:00:07. > :00:16.She is beautiful. She is patient. She is the Daniel Sturridge of the
:00:17. > :00:21.bird world. She has left it late, but what she is produced is
:00:22. > :00:25.absolutely fantastic. What a start to the final show of Springwatch
:00:26. > :00:32.2016, but it is not just hatching, there is also fledging, lucky
:00:33. > :00:37.escapes, and one star teetering on the edge with anticipation. It is
:00:38. > :00:39.going to be wild and unpredictable right to the very end, of course it
:00:40. > :01:08.is! It's Springwatch! Hello and welcome to our final show.
:01:09. > :01:14.We are here with you live at the RSPB Minsmere reserve on this
:01:15. > :01:18.beautiful evening. We have had three fantastic weeks here, and it is
:01:19. > :01:22.still going on. There is so much to pack into the show, we had better
:01:23. > :01:28.get started. It has been a remarkable day. On several occasions
:01:29. > :01:33.I have had to retreat to my caravan and mop my own brow. Nobody else is
:01:34. > :01:40.going to do it! We have chosen a new location to open the show, we have
:01:41. > :01:43.come down here to the reed bed, a very important part of Minsmere. It
:01:44. > :01:48.plays host to a whole range of specialist species, and deliberately
:01:49. > :01:53.sculpted to that end. What we have seen here in the past few days are
:01:54. > :02:01.things like this, Britains, herons, Marsh Harrier, only 400 pairs of
:02:02. > :02:09.these birds in the country, and there are eight here, and they could
:02:10. > :02:17.produce as many as 14 young. Nice to see the bittern. The bittern humour
:02:18. > :02:22.and the Marsh Harriers like this area because it provides food in
:02:23. > :02:25.secret places to nest, and that is exactly why the next bird we are
:02:26. > :02:30.going to set comes here, the little reed warbler. We have been watching
:02:31. > :02:37.this all day, is there anything inside the nest? No, it has gone! It
:02:38. > :02:43.has only just gone. Let's see what has happened during the day. Here
:02:44. > :02:48.are the chicks, for them. This one is warming up its wings, and it
:02:49. > :02:51.nearly falls out. It is a very dangerous game above the water, but
:02:52. > :02:58.it manages to struggle back up into the nest. When would one of them go?
:02:59. > :03:05.And here it is. Look how athletic it is answering away among the reeds.
:03:06. > :03:11.So, now there are three. The parents are trying to call them off, the
:03:12. > :03:16.brother and sister get confused. That one has gone, but
:03:17. > :03:23.unfortunately, we missed the third one going. It definitely did go, and
:03:24. > :03:27.that left just the one, and it sat here until tonight, less than two
:03:28. > :03:32.hours ago when suddenly in the end it went. And it joined its brothers
:03:33. > :03:39.and sisters somewhere hidden away in the reeds. And here is an amazing
:03:40. > :03:44.thing. Those little birds in about 12 weeks, they will fly to Africa,
:03:45. > :03:51.3650 miles away. That is astonishing. Let's celebrate our
:03:52. > :04:00.super dad, our stickleback fish, Son of Si. The camera is just over there
:04:01. > :04:04.in the water. Give it a wave! If we go underneath the water, we can have
:04:05. > :04:11.a look at it live. It is interesting, this, but it looks like
:04:12. > :04:17.a lot of the Fry have disappeared. Son of Si, there he is. That is
:04:18. > :04:21.interesting, he is chasing them away, but it looks as though he
:04:22. > :04:32.might have chased some of the fry away. There is another reason,
:04:33. > :04:39.because a ring chub came over and through a lot of bread on top of the
:04:40. > :04:41.nest! He doesn't eat bread! Let's see what happened to Son of Si last
:04:42. > :04:48.night, because he nearly had a dalliance. All his fry are on the
:04:49. > :04:55.bottom, and he is protecting them, being the super dad he is known to
:04:56. > :04:57.be. And then the water rail came along, fortunately didn't disturb
:04:58. > :05:04.him too much, but something else did. It is a female, and she is full
:05:05. > :05:08.of eggs, she is obviously very impressed by his father and skills.
:05:09. > :05:14.All of the Fry are sleep on the floor, so what does he do? Does he
:05:15. > :05:21.go and enjoy the flirtations of the female, or does he protect his Fry?
