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Last night Springwatch became Crimewatch. The question is, could

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we catch the culprit? Stay tuned to admire our remarkable detective

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I fancy myself as a Sherlock. could see that. Sherlock? Welcome

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to Springwatch coming to you live from the beautiful Ynyshir nature

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reserve owned by the RSPB. It is full of fantastic habitats, so we

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have got all of the usual ingredients - real wildlife in

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real-time. Coming up tonight: Well, we have our barn owl mystery, what

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were our young owls getting so hot under the collar all about? I took

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Chris for a ride in the beautiful Isle of Man and we had a marvellous

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time! Lashings of ginger beer. We will be bringing you news of this

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icon of Wales, it is of course our red kite family. We will be telling

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you how the chick is getting on a little bit later in the programme.

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Now, let's go to this week's guest naturalist, Iolo Williams, who is

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on Skomer. Welcome to sunny Skomer. It's been a beautiful day. It's a

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glorious evening and the island as ever is alive with birds. We

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promised you all week we would bring you a puffling. Tonight we

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deliver! He is very confident. I would love

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to see it. Last night we asked for your help to solve a mystery.

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Something was upsetting our owls. It seemed to be a sound, some sort

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of noise was upsetting them. What was that sound? Let's have a look

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at those owls. Here they are getting very upset. Clearly, there

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is something in there that's bothering them a lot. They are

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looking straight out towards camera, but towards the entrance of the

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nest. What was it? Now, we asked for your ideas and they came in

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thick and fast. 40% of you thought it was a magpie making that sound.

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27% a woodpecker. 8% thought it was a badger. The people have spoken,

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Chris. Listen to this. We heard this noise before the owls all got

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terribly upset. We tested you, you came up with your ideas. We also

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spoke to the experts. We spoke to a lady from the Barn Owls Trust. She

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thought it was the young owls. We spoke to Paul, he thought it might

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have been a male barn owl. We still had another expert. We did. Chris

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Watson thought that he had a theory so I went to see him today just to

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ask him for a bit of clarification. That sound is coming from the barn

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owl nestlings, principally because of the perspective in sound because

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the source of the sound and the quality of the sound is almost

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identical to the quality of the sound and the hissing. How can you

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tell that? Well, take your microphone off. So if you speak -

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ask me that question again. How can you tell that? If I move the

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microphone - if I put it over here. Ask me that question. How can you

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tell that? The level of the sound of that chucking sound, it had to

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come from exactly the same place? would say so. It's the great thing

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about Springwatch. We have cameras and microphones in these privileged

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positions so we are hearing stuff that some of the experts never get

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the opportunity of hearing. There's also another clue for me as a

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wildlife sound recordist. Birds of prey of a certain age, nestlings,

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have a commonality to some of the sounds. This is the recording of a

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young goshawk we made a couple of years ago. What Chris suspected was

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he recorded in that goshawk nest that chucking sound, different from

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the barn owls, but similar rhythm from those young nestlings in the

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goshawk nest. So what he thought was that he was hearing a similar

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thing with the barn owls. And given that thought, I went and did some

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background reading and found out that young barn owls, very young

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birds, do produce this low chucking type of call. Then it goes away. It

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appears the lady from the Barn Owl Trust was absolutely right. Hats

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off to you! That's only solved part of our mystery. That's answered the

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question about the sound, what was making it? It was the owls

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themselves. There was something else definitely there generating

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some animosity. It wasn't the sole occasion. Take a look at this. We

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saw this last night. Here is one of the adult owls giving this

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characteristic antagonistic hissing sound looking at something that it

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quite clearly perceives as a threat. We wanted to find out what that

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threat was. We called in our crack team of mini camera guys, here is

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Nigel and Charlie with camera traps which they set up around the barn

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and in the hope that we would then catch on camera whatever it was

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that was causing the owls to get upset and make that extraordinary

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noise. You will never guess what? We think they have managed to do it.

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They got some photographs - these are stills. Have a look at this.

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You will see up in the top corner there, the top right-hand corner,

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that is the window into the owls' nest. Down there on the left,

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what's that? Let's have another look. The next picture. It's gone

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behind the wood there. I am sure you are guessing what it is. There

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is an owl going in. And it's a cat. You can see its eyes glowing. It is

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right up looking into the nest now. Mmm. Cats are very serious

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predators of small birds, but what about owls? Well, I am looking at

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that female barn owl and I am thinking if you tolerate this your

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children might be next or might they? This is a cat and they are

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quite a large bird. We know they pre-date small things. To have a go

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at an adult barn owl might be beyond the cat. Before we think

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about that, let's go to the nest live and make sure our owls are

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still in there. They are looking good. I have to say, these owls - I

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know they had a bit of stress last weekend with the heat - but this

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week they have been getting a bumper supply of foods. They have

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been getting masses of food. We have had an interesting question

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about that. "Do owl chicks regurgitate pellets like their

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parents?" Well, we can tell you that, not just verbally, but

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visually. Have a look at what happened today with our largest of

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the chicks. I think it speaks for itself, or regurgitates for itself!

