:00:22. > :00:30.Hello, hello! And welcome to Springwatch Unsprung. The programme
:00:31. > :00:35.which gives you live wildlife and so much more, it gives you a celebrity
:00:36. > :00:35.guests, the one and only Kate Humble.
:00:36. > :00:37.APPLAUSE Super Kings.
:00:38. > :00:46.APPLAUSE Kim Jong-un Sue Perkins. And
:00:47. > :00:49.eclipsing them both, Rocky, the conservation super dog and his
:00:50. > :00:54.handler. It's also a problem that is very much about you, we want your
:00:55. > :00:58.contributions, send your photographs, Lindsey will explain
:00:59. > :01:02.more about that. Live animals, chat with celebrities, some fun and some
:01:03. > :01:06.science hidden amongst it, you have to try to find it somewhere at the
:01:07. > :01:10.science is hidden in there somewhere, Lindsey. There is, hello,
:01:11. > :01:16.I'm very much enjoying this weather. I love damp weather. Do you like
:01:17. > :01:20.damp weather, audience? Is because the audience went stood outside
:01:21. > :01:24.rehearsing all afternoon like our crew, we preferred fine. The animals
:01:25. > :01:32.in the rain, look at this stunning shot, it's been sent by Sarah Hanson
:01:33. > :01:35.on Instagram. In the rain, hunkered down, fabulous shot, really nice.
:01:36. > :01:40.And lots of garden birds have been enjoying it, loving brain. Many of
:01:41. > :01:46.you have enjoyed watching our live cameras over the weekend, one of the
:01:47. > :01:51.top hits was the bluetits because they fledged over the weekend. Not
:01:52. > :01:53.just here, it's happened right across the country. Loads of you
:01:54. > :01:58.have been in touch which is brilliant. Look at this picture.
:01:59. > :02:05.From Clare Branston in Durham. How many do you think there are? 12, I
:02:06. > :02:14.can't count that quickly. Yorkers, 15 bluetits. And they all got out.
:02:15. > :02:17.No rents at all. If you did watch Facebook live Saturday morning, they
:02:18. > :02:25.left their nesting box and there was one smaller one that didn't go, the
:02:26. > :02:28.runt. It died because that is part of the process. Sometimes the adults
:02:29. > :02:32.have identified that one of the young ones is not as fit as the
:02:33. > :02:35.others, there might be a congenital fault, although we cannot see and
:02:36. > :02:41.they can smell it and sends it, so they are that much of this bear and
:02:42. > :02:46.although it sounds cruel and dispassionate, that is what happens.
:02:47. > :02:51.A lot of people were concerned. What about the ones that got out, that's
:02:52. > :02:56.more important. I can tell you one staggering fact I was going to use
:02:57. > :03:00.tonight, 34% of bluetits survive once they have fledged, until their
:03:01. > :03:04.first year. That's an astonishingly high rate when you think of all the
:03:05. > :03:10.trials and jubilation as they face. Now it's time for the quiz. We have
:03:11. > :03:14.a quiz every night on issue row and this is the first. This is the nest
:03:15. > :03:20.that has been found locally, who lives in a house like this? It's
:03:21. > :03:27.small, domed top, Bracken and Moss and if I put my finger inside I can
:03:28. > :03:32.tell you, a deep cup. Rough and grassy inside. Who lives in a nest
:03:33. > :03:38.like that? You've got 20 minutes to get in touch. It's very easy to do.
