's wildlife.
:17:36. > :17:45.I will keep that in mind. It is very therapeutic. It is very calming.
:17:46. > :17:50.APPLAUSE. Now, I have headlines of my own with
:17:51. > :17:56.things you have been involved with. With start with the bee app. We
:17:57. > :18:01.asked you to download the app, up to 6,000 people. That is 200,000
:18:02. > :18:07.records already. That is fab. You have until the end of June. So keep
:18:08. > :18:11.downloading as next week it is National Insect Week.
:18:12. > :18:17.We asked you to get involved with the National Bio Blitz. Lots of you
:18:18. > :18:22.did. It takes a while to log the details but so far, 1481 species
:18:23. > :18:28.have been recorded. That is good. Pretty good. It is important to get
:18:29. > :18:34.out and meet the animals. That is an achievement. And the two-minute
:18:35. > :18:38.beach clean. We asked you to get involved over the weekend. Since
:18:39. > :18:44.Friday, they have had 450 tweets saying that people have done it,
:18:45. > :18:47.that is the equivalent of 900 minutes of beach cleaning. Keep
:18:48. > :18:57.looking at the website, there is lots of things there, ideas of how
:18:58. > :19:05.to do something great. So, the book you have written, 100
:19:06. > :19:08.days throughout the course of the summer with well proposed and laid
:19:09. > :19:15.out suggestions of where to go and what to see? Absolutely. The idea is
:19:16. > :19:21.to have a suggestion for an itenary for every day between mid-May and
:19:22. > :19:28.August, 100 days of summer. Every day has a child friendliness rating.
:19:29. > :19:33.How did you come up with the child friendliness rating? The best
:19:34. > :19:37.advice, my six-year-old daughter. If she didn't like it, it didn't make
:19:38. > :19:44.the book. You have musky frogs, frog orchids.
:19:45. > :19:53.Where do you find those? That is Nore Hill.
:19:54. > :20:00.Not too far away? It is in Chalk Downham.
:20:01. > :20:08.We have a love affair with chalk. We have also exploited it. This is down
:20:09. > :20:12.quite low to see those. This is musk orchid.
:20:13. > :20:16.This is half a size of your little finger.
:20:17. > :20:19.But once you have seen them you are tempted to find out about them and
:20:20. > :20:26.the life history of the plants are extraordinary. I have to move on.
:20:27. > :20:38.This is June the 19th. Manksy and Thefty? Thrift Clearwing. A moth
:20:39. > :20:46.that mimics a moth. But, Manc sheer waters, they borough
:20:47. > :20:52.underground and they caw... We can hear it. Let's have a listen... They
:20:53. > :20:57.caw at night. And through the day. When I took
:20:58. > :21:03.that picture, I was sat there, thinking what was that? Had I been a
:21:04. > :21:16.north sailor a couple of thousand and years ago, I would have thought
:21:17. > :21:21.it was a troll but it is a mankshearwater.
:21:22. > :21:28.Now, I have an insect here, George. Are you feeling hungry? It is like a
:21:29. > :21:35.wasp. Come on, get it, George. Where is your potatoer! ?! George is
:21:36. > :21:44.sorting that out. You are telling us about mi in, kies.
:21:45. > :21:52.So, seaside, summer holidays. Our seas are full of great minky whales
:21:53. > :21:57.in the North Sea. Basking shark off the Hebrides, there is so much in
:21:58. > :22:03.our seas. All you have to do is to take a boat trip to go to see it.
:22:04. > :22:10.I will jump to this one, this is pertinent. August the 2nd with the
:22:11. > :22:17.British lions with George's ant lions.
:22:18. > :22:21.Masai Mara are great predators but that ant lion is incredible. Amazing
:22:22. > :22:27.creatures. This is the adult.
:22:28. > :22:33.I prefer the larvae. They can be dainty. Like a damselfly
:22:34. > :22:38.that from thors. Very cute, unlike the larvae. The
:22:39. > :22:41.best place to see them is by the visitors centre here. Come back in
:22:42. > :22:49.August to see them. OK? Everyone back in August! And a
:22:50. > :23:06.after, straight into the cafe for the cake! James, tell us something
:23:07. > :23:16.good about you? Passing my GCSE exam was the greatest academic period of
:23:17. > :23:23.my life. And secondly, only ever use black felt water soluble pen... OK,
:23:24. > :23:28.let's see what you have made. Is it an iconic species? Let's have it
:23:29. > :23:36.here. It is the brilliant shell duck... Absolutely. When you said
:23:37. > :23:41.that you were using materials at the kitchen table that a six-year-old
:23:42. > :23:46.uses, I was not expecting you to mimic the skills of a six-year-old.