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Is that the first one? This is the first time it has been seen

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producing a pellet. What a pellet! LAUGHTER Chris, do they start

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almost immediately? They are being fed voles and mice and all the

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things that they are going to eat as adults. Is this something they

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naturally do straightaway? What happens is, they get Ted for the

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first six or seven days lots of indigestable material. Then they

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don't produce a pellet then. They then go through a secondary stage

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which we have seen with baby Bob. This is what happens next. It is

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rather unpleasant. They don't produce a compacted pellet. It is

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more like vomiting up the loose remains of all of this material and

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Bob was trying to do this for a considerable period of time. Look

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what he ends up having to do is take it all back again. I make a

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pasta dish almost exactly like that! LAUGHTER Sorry. So what we

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are going to see in a few days' time Bob will produce a prized

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pellet. If we could recover it, we might put it in a silver frame and

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entitle it, "My first pellet." It is time to move on to something a

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bit more genial. Let's move over to see what Iolo has been up to. We

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are down here on the west coast of central Wales. Iolo is down here

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off of the tip of Pembrokeshire on Skomer island. The last time we

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spotted him, he was here. I am hoping he is not out here at the

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moment or lost in the clouds. Iolo, are your feet firmly on dry land?

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Welcome back to Skomer island. If you were watching yesterday, you

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will have learnt that the seabirds here are doing pretty well. You

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will also know from what Chris the warden told us that the most

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numerous bird here is the Manx shearwater. 250,000 breeding birds.

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How do they know this? Well, the wardens have a secret weapon. It's

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this tape. The Manx shearwaters are underground and on this tape is a

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Manx shearwater call. If there is a bird in this burrow, it should

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respond to this. Bear in mind this is live, this is an experiment,

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usually they go wrong! We will give it a good go. I will play this

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first. CALL OF A MANX SHEARWATER Listen, can we get the microphone?

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CALL IS REPEATED It worked. Thank you. Isn't that brilliant?!

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Fantastic. By knowing there is a bird in there, they can do this

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over an area here in every burrow and they can then extrapolate those

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results over the whole island and work out the whole island

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population. I am so excited that that worked. Also, we have a camera

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in a burrow just up there and we were hoping to film a change-over

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which is where one of the birds comes back from the open ocean and

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takes over the incubation. This is what happened at 3.00am, still

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going, two nights again. There is one adult on the nest and here is

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the other one. The second bird has been feeding far out of sea,

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perhaps for a week, maybe ten days and now it is taking over the

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duties of sitting on the egg so the That bird is out there in the Irish

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Sea right now feeding. But the Manx shearwaters are only on Skomer for

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six months of the year. Where are they for the other six months? I

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know a man who has got the answer to that.

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On Monday, I joined a team from Oxford University and saw them

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downloading the data from a tiny tracking device they had fitted on

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the bird's leg a year ago. They had to have a day off to analyse the

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results but yesterday team leader Tim was able to reveal what our

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bird had been up to. Tim, come on then, what have we got? So, we

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managed to analyse the data now. So I have colour-coded different

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periods of the migration. In orange, we have the outward migration which

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starts mid-September, it goes down the west coast of Africa, across to

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Brazil and then down to start of her winter period off the middle of

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Argentina. In the deep winter, in this dark blue, she spends those

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three months November, December and January very far south indeed, on

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the edge of an arkty ka. Then about the beginning of February, she

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starts to move north again -- Antarctica. Mid-March, she whistles

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the east coast of South America, she comes into the Caribbean taking

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a sweeping arc and back across the North Atlantic. That is her return

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migration. That finishes mid-April. Fascinating. I didn't know that

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they went far south. I didn't realise they came this far north

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either. We didn't really realise they went this far south. Are you

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able to calculate how far this bird has thrown in the last 360-odd days

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-- has flown in the last 360-odd days? 10,000 kilometres, maybe

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12,000. That means about a 25,000 kilometre return trip at least.

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These are long-lived birds? This bird could be 25 years old. It

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could be twice that. So several million kilometres. This is

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fascinating, Tim. I have learnt something completely new. It also

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reinforces the fact that there's so much that we really don't know

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about these fabulous birds as well? We are only just beginning to

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understand the elusive lifestyles of these seabirds. Isn't it it

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incredible to think when they leave here in September they might

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touchdown on land again for five years. I must tell you the story of

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an incredible story of a Manx shearwater. Up till two years ago

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it had come back every year for 55 years. Scientists believe it had

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flown more than four million miles, that is to the moon and back eight

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times. An incredible bird but we have got lots of incredible birds

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for you when you come back to us later on.

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Four million miles! That is the most incredible statistic, one

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little bird. Unbelievable! I know. From one extraordinary bird to a

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little bird that we have nesting in the woods just behind us here. It

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is our wood warbler. Let's go and have a look at her now. There is

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the nest. This is the most incredible nest. It is like a

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little tunnel. It is on the ground and it is nestled in. In amongst

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the moss and the ivy. It is so brilliantly camouflaged and

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disguised that even with our camera right up there, you can barely see

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the chicks, can you? No. They are keeping their head down doing what

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they need to do. They will only flick their heads up when the

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adults come back in. This is unusual. We have been on the nest

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for a few seconds and not seen an adult. They have been coming in up

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to 48 times an hour. More than once every two minutes. Again, these

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woods are terribly productive when it comes to providing foodment they

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have six youngsters in there so that will take a lot of food --

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providing food. They have six youngsters in there so that will

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take a lot of food. We have been watching the grasshopper warbler,

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too. How are these two species able to live in the same place at the

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same time? Here is the answer. Both are sub-Saharan migrants. The

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grasshopper warblers have spent their winters in northern Senegal.

