:00:23. > :00:28.Last night Springwatch became Crimewatch. The question is, could
:00:28. > :00:38.we catch the culprit? Stay tuned to admire our remarkable detective
:00:38. > :01:07.
:01:07. > :01:12.I fancy myself as a Sherlock. could see that. Sherlock? Welcome
:01:12. > :01:17.to Springwatch coming to you live from the beautiful Ynyshir nature
:01:17. > :01:22.reserve owned by the RSPB. It is full of fantastic habitats, so we
:01:22. > :01:26.have got all of the usual ingredients - real wildlife in
:01:26. > :01:32.real-time. Coming up tonight: Well, we have our barn owl mystery, what
:01:32. > :01:39.were our young owls getting so hot under the collar all about? I took
:01:39. > :01:43.Chris for a ride in the beautiful Isle of Man and we had a marvellous
:01:43. > :01:48.time! Lashings of ginger beer. We will be bringing you news of this
:01:48. > :01:52.icon of Wales, it is of course our red kite family. We will be telling
:01:52. > :01:58.you how the chick is getting on a little bit later in the programme.
:01:58. > :02:03.Now, let's go to this week's guest naturalist, Iolo Williams, who is
:02:03. > :02:08.on Skomer. Welcome to sunny Skomer. It's been a beautiful day. It's a
:02:09. > :02:14.glorious evening and the island as ever is alive with birds. We
:02:14. > :02:19.promised you all week we would bring you a puffling. Tonight we
:02:19. > :02:23.deliver! He is very confident. I would love
:02:23. > :02:27.to see it. Last night we asked for your help to solve a mystery.
:02:27. > :02:32.Something was upsetting our owls. It seemed to be a sound, some sort
:02:32. > :02:36.of noise was upsetting them. What was that sound? Let's have a look
:02:36. > :02:41.at those owls. Here they are getting very upset. Clearly, there
:02:41. > :02:45.is something in there that's bothering them a lot. They are
:02:45. > :02:50.looking straight out towards camera, but towards the entrance of the
:02:50. > :02:59.nest. What was it? Now, we asked for your ideas and they came in
:02:59. > :03:05.thick and fast. 40% of you thought it was a magpie making that sound.
:03:06. > :03:14.27% a woodpecker. 8% thought it was a badger. The people have spoken,
:03:14. > :03:18.Chris. Listen to this. We heard this noise before the owls all got
:03:18. > :03:24.terribly upset. We tested you, you came up with your ideas. We also
:03:25. > :03:31.spoke to the experts. We spoke to a lady from the Barn Owls Trust. She
:03:31. > :03:38.thought it was the young owls. We spoke to Paul, he thought it might
:03:38. > :03:42.have been a male barn owl. We still had another expert. We did. Chris
:03:42. > :03:50.Watson thought that he had a theory so I went to see him today just to
:03:50. > :03:54.ask him for a bit of clarification. That sound is coming from the barn
:03:54. > :03:57.owl nestlings, principally because of the perspective in sound because
:03:57. > :04:02.the source of the sound and the quality of the sound is almost
:04:02. > :04:09.identical to the quality of the sound and the hissing. How can you
:04:09. > :04:14.tell that? Well, take your microphone off. So if you speak -
:04:14. > :04:21.ask me that question again. How can you tell that? If I move the
:04:21. > :04:26.microphone - if I put it over here. Ask me that question. How can you
:04:26. > :04:33.tell that? The level of the sound of that chucking sound, it had to
:04:33. > :04:36.come from exactly the same place? would say so. It's the great thing
:04:36. > :04:39.about Springwatch. We have cameras and microphones in these privileged
:04:39. > :04:43.positions so we are hearing stuff that some of the experts never get
:04:43. > :04:48.the opportunity of hearing. There's also another clue for me as a
:04:48. > :04:58.wildlife sound recordist. Birds of prey of a certain age, nestlings,
:04:58. > :05:05.have a commonality to some of the sounds. This is the recording of a
:05:05. > :05:09.young goshawk we made a couple of years ago. What Chris suspected was
:05:09. > :05:15.he recorded in that goshawk nest that chucking sound, different from
:05:15. > :05:19.the barn owls, but similar rhythm from those young nestlings in the
:05:19. > :05:25.goshawk nest. So what he thought was that he was hearing a similar
:05:25. > :05:30.thing with the barn owls. And given that thought, I went and did some
:05:31. > :05:37.background reading and found out that young barn owls, very young
:05:37. > :05:42.birds, do produce this low chucking type of call. Then it goes away. It
:05:42. > :05:46.appears the lady from the Barn Owl Trust was absolutely right. Hats
:05:46. > :05:49.off to you! That's only solved part of our mystery. That's answered the
:05:49. > :05:53.question about the sound, what was making it? It was the owls
:05:53. > :05:56.themselves. There was something else definitely there generating
:05:56. > :06:02.some animosity. It wasn't the sole occasion. Take a look at this. We
:06:02. > :06:06.saw this last night. Here is one of the adult owls giving this
:06:06. > :06:14.characteristic antagonistic hissing sound looking at something that it
:06:14. > :06:23.quite clearly perceives as a threat. We wanted to find out what that
:06:23. > :06:27.threat was. We called in our crack team of mini camera guys, here is
:06:27. > :06:32.Nigel and Charlie with camera traps which they set up around the barn
:06:32. > :06:38.and in the hope that we would then catch on camera whatever it was
:06:38. > :06:43.that was causing the owls to get upset and make that extraordinary
:06:43. > :06:48.noise. You will never guess what? We think they have managed to do it.
:06:48. > :06:52.They got some photographs - these are stills. Have a look at this.
:06:52. > :06:58.You will see up in the top corner there, the top right-hand corner,
:06:58. > :07:01.that is the window into the owls' nest. Down there on the left,
:07:01. > :07:05.what's that? Let's have another look. The next picture. It's gone
:07:05. > :07:11.behind the wood there. I am sure you are guessing what it is. There
:07:11. > :07:19.is an owl going in. And it's a cat. You can see its eyes glowing. It is
:07:19. > :07:23.right up looking into the nest now. Mmm. Cats are very serious
:07:23. > :07:27.predators of small birds, but what about owls? Well, I am looking at
:07:27. > :07:31.that female barn owl and I am thinking if you tolerate this your
:07:31. > :07:40.children might be next or might they? This is a cat and they are
:07:40. > :07:44.quite a large bird. We know they pre-date small things. To have a go
:07:44. > :07:48.at an adult barn owl might be beyond the cat. Before we think
:07:48. > :07:53.about that, let's go to the nest live and make sure our owls are
:07:53. > :07:57.still in there. They are looking good. I have to say, these owls - I
:07:57. > :08:01.know they had a bit of stress last weekend with the heat - but this
:08:01. > :08:05.week they have been getting a bumper supply of foods. They have
:08:05. > :08:13.been getting masses of food. We have had an interesting question
:08:13. > :08:18.about that. "Do owl chicks regurgitate pellets like their
:08:18. > :08:23.parents?" Well, we can tell you that, not just verbally, but
:08:23. > :08:30.visually. Have a look at what happened today with our largest of
:08:30. > :08:34.the chicks. I think it speaks for itself, or regurgitates for itself!