:05:22. > :05:30.What should he do? It is a gal Emma. Eventually, the urge to protect the
:05:31. > :05:36.fry wins, and he is not sure, but he chases her off, because actually,
:05:37. > :05:41.she could eat those fry. Ten days after they hatch, he will chase the
:05:42. > :05:46.fry away so that he can come back and start again, show she was just a
:05:47. > :05:50.bit mature. If she had come to night when it looks like he has chased
:05:51. > :06:02.them away, she might have been lucky. What do you think those fry
:06:03. > :06:06.eat? Not bread, that is for sure! Syriza, those tiny little fish, what
:06:07. > :06:14.do they eat? Tiny, tiny midge larvae. Ever since we arrived here,
:06:15. > :06:17.we have been watching the sparrowhawk nest. We didn't know
:06:18. > :06:23.when they were laid, so we didn't know when they would hatch. They
:06:24. > :06:27.might not hatch for another week, but yesterday, we saw something
:06:28. > :06:30.extraordinary. They had started to make noises, which was a good
:06:31. > :06:34.indication, and then some cracks appeared, so we knew we were finally
:06:35. > :06:38.in business, but having consulted the experts on the books, it said
:06:39. > :06:43.sometimes it can take 24-hour is for them to hatch, and sometimes 48, so
:06:44. > :06:51.when we came in this morning, we were desperate to see some action.
:06:52. > :06:55.And we did! She was really fidgety, jumping up and down, off the nest,
:06:56. > :07:00.back on. Now look very carefully on the right of your screen. Between
:07:01. > :07:08.the twigs there, you can see a little dimple has formed in the egg.
:07:09. > :07:12.She is fidgety, are up and down like this all the time, and then look.
:07:13. > :07:21.Just on the lower part of her trousers there, that egg on the
:07:22. > :07:26.left-hand side, yes. The top of it, and there, she is picking little
:07:27. > :07:29.bits of the shell off. She is completely fascinated by this, and
:07:30. > :07:34.she is a young bird. For all we know, this could be her first clutch
:07:35. > :07:40.of eggs, and the first time she has seen one of them hatch. She doesn't
:07:41. > :07:45.know what to do. Should I incubate them or just enjoy this remarkable
:07:46. > :07:52.moment? And then look, a bit later, you can see the chick struggling to
:07:53. > :07:56.get out. Its head is on the left-hand side, tucked down
:07:57. > :07:57.underneath that other egg. And its tail end is in the back of the
:07:58. > :08:10.shell. Look at that, it has finally
:08:11. > :08:17.struggled out. It weighs about 11 grams at the moment. And of course,
:08:18. > :08:21.it still damp because it has just come out of the egg, a little
:08:22. > :08:25.moisture left in there. So she settles down to incubate, and when
:08:26. > :08:30.she gets up again at macro she nibbles the shell, she once to get
:08:31. > :08:34.it out of the way, she doesn't want it to stick to any of the other
:08:35. > :08:38.eggs, because those chicks would have to break through two layers of
:08:39. > :08:46.egg. Then she picks up what remains of the yolk sac and swallows that,
:08:47. > :08:57.nothing can be wasted. Down she goes again, but not for long. She is
:08:58. > :09:02.nibbling on prey there. And look, the youngster is beginning to dry
:09:03. > :09:09.off. The shell has gone, she has them far away from the nest so no
:09:10. > :09:13.predators are attracted. Now, this youngster doesn't need to eat
:09:14. > :09:20.straightaway. It has enough yolk sac reserves in its body to last at
:09:21. > :09:24.least 36 hours. And of course initially when it comes out, it is
:09:25. > :09:40.very tired and weak, but look at that. She has given birth to a
:09:41. > :09:44.beauty. Oh, yes! That is absolutely gorgeous. Loads of people were
:09:45. > :09:49.watching it live on our online cameras, and I can't tell you how
:09:50. > :09:55.excited we all work at the production team. A sparrowhawk,
:09:56. > :10:00.hatching! On our last day. Let's go live to the nest now. She is just
:10:01. > :10:05.settling down to incubate. And this is just one of the eggs which has
:10:06. > :10:08.hatched so far. For all we know, another one could hatch during the
:10:09. > :10:14.course of the programme, we know that two more have cracks in them,
:10:15. > :10:22.so we must keep an eye on her. We might see her hatch one live on air.