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The wood warblers, they have been to Sierra Leone perhaps all the way

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through to southern Sudan. They get back ten days later on 23rd April.

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Both of these species are very song centric. The wood warbler has a

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civilian trill. The nests are build from the same fabrics - a base of

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leaves and a cup of neatly-woven grass. These are then lined with

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hair. Clutch and brood size, they are about the same. Both of our

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nests have six healthy youngsters in at the moment. The habitats are

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different. The grasshopper warbler likes marshland with bushes. The

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wood warbler likes these tall Oakwood lands which are so typical

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of this part of Wales. This affects their foraging behaviour. The

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grasshopper warbler creeps along like a mouse. Whereas the wood

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warbler is up in the canopy, fly- catching. This in turn affects the

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prey they catch. We have seen plenty of spiders being brought

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into our grasshopper warbler's nest. Whereas, the wood warbler, well

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lots of cater pillars but also flying insect -- caterpillars, but

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also flying insects too are appearing in the diet. That is what

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we call niche separation. That allows both those species, both our

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birds, to co-exist within metres of each other and raise successful

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families. Let's go live to our grasshopper warbler now. You can

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see these chicks. This has been probably the most remarkable

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transformation we have ever witnessed on Springwatch. Just four

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days ago, we introduced you to this family. You could barely see the

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chicks. Now, they are enormous, Chris. I know. There is a good

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reason for that. The food has been going in. This is the food we have

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seen going in. This one is a bit odd. She got back to the nest with

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some other food and found on the side of it a slug. Not typical food

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for this species. She couldn't resist it. Puts it into the mouth

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of this bird. It didn't slither out. Did it? It did! This is the equally

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interesting thing - these birds are growing so much that one of them

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appears to follow the adult out. is not falling out. The nest is on

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the ground. This is very typical of their behaviour. It is. They grow

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so quickly. They are on the ground, they are very vulnerable there. The

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concept is, if they get disturbed by a predator, they will scatter

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into the undergrowth so that they can't be found. They may go back to

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the nest. One thing is for sure, the scattering will mean that not

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all of them will get eaten if they are discovered by a predator.

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can see they look like they are pretty close to fledging. So

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definitely one of our webcams to keep your eyes on over the weekend.

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Now, there has been a very worrying trend emerging that many of our

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native birds are going into decline. Really, is there anything that we

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can do to reverse that? Well, I went to a farm that seemed to be

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having some measure of success. There is one group of birds in

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Britain that has suffered a particularly dramatic and prolonged

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decline. It's lost half its numbers since 1970. That's more than any

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other group. It's our farmland birds. Some species have suffered

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more than others. The UK population of tree sparrows is down by 94%.

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Corn bupbtings by nearly the same. Other farmland specialists like the

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lapwing and yellowhammer have also plummeted. -- bunting. It is a

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terrifying and very real prospect that some of the UK's most

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important species are on the brink of being lost forever. Experts at

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the RSPB know exactly what's caused this decline in our farmland birds.

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There aren't enough safe nesting sites and there isn't enough food

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available at critical times of the year. Farmers have become so

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efficient at producing food that there's hardly any room left for

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wildlife. So it is farmers and modern farming methods that are

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responsible. Or is it? Farmers are under increasing pressure to supply

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a plentiful amount of cheap food and that pressure comes from us.

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Because we are unwilling to shell out cash for our food, ultimately

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it is our wildlife that pays the price. I have come to Upton Farm,

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2,000 acres on the border of Oxfordshire and Warwickshire. It is

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a non-organic arable and livestock farm which has found a way to

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combine farming and wildlife. It is down to one man. Wildlife needs

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three things - a home, food and a mate. Presumably, though, farms

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provide plenty of places for things to nest and plenty of food, don't

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they? No. Science tells us 90% of the wildlife on farmland has gone

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because the has been fats have gone. 90%? What are you advising --

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habitats have gone. 90%? What are you advising farmers to do? This

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wild flower meadow provides insects and insects feed birds in the

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summer. Presumably, if you are a farmer, desperately trying to make

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any sort of profit, taking this amount of land out of production

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isn't going to work? The Government give him money to grow wildlife and

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wildlife is a crop. My skill is sitting down with the farmer and

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working out where he's earning �300 from wheat but I can show him �400

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from wildlife. Now he's in business. Brilliant. Look at that

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yellowhammer. Two! A pair of them. They are special birds. We planted

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this hedge eight years ago and it is a home for birds. The methods

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provide food and shelter for birds but he also plants crops to help

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them in the winter. We know one of the biggest killers is winter

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starvation. This is a mixture of plants that will retain their seed,

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the blue one is linseed, that one will produce seed later in the year,

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mustard is the yellow one. The one that is most interesting is fodder

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radish. The birds have to peck into it. Take one. Eat the seed? Yes.

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That's three birds you have starved to death. You are so mean! It does

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taste like radish. Basically, what we are looking at here is a little

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permanent source of winter food? we could get more farmers planting

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this, birds wouldn't starve. He has been working with Rob Alan since

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2003. The results are astonishing. We have seen more and more birds.