:08:34. > :08:44.Is that the first one? This is the first time it has been seen
:08:44. > :08:45.
:08:45. > :08:48.producing a pellet. What a pellet! LAUGHTER Chris, do they start
:08:48. > :08:52.almost immediately? They are being fed voles and mice and all the
:08:52. > :08:56.things that they are going to eat as adults. Is this something they
:08:56. > :09:04.naturally do straightaway? What happens is, they get Ted for the
:09:04. > :09:08.first six or seven days lots of indigestable material. Then they
:09:08. > :09:13.don't produce a pellet then. They then go through a secondary stage
:09:13. > :09:16.which we have seen with baby Bob. This is what happens next. It is
:09:16. > :09:21.rather unpleasant. They don't produce a compacted pellet. It is
:09:21. > :09:26.more like vomiting up the loose remains of all of this material and
:09:26. > :09:31.Bob was trying to do this for a considerable period of time. Look
:09:31. > :09:38.what he ends up having to do is take it all back again. I make a
:09:38. > :09:43.pasta dish almost exactly like that! LAUGHTER Sorry. So what we
:09:43. > :09:48.are going to see in a few days' time Bob will produce a prized
:09:48. > :09:53.pellet. If we could recover it, we might put it in a silver frame and
:09:53. > :10:01.entitle it, "My first pellet." It is time to move on to something a
:10:01. > :10:07.bit more genial. Let's move over to see what Iolo has been up to. We
:10:07. > :10:10.are down here on the west coast of central Wales. Iolo is down here
:10:11. > :10:14.off of the tip of Pembrokeshire on Skomer island. The last time we
:10:14. > :10:22.spotted him, he was here. I am hoping he is not out here at the
:10:22. > :10:26.moment or lost in the clouds. Iolo, are your feet firmly on dry land?
:10:26. > :10:30.Welcome back to Skomer island. If you were watching yesterday, you
:10:30. > :10:34.will have learnt that the seabirds here are doing pretty well. You
:10:34. > :10:41.will also know from what Chris the warden told us that the most
:10:41. > :10:48.numerous bird here is the Manx shearwater. 250,000 breeding birds.
:10:48. > :10:54.How do they know this? Well, the wardens have a secret weapon. It's
:10:54. > :10:58.this tape. The Manx shearwaters are underground and on this tape is a
:10:58. > :11:03.Manx shearwater call. If there is a bird in this burrow, it should
:11:03. > :11:09.respond to this. Bear in mind this is live, this is an experiment,
:11:09. > :11:19.usually they go wrong! We will give it a good go. I will play this
:11:19. > :11:24.
:11:24. > :11:30.first. CALL OF A MANX SHEARWATER Listen, can we get the microphone?
:11:31. > :11:34.CALL IS REPEATED It worked. Thank you. Isn't that brilliant?!
:11:34. > :11:40.Fantastic. By knowing there is a bird in there, they can do this
:11:40. > :11:43.over an area here in every burrow and they can then extrapolate those
:11:43. > :11:46.results over the whole island and work out the whole island
:11:46. > :11:51.population. I am so excited that that worked. Also, we have a camera
:11:51. > :11:56.in a burrow just up there and we were hoping to film a change-over
:11:56. > :12:03.which is where one of the birds comes back from the open ocean and
:12:03. > :12:08.takes over the incubation. This is what happened at 3.00am, still
:12:08. > :12:13.going, two nights again. There is one adult on the nest and here is
:12:13. > :12:17.the other one. The second bird has been feeding far out of sea,
:12:17. > :12:27.perhaps for a week, maybe ten days and now it is taking over the
:12:27. > :12:36.
:12:36. > :12:41.duties of sitting on the egg so the That bird is out there in the Irish
:12:41. > :12:44.Sea right now feeding. But the Manx shearwaters are only on Skomer for
:12:44. > :12:51.six months of the year. Where are they for the other six months? I
:12:51. > :12:56.know a man who has got the answer to that.
:12:56. > :12:59.On Monday, I joined a team from Oxford University and saw them
:12:59. > :13:05.downloading the data from a tiny tracking device they had fitted on
:13:05. > :13:09.the bird's leg a year ago. They had to have a day off to analyse the
:13:09. > :13:19.results but yesterday team leader Tim was able to reveal what our
:13:19. > :13:20.
:13:20. > :13:25.bird had been up to. Tim, come on then, what have we got? So, we
:13:25. > :13:30.managed to analyse the data now. So I have colour-coded different
:13:30. > :13:35.periods of the migration. In orange, we have the outward migration which
:13:35. > :13:41.starts mid-September, it goes down the west coast of Africa, across to
:13:41. > :13:45.Brazil and then down to start of her winter period off the middle of
:13:45. > :13:49.Argentina. In the deep winter, in this dark blue, she spends those
:13:49. > :13:54.three months November, December and January very far south indeed, on
:13:54. > :14:03.the edge of an arkty ka. Then about the beginning of February, she
:14:03. > :14:06.starts to move north again -- Antarctica. Mid-March, she whistles
:14:06. > :14:12.the east coast of South America, she comes into the Caribbean taking
:14:12. > :14:15.a sweeping arc and back across the North Atlantic. That is her return
:14:15. > :14:20.migration. That finishes mid-April. Fascinating. I didn't know that
:14:20. > :14:23.they went far south. I didn't realise they came this far north
:14:23. > :14:29.either. We didn't really realise they went this far south. Are you
:14:29. > :14:34.able to calculate how far this bird has thrown in the last 360-odd days
:14:34. > :14:40.-- has flown in the last 360-odd days? 10,000 kilometres, maybe
:14:40. > :14:44.12,000. That means about a 25,000 kilometre return trip at least.
