:00:00. > :00:13.It might be our second to last show, but the action is still all on the
:00:14. > :00:19.go. A caravan of stoats is on the move and our gorgeous golden eagle
:00:20. > :00:27.chick is growing up fast. Don't worry, it is only me! I'm wearing
:00:28. > :00:28.all this for the sake of wildlife. It's not Ghostbusters, it's
:00:29. > :00:56.Springwatch! Hello and welcome to the penultimate
:00:57. > :01:01.Springwatch 2016 coming from the RSPB Minsmere Reserve. The skies are
:01:02. > :01:05.clear and the rain clouds fled at lunch time and they have been filled
:01:06. > :01:10.with a vast volume of swarming midges which is sucking the blood
:01:11. > :01:15.from all of us! They are everywhere. They are all in my hair! We shall
:01:16. > :01:21.soldier on. We love all wildlife, don't we? Even the midges... I'm
:01:22. > :01:24.quite happy to contribute a small amount of blood to sustain these
:01:25. > :01:30.animals(!) After last night's show, a lot of you went on fledge-watch on
:01:31. > :01:38.our cameras online to see if our great tit chicks fledged. If you
:01:39. > :01:42.were watching between 7.00am and 8.00am, you would have been
:01:43. > :01:49.rewarded. You would have seen this. This is our great tit chick nest. At
:01:50. > :01:54.7.24am, one of our brave little chicks pokes its head out into the
:01:55. > :01:59.big wide world and successfully fledges. So did the other four
:02:00. > :02:05.follow? Let's look at that camera live now. In the nestbox, there are
:02:06. > :02:10.still four chicks, which is curious. You would have expected them all to
:02:11. > :02:15.follow their sibling. I wonder why they didn't. Normally they all go
:02:16. > :02:20.out at once. They do. It makes life much easier. Now, they are having to
:02:21. > :02:24.feed two sets, the one outside and, of course, the four inside. Had they
:02:25. > :02:28.gone out together, they would be in a group at this time. That makes the
:02:29. > :02:35.feeding process easier. They are ready to go. I'm certain they will
:02:36. > :02:42.go tomorrow. That one was a pioneer, he was the Christopher Columbus of
:02:43. > :02:47.the tit world. He was an explore, pioneer... I will get back to you
:02:48. > :02:53.later! When they do fledge out, they are going straight into a place
:02:54. > :02:56.which is only just a few metres away from their nemesis, the sparrowhawk.
:02:57. > :03:00.We can go live to it now. This is the female that we have been
:03:01. > :03:06.watching from the very start of our series. She's incubating five eggs.
:03:07. > :03:11.She's sat there through the sun, through the rain, she's done an
:03:12. > :03:14.amazing job. We have had these extraordinary views, just look at
:03:15. > :03:18.that - a remarkable bird. Look at that. The piercing look of a
:03:19. > :03:24.predator straight down the barrel. The last thing you might see if you
:03:25. > :03:42.were a young great tit. Yesterday, this bird transported us all
:03:43. > :03:55.It's a tiny little crack, there is no doubt that that egg is in the
:03:56. > :03:59.process of hatching. After a further bit of fidgeting, look at this egg
:04:00. > :04:04.on the right-hand side. As she turns it with her foot, look on the
:04:05. > :04:11.surface - move your head - yes, another couple of little cracks. So,
:04:12. > :04:16.the indications were correct. When the eggs start to cheep like that,
:04:17. > :04:20.they begin the hatching process within one to three days. I have
:04:21. > :04:27.everything crossed. How long does it take them to get out? Somewhere
:04:28. > :04:29.between 24 and 48 hours. They started at 8.00am this morning and
:04:30. > :04:33.we are hoping that tomorrow morning they will be hatching. That will be
:04:34. > :04:37.something. It's been a long wait. We can't wait to see those young
:04:38. > :04:48.sparrowhawks. Things seem to be going well for our sparrowhawk mum.
:04:49. > :04:53.We have a camera on our sticklebacks. Here he is at night,
:04:54. > :04:58.he is guarding the nest. A lot of the babies have gone into the safety
:04:59. > :05:03.of the nest, or so he thinks. Along comes an otter. It all looks
:05:04. > :05:09.graceful from above. Underneath, it is like a tsunami. It is utter
:05:10. > :05:14.devastation. And all those little babies get scattered. The otter
:05:15. > :05:19.swims off quite calmly, not knowing what it's done. Was it a complete
:05:20. > :05:25.disaster? Well, when the dust settled, no, it wasn't. A lot of
:05:26. > :05:29.those fry came back to the nest. I think a few were lost, but it's all
:05:30. > :05:34.a bit of a numbers game. I don't know about that. I think - are we
:05:35. > :05:46.going to go live to those fry? Let's go live to those fry. Look, there he
:05:47. > :05:50.is. There's Steven! I have counted at least 50 less! They did quite
:05:51. > :05:53.well. They are beginning to disperse. There is no question about
:05:54. > :05:59.that. I think they are going rather well there. Another group of stars
:06:00. > :06:03.in our show have been our young Little Owls, nesting in an oak tree.
:06:04. > :06:07.They were very small when we started watching them so we had to look at
:06:08. > :06:11.them inside their nest hole. They were active at night, so we were
:06:12. > :06:15.using infrared and we saw them in black and white, a few glimpses in
:06:16. > :06:21.daylight. Now they have grown, they are spending more time outside of
:06:22. > :06:24.the nest hole. In fact, they are branching, semi-fledging, and this
:06:25. > :06:27.morning they gave us an extraordinary opportunity to enjoy
:06:28. > :06:34.them in a bit of early morning sunshine. They are already quite
:06:35. > :06:38.nimble. Look at the way that one is jumping around. Perky little things.
:06:39. > :06:42.You can see the adult feathers coming through. They have still got
:06:43. > :06:47.that down coat. The adults will still be feeding these animals for a
:06:48. > :06:52.few weeks yet. The adults have been working hard to feed them all sorts
:06:53. > :06:56.of things. When it poured with rain, they were getting lots of earthworm.