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We have lapwings nesting for the first time this year. We have 18 of

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the 19 farmland birds. We have boxes everywhere for the tree

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sparrows. We found tree sparrows where bits of mortar were missing

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from buildings. In those stones? They take to the box very readily.

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They seem to move straight in. Clearly, you have done a lot of

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things here and it has worked. Is it worth it? It is worth it, I

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think, from our point of view. The farm's profitable, we are paid for

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taking this out of crops and farming it for wildlife. There are

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costs and hassles, but it is very rewarding. What you have done here

:25:45.:25:50.

at Upton has made a real difference to the state of farmland birds?

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And to the wildlife environment as a whole? Yes. Is your dream to turn

:25:54.:26:00.

your back on Upton and tackle the this lot? Yes. There's Wales and

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the rest of the world! What the farmer needs is the help to deliver.

:26:06.:26:11.

We know it works, we have seen it working. That's for tomorrow. It's

:26:11.:26:21.
:26:21.:26:32.

What's so heartening about that, is it proves it can be done. If the

:26:32.:26:37.

farmer does it, it works. But he is right, farmers need help, they need

:26:38.:26:41.

support, they need advice about how to do it. But I have got a bit of

:26:41.:26:45.

breaking news for you. I shouldn't be telling you this. Figures that

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are due to be released tomorrow by Natural England are expected to

:26:50.:26:55.

show that our farmers are taking up this challenge. More land than ever

:26:55.:27:01.

before, 150,000 hectares of our farmland is now being managed for

:27:01.:27:05.

wildlife. That is really good to stop the decline of farmland birds.

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Really good news. Big thanks to the farmers. If you are a farmer that

:27:10.:27:17.

is not involved, get involved. We are down by the marsh, we have had

:27:17.:27:21.

a look at the grasshopper warbler. On to the water, there has been

:27:21.:27:27.

lots of activity. Plenty of swallows taking all of the fly or

:27:27.:27:31.

midge larvae which are hatching... Not enough of the midge larvae I

:27:31.:27:36.

have to say! They are hatching out and these birds are picking them

:27:36.:27:42.

off. They have been down there all afternoon. Lovely damselflies here.

:27:43.:27:52.

These look like common damselflies. Lots of dragonflies, too. Once the

:27:52.:27:56.

nesting season is over, birds disappear, these are the things to

:27:56.:27:59.

delight us. These are super animals. They have been around for hundreds

:27:59.:28:04.

of millions of years in this body form. They can fly at 30mph, hover,

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go backwards. I have to say, you really don't have to come to a

:28:09.:28:13.

nature reserve like this to see them. That's right. One of the easy

:28:13.:28:18.

things you can do is build a pond, I did it myself a couple of years

:28:18.:28:22.

ago. It did involve quite a lot of digging. You don't need to do that.

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Apology for the loss of subtitles for 79 seconds

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Brilliant. That's so simple and it really works. You have a pond?

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have only just dug my pond. I did it a few months ago. No what you

:29:57.:30:01.

have got! I know. I am feeling smug about my pond. It was built two

:30:01.:30:06.

years ago. We featured it on the programme. We have put newt traps

:30:06.:30:11.

in it. All three species of British newt in two years! Isn't that

:30:11.:30:18.

fantastic? If you build it, they will come! It is true. Ponds are

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great places for insects. Lots of insect life. There is over a

:30:22.:30:25.

million species of insect around the world. In the UK we have well

:30:25.:30:29.

over 20,000 different types of insect. What is happening to our

:30:29.:30:35.

bugs? Well, you can help find out. The Natural History Museum, here it

:30:35.:30:44.

is, OPAL, the Open Air Laboratory, have joined together to produce

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this. We can all get involved with the big count and I did that this

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afternoon. There's lots of different things they want you to

:30:55.:31:02.

do. I'm going to search for bugs on plants. I have a checklist and I

:31:02.:31:12.
:31:12.:31:17.

have 15 minutes. We are off! Wolf spider with egg case. A big tick.

:31:17.:31:24.

Bumblebee. Having its lunch on some clover. He's fallen off. I think I

:31:24.:31:34.
:31:34.:31:36.

will back off. That's a bee! Slug- tastic! Ladybirds. It's a seven-

:31:37.:31:43.

spot ladybird. A ladybird is a beetle. Grasshopper. Young one, but

:31:43.:31:53.
:31:53.:31:53.

it counts. Beautiful fly, hover fly, can you see him? Gorgeous. He's

:31:54.:32:03.
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gone. Catster pillar. One for Chris to identify. -- caterpillar. One

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for Chris the to -- one for Chris to identify. How many do I write on

:32:12.:32:22.
:32:22.:32:29.

this sheet? Ants. And time is up! That's it. If you want to get

:32:30.:32:33.

involved in the bug count, there is a link on bbc.co.uk/springwatch.