:14:44. > :14:49.These are long-lived birds? This bird could be 25 years old. It
:14:49. > :14:53.could be twice that. So several million kilometres. This is
:14:53. > :14:57.fascinating, Tim. I have learnt something completely new. It also
:14:57. > :15:02.reinforces the fact that there's so much that we really don't know
:15:02. > :15:12.about these fabulous birds as well? We are only just beginning to
:15:12. > :15:17.
:15:17. > :15:20.understand the elusive lifestyles of these seabirds. Isn't it it
:15:20. > :15:24.incredible to think when they leave here in September they might
:15:24. > :15:29.touchdown on land again for five years. I must tell you the story of
:15:29. > :15:33.an incredible story of a Manx shearwater. Up till two years ago
:15:33. > :15:39.it had come back every year for 55 years. Scientists believe it had
:15:39. > :15:43.flown more than four million miles, that is to the moon and back eight
:15:43. > :15:48.times. An incredible bird but we have got lots of incredible birds
:15:48. > :15:53.for you when you come back to us later on.
:15:53. > :15:57.Four million miles! That is the most incredible statistic, one
:15:57. > :16:02.little bird. Unbelievable! I know. From one extraordinary bird to a
:16:02. > :16:06.little bird that we have nesting in the woods just behind us here. It
:16:06. > :16:11.is our wood warbler. Let's go and have a look at her now. There is
:16:11. > :16:16.the nest. This is the most incredible nest. It is like a
:16:16. > :16:21.little tunnel. It is on the ground and it is nestled in. In amongst
:16:21. > :16:26.the moss and the ivy. It is so brilliantly camouflaged and
:16:26. > :16:30.disguised that even with our camera right up there, you can barely see
:16:30. > :16:34.the chicks, can you? No. They are keeping their head down doing what
:16:34. > :16:39.they need to do. They will only flick their heads up when the
:16:39. > :16:44.adults come back in. This is unusual. We have been on the nest
:16:44. > :16:50.for a few seconds and not seen an adult. They have been coming in up
:16:50. > :16:53.to 48 times an hour. More than once every two minutes. Again, these
:16:53. > :16:58.woods are terribly productive when it comes to providing foodment they
:16:58. > :17:03.have six youngsters in there so that will take a lot of food --
:17:03. > :17:07.providing food. They have six youngsters in there so that will
:17:07. > :17:12.take a lot of food. We have been watching the grasshopper warbler,
:17:12. > :17:20.too. How are these two species able to live in the same place at the
:17:20. > :17:24.same time? Here is the answer. Both are sub-Saharan migrants. The
:17:24. > :17:28.grasshopper warblers have spent their winters in northern Senegal.
:17:28. > :17:34.The wood warblers, they have been to Sierra Leone perhaps all the way
:17:34. > :17:44.through to southern Sudan. They get back ten days later on 23rd April.
:17:44. > :17:46.
:17:46. > :17:50.Both of these species are very song centric. The wood warbler has a
:17:50. > :17:55.civilian trill. The nests are build from the same fabrics - a base of
:17:55. > :18:05.leaves and a cup of neatly-woven grass. These are then lined with
:18:05. > :18:08.hair. Clutch and brood size, they are about the same. Both of our
:18:08. > :18:12.nests have six healthy youngsters in at the moment. The habitats are
:18:12. > :18:15.different. The grasshopper warbler likes marshland with bushes. The
:18:15. > :18:20.wood warbler likes these tall Oakwood lands which are so typical
:18:20. > :18:23.of this part of Wales. This affects their foraging behaviour. The
:18:23. > :18:29.grasshopper warbler creeps along like a mouse. Whereas the wood
:18:29. > :18:33.warbler is up in the canopy, fly- catching. This in turn affects the
:18:33. > :18:38.prey they catch. We have seen plenty of spiders being brought
:18:38. > :18:43.into our grasshopper warbler's nest. Whereas, the wood warbler, well
:18:43. > :18:47.lots of cater pillars but also flying insect -- caterpillars, but
:18:47. > :18:56.also flying insects too are appearing in the diet. That is what
:18:56. > :19:00.we call niche separation. That allows both those species, both our
:19:00. > :19:04.birds, to co-exist within metres of each other and raise successful
:19:04. > :19:09.families. Let's go live to our grasshopper warbler now. You can
:19:09. > :19:13.see these chicks. This has been probably the most remarkable
:19:13. > :19:17.transformation we have ever witnessed on Springwatch. Just four
:19:17. > :19:22.days ago, we introduced you to this family. You could barely see the
:19:22. > :19:29.chicks. Now, they are enormous, Chris. I know. There is a good
:19:29. > :19:32.reason for that. The food has been going in. This is the food we have
:19:32. > :19:36.seen going in. This one is a bit odd. She got back to the nest with
:19:36. > :19:40.some other food and found on the side of it a slug. Not typical food
:19:40. > :19:47.for this species. She couldn't resist it. Puts it into the mouth
:19:47. > :19:50.of this bird. It didn't slither out. Did it? It did! This is the equally
:19:50. > :19:54.interesting thing - these birds are growing so much that one of them
:19:54. > :19:58.appears to follow the adult out. is not falling out. The nest is on
:19:58. > :20:02.the ground. This is very typical of their behaviour. It is. They grow
:20:02. > :20:07.so quickly. They are on the ground, they are very vulnerable there. The
:20:07. > :20:12.concept is, if they get disturbed by a predator, they will scatter
:20:12. > :20:17.into the undergrowth so that they can't be found. They may go back to
:20:17. > :20:22.the nest. One thing is for sure, the scattering will mean that not
:20:22. > :20:26.all of them will get eaten if they are discovered by a predator.
:20:26. > :20:31.can see they look like they are pretty close to fledging. So
:20:31. > :20:36.definitely one of our webcams to keep your eyes on over the weekend.
:20:36. > :20:41.Now, there has been a very worrying trend emerging that many of our
:20:41. > :20:47.native birds are going into decline. Really, is there anything that we
:20:47. > :20:53.can do to reverse that? Well, I went to a farm that seemed to be
:20:53. > :20:58.having some measure of success. There is one group of birds in
:20:58. > :21:04.Britain that has suffered a particularly dramatic and prolonged
:21:04. > :21:09.decline. It's lost half its numbers since 1970. That's more than any
:21:09. > :21:16.other group. It's our farmland birds. Some species have suffered
:21:16. > :21:21.more than others. The UK population of tree sparrows is down by 94%.