:10:23. > :10:27.Oh, yes! That is a television first. I don't think we have ever filmed a
:10:28. > :10:34.sparrowhawk hatching. How can we trump that? Last year, on the very
:10:35. > :10:39.last programme of the series, Son of Si's eggs hatched, and before that,
:10:40. > :10:45.it was the Sandpiper on the last day. Really, we couldn't write it.
:10:46. > :10:51.We have been chuffed with that. They have read the script! Obviously as
:10:52. > :10:57.Chris says we will keep an eye on the sparrowhawk throughout the
:10:58. > :11:01.programme, but first let's catch up on the continuing story of our
:11:02. > :11:06.osprey love triangle which is continuing in North Wales. Yesterday
:11:07. > :11:13.we saw how Monty the male osprey had got together with two ladies, he was
:11:14. > :11:20.servicing two. Can I say that? And that was Glesni, his partner from
:11:21. > :11:26.years before, and a young incoming female, Blue 24. What happened next?
:11:27. > :11:38.It is made April in the Welsh valleys. Both Blue 24 and Glesni are
:11:39. > :11:49.incubating a precious clutch of three eggs each. And yet Monty is
:11:50. > :11:54.losing interest in Blue 24. He has stopped giving her fish, and she is
:11:55. > :11:59.hungry. No matter how much she begs, he ignores her cause, and worse, it
:12:00. > :12:06.he takes her food await arrival Glesni, who is sitting pretty on the
:12:07. > :12:12.main nest. Now, Blue 24 faces a gal. If she leaves the nest to fish for
:12:13. > :12:16.herself, then her eggs might get cold, and they will be vulnerable to
:12:17. > :12:22.predators. But she can't stay there and not eat.
:12:23. > :12:29.Monty and Glesni have no such worries. They are sharing the
:12:30. > :12:34.parental duties. Monty even incubate whilst Glesni goes off to hunt. They
:12:35. > :12:39.have done this before in previous years, so they are well practised at
:12:40. > :12:45.parenthood. No matter what the Welsh weather throws at them, they know
:12:46. > :12:49.how to keep the eggs at a constant 36 to Greece to help them survive.
:12:50. > :13:02.-- 36 degrees. But without a mate to support her,
:13:03. > :13:05.Blue 24 must journey out a loan to the nearby river, and whilst making
:13:06. > :13:12.several trips a day to feed herself, the empty nest becomes a very
:13:13. > :13:16.tempting target. And sadly, while she is away, nest monitors
:13:17. > :13:23.photograph crows taking advantage of an easy meal. For Glesni, it is a
:13:24. > :13:31.very different story. On the 24th of May, her first chick hatched.
:13:32. > :13:41.Followed five days later by the second chick.
:13:42. > :13:47.Delicately feeding them, Monty and Glesni will raise these chicks over
:13:48. > :13:51.the coming months, and there is a very good chance they could be the
:13:52. > :14:04.next fledglings of the local offspring population.
:14:05. > :14:13.For Blue 24, her romances over, and her chances of rearing chicks this
:14:14. > :14:15.year have gone. Maybe next year she will find herself a more constant
:14:16. > :14:30.companion. Very sad news for Blue 24, so these
:14:31. > :14:36.are long-lived birds and she will be back next year. Now, hang on a
:14:37. > :14:41.minute, hold the front page. This just in from the osprey project.
:14:42. > :14:45.This has happened, this is on the 10th of June. Let's see how those
:14:46. > :14:53.chicks are doing, look how they have grown. And Monty is feeding Glesni,
:14:54. > :14:56.lovely to see them bonding. Yesterday, see how the chicks have
:14:57. > :15:06.grown, they look reptilian, but they are doing really well. And look at
:15:07. > :15:09.those talons. This is the osprey's prime weapon, designed to catching
:15:10. > :15:17.fish with little barbs that allow them to grab slippery fish. And the
:15:18. > :15:23.pin feathers coming through, they, too, not long. When autumn comes,
:15:24. > :15:26.what happens is that mum and dad will disappear back to Africa, and
:15:27. > :15:30.they will wake up one morning there was little chicks, mum and dad will
:15:31. > :15:35.be gone, and they will spread their own wings and follow to Africa.