:32:33.:32:37.

would like to see you looking for insects. When I see you out and

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about it is such a crime to be wearing that Green Watch! Stop

:32:43.:32:46.

about the watch! It really is. Let's catch up with a few of the

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birds that aren't here on the reserve. You might have seen

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earlier in the week that we visited the osprey project just up the

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estuary here. Great news there. They have hatched not two, but

:32:58.:33:01.

three chicks. Despite initial teething problems with the

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inexperienced female not feeding them properly, they are all getting

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plenty of food, as you can see, and they are still very healthy. One

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other thing that we witnessed with these birds is this. When they move

:33:15.:33:20.

around the nest, they close up their feet into a fist so that

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their large and very dangerous talons don't run the risk of

:33:25.:33:30.

puncturing the eggs or scratching the chicks. Well, last week, I

:33:30.:33:34.

introduced you to the Little Owls, our Little Owl nest. It is time to

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catch up with the latest news there. You may remember we were lucky

:33:40.:33:44.

enough to hook up with Emily who is is a researcher, she is sponsored

:33:44.:33:51.

by the Hawk and Owl Trust and she's managed to get cameras right inside

:33:51.:33:56.

the nestboxes of the little owls. Here is mum coming in. You can see

:33:56.:34:00.

the first chick has hatched out. That was on May 18th. Then just the

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next day on the 19th, the second chick hatched out. That continues.

:34:04.:34:08.

Here she is bringing in some food. That was a moth. You can see if it

:34:08.:34:11.

is a moth, just how small she is. Even better here, that is a sparrow.

:34:11.:34:16.

It is almost as big as the owl. Here are all the little chicks.

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They are a bit different in size. That is perfectly normal. They are

:34:20.:34:25.

getting lots and lots of food here. There goes a moth. They are so

:34:25.:34:29.

hungry, they are coming right out of the nestbox to be the first to

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get that grub as it comes in. Here we go. Here comes mum or dad again.

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The news is all good. We will keep in contact with Emily and we will

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follow this family throughout the whole of the rest of Springwatch.

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They are absolutely delightful. beautiful. Great news that that is

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going so well. Another nest, and another family are our red kites.

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There is the red kite chick. Before we came on air, ten days later,

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look at him or her now. Looking very magnificent indeed. The reason

:35:07.:35:09.

for that is again she's been very well looked after and very well-fed.

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A vole coming in now. We think that this chick's about four weeks old.

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We are not entirely sure and the good thing is, that she has a very

:35:18.:35:23.

experienced mum, the mum is about 16 or 17 years old and she's raised

:35:23.:35:27.

two chicks in the two previous years to this. But this is

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something that I absolutely love, it is pouring with rain yesterday

:35:30.:35:34.

and look what she does, she comes into the nest and raises her wing...

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Thanks, mum! To create an umbrella over the chick. So what the Welsh

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Kite Trust, that is looking after this nest, are hoping to do next

:35:45.:35:49.

week is to ring that chick - very important to ID these birds and be

:35:50.:35:53.

able to keep an eye on them. I am hoping I might be able to go along

:35:54.:35:59.

and help them do that and if I do, you will get to see it. Now, let's

:35:59.:36:09.
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go back to Skomer and to Iolo. Welcome back to a remarkably calm

:36:10.:36:17.

North Haven. One species that we have neglected so far, the herring

:36:17.:36:21.

gull. Steve is on a herring gull over there at the moment. It is

:36:22.:36:27.

just standing around by the puffins' burrow. They know a puffin

:36:28.:36:34.

will come in with fish and that gull is going to pounce on it. It

:36:34.:36:38.

pales into insignificance compared with the biggest gull on the island,

:36:38.:36:42.

the great black-backed gull. Earlier, we saw one have a go at a

:36:42.:36:46.

puffin. It happens all the time. Steve has been following this bird

:36:46.:36:56.
:36:56.:36:56.

for the past few days. The great black-backed is the King

:36:56.:37:00.

of the Island. It is a huge bird. That is a buzzard. They have a nest

:37:00.:37:04.

on the other side of the island. There it is being mobbed by a great

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black-backed and you can see just how much bigger the gull is. They

:37:08.:37:14.

even bully the buzzards! The ridge tops are the best nesting sites on

:37:14.:37:18.

the whole island and they are taking by great black-backed gulls.

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These are the best viewpoints on the island to keep an eye out for

:37:22.:37:27.

potential prey. The threat from these gulls is the reason why the

:37:27.:37:30.

Manx shearwaters don't come out in the daytime. This Manx shearwater

:37:30.:37:35.

may well have been out feeding and strayed too close to the island and

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these big gulls are very efficient predators. They also keep the

:37:40.:37:44.

rabbit population in check. It pays to have a deep burrow on this

:37:44.:37:51.

island! It would be so easy to portray these birds as villains,

:37:51.:37:55.

but they are just trying to survive as is everyone else. We have been

:37:55.:37:59.

staking out a nest in the heart of the island and just look what we

:37:59.:38:05.

saw yesterday. It's a beautiful chick. This other chick is tucking

:38:05.:38:09.

itself in amongst the rocks. Youz can see how well camouflaged it is

:38:09.:38:13.

-- you can see how well camouflaged it is. That is because the buzzards

:38:14.:38:19.

would eat the chick. You are not safe from predators just because

:38:19.:38:24.

you are at the top of the food chain. You don't mess with a great

:38:24.:38:33.

black-backed gull. We have also been following cliff nesting birds

:38:33.:38:38.

- the guillemots and razorbills. Steve is on some razorbills. They

:38:38.:38:42.

are one of my favourite birds. If you remember, we watched them on

:38:42.:38:46.

the nesting cliffs, they were developing well. Steve went back

:38:46.:38:55.

this morning to see how things were going. Those are quite young chicks.