:21:21. > :21:27.Corn bupbtings by nearly the same. Other farmland specialists like the
:21:28. > :21:31.lapwing and yellowhammer have also plummeted. -- bunting. It is a
:21:31. > :21:36.terrifying and very real prospect that some of the UK's most
:21:36. > :21:41.important species are on the brink of being lost forever. Experts at
:21:41. > :21:45.the RSPB know exactly what's caused this decline in our farmland birds.
:21:45. > :21:49.There aren't enough safe nesting sites and there isn't enough food
:21:50. > :21:54.available at critical times of the year. Farmers have become so
:21:54. > :21:59.efficient at producing food that there's hardly any room left for
:21:59. > :22:07.wildlife. So it is farmers and modern farming methods that are
:22:07. > :22:10.responsible. Or is it? Farmers are under increasing pressure to supply
:22:10. > :22:14.a plentiful amount of cheap food and that pressure comes from us.
:22:14. > :22:20.Because we are unwilling to shell out cash for our food, ultimately
:22:20. > :22:25.it is our wildlife that pays the price. I have come to Upton Farm,
:22:25. > :22:28.2,000 acres on the border of Oxfordshire and Warwickshire. It is
:22:28. > :22:36.a non-organic arable and livestock farm which has found a way to
:22:36. > :22:41.combine farming and wildlife. It is down to one man. Wildlife needs
:22:41. > :22:45.three things - a home, food and a mate. Presumably, though, farms
:22:45. > :22:50.provide plenty of places for things to nest and plenty of food, don't
:22:50. > :22:58.they? No. Science tells us 90% of the wildlife on farmland has gone
:22:58. > :23:06.because the has been fats have gone. 90%? What are you advising --
:23:06. > :23:10.habitats have gone. 90%? What are you advising farmers to do? This
:23:10. > :23:15.wild flower meadow provides insects and insects feed birds in the
:23:15. > :23:20.summer. Presumably, if you are a farmer, desperately trying to make
:23:20. > :23:25.any sort of profit, taking this amount of land out of production
:23:25. > :23:28.isn't going to work? The Government give him money to grow wildlife and
:23:28. > :23:34.wildlife is a crop. My skill is sitting down with the farmer and
:23:34. > :23:40.working out where he's earning �300 from wheat but I can show him �400
:23:40. > :23:45.from wildlife. Now he's in business. Brilliant. Look at that
:23:45. > :23:52.yellowhammer. Two! A pair of them. They are special birds. We planted
:23:52. > :23:57.this hedge eight years ago and it is a home for birds. The methods
:23:57. > :24:02.provide food and shelter for birds but he also plants crops to help
:24:02. > :24:07.them in the winter. We know one of the biggest killers is winter
:24:07. > :24:13.starvation. This is a mixture of plants that will retain their seed,
:24:14. > :24:21.the blue one is linseed, that one will produce seed later in the year,
:24:21. > :24:28.mustard is the yellow one. The one that is most interesting is fodder
:24:28. > :24:33.radish. The birds have to peck into it. Take one. Eat the seed? Yes.
:24:33. > :24:37.That's three birds you have starved to death. You are so mean! It does
:24:37. > :24:42.taste like radish. Basically, what we are looking at here is a little
:24:42. > :24:51.permanent source of winter food? we could get more farmers planting
:24:51. > :24:59.this, birds wouldn't starve. He has been working with Rob Alan since
:24:59. > :25:03.2003. The results are astonishing. We have seen more and more birds.
:25:03. > :25:08.We have lapwings nesting for the first time this year. We have 18 of
:25:08. > :25:15.the 19 farmland birds. We have boxes everywhere for the tree
:25:15. > :25:19.sparrows. We found tree sparrows where bits of mortar were missing
:25:19. > :25:23.from buildings. In those stones? They take to the box very readily.
:25:23. > :25:27.They seem to move straight in. Clearly, you have done a lot of
:25:28. > :25:33.things here and it has worked. Is it worth it? It is worth it, I
:25:33. > :25:37.think, from our point of view. The farm's profitable, we are paid for
:25:37. > :25:45.taking this out of crops and farming it for wildlife. There are
:25:45. > :25:50.costs and hassles, but it is very rewarding. What you have done here
:25:50. > :25:54.at Upton has made a real difference to the state of farmland birds?
:25:54. > :26:00.And to the wildlife environment as a whole? Yes. Is your dream to turn
:26:00. > :26:06.your back on Upton and tackle the this lot? Yes. There's Wales and
:26:06. > :26:11.the rest of the world! What the farmer needs is the help to deliver.
:26:11. > :26:21.We know it works, we have seen it working. That's for tomorrow. It's
:26:21. > :26:32.
:26:32. > :26:37.What's so heartening about that, is it proves it can be done. If the
:26:38. > :26:41.farmer does it, it works. But he is right, farmers need help, they need
:26:41. > :26:45.support, they need advice about how to do it. But I have got a bit of
:26:45. > :26:50.breaking news for you. I shouldn't be telling you this. Figures that
:26:50. > :26:55.are due to be released tomorrow by Natural England are expected to
:26:55. > :27:01.show that our farmers are taking up this challenge. More land than ever
:27:01. > :27:05.before, 150,000 hectares of our farmland is now being managed for
:27:05. > :27:10.wildlife. That is really good to stop the decline of farmland birds.
:27:10. > :27:17.Really good news. Big thanks to the farmers. If you are a farmer that
:27:17. > :27:21.is not involved, get involved. We are down by the marsh, we have had
:27:21. > :27:27.a look at the grasshopper warbler. On to the water, there has been
:27:27. > :27:31.lots of activity. Plenty of swallows taking all of the fly or
:27:31. > :27:36.midge larvae which are hatching... Not enough of the midge larvae I
:27:36. > :27:42.have to say! They are hatching out and these birds are picking them
:27:43. > :27:52.off. They have been down there all afternoon. Lovely damselflies here.
:27:52. > :27:56.These look like common damselflies. Lots of dragonflies, too. Once the
:27:56. > :27:59.nesting season is over, birds disappear, these are the things to
:27:59. > :28:04.delight us. These are super animals. They have been around for hundreds
:28:04. > :28:09.of millions of years in this body form. They can fly at 30mph, hover,
:28:09. > :28:13.go backwards. I have to say, you really don't have to come to a
:28:13. > :28:18.nature reserve like this to see them. That's right. One of the easy
:28:18. > :28:22.things you can do is build a pond, I did it myself a couple of years
:28:22. > :28:32.ago. It did involve quite a lot of digging. You don't need to do that.