:15:36. > :15:40.Amazing stuff. Now, you can go and watch those birds up at the osprey
:15:41. > :15:42.project. They have a viewing platform, and there are lots of
:15:43. > :15:47.other places up and down the country where you can watch them. Rutland
:15:48. > :15:52.Water, a place in the Lake District, loads of them, and there are links
:15:53. > :15:56.to those places on our website. And as a matter of fact, it has been a
:15:57. > :16:01.good year this year for Ospreys, up to 300 pairs breeding, which is
:16:02. > :16:04.fantastic. It is great to get out like this, and watch wildlife, but
:16:05. > :16:10.it is also very good to bring the wildlife to you.
:16:11. > :16:18.Last year, the Avon wildlife trust and an ambitious project to join up
:16:19. > :16:24.some of Bristol's green spaces and create a citywide nature reserve. I
:16:25. > :16:28.was lucky enough to be involved with this great project right at the very
:16:29. > :16:33.beginning and this is where it all started, in the front garden of the
:16:34. > :16:39.BBC. The plan was to convert virtually lifeless lawn into a rich
:16:40. > :16:42.wildlife habitat. A small army of volunteers and schoolchildren
:16:43. > :16:48.planted, built and dug this. Just look at it, what was a sterile strip
:16:49. > :16:52.of grass is now loved, lots of planting to give the place
:16:53. > :16:57.structure, even bird feeders under this glorious field maple. All good
:16:58. > :16:59.stuff. This is my favourite bit, but we built with the children a year
:17:00. > :17:06.and a half ago. Heaving with woodlice. If any of the children
:17:07. > :17:13.that build these are watching, it does work. If you can resist the
:17:14. > :17:18.temptation to mow the lawn, you create a wonderful, moist, cool
:17:19. > :17:22.environment for invertebrates, worms, beetles, you name it. When
:17:23. > :17:29.you've got those it's the perfect place to forage if you are a
:17:30. > :17:33.starling. You might say there is nothing new about creating a
:17:34. > :17:36.wildlife garden outside an office, but bear with me, this really is a
:17:37. > :17:40.conservation project with a difference. The plan is to create
:17:41. > :17:47.wildlife corridors through the city to the surrounding countryside. In
:17:48. > :17:50.nearby Gloucester Road, one of Bristol's busiest high street, the
:17:51. > :17:56.next phase of this radical plan is being put into action. Matt Collis
:17:57. > :18:00.is leading the wildlife trust team. This is great, where does the
:18:01. > :18:03.wildlife trust fit into disgust what we've been doing is lots of
:18:04. > :18:07.demonstration projects to show how you can change any space anywhere in
:18:08. > :18:11.the city to somewhere that has value for wildlife. We approach every
:18:12. > :18:14.single business on this stretch and said what would you like in front of
:18:15. > :18:18.your shop? Would you like it more green and appealing? Couple of
:18:19. > :18:23.plants of wood, you can reclaim them, topsoil which you can look for
:18:24. > :18:27.advertised months for, it's about going to a local plant centre and
:18:28. > :18:32.saying, can we have some plants? Lovely community project. All of the
:18:33. > :18:36.aromatics of these plans, it doesn't smell like a city. That's what we
:18:37. > :18:40.want to do, give it a multiple purpose, it's not just about the
:18:41. > :18:44.visual impact for pollinators, but trying to improve the general feel,
:18:45. > :18:46.we want to know whether it'll increase shopping experience here,
:18:47. > :18:51.will they be more likely to shop here? If we can prove this and
:18:52. > :18:55.people say yes, what a great way to sell it back to businesses to make
:18:56. > :18:58.it spread across the city, even other cities. This green corridor is
:18:59. > :19:03.gradually growing longer on this two mile stretch of road, ideal for
:19:04. > :19:08.pollen and nectar loving insects. I can really see its potential but I
:19:09. > :19:12.wonder how is this going down with the locals? One of the driving
:19:13. > :19:18.forces behind the project shopkeeper Sarah Thorp. Everyone loves it, you
:19:19. > :19:22.get gardeners who say I've got a cutting I can bring. I've got some
:19:23. > :19:26.seeds. Then we get people who have rolled out of the pub on a Saturday
:19:27. > :19:29.night and they love it as well. Loads of great plans, not all of
:19:30. > :19:36.them wildlife plans but they've all got some kind of value. Great for
:19:37. > :19:45.the bees, scabious. Marigold is good for the of flies. I read that bees
:19:46. > :19:52.love dandelions, I've left that down there. Don't tell the council! There
:19:53. > :19:57.is a wild flower down there. This project literally is growing in more
:19:58. > :20:01.ways than one. What I'd like to see is high streets up and down Britain
:20:02. > :20:08.take part and join in. Watch this space, I think. Spread the word!