:03:39. > :03:46.It has never been easier to get in touch with us here on Unsprung
:03:47. > :03:51.whether you use a phone tablet. The easiest way is to become our friend
:03:52. > :03:56.on social media. Like us on Facebook and you can post comments and
:03:57. > :04:02.pictures to our wall. Follow us on Instagram and tag us into your
:04:03. > :04:05.photographs or tweet us using hashtag Spring watch. And if you
:04:06. > :04:12.can't remember this it is explained on the website. And we certainly
:04:13. > :04:16.want to hear from you, people have already been in touch and sent
:04:17. > :04:23.extraordinary things. Look at this. Here is someone's patio, Fox and
:04:24. > :04:27.ahead job, we say sharing, but the hedgehog is hogging the meal and the
:04:28. > :04:33.fox is picking up scraps, quite a surprise. Fascinating. This has been
:04:34. > :04:39.sent in with a purpose because Doctor Dawn Scott has been asking
:04:40. > :04:51.for these encounters. Yes, we had 300 so far, amazing interactions
:04:52. > :04:53.between animals. I really want to know what is going on between foxes,
:04:54. > :04:56.badgers and hedgehogs in your garden, please send them in so we
:04:57. > :04:59.can analyse the data. And domestic pets, I have seen people cats lying
:05:00. > :05:03.in harmony with Fox's side-by-side. We want that as well, anything
:05:04. > :05:06.interesting, please send it in. Send it in, Dawn will analyse all these
:05:07. > :05:11.and there will be some science. Let's move on to the first guest,
:05:12. > :05:19.round of applause for the one and only Sue! Some time ago I asked if
:05:20. > :05:23.you would be so kind as to visit us and be on our programme. I should
:05:24. > :05:27.have put in the proviso that it would be a long journey to a damp
:05:28. > :05:30.Gloucestershire where you'd be hanging out in a sweaty teepee for
:05:31. > :05:37.most of the day. Would you still have come. I live for hot and sweaty
:05:38. > :05:44.tepees. The weather isn't great but it is was that these guys. This
:05:45. > :05:53.gentleman, here,... Are you a rustic lady. A secret rustic lady, brought
:05:54. > :05:57.up in Croydon which is known for its undulating concrete fields, so not
:05:58. > :06:01.much biodiversity. Escaping into the garden was escaping into the world
:06:02. > :06:05.of imagination and making things with mud and anything I could find.
:06:06. > :06:09.In my 20s I was more about the bars and clubs but as I have got older I
:06:10. > :06:15.love it. I would rather be in a bluebell wood than anywhere else.
:06:16. > :06:20.Mud pie and moth wings coming together in sculptural form, I can
:06:21. > :06:24.only imagine. What about wildlife? I was a bit of a twitch as a kid, my
:06:25. > :06:36.dad was a big Twitter and used to sit me down and when you are young
:06:37. > :06:39.books bought you but I liked him reading and telling me what he had
:06:40. > :06:41.learned so we would see that hatches and warblers and woodpeckers and
:06:42. > :06:44.things. It's only now that he has died that I'm taking up the mantle
:06:45. > :06:49.and thinking, I didn't know that. It is lovely. You have a roof terrace
:06:50. > :06:53.see you do your best. We are to floss up, I put up a bird feeder, I
:06:54. > :06:56.thought no way because there are lots of bluetits in my neighbour 's
:06:57. > :07:00.garden, they founded, it took them to weeks to work it out and now they
:07:01. > :07:05.are everywhere and we have bees and butterflies, all sorts, it is
:07:06. > :07:11.stunning. You've been travelling, on one of your trips you went up the
:07:12. > :07:21.Mekon. With a paddle. And you met some great wildlife. We've got a
:07:22. > :07:24.clip. You beauty! Much as I am a conservationist at heart I've never
:07:25. > :07:28.got behind single species conservation before but today I
:07:29. > :07:33.understand it because if you save the elephant you save the forest and
:07:34. > :07:36.if you save the forest is good video, the pigs, rats and the snakes
:07:37. > :07:42.and everything. APPLAUSE
:07:43. > :07:46.I think you touched the elephant and being touched by the elephant at
:07:47. > :07:52.that point? Totally. An extraordinary project. Did not just
:07:53. > :07:54.save the forest but all the humans working there because this
:07:55. > :07:59.extraordinary conservationist Guy came in and said, instead of selling
:08:00. > :08:04.your forests. Smart blogging I would like to retire your elephants to my
:08:05. > :08:07.sanctuary and I will get money and help your hospitals and schools and
:08:08. > :08:11.you would have to rely on illegal logging. So everyone in that
:08:12. > :08:16.facility was improved. The elephant moved me. I started that piece to
:08:17. > :08:21.camera and they were silent and I saw the camera wobbling. It had come
:08:22. > :08:27.across the plane to greet me and I did not hear it at all. They can be
:08:28. > :08:30.incredibly quiet. Normally in the bush you can only hear an elephant
:08:31. > :08:45.if they are eating or crunching or if they are fighting. I just assumed
:08:46. > :08:51.that was the Sandman! If they are not eating or hare they can sneak up
:08:52. > :08:59.on you. The amount of bamboo they can lay waste to is amazing. What
:09:00. > :09:03.would be the animal I should champion here? We are using these
:09:04. > :09:09.animals as flagship animals, it's not just about the elephant, in this
:09:10. > :09:13.country, on the programme tonight Martin will be talking about
:09:14. > :09:19.beavers. A potential reintroduction, we've done it in a couple of places
:09:20. > :09:23.in the UK. They sculpt entire environments, they are ecosystem
:09:24. > :09:26.engineers. I like to champion those things because if you help one
:09:27. > :09:31.animal you are helping so many others. So perhaps championing
:09:32. > :09:35.beaver reintroduction, that will be the first. I shall try to be the
:09:36. > :09:47.poster girl for be reintroduction. On a trip to India, we saw lots of
:09:48. > :09:50.Bengal tigers. I saw what it is like to introduce an alpha predator which
:09:51. > :09:54.means the deer don't proliferate which means you get more controlled
:09:55. > :09:59.vegetation and all the other stuff springs up. That was fascinating.