:28:32. > :28:32.
:28:32. > :29:51.Apology for the loss of subtitles for 79 seconds
:29:51. > :29:57.Brilliant. That's so simple and it really works. You have a pond?
:29:57. > :30:01.have only just dug my pond. I did it a few months ago. No what you
:30:01. > :30:06.have got! I know. I am feeling smug about my pond. It was built two
:30:06. > :30:11.years ago. We featured it on the programme. We have put newt traps
:30:11. > :30:18.in it. All three species of British newt in two years! Isn't that
:30:18. > :30:22.fantastic? If you build it, they will come! It is true. Ponds are
:30:22. > :30:25.great places for insects. Lots of insect life. There is over a
:30:25. > :30:29.million species of insect around the world. In the UK we have well
:30:29. > :30:35.over 20,000 different types of insect. What is happening to our
:30:35. > :30:44.bugs? Well, you can help find out. The Natural History Museum, here it
:30:44. > :30:49.is, OPAL, the Open Air Laboratory, have joined together to produce
:30:49. > :30:55.this. We can all get involved with the big count and I did that this
:30:55. > :31:02.afternoon. There's lots of different things they want you to
:31:02. > :31:12.do. I'm going to search for bugs on plants. I have a checklist and I
:31:12. > :31:17.
:31:17. > :31:24.have 15 minutes. We are off! Wolf spider with egg case. A big tick.
:31:24. > :31:34.Bumblebee. Having its lunch on some clover. He's fallen off. I think I
:31:34. > :31:36.
:31:37. > :31:43.will back off. That's a bee! Slug- tastic! Ladybirds. It's a seven-
:31:43. > :31:53.spot ladybird. A ladybird is a beetle. Grasshopper. Young one, but
:31:53. > :31:53.
:31:54. > :32:03.it counts. Beautiful fly, hover fly, can you see him? Gorgeous. He's
:32:04. > :32:05.
:32:05. > :32:12.gone. Catster pillar. One for Chris to identify. -- caterpillar. One
:32:12. > :32:22.for Chris the to -- one for Chris to identify. How many do I write on
:32:22. > :32:29.
:32:30. > :32:33.this sheet? Ants. And time is up! That's it. If you want to get
:32:33. > :32:37.involved in the bug count, there is a link on bbc.co.uk/springwatch.
:32:37. > :32:43.would like to see you looking for insects. When I see you out and
:32:43. > :32:46.about it is such a crime to be wearing that Green Watch! Stop
:32:46. > :32:49.about the watch! It really is. Let's catch up with a few of the
:32:49. > :32:53.birds that aren't here on the reserve. You might have seen
:32:53. > :32:58.earlier in the week that we visited the osprey project just up the
:32:58. > :33:01.estuary here. Great news there. They have hatched not two, but
:33:01. > :33:04.three chicks. Despite initial teething problems with the
:33:04. > :33:09.inexperienced female not feeding them properly, they are all getting
:33:09. > :33:15.plenty of food, as you can see, and they are still very healthy. One
:33:15. > :33:20.other thing that we witnessed with these birds is this. When they move
:33:20. > :33:25.around the nest, they close up their feet into a fist so that
:33:25. > :33:30.their large and very dangerous talons don't run the risk of
:33:30. > :33:34.puncturing the eggs or scratching the chicks. Well, last week, I
:33:34. > :33:40.introduced you to the Little Owls, our Little Owl nest. It is time to
:33:40. > :33:44.catch up with the latest news there. You may remember we were lucky
:33:44. > :33:51.enough to hook up with Emily who is is a researcher, she is sponsored
:33:51. > :33:56.by the Hawk and Owl Trust and she's managed to get cameras right inside
:33:56. > :34:00.the nestboxes of the little owls. Here is mum coming in. You can see
:34:00. > :34:04.the first chick has hatched out. That was on May 18th. Then just the
:34:04. > :34:08.next day on the 19th, the second chick hatched out. That continues.
:34:08. > :34:11.Here she is bringing in some food. That was a moth. You can see if it
:34:11. > :34:16.is a moth, just how small she is. Even better here, that is a sparrow.
:34:16. > :34:20.It is almost as big as the owl. Here are all the little chicks.
:34:20. > :34:25.They are a bit different in size. That is perfectly normal. They are
:34:25. > :34:29.getting lots and lots of food here. There goes a moth. They are so
:34:29. > :34:35.hungry, they are coming right out of the nestbox to be the first to
:34:35. > :34:39.get that grub as it comes in. Here we go. Here comes mum or dad again.
:34:39. > :34:44.The news is all good. We will keep in contact with Emily and we will
:34:44. > :34:51.follow this family throughout the whole of the rest of Springwatch.
:34:51. > :34:56.They are absolutely delightful. beautiful. Great news that that is
:34:56. > :35:00.going so well. Another nest, and another family are our red kites.
:35:00. > :35:07.There is the red kite chick. Before we came on air, ten days later,
:35:07. > :35:09.look at him or her now. Looking very magnificent indeed. The reason
:35:09. > :35:14.for that is again she's been very well looked after and very well-fed.
:35:14. > :35:18.A vole coming in now. We think that this chick's about four weeks old.
:35:18. > :35:23.We are not entirely sure and the good thing is, that she has a very
:35:23. > :35:27.experienced mum, the mum is about 16 or 17 years old and she's raised
:35:27. > :35:30.two chicks in the two previous years to this. But this is
:35:30. > :35:34.something that I absolutely love, it is pouring with rain yesterday
:35:34. > :35:40.and look what she does, she comes into the nest and raises her wing...
:35:40. > :35:45.Thanks, mum! To create an umbrella over the chick. So what the Welsh
:35:45. > :35:49.Kite Trust, that is looking after this nest, are hoping to do next
:35:50. > :35:53.week is to ring that chick - very important to ID these birds and be
:35:54. > :35:59.able to keep an eye on them. I am hoping I might be able to go along
:35:59. > :36:09.and help them do that and if I do, you will get to see it. Now, let's
:36:09. > :36:10.