:20:09. > :20:10.This is a great project in a commercial Street, you might think
:20:11. > :20:15.that's where the money is, backing will come from there, but there is
:20:16. > :20:18.yet another street in Bristol not 1 million miles away that is
:20:19. > :20:24.residential. It might give you some ideas of what you could do where you
:20:25. > :20:31.live. Strict residence the newness family are already seeing benefits.
:20:32. > :20:37.Almost the whole street, not all, I think 30 houses. What have you got
:20:38. > :20:42.in the corner? Behind the wheelie bin, this is brilliant, it's
:20:43. > :20:46.somebody said, if you lived here, but a pond in, you would say, you
:20:47. > :20:52.are having a laugh, but look! It's a little pond. It looks lovely. It's
:20:53. > :20:58.already established, looks natural, this will be flowering. Beautiful,
:20:59. > :21:02.it really does inspire. Another really nice thing is I can see
:21:03. > :21:10.people smiling when they walk, it's nice. It's beautiful and it's
:21:11. > :21:13.clearly working. This Street is perhaps most important part of the
:21:14. > :21:20.citywide scheme, it's proof all of can make a difference. I've seen the
:21:21. > :21:25.BBC turn into a veritable wildlife jungle, shopping high-street as a
:21:26. > :21:29.meadow and a pond where they used to stand nothing but a wheelie bin.
:21:30. > :21:33.This is brilliant for us, Soul food, great way to bring together the
:21:34. > :21:35.community and let's not forget the benefits it brings to the wildlife.
:21:36. > :21:42.Why don't you do something great? The little dandelions growing, I
:21:43. > :21:49.know it's one dandelions but it might be enough nectar to keep a bee
:21:50. > :21:53.going for ten minutes. That pond, you are thinking, it's a bucket, but
:21:54. > :21:56.a bucket can make a difference. Testament to the project but on by
:21:57. > :22:01.the Avon wildlife trust can be displayed on this map, each one of
:22:02. > :22:05.these is someone who has engaged with this project. It's a map of
:22:06. > :22:10.restore. You can barely see the city. It's brilliant, there's one
:22:11. > :22:14.ridiculous area, Bedminster, the wildlife trust are working with. I
:22:15. > :22:19.just spoke to my mate and those who lives in Bedminster, they are all
:22:20. > :22:23.doing it, he says the great things about the houses there, they are
:22:24. > :22:31.Victorian, they leak, bats can go in and roost. It's a great project, get
:22:32. > :22:41.involved. Excellent. Can we go live to Marsh Harrier? There it is, the
:22:42. > :22:49.Marsh Harrier. In front of the bush. Will they hunt off a bush, Chris?
:22:50. > :22:52.Sometimes, but more often you see them quartering backwards and
:22:53. > :22:59.forwards, listening, they have big ears. Just like ours. This is what
:23:00. > :23:05.we got just a few moments ago. It's doing just what you said,
:23:06. > :23:10.quartering. Two! Two together. This is it, they drift backwards and
:23:11. > :23:13.forwards close to the reeds. They'll take anything from there,
:23:14. > :23:21.amphibians, young birds. It of conflict, too. That's interesting.
:23:22. > :23:26.Good stuff. Very good, bit of conflict. Bit of territorial
:23:27. > :23:31.dispute, they are territorial this time of year. Act to the urban
:23:32. > :23:35.birds. One of the species we find in our city is the pied wagtail, we've
:23:36. > :23:41.been following a nest here. We can go live to it now. It's just over
:23:42. > :23:49.here, quite close to us, in the barn. It's up there, see it? I can
:23:50. > :23:57.just see it. The adults have been bringing in masses of food. Little
:23:58. > :24:01.chicks in there at the moment. We've seen the adults flying around here
:24:02. > :24:07.bringing food. That see what they've been getting up to the last 24-hour
:24:08. > :24:10.is. Not 24, earlier than that. They've got five eggs originally.
:24:11. > :24:16.It's difficult to see the difference between male and female that they
:24:17. > :24:22.have been very solicitors, looking after the eggs. They are hatching
:24:23. > :24:24.out, you can see. Take Michelle away. Here are the chicks. I can't
:24:25. > :24:33.see how many. Five? You will often see... The wagtails
:24:34. > :24:39.picking up insects from the ground and around the nest, once again,
:24:40. > :24:46.insects, critically important. Then flipping back up. Up into the nest.