:10:00. > :10:03.You are branching out career started with a beaver but now you want more
:10:04. > :10:12.predators. Perhaps you should champion the reintroduction of the
:10:13. > :10:16.lynx into the UK. Beavers and lynx. You have said you are prepared to
:10:17. > :10:19.help conservation in this country, would you be prepared to help those
:10:20. > :10:28.who are doing something rather than just talking about it? If you are
:10:29. > :10:32.interested in beavers, lynx or getting Sue on board, contact her
:10:33. > :10:37.through her agent. I thought my personal details were going to flash
:10:38. > :10:41.above bulbous green! Will be back with you later. Lindsey. I had
:10:42. > :10:45.better jump in. With something new. We always have cameras on the
:10:46. > :10:49.wildlife here at Springwatch but what happens when the turn them on
:10:50. > :10:53.the crew? We went behind-the-scenes and found out that sometimes the
:10:54. > :10:55.smallest creatures provide the largest problems. This is
:10:56. > :11:06.Springwatch Undressed. Three, to, one. Each episode of
:11:07. > :11:10.Springwatch involves many elements coming together. A busy day with
:11:11. > :11:18.everyone working to the same deadline, you'd be. A bit lost.
:11:19. > :11:22.Leaver it is a long day. Last Thursday it wasn't just the present
:11:23. > :11:28.is preparing for the live show, some of the smaller creatures were also
:11:29. > :11:32.getting ready for their close-up. Taking the utmost care, cameraman
:11:33. > :11:37.Nick Pitt used a macro studio to carefully recreate a habitat for the
:11:38. > :11:41.tiny stars. Leaver it It's so difficult to get these in the wild.
:11:42. > :11:46.You've got things like the wind and the changing light to deal with.
:11:47. > :11:55.With a detailed and ten I shot required he was working against the
:11:56. > :12:01.clock. But the cockchafer had a different schedule. If only he
:12:02. > :12:08.understood English and everything would be simpler. Here we go. After
:12:09. > :12:13.for hours Nick finally got the shot. Liverpool there we go, tick. All
:12:14. > :12:16.that hard work paid off even if it was just only for 15 seconds of the
:12:17. > :12:24.show. APPLAUSE
:12:25. > :12:28.Thank you very much. I am not sure that we actually used that shot
:12:29. > :12:36.after all that! Someone who will be used to that... That's a shocking
:12:37. > :12:41.jumper, can I say, it is lovely to see you again. Are you pleased to be
:12:42. > :12:46.back? Have you missed the rain and damp? I have, I have missed the
:12:47. > :12:53.slightly damp tent Dexter. Have you been watching it. I haven't,
:12:54. > :12:58.actually. Our next guest, coming up on the show. I'm being honest
:12:59. > :13:05.because he would only ask me some question! I don't watch it either!