:06:57. > :07:01.After that, they brought in birds, mice, insects. So we thought it
:07:02. > :07:05.would be nice to try and spot the adults hunting. Let's go live now to
:07:06. > :07:09.a camera that we have got over by the Little Owl nest tree, that is
:07:10. > :07:15.the tree on the left-hand side there, where the actual nest is. If
:07:16. > :07:20.you look beyond it, you can see a line offence posts and sometimes the
:07:21. > :07:23.adult birds have been using those as platforms to launch their hunting
:07:24. > :07:27.attempts. Well, nothing there at the moment. We will continue to go back
:07:28. > :07:31.to that throughout the course of the programme, of course. We have set
:07:32. > :07:35.ourself a challenge, haven't we, to see if we can see the owls hunting
:07:36. > :07:40.live on the programme? Chris, you have to admit, we have had some
:07:41. > :07:46.wonderfully charismatic birds on this series - the little owls, the
:07:47. > :07:51.sparrowhawks, the golden eagle in Scotland, which we will update you
:07:52. > :07:57.with later. There is one missing. It is Monty the osprey. I'm a big fan.
:07:58. > :08:09.He is a gorgeous bird. Over the years, we have been following him.
:08:10. > :08:12.Back to Monty the osprey, he always brings us a bit of drama and this
:08:13. > :08:14.spring is certainly no difference because he is having a bit of
:08:15. > :08:32.trouble with the ladies. Near the coast of Midwest Wales,
:08:33. > :08:42.there is anticipation in the air. You see, the stage is set for a fine
:08:43. > :08:50.romance. Ospreys are returning from Africa and one of the first birds to
:08:51. > :08:56.return this year is Blue 24. She arrives deliberately early to stake
:08:57. > :09:07.her claim on Monty's nest. Blue 24 always sets her heart on catching
:09:08. > :09:14.Monty's eye. After days of waiting, it looks like her leading man is
:09:15. > :09:21.finally on his way. Yes, at lunch time on the 3rd April, Monty returns
:09:22. > :09:35.to his nest and Blue 24 wastes no time in making herself available.
:09:36. > :09:45.The new couple have a few short hours of fun before their affair is
:09:46. > :09:48.discovered. Glesni has been Monty's mate for the
:09:49. > :09:51.past three years and she is not giving up on her nest or her man
:09:52. > :10:16.without a fight. Blue 24 doesn't stand a chance. And
:10:17. > :10:24.retreats to another nest platform in sight of Monty and her rival.
:10:25. > :10:36.Yet, it soon becomes clear that Blue 24 hasn't lost her lover completely.
:10:37. > :10:41.Over the next few days, Monty is seen visiting her nest. In fact, he
:10:42. > :10:45.seems to be sharing his time between both of his ladies. The results of
:10:46. > :10:51.all of this bed-hopping become apparent on the 17th April when both
:10:52. > :11:00.females begin to lay eggs. And after just a few days, both nests
:11:01. > :11:09.contained three each. With such stiff competition from Monty's
:11:10. > :11:14.affection, can Blue 24 keep her man? # No, no, you can't love two. #
:11:15. > :11:20.Monty is going to be busy in the coming weeks.
:11:21. > :11:29.What is going to happen in that love triangle? We will find out tomorrow.
:11:30. > :11:36.I am helping to fight what is possibly the biggest threat to the
:11:37. > :11:41.wildlife here at Minsmere. That is a really big claim. What can that
:11:42. > :11:47.threat be and why is it so deadly dangerous? Let's have a look. Come
:11:48. > :11:57.down here and I will show it to you. Can you see this stuff? This is
:11:58. > :12:00.what's called pirri pirri. It is from New Zealand, this is a plant
:12:01. > :12:05.that grows in New Zealand. It is thought it came over on a bale of
:12:06. > :12:10.wool from the New Zealand sheep and it started to grow here. They found
:12:11. > :12:14.it here at Minsmere back in 2000 and was growing in the car park.
:12:15. > :12:18.Somebody saw it, that's a pretty little plant, and everyone enjoyed
:12:19. > :12:25.it. Until four years later when they thought we have a serious problem
:12:26. > :12:32.here. The reason is, nothing, nothing eats pirri pirri at all. But
:12:33. > :12:37.it is incredibly vigorous. It overgrows all the plants that our
:12:38. > :12:44.animals, insects, birds, rabbits do want to it. It has runners that go
:12:45. > :12:53.out and tap roots that go down. And look at these Sputniks here. That is
:12:54. > :12:59.pirri pirri's secret weapon. They have 400 spines and they are tipped
:13:00. > :13:04.with these barbed hooks. If anything brushes past the pirri pirri, like a
:13:05. > :13:14.rabbit or a deer, they stick to its body. Fascinating. So,
:13:15. > :13:18.unfortunately, they have got to try and get rid of this stuff. Let's
:13:19. > :13:24.have a look. You can see, it's already starting to stick to me
:13:25. > :13:29.here. So, I'm going to... It is not just getting caught to rabbits and
:13:30. > :13:36.things passing by, this can have a direct danger to wildlife. Look at
:13:37. > :13:42.this picture. Here it is. There is a chaffinch. It is stuck to the pirri
:13:43. > :13:46.pirri. A Ranger had to come in and get that bird off. And lift that
:13:47. > :13:48.bird off the pirri pirri, otherwise it would have died. You can see,
:13:49. > :13:56.they are sticking to me as well. Hundreds of these seeds. This is a
:13:57. > :14:01.really serious problem, so I'm going to get back to doing a bit of
:14:02. > :14:07.spraying. Meanwhile it's back to Chris and Michaela. See you later. I
:14:08. > :14:12.don't know about ghostbuster but he's a Pirri Pirri Buster. I think
:14:13. > :14:17.it suits him or was he better as Poldark? I prefer his body
:14:18. > :14:22.completely covered. I'm sure there'll be some viewers who don't
:14:23. > :14:28.agree! On Monday we introduced you to a bird that nests in the reedbed
:14:29. > :14:34.behind us, a bearded tit. A gorgeous bird. Let's look at the nest live.
:14:35. > :14:37.There are four chicks in there. And there's a huge slug. There is, you
:14:38. > :14:44.can only just about see those chicks. They are a week old. I saw
:14:45. > :14:49.them poking their heads just above that gorgeous little nest hidden in
:14:50. > :14:54.the reeds. The adults are so striking, particularly the males
:14:55. > :15:00.with their black moustaches. You can't mistake them for any other
:15:01. > :15:04.bird. This is our male coming to feed the chicks with invertebrates
:15:05. > :15:09.that it has caught in the reeds. People come from all over the place
:15:10. > :15:13.for a glimpse. Look at the female. She hasn't got the black moustache.
:15:14. > :15:19.She is paler, not as striking, but I think she is still very beautiful. A
:15:20. > :15:23.few weeks to go for them before they fledge. We won't see fledging, but
:15:24. > :15:31.this is something I have wanted to show you for a long time. Brace
:15:32. > :15:36.yourselves for ceremonial gaping. These are the tits we showed you
:15:37. > :15:40.last year, and look inside the mouths of the young. They've got
:15:41. > :15:47.four rows of white conical projections. What is that all about?