:36:10. > :36:17.go back to Skomer and to Iolo. Welcome back to a remarkably calm
:36:17. > :36:21.North Haven. One species that we have neglected so far, the herring
:36:22. > :36:27.gull. Steve is on a herring gull over there at the moment. It is
:36:28. > :36:34.just standing around by the puffins' burrow. They know a puffin
:36:34. > :36:38.will come in with fish and that gull is going to pounce on it. It
:36:38. > :36:42.pales into insignificance compared with the biggest gull on the island,
:36:42. > :36:46.the great black-backed gull. Earlier, we saw one have a go at a
:36:46. > :36:56.puffin. It happens all the time. Steve has been following this bird
:36:56. > :36:56.
:36:56. > :37:00.for the past few days. The great black-backed is the King
:37:00. > :37:04.of the Island. It is a huge bird. That is a buzzard. They have a nest
:37:04. > :37:08.on the other side of the island. There it is being mobbed by a great
:37:08. > :37:14.black-backed and you can see just how much bigger the gull is. They
:37:14. > :37:18.even bully the buzzards! The ridge tops are the best nesting sites on
:37:18. > :37:22.the whole island and they are taking by great black-backed gulls.
:37:22. > :37:27.These are the best viewpoints on the island to keep an eye out for
:37:27. > :37:30.potential prey. The threat from these gulls is the reason why the
:37:30. > :37:35.Manx shearwaters don't come out in the daytime. This Manx shearwater
:37:35. > :37:39.may well have been out feeding and strayed too close to the island and
:37:40. > :37:44.these big gulls are very efficient predators. They also keep the
:37:44. > :37:51.rabbit population in check. It pays to have a deep burrow on this
:37:51. > :37:55.island! It would be so easy to portray these birds as villains,
:37:55. > :37:59.but they are just trying to survive as is everyone else. We have been
:37:59. > :38:05.staking out a nest in the heart of the island and just look what we
:38:05. > :38:09.saw yesterday. It's a beautiful chick. This other chick is tucking
:38:09. > :38:13.itself in amongst the rocks. Youz can see how well camouflaged it is
:38:14. > :38:19.-- you can see how well camouflaged it is. That is because the buzzards
:38:19. > :38:24.would eat the chick. You are not safe from predators just because
:38:24. > :38:33.you are at the top of the food chain. You don't mess with a great
:38:33. > :38:38.black-backed gull. We have also been following cliff nesting birds
:38:38. > :38:42.- the guillemots and razorbills. Steve is on some razorbills. They
:38:42. > :38:46.are one of my favourite birds. If you remember, we watched them on
:38:46. > :38:55.the nesting cliffs, they were developing well. Steve went back
:38:55. > :38:59.this morning to see how things were going. Those are quite young chicks.
:38:59. > :39:04.They are still quite fluffy. Look at this razorbill chick. You can
:39:04. > :39:08.see that it's lost most of its down and it's got almost complete adult
:39:08. > :39:13.plumage. I thought we might see one of these moor advanced chicking
:39:13. > :39:16.fledge and leave the cliff this week. We haven't seen that -- these
:39:16. > :39:21.more advanced chicks fledge and leave the cliff this week. We
:39:21. > :39:28.haven't seen that. Here are some shots filmed in Scotland a few
:39:28. > :39:35.years ago. # Might as well jump
:39:35. > :39:45.# Go ahead and jump # Jump
:39:45. > :40:09.
:40:10. > :40:13.Thapbgss to-of- -- thanks to Gordon Buchanan for pictures of the
:40:13. > :40:18.razorbills jumping. The gulls come in and they gobble the whole lot up.
:40:18. > :40:22.They often have to fight with other gulls as well. Have a look at this.
:40:22. > :40:26.This is something we filmed earlier on. It shows what the puffin has to
:40:26. > :40:31.go through to get into his burrow. Have a look at this again. I missed
:40:31. > :40:37.that, too. Puffin comes in from the left. There he comes. The gull
:40:37. > :40:42.comes straightaway. That is what a puffin has to do to avoid being
:40:42. > :40:48.eaten by a gull. To avoid having the fish taken away from it by the
:40:48. > :40:52.gull, sorry. That burrow had a marker tag on it. That is one of
:40:52. > :40:57.the research burrows out over there. That is where yesterday I went with
:40:57. > :41:05.Chris the warden to look at a puffling. If you want to see that,
:41:05. > :41:09.come back later on. Thanks Iolo. Iolo! Iolo! It's not
:41:09. > :41:16.unusual to be sad with anyone. I am now because you have really let us
:41:16. > :41:24.down. We were here last night with the Undertones and you have phoned
:41:24. > :41:32.in so awful Van Halen! Let's fly over those trees because that is
:41:32. > :41:37.where our herons are nesting and we can cut to them live now and a very
:41:37. > :41:42.atmospheric shot. They have been out and about quite a lot today.
:41:42. > :41:46.One of them left the nest for four hours so our story developers did
:41:46. > :41:49.think maybe this is it, they have fledged. So definitely worth you
:41:49. > :41:54.keeping an eye on those birds on our cameras over the weekend. Shall
:41:54. > :42:00.we have a quick check on our oystercatchers? Indeed. There they
:42:00. > :42:04.are. The adults have been brilliant at sitting on that nest. There are
:42:04. > :42:07.two eggs underneath that adult bird. The nest is on a wall about eight
:42:07. > :42:11.feet up with a beautiful view of the reserve. We don't think that
:42:11. > :42:16.those eggs are due to hatch quite yet. Again, you might be able to
:42:16. > :42:24.prove us wrong by keeping an eye on them over the weekend. Top spot on
:42:24. > :42:27.top of the wall. Let's go beyond the trees because that is where our
:42:27. > :42:33.buzzards were. This is our youngster, the one youngster. He's
:42:33. > :42:38.been doing a great job of growing. Lots of - I say adult feathers, but
:42:38. > :42:41.its first proper set of feathers. One of the reasons it's been doing
:42:41. > :42:47.such a great job of growing is almost every time we go live to
:42:47. > :42:53.this bird, apart from this time, it is eating, it is being extremely
:42:53. > :42:57.well-fed by its parents. Grass snake earlier. He was in tears.
:42:57. > :43:03.What can you do? Now, we do have a little surprise for you.
:43:03. > :43:08.certainly do. We have got a second live buzzard which we can go to now.
:43:08. > :43:13.This nest is slightly different in that it's got two much younger
:43:13. > :43:21.chicks in. Pretty sleepy at the moment. We have seen a lot of
:43:21. > :43:25.activity at this nest. We have. In fact, not altogether friendly
:43:25. > :43:29.activity. This is sibling rivalry at its best. You see, this is a
:43:29. > :43:36.gorgeous shot - this shows you both adults involved here, bringing food
:43:36. > :43:40.in for these two chicks. As you can see, they are being very well
:43:40. > :43:44.attended by those adult birds. One chick a bit bigger than the other.