:13:06. > :13:08.What have you been doing. Some filming and a quiz with someone you
:13:09. > :13:13.might know, as a team host, we did do a quiz which is coming out in a
:13:14. > :13:20.couple of weeks, great fun, that starts on June 19 at 6:30pm, BBC
:13:21. > :13:26.Two. And I have also been doing some filming in Wales which is where I
:13:27. > :13:31.live. A beautiful series about Welsh landscapes and how people work and
:13:32. > :13:42.live in them and appreciate them. It is a thinly veiled excuse to have my
:13:43. > :13:50.dog on the TV. You do live and work and appreciate the Welsh landscape
:13:51. > :13:53.with your dog. I wrote about lasting about the relationship between
:13:54. > :13:58.humans and dogs, I was really interested. I have to rescue dogs
:13:59. > :14:02.that I adore. I was interested in the working relationship that to
:14:03. > :14:12.very different species come humans and canines, could have together. I
:14:13. > :14:17.worked on One Man And His Dog and that relationship seems almost
:14:18. > :14:21.symbiotic. We can see that relationship now. Here you are with
:14:22. > :14:27.your dog. You are horrible, I have not missed you at all! Learning to
:14:28. > :14:32.work a dog is not a straightforward trajectory, as I discovered. There
:14:33. > :14:36.are days when things go right. I felt the first time just a bit more
:14:37. > :14:44.in control. And there are days when go wrong. Away, away! But practice
:14:45. > :14:53.makes perfect! APPLAUSE
:14:54. > :15:00.Your voice, shouting away, away! You feel such a fraud as well. When you
:15:01. > :15:05.watch One Man And His Dog and it is seamless, whistling and all that,
:15:06. > :15:11.but one thing that I learned, my dog is a Welsh sheepdog. And they are
:15:12. > :15:16.wired, we did a DNA test to see if they were actually different from
:15:17. > :15:20.colleagues. And neurologically there are 50 different genetic snips that
:15:21. > :15:20.make them different and make them work completely differently, think
:15:21. > :15:33.differently. How is the training coming on? It is
:15:34. > :15:38.me that need the training, the dog is amazing. We worked with cattle
:15:39. > :15:44.and these dogs are amazing, they can work with anything, they have such a
:15:45. > :15:48.strong herding instinct. We drove 25 cattle to the summit, it was
:15:49. > :15:55.amazing. I look forward to seeing it. Another dog here that doesn't
:15:56. > :16:01.need any more training, it is Rocky. And you guys have met before? We
:16:02. > :16:06.have, because one of the other things I was really interested in
:16:07. > :16:15.when I was researching my book was dogs being used in and conservation.
:16:16. > :16:18.I've read there were dogs being used in Wales I this slightly mad
:16:19. > :16:26.gentleman here to find British species. One thing that Aran was
:16:27. > :16:34.training dogs to do was to find pine martens. The other thing was bats
:16:35. > :16:38.which we will talk about in a bit, but the thing that really fascinated
:16:39. > :16:50.me was that the Aran had taken on the task had tried to train the dog
:16:51. > :16:56.to find great crested newts. So we have the world's only newt finding
:16:57. > :17:02.dog in the studio. It was the benefit of finding those that if
:17:03. > :17:11.they need to move, they are quite hard to find. Yes, there's places --
:17:12. > :17:16.measures in place already but if you have a dog it speeds up the process.