:15:48. > :15:52.There are several theories, one that they are sensory devices that tell
:15:53. > :15:58.the young bird when to close its mouth web the adult has put the food
:15:59. > :16:06.in, and secondly they are targets, but I'm not buying that one. Lots of
:16:07. > :16:10.birds have those gapes without three-dimensional structures in
:16:11. > :16:14.them. The vibrancy of those markings indicates the health of the
:16:15. > :16:16.youngster. So the brighter the more dynamic, the more healthy that
:16:17. > :16:21.youngster and therefore the more likely it is to be fed. And that
:16:22. > :16:25.gives the parents the advantage to culture those young which are most
:16:26. > :16:30.likely to survive. That's been recorded not in bearded tits, it has
:16:31. > :16:37.to be said, but in barn swallows. Ceremonial gaping. That's a new
:16:38. > :16:44.ceremonial gaping, outside a chip shop after the Hitman and Her in the
:16:45. > :16:50.'80s, begging for chips. It is a beautiful pattern, but you don't
:16:51. > :16:56.have to come to an RSPB reserve like this to see incredible wildlife. If
:16:57. > :17:01.you know where to look you can see even exotic wildlife in a city.
:17:02. > :17:08.David Lindo takes us on a tour, this time to Liverpool. Liverpool, a
:17:09. > :17:12.thriving modern metropolis built on a long history of trade. It's
:17:13. > :17:17.commercial docks are the oldest in the world and have made this one of
:17:18. > :17:22.the most diverse cities in Britain. What few people realise is that
:17:23. > :17:29.Liverpool's wildlife is just as cosmopolitan. The most obvious place
:17:30. > :17:37.to start is in the famous Albert Docks, where I'm meeting a doctor
:17:38. > :17:41.who is studying this phenomenon. The docks' solid structure provides a
:17:42. > :17:48.perfect home for numerous marine creatures. I must say, it is
:17:49. > :17:53.incredible. I would never imagine that abundance of life. This is
:17:54. > :18:04.basically an artificial reef what you see here. Loads and loads of
:18:05. > :18:10.mussels, and some shrimps, and loads of sea squirts. It is so fascinating
:18:11. > :18:16.to think there's a jungle there basically. Is that a jellyfish? Yes,
:18:17. > :18:22.it is, a Moon jellyfish. We also have sponges. Some of them are our
:18:23. > :18:26.native species. But what makes this reef unique is the combination of
:18:27. > :18:33.creatures from across the planet. This is a community of hitchhikers
:18:34. > :18:37.that have grabbed lifts on boats, ships and tankers travelling here
:18:38. > :18:41.from across the world. So whereabouts exactly are these
:18:42. > :18:46.creatures coming from? Oh, from many, many places, all over the
:18:47. > :18:52.world, so you've got species coming from the Pacific, for example. South
:18:53. > :18:58.Korea, Japan. Also Australia, New Zealand. As each new species
:18:59. > :19:04.arrives, it justles for space in this everchanging community. But all
:19:05. > :19:12.newcomers are at the mercy of the docks' resident predators. Eels,
:19:13. > :19:16.Kings of a complex cut throat world right beneath our feet. I am a
:19:17. > :19:23.birder, so I watch a lot of activity on the surface and above in the air.
:19:24. > :19:29.For me, to know that you have such a wealth of life in an an urban area
:19:30. > :19:36.like this is almost completing the circle that people don't know about.
:19:37. > :19:41.It is amazing. Just a couple of miles away in the centre of
:19:42. > :19:49.Liverpool is Sefton Park, where more new arrivals are making their
:19:50. > :19:54.presence felt. Loud and clear. This is a really special place. I've been
:19:55. > :19:58.so excited hearing so many different types of birds, as well as seeing
:19:59. > :20:03.them as I walked through the wide land and along the lake. But there
:20:04. > :20:07.is one new addition to the avian scene here, and I can hear it. It's
:20:08. > :20:26.all around me. What a racket! Ring-necked
:20:27. > :20:31.parakeets, escapees from the pet trade, first bred in Britain in the
:20:32. > :20:43.1960s. Gradually they've spread from city to city, reaching Liverpool six
:20:44. > :20:47.years ago. This young male ring-necked parakeet, it's a young
:20:48. > :20:53.male because the collar around its neck is still forming in colour.
:20:54. > :20:57.This bird isn't breeding yet, because ring-necked parakeets don't
:20:58. > :21:08.breed until they are about four years old. There's Sefton Park,
:21:09. > :21:12.there's probably about 20 birds. That's a very small population. But
:21:13. > :21:20.who knows what will happen in the future? Just across the Mersey
:21:21. > :21:24.another man-made habitat is providing a valuable refuge. For a
:21:25. > :21:37.mammal introduced so long ago that it is now pretty much accepted as
:21:38. > :21:45.one of our own. This is fabulous, I've never been this close to brown
:21:46. > :21:51.hares in my life and I've been watching wildlife all my life.
:21:52. > :21:56.There's two of them. It indicates that one can be female, because when
:21:57. > :22:03.females come into heat, the males follow them everywhere. Brown hares
:22:04. > :22:07.flourished after arriving with the Romans, but they are ter arriving
:22:08. > :22:09.with the Romans, but they are now in serious decline - victims of
:22:10. > :22:14.disease, poaching and changes in farming, so this cemetery with
:22:15. > :22:25.abundant food and shelter provides a welcome haven. They are coming
:22:26. > :22:29.closer to me! The thing I love about watching wildlife in urban areas is
:22:30. > :22:33.the fact that you can get so close to creatures you would never
:22:34. > :22:38.normally get close to, and that's because they are used to seeing
:22:39. > :22:42.people, used to humans, and that's a great thing. Liverpool and its
:22:43. > :22:47.surrounds are full of surprises. Wildlife from around the world has
:22:48. > :22:50.taken to this man-made environments, making for some unusual and even
:22:51. > :23:02.exotic encounters. Amazing places, cemetery, for
:23:03. > :23:05.wildlife. I went to West Norwood cemetery in London to film and we
:23:06. > :23:12.got the most incredible views of foxes on the graves. It was
:23:13. > :23:17.stunning, and obviously it is peaceful. And not a lot of
:23:18. > :23:21.disturbance, peace and quiet. Let's go live to our little owls now,
:23:22. > :23:26.because there is some chance there might be one of the adults out
:23:27. > :23:32.hunting. Let's look. It's gone, but just a couple of minutes ago it was
:23:33. > :23:36.there. We spotted it. There it is on the fence post, and it has got
:23:37. > :23:45.something there. Something in its beak. It is carrying it back to the
:23:46. > :23:49.nest. Look at that! A small mammal. Look, here it is... That's
:23:50. > :23:57.fantastic. Dropping it into the nest. And that happened minutes ago.