:43:45. > :43:50.It is not unusual for them to be mad at anyone. This looks like just
:43:50. > :43:59.out-and-out bullying by the big one. It is. This is another species
:43:59. > :44:09.which practice what is we call the Cane and Abel strategy. The adults
:44:09. > :44:09.
:44:09. > :44:14.hatch enough eggs to ensure the bigger one survives. Take a look at
:44:14. > :44:18.this. We saw something quite unique today. Here the adult buzzard is
:44:18. > :44:22.bringing in a fledgling. We have tried to see what it is. It is
:44:22. > :44:25.about blackbird size. It is a thrush more than likely. It arrives
:44:25. > :44:29.back with another fledgling of exactly the same size, suggesting
:44:29. > :44:34.that it's come from the same nest. In fact, in the course of just 13
:44:34. > :44:40.minutes, it came in with no fewer than four or five of these things.
:44:40. > :44:45.Do we glean from this that the buzzard has found a nest and has
:44:45. > :44:49.raided it when it feels like, like a sweetie jar? That is it. It's
:44:49. > :44:54.found that nest like you say. Identified it as a source of food.
:44:54. > :44:58.It goes in. Pinches one and keeps going back. Goshawks would do the
:44:58. > :45:02.same to buzzards so they may not have the last laugh. Yesterday, we
:45:02. > :45:06.showed you the rather tragic end of a pied flycatcher's nest. I am
:45:06. > :45:10.pleased we put plenty of nestboxes out, rigged with cameras. Today we
:45:10. > :45:14.were able to plug another one up and we can bring you live pictures
:45:14. > :45:17.now of the next pied flycatcher that we have got online. We haven't
:45:17. > :45:21.been able to follow the antics of these birds too much. You can do
:45:21. > :45:27.that over the course of the weekend. Next week, we will be catching up
:45:27. > :45:31.and seeing what is happening in that box. Talking of weekends,
:45:31. > :45:35.Martin, he's said he's had a fantastic weekend, "You should have
:45:35. > :45:45.been with me." He convinced me it was the right thing to do and I
:45:45. > :45:45.
:45:45. > :45:50.went off to meet him for a boys' weekend away.
:45:50. > :45:56.What could be better, the sun shining and Martin has promised me
:45:56. > :46:04.a trip to the best cafe on the island. Where is that stretched
:46:04. > :46:14.limo? Oh for goodness sake! Chris, welcome to the magical Isle of Man.
:46:14. > :46:18.
:46:18. > :46:24.Hold on! # I want to break free
:46:24. > :46:29.# I want to break free. # What could be better than touring
:46:29. > :46:33.this beautiful island on this beautiful bike with a beautiful...
:46:33. > :46:41.Well, Chris? I'm determined to show Chris a good time this weekend, so
:46:41. > :46:51.the first stop is the Calf of Man where I could almost guarantee some
:46:51. > :46:52.
:46:52. > :46:58.great wildlife. The Calf of Man. There you go, a grey seal. Two, two
:46:58. > :47:04.seals! It's gone underwater now. my goodness me! I'm going to go
:47:04. > :47:09.underwater myself! It is nice to see. Can you see why I come here?
:47:09. > :47:12.can. That is a splendid landscape. There is a sense of rough romance.
:47:12. > :47:17.I can see you reflected in the landscape. This is how you see
:47:17. > :47:22.yourself? It is. Hair in the wind... You see yourself as the Calf of
:47:22. > :47:28.Man? The view is splendid. There is one thing it needs... For us to
:47:28. > :47:34.stand here all day soaking it up? was thinking a cafe! OK, Chris.
:47:34. > :47:40.There is a cafe, yes. Let's go. is not an outdoor person. I have a
:47:40. > :47:47.treat that is far better than a coffee and a muffin. It is an
:47:47. > :47:57.animal I always try to see when I'm here. This is the chasms and these
:47:57. > :48:02.ravines provide an ideal nesting ground for choughs. Here they are,
:48:02. > :48:09.this... Look at that! Oh! That was worth coming. Look at them all.
:48:09. > :48:13.have never seen many choughs out altogether. They are so playful.
:48:13. > :48:23.The agility in the air is unmatched. I love it when they bounce up and
:48:23. > :48:26.
:48:26. > :48:32.close their wings and drop down. my goodness. Oh! Yes! Goodness me.
:48:32. > :48:36.Chris, why are they nearly always in pairs? They are monogamous. They
:48:36. > :48:45.will remain together in pairs from season to season. Look at them go!
:48:45. > :48:50.Oh! Martin, I would give everything, every single thing for just one
:48:50. > :48:55.minute as a chough, wouldn't you? As good as that? I would, too.
:48:55. > :48:59.Imagine being able to walk to that edge and fall off and do what they
:48:59. > :49:04.are doing. Can you imagine the thrill? I would give everything
:49:04. > :49:10.except the bike! I would have to keep that. That is going to weigh
:49:10. > :49:13.you down. You will plummet into the sea! That is glorious. What is
:49:14. > :49:18.nesting down there? There is another massive colony there.
:49:18. > :49:24.are guillemots there and lots of kittiwakes, too. You can hear them
:49:24. > :49:33.from here. They kittiwake, so the choughs chuff and the kittiwakes
:49:33. > :49:38.kittiwake? Guillemots, little stumpy wings, regurgitating fish,
:49:38. > :49:45.blah, blah, there goes my egg, I don't think so. There is another
:49:45. > :49:51.chough! Look at that. That on the other hand, the Prada of the bird
:49:51. > :49:59.world. I like the Chasms. Is there a cafe here? Shall we go and look?
:49:59. > :50:03.Come on! That was really great chough action. Now, I'm quite
:50:03. > :50:13.looking forward to my bed, a nice four-star hotel, continental
:50:13. > :50:23.breakfast, oh... I can't wait. There it is, Chris. A bit snug,
:50:23. > :50:29.
:50:29. > :50:37.home sweet home. I'll get the kettle on! Martin? Yes. It is
:50:37. > :50:43.fabulous. Perfect. I knew you would love it. Ha-ha. Listen, I consider
:50:43. > :50:53.you to be a great mate. You see, I can camp it up but I don't do
:50:53. > :51:03.camping. Oh? I have seen Brokeback Mountain. Chris! Good night. I've
:51:03. > :51:10.