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They are still quite fluffy. Look at this razorbill chick. You can

:38:59.:39:04.

see that it's lost most of its down and it's got almost complete adult

:39:04.:39:08.

plumage. I thought we might see one of these moor advanced chicking

:39:08.:39:13.

fledge and leave the cliff this week. We haven't seen that -- these

:39:13.:39:16.

more advanced chicks fledge and leave the cliff this week. We

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haven't seen that. Here are some shots filmed in Scotland a few

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years ago. # Might as well jump

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# Go ahead and jump # Jump

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:39:45.:40:09.

Thapbgss to-of- -- thanks to Gordon Buchanan for pictures of the

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razorbills jumping. The gulls come in and they gobble the whole lot up.

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They often have to fight with other gulls as well. Have a look at this.

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This is something we filmed earlier on. It shows what the puffin has to

:40:22.:40:26.

go through to get into his burrow. Have a look at this again. I missed

:40:26.:40:31.

that, too. Puffin comes in from the left. There he comes. The gull

:40:31.:40:37.

comes straightaway. That is what a puffin has to do to avoid being

:40:37.:40:42.

eaten by a gull. To avoid having the fish taken away from it by the

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gull, sorry. That burrow had a marker tag on it. That is one of

:40:48.:40:52.

the research burrows out over there. That is where yesterday I went with

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Chris the warden to look at a puffling. If you want to see that,

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come back later on. Thanks Iolo. Iolo! Iolo! It's not

:41:05.:41:09.

unusual to be sad with anyone. I am now because you have really let us

:41:09.:41:16.

down. We were here last night with the Undertones and you have phoned

:41:16.:41:24.

in so awful Van Halen! Let's fly over those trees because that is

:41:24.:41:32.

where our herons are nesting and we can cut to them live now and a very

:41:32.:41:37.

atmospheric shot. They have been out and about quite a lot today.

:41:37.:41:42.

One of them left the nest for four hours so our story developers did

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think maybe this is it, they have fledged. So definitely worth you

:41:46.:41:49.

keeping an eye on those birds on our cameras over the weekend. Shall

:41:49.:41:54.

we have a quick check on our oystercatchers? Indeed. There they

:41:54.:42:00.

are. The adults have been brilliant at sitting on that nest. There are

:42:00.:42:04.

two eggs underneath that adult bird. The nest is on a wall about eight

:42:04.:42:07.

feet up with a beautiful view of the reserve. We don't think that

:42:07.:42:11.

those eggs are due to hatch quite yet. Again, you might be able to

:42:11.:42:16.

prove us wrong by keeping an eye on them over the weekend. Top spot on

:42:16.:42:24.

top of the wall. Let's go beyond the trees because that is where our

:42:24.:42:27.

buzzards were. This is our youngster, the one youngster. He's

:42:27.:42:33.

been doing a great job of growing. Lots of - I say adult feathers, but

:42:33.:42:38.

its first proper set of feathers. One of the reasons it's been doing

:42:38.:42:41.

such a great job of growing is almost every time we go live to

:42:41.:42:47.

this bird, apart from this time, it is eating, it is being extremely

:42:47.:42:53.

well-fed by its parents. Grass snake earlier. He was in tears.

:42:53.:42:57.

What can you do? Now, we do have a little surprise for you.

:42:57.:43:03.

certainly do. We have got a second live buzzard which we can go to now.

:43:03.:43:08.

This nest is slightly different in that it's got two much younger

:43:08.:43:13.

chicks in. Pretty sleepy at the moment. We have seen a lot of

:43:13.:43:21.

activity at this nest. We have. In fact, not altogether friendly

:43:21.:43:25.

activity. This is sibling rivalry at its best. You see, this is a

:43:25.:43:29.

gorgeous shot - this shows you both adults involved here, bringing food

:43:29.:43:36.

in for these two chicks. As you can see, they are being very well

:43:36.:43:40.

attended by those adult birds. One chick a bit bigger than the other.

:43:40.:43:44.

It is not unusual for them to be mad at anyone. This looks like just

:43:45.:43:50.

out-and-out bullying by the big one. It is. This is another species

:43:50.:43:59.

which practice what is we call the Cane and Abel strategy. The adults

:43:59.:44:09.
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hatch enough eggs to ensure the bigger one survives. Take a look at

:44:09.:44:14.

this. We saw something quite unique today. Here the adult buzzard is

:44:14.:44:18.

bringing in a fledgling. We have tried to see what it is. It is

:44:18.:44:22.

about blackbird size. It is a thrush more than likely. It arrives

:44:22.:44:25.

back with another fledgling of exactly the same size, suggesting

:44:25.:44:29.

that it's come from the same nest. In fact, in the course of just 13

:44:29.:44:34.

minutes, it came in with no fewer than four or five of these things.

:44:34.:44:40.

Do we glean from this that the buzzard has found a nest and has

:44:40.:44:45.

raided it when it feels like, like a sweetie jar? That is it. It's

:44:45.:44:49.

found that nest like you say. Identified it as a source of food.

:44:49.:44:54.