:23:58. > :24:02.Oh, hold on, yes it is a shrew! It is difficult to say on infrared
:24:03. > :24:07.whether it is common or pygmy, but I think it might be a common shrew.
:24:08. > :24:12.That's fantastic isn't it? It is worth keeping on eye on the adults
:24:13. > :24:16.outside, because we may well see them successfully hunting. Here
:24:17. > :24:20.another good male being brought in for these birds. They are doing
:24:21. > :24:26.really well, these chicks, getting meant of food. We've really see them
:24:27. > :24:30.grow, haven't we Chris? I didn't think we would get that. No, I
:24:31. > :24:34.didn't. One of our stars of this year's Springwatch without a doubt
:24:35. > :24:39.has to be our female stoat, the mother with eight kits. She has been
:24:40. > :24:48.so active and she's such a fantastic little hunter, and she's been on the
:24:49. > :24:52.move again. Here she is with all her kits, crossing... It is difficult to
:24:53. > :24:56.tell between the fully grown adult and the kits, because they are about
:24:57. > :25:05.12 weeks old, so they are pretty big. I love the way they move. It is
:25:06. > :25:09.like a fluid moment of mammals. It is masterly in motion. Like they are
:25:10. > :25:14.stuck together. A group is either called a caravan or a trip. They
:25:15. > :25:20.almost trip over each other. But if you are counting them you may have
:25:21. > :25:24.noticed that they are not all there. She's moving them quite fast, but
:25:25. > :25:28.this poor little one... This is a youngster. This one has been left
:25:29. > :25:33.behind. It doesn't want to be left behind. It makes it a little bit
:25:34. > :25:40.vulnerable. It does. Although these are a predatory animal and we've
:25:41. > :25:44.seen them try to President ate our great tits, a buzzard or fox would
:25:45. > :25:49.have these animals, so this at the moment is a vulnerable stoat. You
:25:50. > :25:54.can see what it is doing. It is sniffing the trail of the rest of
:25:55. > :25:59.the kits. But it has taken the wrong direction and gone into the wilds!
:26:00. > :26:04.This is extraordinary, because this is a busy place, with lots of people
:26:05. > :26:09.around. And it is the middle of the day. The other one had a tick on its
:26:10. > :26:13.head, so this one is the other one. Two of them must have been
:26:14. > :26:18.separated, and this is another one. It is following its nose. It has
:26:19. > :26:22.obviously got the scent of the rest of its party and it is trying to
:26:23. > :26:27.unite with them. I wonder if she is calling to them as well. Eventually
:26:28. > :26:31.she comes to get them. She doesn't want them to be left behind. She
:26:32. > :26:36.want to try and keep them all together. That's the adult leading
:26:37. > :26:40.one of them off to join the other kits, and the second one follows.
:26:41. > :26:46.It's been amazing to see so much of them. And there they go. There's the
:26:47. > :26:51.mother with the two kits. They will join the other six. The caravan of
:26:52. > :26:57.stoats. It is a great name. Absolutely fantastic. Last night I
:26:58. > :27:01.moved down to the other end of the reserve to the sand marten cliff.
:27:02. > :27:06.These are a small bird that choose to make tunnels into a steep, Sandy
:27:07. > :27:10.cliff, where they presume they are same from predators. They presumed
:27:11. > :27:14.that until about 2 o'clock this afternoon when guess who turned up
:27:15. > :27:19.on top of the cliff. Yes, our stoats have had their nose into just about
:27:20. > :27:22.every nest they can find. We are not entirely sure this is the same
:27:23. > :27:31.female. It is quite difficult to identify. But look but look at this,
:27:32. > :27:37.on the edge of a precipice. It looks as if she is trying to work out how
:27:38. > :27:41.to get down safely. What we have learnt from watching our societies
:27:42. > :27:47.is they are very arboreal. And now it has gone into one of the nest
:27:48. > :27:50.holes. And the sand martins are going berserk. They recognise this
:27:51. > :27:58.is a predator and they are swarming. This is why. It has gone in and here
:27:59. > :28:01.it has a sand martin, which it has captured and killed. It is difficult
:28:02. > :28:07.to see whether it's an adult or a fledgling. It has got long primary
:28:08. > :28:12.feathers which suggests even if it is a fledgling it has been on the
:28:13. > :28:18.wing for a time. And this is a second bird it has come out with. I
:28:19. > :28:22.reckon, I am wondering if a stoat has come down previously, killed
:28:23. > :28:26.these sand martins and is now cashing them in there and is
:28:27. > :28:30.returning to take them to its kits. If you look at a sand martin it is
:28:31. > :28:35.not a huge meal for a stoat, but when you can get quite a few in one
:28:36. > :28:41.go it is worth the effort. And another one here. I think this is a
:28:42. > :28:46.cache. I don't think this is... It is interesting, we've seen it go in
:28:47. > :28:52.and come out of another hole. It is almost as if those holeses are
:28:53. > :28:56.interlinked. Which suggests they are not this year's nests, because they
:28:57. > :29:01.are not interlinked unless it is by accident. She is doing a great job
:29:02. > :29:06.of climbing around the cliff, ignoring the swarm of sand martins,
:29:07. > :29:11.who are clearly distressed. It looks like they are trying to mob her, but
:29:12. > :29:16.not very successfully. Poking her head out there. Probably trying to
:29:17. > :29:21.work out how to get up or down again. It is very crumbly that
:29:22. > :29:25.cliff. It is. Pokes her nose out. You can see the birds are going
:29:26. > :29:29.crazy around her. What an amazing piece of behaviour. It really is.
:29:30. > :29:33.I've spent more time watching stoats in the last two weeks than I have
:29:34. > :29:37.watching them in the wild all my life. They are so difficult to
:29:38. > :29:42.watch. This is a privilege to be able to follow those animals, that
:29:43. > :29:46.female and her family. Seeing them go about their daily business, and
:29:47. > :29:51.turning up in places you would never expect them. The chick now I think
:29:52. > :29:57.has probably had enough. She's got her stash. She has moved the stash
:29:58. > :30:02.into that larger burrow. And now she has to work out how to get down.