:17:17. > :17:22.We have no less than five buckets, and in one of those we have a dead
:17:23. > :17:34.bat. Rocky will sniff out which one that that is in. Let's put a block
:17:35. > :17:44.on this, and off he goes. -- let put a clock on this. He identified one,
:17:45. > :17:51.it didn't take very long. How long was that? Six seconds. We will
:17:52. > :18:00.reveal... Take the top off... He found it! You clever boy. Just to
:18:01. > :18:07.prove it was the right one, there is a dead bat. That's what you pay your
:18:08. > :18:14.licence fee for! Joking apart, the reason he finds dead that is the
:18:15. > :18:18.surveys of wind farms to see if there is any negative impact? Yes,
:18:19. > :18:23.there has to be surveys for mortality. Usually it is people,
:18:24. > :18:27.fingertip searching going through harsh vegetation but we train the
:18:28. > :18:35.dogs to shoot around and sniff them out. The wind turbines do have an
:18:36. > :18:39.effect on the bats. Again, a wonderful symbiotic relationship
:18:40. > :18:44.between brilliant handlers and brilliant dogs. Thank you for coming
:18:45. > :18:48.along, that was a fantastic demonstration. Live animals in the
:18:49. > :18:54.studio always sends shivers down the spine but that was remarkable. As
:18:55. > :18:58.you will know if you are a regular viewer, I like to squeeze myself
:18:59. > :19:07.into tents with celebrities to find out how much they know about
:19:08. > :19:08.wildlife... Who is coming first? This year high chair has gone
:19:09. > :19:15.mobile. It can pop up anywhere. And anyone
:19:16. > :19:41.could be hiding inside. So who is first? The natural habitat
:19:42. > :19:44.of my celebrity Hideshare guest today is a world of glitz and
:19:45. > :19:53.glamour and this would normally be as close to a bird as you would get,
:19:54. > :20:00.but not today, today it is strictly come birdsong. We are in the garden
:20:01. > :20:10.of... Craig Revel Horwood! Jazz hands! It has started already.
:20:11. > :20:19.Welcome to the theatre of nature. Beautiful. And it is your backyard!
:20:20. > :20:30.Yes, it is almost like a cert. Are you good on birdsong? Only songs
:20:31. > :20:37.from musicals normally. Let's listen because there are great musicals
:20:38. > :20:52.going on here. That is the wren, a tiny bird but they shout at the tops
:20:53. > :20:58.of their voices. Oh, yeah. I was brought up in Australia and I am
:20:59. > :21:07.used to hearing kookaburras. This represents beauty and proper song,
:21:08. > :21:16.which is gorgeous. I just heard of the looted calling, not singing.
:21:17. > :21:22.They have a chat call. This looks like a male feeding a female because
:21:23. > :21:27.they are about to go into the nest boxes and laying so she is demanding
:21:28. > :21:38.commitment from him. I don't like that, I get scared of commitment. Is
:21:39. > :21:42.that why I'm single? You can buy recordings of bird songs but there's
:21:43. > :21:48.no substitute for the real thing. So the best thing to do is come out
:21:49. > :21:52.here, sit down, this into the songs and tried to spot the bird. If you
:21:53. > :21:57.force yourself through that process, you will remember it more clearly.
:21:58. > :22:02.Yes, you're right, it's like learning a song. You hear the
:22:03. > :22:06.melody, you listen for it, then you recognise it and can repeat it.
:22:07. > :22:12.Birds actually rehearsed the songs as well. Nightingales, in the winter
:22:13. > :22:16.time when they have migrated to Africa, they practice a couple of
:22:17. > :22:20.lines or a bit of the chorus and when they come back here in the
:22:21. > :22:24.spring they will string the whole song together and the rehearsal will
:22:25. > :22:30.mean they are better songster and we know that those with the richest
:22:31. > :22:37.songs produced more young out of the nest. That is unbelievable, it
:22:38. > :22:44.really is unbelievable. I have had a look at your schedule. You don't get
:22:45. > :22:49.much spare time, do you? No, I don't. Buy direct and choreographed
:22:50. > :22:54.musicals and leading up to Christmas I do a show called Strictly Come
:22:55. > :23:00.Dancing. I have seen it. It is something I think you should be
:23:01. > :23:05.involved in. You have taught me so much, I would fight tooth and nail
:23:06. > :23:12.to get you on the show, you would be fantastic. I will get my glittery
:23:13. > :23:18.jacket out. Before we go, what about some strictly style scoring of
:23:19. > :23:28.today's loudest star. I am scoring the wren with a one. For me it is
:23:29. > :23:34.not fabulous, it is a scratchy and repetitive song. It is a bit