It goes in. Pinches one and keeps going back. Goshawks would do the

:44:54.:44:58.

same to buzzards so they may not have the last laugh. Yesterday, we

:44:58.:45:02.

showed you the rather tragic end of a pied flycatcher's nest. I am

:45:02.:45:06.

pleased we put plenty of nestboxes out, rigged with cameras. Today we

:45:06.:45:10.

were able to plug another one up and we can bring you live pictures

:45:10.:45:14.

now of the next pied flycatcher that we have got online. We haven't

:45:14.:45:17.

been able to follow the antics of these birds too much. You can do

:45:17.:45:21.

that over the course of the weekend. Next week, we will be catching up

:45:21.:45:27.

and seeing what is happening in that box. Talking of weekends,

:45:27.:45:31.

Martin, he's said he's had a fantastic weekend, "You should have

:45:31.:45:35.

been with me." He convinced me it was the right thing to do and I

:45:35.:45:45.
:45:45.:45:45.

went off to meet him for a boys' weekend away.

:45:45.:45:50.

What could be better, the sun shining and Martin has promised me

:45:50.:45:56.

a trip to the best cafe on the island. Where is that stretched

:45:56.:46:04.

limo? Oh for goodness sake! Chris, welcome to the magical Isle of Man.

:46:04.:46:14.
:46:14.:46:18.

Hold on! # I want to break free

:46:18.:46:24.

# I want to break free. # What could be better than touring

:46:24.:46:29.

this beautiful island on this beautiful bike with a beautiful...

:46:29.:46:33.

Well, Chris? I'm determined to show Chris a good time this weekend, so

:46:33.:46:41.

the first stop is the Calf of Man where I could almost guarantee some

:46:41.:46:51.
:46:51.:46:52.

great wildlife. The Calf of Man. There you go, a grey seal. Two, two

:46:52.:46:58.

seals! It's gone underwater now. my goodness me! I'm going to go

:46:58.:47:04.

underwater myself! It is nice to see. Can you see why I come here?

:47:04.:47:09.

can. That is a splendid landscape. There is a sense of rough romance.

:47:09.:47:12.

I can see you reflected in the landscape. This is how you see

:47:12.:47:17.

yourself? It is. Hair in the wind... You see yourself as the Calf of

:47:17.:47:22.

Man? The view is splendid. There is one thing it needs... For us to

:47:22.:47:28.

stand here all day soaking it up? was thinking a cafe! OK, Chris.

:47:28.:47:34.

There is a cafe, yes. Let's go. is not an outdoor person. I have a

:47:34.:47:40.

treat that is far better than a coffee and a muffin. It is an

:47:40.:47:47.

animal I always try to see when I'm here. This is the chasms and these

:47:47.:47:57.

ravines provide an ideal nesting ground for choughs. Here they are,

:47:57.:48:02.

this... Look at that! Oh! That was worth coming. Look at them all.

:48:02.:48:09.

have never seen many choughs out altogether. They are so playful.

:48:09.:48:13.

The agility in the air is unmatched. I love it when they bounce up and

:48:13.:48:23.
:48:23.:48:26.

close their wings and drop down. my goodness. Oh! Yes! Goodness me.

:48:26.:48:32.

Chris, why are they nearly always in pairs? They are monogamous. They

:48:32.:48:36.

will remain together in pairs from season to season. Look at them go!

:48:36.:48:45.

Oh! Martin, I would give everything, every single thing for just one

:48:45.:48:50.

minute as a chough, wouldn't you? As good as that? I would, too.

:48:50.:48:55.

Imagine being able to walk to that edge and fall off and do what they

:48:55.:48:59.

are doing. Can you imagine the thrill? I would give everything

:48:59.:49:04.

except the bike! I would have to keep that. That is going to weigh

:49:04.:49:10.

you down. You will plummet into the sea! That is glorious. What is

:49:10.:49:13.

nesting down there? There is another massive colony there.

:49:14.:49:18.

are guillemots there and lots of kittiwakes, too. You can hear them

:49:18.:49:24.

from here. They kittiwake, so the choughs chuff and the kittiwakes

:49:24.:49:33.

kittiwake? Guillemots, little stumpy wings, regurgitating fish,

:49:33.:49:38.

blah, blah, there goes my egg, I don't think so. There is another

:49:38.:49:45.

chough! Look at that. That on the other hand, the Prada of the bird

:49:45.:49:51.

world. I like the Chasms. Is there a cafe here? Shall we go and look?

:49:51.:49:59.

Come on! That was really great chough action. Now, I'm quite

:49:59.:50:03.

looking forward to my bed, a nice four-star hotel, continental

:50:03.:50:13.

breakfast, oh... I can't wait. There it is, Chris. A bit snug,

:50:13.:50:23.
:50:23.:50:29.

home sweet home. I'll get the kettle on! Martin? Yes. It is

:50:29.:50:37.

fabulous. Perfect. I knew you would love it. Ha-ha. Listen, I consider

:50:37.:50:43.

you to be a great mate. You see, I can camp it up but I don't do

:50:43.:50:53.

camping. Oh? I have seen Brokeback Mountain. Chris! Good night. I've

:50:53.:51:03.
:51:03.:51:10.

got you some Earl Grey tea bags. Well, you will be pleased to hear

:51:10.:51:15.

those two will be off on more boys' weekends next week. Welcome back to

:51:15.:51:19.

my favourite island, Skomer. Now, the bit you have all been waiting

:51:19.:51:25.

for, the puffling. Yesterday, Chris took me out to some research

:51:25.:51:34.

burrows over there to have a look at one in the hand.