:30:03. > :30:07.They are going crazy. You can see how difficult it is. She is slipping
:30:08. > :30:09.on that slope. It is easier to go down than climb up? That's the
:30:10. > :30:24.question. Down. Down. Just watch this. That is steep. She
:30:25. > :30:31.jumps, she is so energetic and acrobatic. She's absolutely
:30:32. > :30:36.remarkable. I love the shadows of the sandmartins chasing her across
:30:37. > :30:41.the sand there. Look at that. I know it's very easy to feel sorry for the
:30:42. > :30:45.sandmartins but you have to remember that this is the circle of life that
:30:46. > :30:48.happens every spring and normally we don't see it. The only reason we are
:30:49. > :30:55.seeing it is because we have live cameras all over the reserve so we
:30:56. > :30:58.can document it. So it is fine to field empathy towards the
:30:59. > :31:05.sandmartins but we must not demonise the stoat. That is the way the world
:31:06. > :31:10.works. Let's go live to our little owls now. The world is working for
:31:11. > :31:16.them. They have come out in the evening light and, again, it is
:31:17. > :31:20.allowing us a great view of them. It is fabulous to see them out like
:31:21. > :31:25.this. As we were saying, they are branching, they are going to be
:31:26. > :31:30.doing this for a couple more weeks before they fully fledge. Great to
:31:31. > :31:34.see that on the live camera. We will keep our eyes on that because it is
:31:35. > :31:39.lovely to see them hunt. The adults, of course, that is. The chicks are
:31:40. > :31:45.not ready to hunt yet. I think it is time to join Martin again. He has
:31:46. > :31:52.stripped off his Ghostbusters outfit and now he is spreading his seeds!
:31:53. > :31:57.What I'm doing now might, just might, hold the key to saving one of
:31:58. > :32:02.our best-loved species from extinction. I'm not casting these
:32:03. > :32:07.seeds out for them to grow, they are food. Let's have a look at it. What
:32:08. > :32:12.it is, it is this sort of food, very similar to what you might have at
:32:13. > :32:18.home, but this is turtledove mix. Turtledoves are the animal that's in
:32:19. > :32:23.deep, deep trouble. Let's look what they look like. A beautiful little
:32:24. > :32:29.bird. Very neat. Smaller than a wood pigeon. This lovely call, purring
:32:30. > :32:34.call, which used to be so commonly heard, but now it is very rare.
:32:35. > :32:38.Their numbers have dropped by an astonishing 96% since the 1970s,
:32:39. > :32:44.their population is halving every six years, they are the fastest
:32:45. > :32:50.declining bird in the UK. This is an emergency. Why, why are their
:32:51. > :32:54.numbers dropping? They migrate to us from Africa, from Senegal, in fact.
:32:55. > :33:00.Let's see them out there. They are in quite big numbers out there.
:33:01. > :33:05.Then, of course, they face a lot of problems. They have got habitat loss
:33:06. > :33:10.out there, drought sometimes, and they have got an exhausting journey
:33:11. > :33:14.to cover all that ground, to come back to us. And also, of course,
:33:15. > :33:23.they get shot at. It seems incredible to me that they get shot
:33:24. > :33:26.in southern Europe. Now, all of those things are pretty bad. It
:33:27. > :33:31.seems that the worst problem actually is right here in the UK
:33:32. > :33:34.because they used to breed here very, very successfully and they
:33:35. > :33:38.would have two, three different nests. Now, when they come here,
:33:39. > :33:43.they have one or none at all, they disappear back. The reason for that
:33:44. > :33:47.is the lack of food. These are very specialist feeders and they feed on
:33:48. > :33:53.things, special little plants, there are far less of them now than there
:33:54. > :33:57.used to be because farming practices have changed. They are very
:33:58. > :34:04.specialist and they want to feed on them. They need to build themselves
:34:05. > :34:12.up on these sorts of plants - I can never say this - that one! They need
:34:13. > :34:17.to build themselves back up to successfully breed. This is where
:34:18. > :34:22.this machine comes in because, hopefully, these seeds will allow
:34:23. > :34:26.them to get started on their nesting. Nobody knows if this is
:34:27. > :34:29.going to work. This is very experimental. Because their numbers
:34:30. > :34:37.are declining so fast, something has to be done. It is an emergency. Just
:34:38. > :34:41.over here is a farm and a farmer here, Jane Thompson, has been
:34:42. > :34:45.busting her gut - I can't say that on telly - she has been doing
:34:46. > :34:50.everything she possibly can to help the turtledoves.
:34:51. > :34:58.This is turtledove mix and we have had it down now for three years. In
:34:59. > :35:04.a few weeks, this will be smorgasbord for them? Yes. In a
:35:05. > :35:08.couple of weeks, we will top some of them, so some will run to seed and
:35:09. > :35:12.some will flower then later. You have some bare patches here as well,
:35:13. > :35:17.that is on purpose? That is because the turtledoves like to feed on bare
:35:18. > :35:24.ground. Literally, they need to be on that edge there? Yes. To feed
:35:25. > :35:28.properly? This is too deps for them to access this -- dense for them to
:35:29. > :35:33.access this. They wouldn't come in here? Yes. Really? Even if the food
:35:34. > :35:41.is here? They need to be feeding from the ground. What else do you
:35:42. > :35:44.need to provide? They need suitable nesting habitats, blackthorn,
:35:45. > :35:49.hawthorn and scrub and also water, access to water. If they are
:35:50. > :35:53.seed-eating, they need a drink. I imagine you are probably waiting to
:35:54. > :35:58.hear that sound as springtime arrives? Absolutely. It is a great
:35:59. > :36:06.moment when you hear the turtledoves arriving. It is lovely.
:36:07. > :36:11.I had no idea that turtledoves were so specialised and they needed all
:36:12. > :36:17.these special conditions for them to thrive. Anyway, Jane is doing her
:36:18. > :36:22.bit and from the air, if you go up, you can see what is going on more
:36:23. > :36:27.clearly. This is a huge extent of what Jane is doing and this is one
:36:28. > :36:31.bit of her farm. She let me help out with this difficult and dangerous
:36:32. > :36:37.work. There is another tractor. Hi! He
:36:38. > :36:41.waved at me! This is a lot more tricky than it looks. Here we go,
:36:42. > :36:48.coming to the end of the line. Knock off the throttle. Round we go. Woah!