:51:10. > :51:15.got you some Earl Grey tea bags. Well, you will be pleased to hear
:51:15. > :51:19.those two will be off on more boys' weekends next week. Welcome back to
:51:19. > :51:25.my favourite island, Skomer. Now, the bit you have all been waiting
:51:25. > :51:34.for, the puffling. Yesterday, Chris took me out to some research
:51:35. > :51:38.burrows over there to have a look at one in the hand.
:51:38. > :51:43.I am really excited about this because we have promised you all
:51:43. > :51:47.week we would try and get you a puffling and we think we know there
:51:47. > :51:54.is a burrow with a youngster in it. You have to walk so carefully. Look
:51:54. > :51:58.at this, it is like a Swiss cheese. Follow Chris the warden. Where are
:51:58. > :52:03.you aiming for? This burrow 45. We have seen the adults coming in with
:52:03. > :52:08.fish. Hopefully, there should be a chick in here. If we carefully
:52:08. > :52:13.weave our way through. That is a long burrow. Can you see that. Here
:52:13. > :52:19.is the entrance. There. Chris is looking for the chick all the way
:52:19. > :52:23.over there. Look at that. Oh. Look at that. Got a bit of a dusty head.
:52:23. > :52:27.Let's have a look at him. We have to be pretty quick as well. You are
:52:27. > :52:31.going to weigh and measure? Yeah, what we are doing here is we are
:52:31. > :52:34.measuring the growth rates of the puffins. We can work out sort of
:52:34. > :52:38.how successful they are doing throughout the season. It is
:52:38. > :52:43.important work? Yeah. One thing, can I point that out? Can you go in
:52:43. > :52:48.on the beak? See that little light colour on the end? That is the egg
:52:48. > :52:53.tooth. That is a small hard deposit that they will use to help to
:52:53. > :53:01.escape from the egg. Let's get on and do the measurements. Yeah, yeah.
:53:01. > :53:05.There's a lot of down on these chicks. That is 27 millimetres.
:53:05. > :53:11.How old is this one? About ten- days-old. It will be in the burrow
:53:11. > :53:14.for how long? Well, they will usually be fed for three to four
:53:14. > :53:17.weeks and the young will start to explore and then they will be out
:53:17. > :53:22.at sea. The weight of this one at the minute... They are almost
:53:22. > :53:26.starved in the end and may need to go out? Basically, yeah. So the
:53:26. > :53:30.weight of this one is 85 grammes at the minute. They will be about 300
:53:30. > :53:34.grammes when they come to fledge. The adults are heavier at 400
:53:34. > :53:37.grammes. He is doing well. You saw the little beak there. It is not
:53:37. > :53:42.coloured at all which is quite a surprise for most people. That will
:53:42. > :53:46.stay that colour for the first couple years of its life. It will
:53:46. > :53:49.get bigger. They won't develop the colourful bills until they are two
:53:49. > :53:55.years old. Hopefully, this one will fledge to an adult and survive to
:53:55. > :53:59.next year and we better put it back. Yeah. Ta-da. Excellent. That has to
:53:59. > :54:07.be the cutest thing I have ever seen and it gives me an excuse to
:54:07. > :54:11.use my favourite word of the week - puffling! Was that worth waiting
:54:11. > :54:14.for or was that worth waiting for? I know what is going to happen -
:54:14. > :54:20.children all over the country will tell their parents, "I don't want a
:54:20. > :54:24.bike, or a computer game this Christmas, I want a puffling." You
:54:24. > :54:29.can't. Chris wanted me to emphasise when he said three to four weeks,
:54:29. > :54:35.that is the incubation period. The chicks will be in the burrows for
:54:35. > :54:45.six weeks. That was the highlight of the week for me. It's been a
:54:45. > :54:45.
:54:45. > :55:47.Apology for the loss of subtitles for 79 seconds
:55:47. > :55:51.week of highlights. Here they are Unfortunately, this is the end of
:55:51. > :55:56.our stay on this wonderful island and being here for the week has
:55:56. > :56:00.reinforced what I have always thought, that Skomer really is a
:56:00. > :56:04.very special place. Now there are so many people to thank, Kenny and
:56:04. > :56:10.John the boatmen for getting us over here, Phil and the team from
:56:10. > :56:16.the Marine Nature Reserve of the Countryside Council of Wales for
:56:16. > :56:19.taking us diving, the research bods and Chris the warden and the
:56:19. > :56:25.wonderful staff from the south and West Wales Wildlife Trust. They
:56:25. > :56:29.couldn't do enough for us. Now, we are going to say goodbye. But
:56:29. > :56:33.earlier on, you over there at Ynyshir named your barn owl chicks.
:56:33. > :56:43.I said we weren't going to do that. I have changed my mind. I'm going
:56:43. > :56:49.
:56:49. > :56:56.to name the puffins. There is Dewi and Tomos, Lynette, Gethin, Dafydd,
:56:56. > :57:05.Gethin, Rhodri, Cary, no... There is no doubt at all that he's
:57:05. > :57:11.spent too much time on that island! After last week's great success
:57:11. > :57:15.with Charlie's live beavers, Iolo had to come up to a live standard
:57:15. > :57:21.and he did it. Thank you very much indeed. We enjoyed all of your
:57:21. > :57:25.reports. We have. We have time for a very quick film that was sent in
:57:25. > :57:31.by Ian, have a look at this. We couldn't resist this. It is a mouse
:57:31. > :57:36.that is wishing it was a centimetre taller. Jump, jump! Would you
:57:36. > :57:39.remind everybody what they need to do this weekend? Get out and count
:57:39. > :57:44.bugs. Go to the website - bbc.co.uk/springwatch. Go to the
:57:44. > :57:47.website for all sorts of things, there is a link for things to do to
:57:47. > :57:52.keep you busy and occupied this weekend if you don't want to wear
:57:52. > :57:57.leathers and ride in a side-car. We will be back at 8.00pm on Monday
:57:57. > :58:02.night. What have we got? Next weekend our guest presenter is Liz
:58:02. > :58:07.Bonnin. We are sending her off to Essex and to a rubbish dump. There
:58:07. > :58:12.is nothing rubbish about that dump. It is full of wildlife including
:58:12. > :58:16.this delightful family of foxes. Keep an eye on our grasshopper
:58:16. > :58:20.warblers. They may fledge this weekend. Keep an eye on all our