:23:35. > :23:38.scruffy, unlike the bird sometimes. A bit like you then, darling,
:23:39. > :23:43.because I am scoring at a whopping nine because I never give tens
:23:44. > :23:52.anyway. I like it song and it's a firm favourite of mine. It is there,
:23:53. > :23:56.it is loving us. How you can score it once I have no idea, I wouldn't
:23:57. > :23:59.give you one. If I was on your programme I would be lucky to get
:24:00. > :24:06.half! It was a top score. We got him up at
:24:07. > :24:12.about 4:45am on a freezing cold morning to sit in the bird hide so
:24:13. > :24:16.thank you to Craig. And we are not rating the song of the wren here, we
:24:17. > :24:25.are rating your sparkly jacket. Chris says, it is Chris wearing that
:24:26. > :24:31.jumper for a bet? No, I'm wearing this to prove the 1980s should not
:24:32. > :24:35.have happened at all. It is time to round up the quiz. We asked you at
:24:36. > :24:39.the beginning of the show whose house you thought this was, who
:24:40. > :24:43.lives in a nest like this and loads of you have been in touch. Lots of
:24:44. > :24:50.people not getting it quite right. We have had dormouse, Jeff Jaffe,
:24:51. > :24:56.long-tail Stitt and field mouse. Not right, but lots of people did get it
:24:57. > :25:06.correct. Jack Dawson, well done, you gave the right answer which was of
:25:07. > :25:11.course... It is a wren's nest. Those suggestions make similar shaped
:25:12. > :25:15.nests but they are not as substantial as this. This is not
:25:16. > :25:23.wind and when the female chooses the best one she likes, it will be lined
:25:24. > :25:29.and they make their brood in it. Thank you for getting in touch, more
:25:30. > :25:32.quiz tomorrow. Now for a new and exciting part of the programme. We
:25:33. > :25:40.like to challenge our guests and we are going to. It is Fantastical
:25:41. > :25:43.Beasts. In the past we have asked our guests to go out for ten minutes
:25:44. > :25:49.and take a world-class photograph on the phone, like plasticine Wildcat,
:25:50. > :25:56.those sorts of things, but we have a new challenge - they have to come up
:25:57. > :26:00.with their very own animal. It has to be reasonable, it might evolve at
:26:01. > :26:17.some stage in the future. This is mine, the thing called the cat-owl.
:26:18. > :26:25.It preys upon domestic cats. That is the call of the catowl and it never
:26:26. > :26:31.attacks children or poodles, only domestic cats. So, what have you
:26:32. > :26:35.come up with? I wanted to go for a hybrid, something that would be
:26:36. > :26:44.waterproof, then I thought about foxes becoming a -- possible to
:26:45. > :26:50.reproduce in a way that I don't have to hear them at two o'clock in the
:26:51. > :26:57.morning. Then I developed a hedgehog that developed of bioluminescence.
:26:58. > :27:05.They will never get run over again. Ladies and gentlemen! That is pretty
:27:06. > :27:12.good! I'm not sure I can beat that. I was thinking of a dog that could
:27:13. > :27:16.do a decent gin and tonic and do the ironing... However, interesting we
:27:17. > :27:22.came up with a similar thoughts because I thought I would go for a
:27:23. > :27:26.lollipop crow. It is a crow that instead of hanging about by the side
:27:27. > :27:30.of the road waiting for roadkill would hang about at the side of the
:27:31. > :27:36.road and then when something wanted to cross the road, like one of your
:27:37. > :27:40.hedgehogs that hadn't evolved its bioluminescence yet, it could wait
:27:41. > :27:47.at the side of the road and fly up to see if the coast was clear or
:27:48. > :27:52.stop the traffic with its lollipop. Grows being very intelligent
:27:53. > :27:59.animals, this is not far off. -- crows. Somebody asked me what they
:28:00. > :28:08.would eat and I said they would be a vegetarian and eat nuts or
:28:09. > :28:19.something. I never imagined we would get off to such a good start. I am
:28:20. > :28:24.going to score them equally at this point, what do we think about that?
:28:25. > :28:35.I think that is a bit of a wimp's way out. OK, you can wimp that if
:28:36. > :28:44.you like. Any questions? Yes, I have a question - when can we clean out
:28:45. > :28:50.our nest boxes? Right at the end of the summer, don't do it yet. On that
:28:51. > :28:56.account I have to say goodbye to our first Unsprung. Tomorrow we are on
:28:57. > :29:04.at 6:30pm on BBC Two. Big round of applause for our guests, thank you!
:29:05. > :29:09.In Japan, art and life are intrinsically connected.
:29:10. > :29:12.Understanding the principles behind the art
:29:13. > :29:16.unlocks the mysteries of Japanese culture.