:36:49. > :36:53.Gently, gently. Down we go. I can feel it bite. I feel a second career
:36:54. > :36:57.coming on! I never thought that I would be doing this for
:36:58. > :37:02.conservation. Massive respect for Jane. A huge
:37:03. > :37:07.area. All this trouble has to be gone to if we are to help the
:37:08. > :37:11.turtledoves. Let's hope that all that effort that
:37:12. > :37:15.Jane's putting in and other people around here will work and we can
:37:16. > :37:22.save the turtledove from extinction. If you want to help, don't throw
:37:23. > :37:27.seed around, but do please get in contact with the RSPB or Operation
:37:28. > :37:31.Turtledove, if you see or hear a turtledove. There is a link on our
:37:32. > :37:36.website and it would be brilliant if you could tell us where the
:37:37. > :37:39.turtledoves are in the UK. Turtledoves need very specialist
:37:40. > :37:46.conditions for them to thrive. But other animals are a bit more
:37:47. > :37:52.opportunistic. In ponds and waterways all across
:37:53. > :38:00.the country, early spring spawn has developed into perfectly-formed
:38:01. > :38:04.miniature toads, toadlets. These tiny amphibians must leave the water
:38:05. > :38:09.and head out into the big, wide world. En masse, they surge abroad
:38:10. > :38:19.looking for damp, secretive places to hide and fatten up over the
:38:20. > :38:29.summer months. But they aren't the only ones living down here in this
:38:30. > :38:34.microkingdom. Last year's young horse leeches also like to live in
:38:35. > :38:40.the damp, wet undergrowth of ditches and pond margins. Stalking through
:38:41. > :38:47.the grasses, they sense movement using hair-like structures. They
:38:48. > :38:58.also use receptors to detect the smell and taste of their prey.
:38:59. > :39:08.Now, leeches are famously known for their ability to suck the blood of
:39:09. > :39:16.their victims. But this species has bigger ideas.
:39:17. > :39:22.The teeth of a horse leech are so weak they can't bite through the
:39:23. > :39:26.skin, so they attach themselves with mucous and suction and devour the
:39:27. > :39:37.toadlet whole. Capable of eating up to three times
:39:38. > :39:40.their own body weight in food, it is thought these young leeches may
:39:41. > :39:45.synchronise their hatching to make the most of the toadlet emergence so
:39:46. > :39:57.these small amphibians are not out of danger just yet.
:39:58. > :40:03.What a way to go! Gruesome. But fascinating. One of the undoubted
:40:04. > :40:09.stars of our series this year has been our golden eagles and I am very
:40:10. > :40:15.pleased to say that David Anderson has come down this evening to enjoy
:40:16. > :40:18.our midges(!) David, it was through your hard work and expertise that we
:40:19. > :40:21.got those cameras in place and you have been keeping us up-to-date with
:40:22. > :40:27.what they have been doing ever since. We appreciate you coming
:40:28. > :40:34.down. Let's take a look at our female. Tell us about this bird as
:40:35. > :40:41.an individual. This bird replaced the original female from this nest
:40:42. > :40:46.site three years ago. She still had juvenile plumage so we know she was
:40:47. > :40:51.three years old then, so she's now five years old and this is her third
:40:52. > :40:55.chick. A third chick? A third chick. She has reared a chick every year
:40:56. > :41:00.since she was three. Which is pretty good going for a young bird? Really
:41:01. > :41:04.good going. Normally, golden eagles wouldn't take over a territory until
:41:05. > :41:08.they are six or seven, so a three-year-old, it is all down to
:41:09. > :41:12.the male. She's got a really good male. We have seen the male from
:41:13. > :41:18.time to time, of course. He is much older, he looks more haggered, he is
:41:19. > :41:22.paler. He looks like he's been kicking around the glen for a few
:41:23. > :41:28.years? He is fairly bleached with the sun. His eye colour is really
:41:29. > :41:35.golden, whereas the female's got that nice hazelnut colour. Her eye
:41:36. > :41:38.will turn as she gets older. He's been doing a good job of providing
:41:39. > :41:42.her with food. We have been watching the development from day five when
:41:43. > :41:48.we first got the pictures. Here is the young chick way back then, as it
:41:49. > :41:52.were. This was delightful to watch. It was great that we managed to get
:41:53. > :41:56.the camera in when the chick was so small and the female accepted the
:41:57. > :42:01.camera. We are seeing quite a lot of unique footage, I think. This one is
:42:02. > :42:05.doing really well. Can I ask you about the other eagles in the
:42:06. > :42:12.region. How have they fared this year? We were having trouble trying
:42:13. > :42:16.to get a camera into a nest. We are looking around 12 pairs. Out of
:42:17. > :42:21.those 12 pairs, six of them have got chicks. But not all of them are good
:42:22. > :42:28.enough to put cameras in. In terms of the population, good or bad year
:42:29. > :42:34.for eagles? In my area, it is quite a good year. We have some more
:42:35. > :42:38.pictures of the youngster from yesterday, so this is right
:42:39. > :42:42.up-to-date. Here we can see quite a radical transformation. The feathers
:42:43. > :42:46.are coming through on the body, primaries are visible. So talk me
:42:47. > :42:52.through the rest of this chick's development. They are in the nest
:42:53. > :42:56.for a long time. From hatching, to fledging, that is 12 weeks. She is
:42:57. > :42:59.five weeks, this chick is five-weeks-old now. There is going
:43:00. > :43:04.to be some rapid development now over the next couple of weeks and
:43:05. > :43:09.you will see the back of the bird will turn brown fairly quickly now.
:43:10. > :43:14.I suppose once they lose that down and replace it with feathers, the
:43:15. > :43:19.female will be able to leave them for longer, they will be more
:43:20. > :43:25.waterproof, more insulated? Yes, much more insulated. Like I say, the
:43:26. > :43:29.female will have to start hunting for food once the chick gets around
:43:30. > :43:33.eight-weeks-old. So the male is doing all the hunting just now. He
:43:34. > :43:37.is not just hunting for himself, but for the female and for the chick. We
:43:38. > :43:42.have seen loads of different food brought in, including a lot of small
:43:43. > :43:47.things. What do you reckon that is? That is red meat?