:23:47. > :23:52.I know, cruel! That is down the bottom. This means, of course, that,
:23:53. > :24:00.yes, Wolfgang here... Let's have the original. We suspected it would win.
:24:01. > :24:04.That Wolfgang and Martin are the winners of our Drawn To Be Wild
:24:05. > :24:11.competition. APPLAUSE.
:24:12. > :24:16.What about that? I would frame it and put it on the wall. I will frame
:24:17. > :24:23.it and put it on the wall. I will take it away with me as an original.
:24:24. > :24:29.Well done to Wolfgang. Now, this is my picture of the day. On the 2nd of
:24:30. > :24:35.June I showed you this picture. You gave it a 9. I thought I would
:24:36. > :24:41.challenge myself. So I showed you this snake. It got 8.1 out of you.
:24:42. > :24:47.But not more than a 9. So leer is the final try... Here it is... A
:24:48. > :24:54.European wood louse... Reflection. We see a lot of reflections.
:24:55. > :24:59.We have seen reflections of everything but I have not seen a
:25:00. > :25:05.crustacean reflection before. That scores a point. But the out of focus
:25:06. > :25:09.highlight, that little black line, that shadow, another highlight on
:25:10. > :25:14.the right-hand, these are marking it down. Get rid of it with the
:25:15. > :25:19.Photoshop. I am scoring that a... 3.8.
:25:20. > :25:22.No! You have to tell me what to do to get a 10.
:25:23. > :25:30.The mouse on the rope is a corker. That is class. That is art. Look at
:25:31. > :25:33.that. Mike McKenzie, I salute you. I really wish I had taken that
:25:34. > :25:37.photograph. We really love the photographs. Do
:25:38. > :25:42.keep sending them in. They are absolutely brilliant. Now, the
:25:43. > :25:47.answer to the quiz. So we asked you at the beginning of the programme
:25:48. > :25:51.what you thought this was? Whose pooh is that? We have left the
:25:52. > :25:57.hardest one to the end of the series. Anyone in the audience with
:25:58. > :26:03.ideas? Silence. Even silence from Adam.
:26:04. > :26:11.What do you think? Swan. Let's hand over to the RSPB young
:26:12. > :26:21.wardens to tell us. This is the pooh of a mute swan...
:26:22. > :26:27.APPLAUSE. The young wardens would have been
:26:28. > :26:33.the new wardens if he had not got that right. Mopping his borrow.
:26:34. > :26:41.Let's hear it for the young wardens, we salute them for their pooh
:26:42. > :26:47.identification skills. Excellent work. And so much
:26:48. > :26:54.reaction. Check this out. This is a happy frog for you... Oh, yes. What
:26:55. > :26:59.about a sad puffin... That's right. And of course a surprised gannet.
:27:00. > :27:03.All the different reactions. But mainly we want to say a huge thank
:27:04. > :27:08.you to you for sending everything in. It has been brilliant looking
:27:09. > :27:11.through your photographs and to our guests who shared their passion for
:27:12. > :27:14.wildlife. Here is our tribute to you.
:27:15. > :27:18.Hello and welcome to Springwatch Unsprung. It is about the way that
:27:19. > :27:26.people connect with wildlife. Have a whiff of that... Wow! I will
:27:27. > :27:33.kneel for you... What is here, Erin? This is a dolphin. This is a pigeon.
:27:34. > :27:39.We have experts in the studio and famous guests too. Larry Lamb.
:27:40. > :27:45.These are rather nice. Heather Small.
:27:46. > :27:56.Acris Matthews. Mr Will Young.
:27:57. > :27:59.I think it is a gear falcon? It is a Gyrfalcon.
:28:00. > :28:03.We are offering you a silver medal. You got yourself in the right
:28:04. > :28:05.position. Show many pictures came in, I wanted
:28:06. > :28:28.to show you some of them. Now that is class... I am giving
:28:29. > :28:32.that, I'm going to give that an astonishing nine. That is one of the
:28:33. > :28:37.best pictures on Springwatch Unsprung. It has been a pleasure. I
:28:38. > :28:41.have to thank all of the contributors for sending in the
:28:42. > :28:45.pictures. Brilliant and from all of our remarkable guests. What
:28:46. > :28:49.enlightening things that they have had to say to us. George, Martin,
:28:50. > :28:57.thank you for coming in. This has been fantastic. This has been
:28:58. > :29:01.Springwatch, 2016. Join us again for Autumnwatch coming up in a couple
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