:51:35.:51:38.

I am really excited about this because we have promised you all

:51:38.:51:43.

week we would try and get you a puffling and we think we know there

:51:43.:51:47.

is a burrow with a youngster in it. You have to walk so carefully. Look

:51:47.:51:54.

at this, it is like a Swiss cheese. Follow Chris the warden. Where are

:51:54.:51:58.

you aiming for? This burrow 45. We have seen the adults coming in with

:51:58.:52:03.

fish. Hopefully, there should be a chick in here. If we carefully

:52:03.:52:08.

weave our way through. That is a long burrow. Can you see that. Here

:52:08.:52:13.

is the entrance. There. Chris is looking for the chick all the way

:52:13.:52:19.

over there. Look at that. Oh. Look at that. Got a bit of a dusty head.

:52:19.:52:23.

Let's have a look at him. We have to be pretty quick as well. You are

:52:23.:52:27.

going to weigh and measure? Yeah, what we are doing here is we are

:52:27.:52:31.

measuring the growth rates of the puffins. We can work out sort of

:52:31.:52:34.

how successful they are doing throughout the season. It is

:52:34.:52:38.

important work? Yeah. One thing, can I point that out? Can you go in

:52:38.:52:43.

on the beak? See that little light colour on the end? That is the egg

:52:43.:52:48.

tooth. That is a small hard deposit that they will use to help to

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escape from the egg. Let's get on and do the measurements. Yeah, yeah.

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There's a lot of down on these chicks. That is 27 millimetres.

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How old is this one? About ten- days-old. It will be in the burrow

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for how long? Well, they will usually be fed for three to four

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weeks and the young will start to explore and then they will be out

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at sea. The weight of this one at the minute... They are almost

:53:17.:53:22.

starved in the end and may need to go out? Basically, yeah. So the

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weight of this one is 85 grammes at the minute. They will be about 300

:53:26.:53:30.

grammes when they come to fledge. The adults are heavier at 400

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grammes. He is doing well. You saw the little beak there. It is not

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coloured at all which is quite a surprise for most people. That will

:53:37.:53:42.

stay that colour for the first couple years of its life. It will

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get bigger. They won't develop the colourful bills until they are two

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years old. Hopefully, this one will fledge to an adult and survive to

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next year and we better put it back. Yeah. Ta-da. Excellent. That has to

:53:55.:53:59.

be the cutest thing I have ever seen and it gives me an excuse to

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use my favourite word of the week - puffling! Was that worth waiting

:54:07.:54:11.

for or was that worth waiting for? I know what is going to happen -

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children all over the country will tell their parents, "I don't want a

:54:14.:54:20.

bike, or a computer game this Christmas, I want a puffling." You

:54:20.:54:24.

can't. Chris wanted me to emphasise when he said three to four weeks,

:54:24.:54:29.

that is the incubation period. The chicks will be in the burrows for

:54:29.:54:35.

six weeks. That was the highlight of the week for me. It's been a

:54:35.:54:45.
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Apology for the loss of subtitles for 79 seconds

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week of highlights. Here they are Unfortunately, this is the end of

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our stay on this wonderful island and being here for the week has

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reinforced what I have always thought, that Skomer really is a

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very special place. Now there are so many people to thank, Kenny and

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John the boatmen for getting us over here, Phil and the team from

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the Marine Nature Reserve of the Countryside Council of Wales for

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taking us diving, the research bods and Chris the warden and the

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wonderful staff from the south and West Wales Wildlife Trust. They

:56:19.:56:25.

couldn't do enough for us. Now, we are going to say goodbye. But

:56:25.:56:29.

earlier on, you over there at Ynyshir named your barn owl chicks.

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I said we weren't going to do that. I have changed my mind. I'm going

:56:33.:56:43.
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to name the puffins. There is Dewi and Tomos, Lynette, Gethin, Dafydd,

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Gethin, Rhodri, Cary, no... There is no doubt at all that he's

:56:56.:57:05.

spent too much time on that island! After last week's great success

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with Charlie's live beavers, Iolo had to come up to a live standard

:57:11.:57:15.

and he did it. Thank you very much indeed. We enjoyed all of your

:57:15.:57:21.

reports. We have. We have time for a very quick film that was sent in

:57:21.:57:25.

by Ian, have a look at this. We couldn't resist this. It is a mouse

:57:25.:57:31.

that is wishing it was a centimetre taller. Jump, jump! Would you

:57:31.:57:36.

remind everybody what they need to do this weekend? Get out and count

:57:36.:57:39.

bugs. Go to the website - bbc.co.uk/springwatch. Go to the

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website for all sorts of things, there is a link for things to do to

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keep you busy and occupied this weekend if you don't want to wear

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leathers and ride in a side-car. We will be back at 8.00pm on Monday

:57:52.:57:57.

night. What have we got? Next weekend our guest presenter is Liz

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Bonnin. We are sending her off to Essex and to a rubbish dump. There

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is nothing rubbish about that dump. It is full of wildlife including

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this delightful family of foxes. Keep an eye on our grasshopper

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warblers. They may fledge this weekend. Keep an eye on all our

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