:43:48. > :43:56.I think it is probably a red deer calf that the butchered on the hill
:43:57. > :44:03.and it has stripped it. I think I saw it with a meadow pipette on one
:44:04. > :44:08.occasion. You did. That's been the surprise with me, with having a
:44:09. > :44:14.camera on the nest, we've seen a range coming in, including the crow
:44:15. > :44:17.nest. They are like jelly babies, going straight down the gullet and
:44:18. > :44:24.then they are flying away and dumping the nest. You wouldn't find
:44:25. > :44:28.that without a camera. So it has some value with your study, the role
:44:29. > :44:34.these Eagles play and the ecology of the area? It's been a great value,
:44:35. > :44:40.yes. And if you had to pick a highlight? I think the highlight for
:44:41. > :44:46.me is the fact that it worked out. After all that hard work! You went
:44:47. > :44:52.up a few cliffs, to be honest with you. We went up a few cliffs, but we
:44:53. > :44:58.thought this would work out and it did, so I'm pleased with that. There
:44:59. > :45:01.is more exciting news, and that is if it continues to prosper, and you
:45:02. > :45:05.think it will. I do. There's a good chance we might be able to fit a
:45:06. > :45:09.satellite tag to that young bird and we'll be able to follow it and
:45:10. > :45:14.follow its future as it spreads its wings around this part of Scotland.
:45:15. > :45:19.That will be truly fantastic. Martin.
:45:20. > :45:26.It's been astonishing to see inside that golden eagle's nest. The first
:45:27. > :45:30.time I saw those pictures was one of those pretty much moments I will
:45:31. > :45:34.never forget. But it has also been great to share the lives of our
:45:35. > :45:40.little owls. And that's the tree that the little owls are nesting in.
:45:41. > :45:43.And there's a hide where the cameraman is sitting there trying to
:45:44. > :45:48.film them right now. Let's go live inside the nest and see if we can
:45:49. > :45:54.see the chicks. And there's the chick!
:45:55. > :46:05.Just a few minutes ago we saw the owls running around. Let's look at
:46:06. > :46:13.this. There, they are hunting! Look at that, a few minutes ago. Going
:46:14. > :46:17.back up into the tree. We've noticed we've been able to record something
:46:18. > :46:23.truly amazing. If you look along there you can see a sort of a row of
:46:24. > :46:26.posts. And that's where the owls have been hunting, most of the
:46:27. > :46:34.pictures. We've been able to see they are using three different
:46:35. > :46:39.strategies to hunt at night. You can see, this is a thermal camera. The
:46:40. > :46:43.owl is moving up that fence line and going back into the nest tree. See
:46:44. > :46:50.that glowing form flying around the owl? That's a moth. The owl's become
:46:51. > :46:59.alerted to it, the moth that gone down, so what's the owl going to do?
:47:00. > :47:03.It doesn't go straight down. It is finding out precisely, and bang! Has
:47:04. > :47:08.it got it? Yes, there it is. It's going to take that back to the nest.
:47:09. > :47:12.It is using an am British technique and listening. What sort of hearing
:47:13. > :47:17.have they got? Remember, this is pitch black. It uses another
:47:18. > :47:24.technique and that's running around on the ground looking for beatles,
:47:25. > :47:29.worms, maybe a vole. And a third technique, the most impressive of
:47:30. > :47:35.all. Somehow, goodness knows how they do this, in the pitch black
:47:36. > :47:41.they are catching a moth. How can it see that, or hear it? It is
:47:42. > :47:46.completely dark. Quite fantastic behaviour. Amazing we've been able
:47:47. > :47:50.to see them actually hunting during the programme. Let's have a little
:47:51. > :47:54.look. Can we go inside the nest again quickly? There's a little owl,
:47:55. > :47:59.it is growing up now. They've been exercising their wings. Are they out
:48:00. > :48:06.or in? Just outside I think in the tree. You can't quite see it, it is
:48:07. > :48:12.just there. They are just creeping out. If we stay, it's lovely sitting
:48:13. > :48:16.here. I'm trying to use my binoculars before it gets completely
:48:17. > :48:22.dark. Look at this there, lovely. Brilliant. We've got to leave the
:48:23. > :48:29.little owls now and headway up north to the Farne Islands to get the
:48:30. > :48:37.latest instalment of Iolo's adventure with the puffins.
:48:38. > :48:43.Look at this. Unfortunately the bad weather has returned here on the
:48:44. > :48:47.Farnes and for the last 48 hours we've been battling against cold
:48:48. > :48:55.winds and this prolonged light rain. It is having a devastating effect on
:48:56. > :49:00.many of our chicks. But despite them being a bedraggled bunch their
:49:01. > :49:07.hardiness never fails to impress. These are resilient birds and here
:49:08. > :49:11.on the Farnes you have to be. So how do these dedicated parents cope?
:49:12. > :49:17.Well, they are forced to adapt and work even harder. One mother who
:49:18. > :49:24.hunkers down whatever the weather is the eider. Eider females are pretty
:49:25. > :49:30.easy to find, as during incubation they don't bunch. But not today.
:49:31. > :49:34.This is all that's left of a wonderful female eider, number 42.
:49:35. > :49:39.Look at that eiderdown, it is so warm. The eggs were due to hatch
:49:40. > :49:44.tomorrow. They've hatched early and she's gone off with her chicks. But
:49:45. > :49:51.I bet you any money she hasn't gone far, so I will see if I can find
:49:52. > :49:59.her. I've been told that number 42 is around here with her chicks. Here
:50:00. > :50:04.she is. I don't want to scare her. What she's done is met up with other
:50:05. > :50:11.females and they've creched all the chicks together, so they'll all take
:50:12. > :50:17.care of that batch of probably 12 chicks. All eider females look the
:50:18. > :50:24.same but I'm pretty sure the one on the left is number 42. Or maybe it
:50:25. > :50:31.is the one on the right. The one on... The one at the back is number
:50:32. > :50:41.42! Anyway, I'm sure that one of those is number 42. Eider-way, a
:50:42. > :50:46.female will lead her chicks down to the sea within 24-48 hours after
:50:47. > :50:51.they are borned a as they undergo what we call the eider walk. Earlier
:50:52. > :50:56.this week we were treated to this incredible sight, a group of mothers
:50:57. > :51:02.leading their ducklings down to the water's edge. Once they reach the
:51:03. > :51:07.water, the eiders will swim two kilometres over to the mainland,
:51:08. > :51:10.because there's less competition and more food over there. Their
:51:11. > :51:14.feathered friends left on the island, however, continue to fight
:51:15. > :51:21.it out. Each parent doing everything they can to keep their chicks alive.
:51:22. > :51:27.Look at this, all of these birds nesting alongside the wall of St
:51:28. > :51:32.Cuthbert's chapel and among them is our very own record-breaking
:51:33. > :51:37.Superman, Arctic tern number 91. She is incubating eggs but her
:51:38. > :51:43.neighbours, many of those eggs have hatched and they are feeding their
:51:44. > :51:48.chicks. These bundles of down are vulnerable as they take their first
:51:49. > :51:52.steps into the big wide world,ence in this weather. I'm keeping my
:51:53. > :51:58.distance and making sure I'm not putting the parents off the nest. In
:51:59. > :52:02.normal conditions, Arctic tern chicks can usually fly after 21 to
:52:03. > :52:06.41 days, but often they choose to stay with their parents for a
:52:07. > :52:12.further month or two. Whatever the weather, these parents are clearly
:52:13. > :52:20.doing something right, as there are now between 1,800 and 2400 breeding
:52:21. > :52:24.pairs on the Farne Islands. And these aren't the only bird numbers
:52:25. > :52:31.to report. Since doing their cliff counts, the Rangers have been busy
:52:32. > :52:36.number crunching. I can now reveal that they've collated some of those
:52:37. > :52:40.results and bear in mind this could all change if this bad weather
:52:41. > :52:44.continues. But believe it or not so far it's good news. When the
:52:45. > :52:51.National Trust first counted guillemots here on the Farnes in the
:52:52. > :52:57.1970s there were roughly 2,000 to 3,000 pairs. Today there are 36,000
:52:58. > :53:03.pairs. Razorbill numbers are also creeping up. Even kittiwake numbers,
:53:04. > :53:09.which have seen a gradual decline, are stabilising. And there is good
:53:10. > :53:12.news for the puffins too. There are 40,000 breeding pairs on these
:53:13. > :53:19.islands. We've been keeping a close eye on se eye on two of those pairs
:53:20. > :53:24.- the log pile puffin pair and the burrow cam pair. Both are incubating
:53:25. > :53:27.a single egg. We'll be watching them closely over the next 24 hours in
:53:28. > :53:35.the hope we can bring you even more good news from these wonderful
:53:36. > :53:38.islands we now call Fanapidos. In the meantime I'm keeping everything
:53:39. > :53:43.crossed that the weather improves. The rain has stopped and I can see
:53:44. > :53:47.blue skies. I really hope we get three or four weeks of wonderful dry
:53:48. > :53:56.weather to give these thousands of chicks here every possible chance of
:53:57. > :53:59.survival. It really is such a special place, with such an
:54:00. > :54:03.abundance of wildlife there. The weather's been pretty challenging
:54:04. > :54:11.though. It has. Super pictures of the eider duck going into the water.
:54:12. > :54:16.Eider-way, I like that. And fingers crossed we might see the pufflings.
:54:17. > :54:20.We'll wait and see. We've seen one great tit fledge. Hopefully we'll
:54:21. > :54:25.see the others in the morning. But there is another nest where the
:54:26. > :54:30.chicks are ready to go. This is the reed warblers. Look at them, they
:54:31. > :54:38.are squashed in there. There are four chicks. They are 10 to 11 days
:54:39. > :54:44.old. You can see their little heads peeking out. That's a nest that's
:54:45. > :54:48.bursting at the seams. It is. We put together a montage of their
:54:49. > :54:52.development over the last ten or 11 days. Look how quickly they've
:54:53. > :54:57.developed. There is the point of hatching. They are being fed a huge
:54:58. > :55:02.quantity of small insects. Most of the things are very small. And a
:55:03. > :55:06.great diversity too. More than 50 genre of insects are fed to these
:55:07. > :55:11.birds. The adults are working tirelessly. Lots of small things,
:55:12. > :55:23.only a couple of millimetres in size. This is this morning at
:55:24. > :55:27.6.50am. They are ravenous and their feathers are coming through. It is
:55:28. > :55:31.water bemethod to that, Michaela. Oopsy daisy! They've got to jump
:55:32. > :55:36.into the reeds and not out of the nest. They are protected by the fact
:55:37. > :55:41.that it is built over water. We could see them go tomorrow. Only 4
:55:42. > :55:46.hours left with our live cameras online and on the Red Button. So
:55:47. > :55:50.enjoy those. Last week we saw Martin help out with the water vole survey
:55:51. > :55:55.here at Minsmere and he saw evidence of quite a few individuals. We
:55:56. > :56:00.thought we would put a live camera in the reeds. This is the live
:56:01. > :56:03.camera. There is nothing on there at the moment but we have had quite a
:56:04. > :56:12.lot of success with this camera. We have. Here's a water vole swimming
:56:13. > :56:19.along, pulling a whole common reed. Look at the way it handles it. It
:56:20. > :56:23.bites it into bite-sized chunks and starts to nibble off the less
:56:24. > :56:29.nutritious outer parts of the plant to get to the growing material on
:56:30. > :56:34.the inside, the stem. It is not eating all of this. I like the way
:56:35. > :56:40.it handles it. Breaks it into nice bars. There you can see it
:56:41. > :56:44.dextrously removing that outer part and enjoying the inner part. Every
:56:45. > :56:49.day they have to eat about 90% of their own body weight. That's a lot!
:56:50. > :56:53.When I say it is more nutritious, there is not a lot of goodness, so
:56:54. > :57:00.they are pretty much eating all the time. I think they are delightful
:57:01. > :57:07.animals to watch. I don't dislike them but I don't find them that
:57:08. > :57:10.attractive. Bulging eyes. Let's look at the bullfinch nest. There are the
:57:11. > :57:16.chicks. It is a shame the parents aren't coming in. You can't see the
:57:17. > :57:19.chicks terribly well there. They are hunkered down. They've developed
:57:20. > :57:26.really quickly. You can see the wing feathers on the back of that one.
:57:27. > :57:31.Shall we go live, to look at the sticklebacks. I think the fry have
:57:32. > :57:39.come back, I can count them now. A festival of fry. And look, the
:57:40. > :57:43.attentive male, the diligent dad patrolling, trying to keep other
:57:44. > :57:49.sticklebacks away, because they can be carnivorous. Keep your eyes on
:57:50. > :57:53.the cameras. Tomorrow it is our final show, but oh my goodness we've
:57:54. > :58:00.got so much to show you. It is going to be such a packed show. Coming up
:58:01. > :58:05.at 6.30 on BBC Two... No we haven't. We discover what happens with our
:58:06. > :58:11.osprey love triangle. And will there be pufflings on the Farnes in our
:58:12. > :58:15.nestcam? We've got everything crossed for a glimpse of our
:58:16. > :58:22.sparrowhawk chicks. What about that. Fantastic. Next it is Unsprung, 6.30
:58:23. > :58:28.tomorrow with Dr Chris van Tulleken. And I ask you about the psychology
:58:29. > :58:33.of sentimentalism web it comes to animals. Should we be more
:58:34. > :59:04.dispassionate. That's the question for Chris tomorrow. Bye-bye.
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