:24:47. > :24:53.They are doing very well, hopefully they will hatch out. Fantastic. Like
:24:54. > :24:57.our sparrowhawks, let's go live to see what she's doing. In debating
:24:58. > :25:01.again now, one of the eggs has hatched, two of the others have
:25:02. > :25:05.cracks in them, they are in the process. The reason they don't hatch
:25:06. > :25:12.at the same time is they want the young to be different sizes. So if
:25:13. > :25:16.food supplies run short, the weakest one will die first and quickly. If
:25:17. > :25:20.they hatched at the same time and she was feeding them equally, it
:25:21. > :25:24.would take longer for the weakest one to die, therefore she would be
:25:25. > :25:29.wasting food on it. The whole asynchronous hatching is a strategy
:25:30. > :25:34.to get the strongest chicks out of the nest. It sounds harsh but it's a
:25:35. > :25:37.clever strategy to maximise the number of tricks that will get
:25:38. > :25:42.through. The first one out is the luckiest. Probably the luckiest one.
:25:43. > :25:46.The female sparrowhawk has done something great, following our
:25:47. > :25:48.campaign you have been inspired and across the country a lot of you have
:25:49. > :25:58.been doing something great, too. It all started at Easter on a beach
:25:59. > :26:06.in Wales. Since then, Martin has been mucking in. I'm going to join
:26:07. > :26:13.in the RSPB survey, I'm not alone, thereof other volunteers all around
:26:14. > :26:18.the reed beds. While Nick Baker has gone further afield, discovering
:26:19. > :26:23.exciting projects, inspiring people and meeting magical wildlife. Up and
:26:24. > :26:30.down the country, people are getting stuck in. In nature reserves, the
:26:31. > :26:36.community, and closer to home. It's great for nature and it's great for
:26:37. > :26:42.you. Find out what's going on in your neck of the woods and get
:26:43. > :26:47.involved. Their projects just like this happening all the UK and if you
:26:48. > :26:52.want to get involved you can. If you are enthusiastic, love your
:26:53. > :26:54.wildlife, why don't you look at it, go out, find a project like these
:26:55. > :27:02.and do something. It's fantastic to see so many of you
:27:03. > :27:08.get involved and you can still get involved because "Do something
:27:09. > :27:11.great" doesn't watch for the three weeks of spring, it lasts for ever,
:27:12. > :27:16.you can do something great whenever you like. I've come down to the
:27:17. > :27:20.beach where Martin was last week. He introduced us to a little bird that
:27:21. > :27:27.nests on the shingle here, the ringed plover. It's a sweet little
:27:28. > :27:32.bird, so well camouflaged, it builds this very un-assuming nest like a
:27:33. > :27:36.little shallow scrape. Their response of its chicks, just
:27:37. > :27:40.hatched, popping out. This is what we saw last week. They are
:27:41. > :27:47.promotional, when they hatched a run-off. We saw two of them, white
:27:48. > :27:52.wind-up clockwork toys. They are off lowering of their surroundings
:27:53. > :27:58.straightaway using that stubby bill to pick what ever they can see. It's
:27:59. > :28:04.great to see them. They are extremely vulnerable on that little
:28:05. > :28:09.beach. So did they survive? Let's have a look. Because this morning
:28:10. > :28:15.one of our cameramen came down and he spotted the chick. We know this
:28:16. > :28:20.is our chick because there were only two pairs of ringed plovers on the
:28:21. > :28:26.beach and only one of them had chicks. This is the only surviving
:28:27. > :28:31.chick, we presume the other one got predated by goals. It's about two
:28:32. > :28:35.weeks old, you can see it has grown, it'll stick around with the parents
:28:36. > :28:38.another couple of weeks, then it will fledge, typically leave the
:28:39. > :28:43.parents and move towards the estuary over the winter, away from the
:28:44. > :28:48.reserve. That is good news story because are extremely vulnerable on
:28:49. > :28:52.this beach. It was fabulous to see it this morning. I thought it would
:28:53. > :28:56.be great if I got my binoculars out to see if I could see one on the
:28:57. > :29:00.beach. They are extremely difficult to see because they are small and
:29:01. > :29:05.very well camouflaged, might need an extra pair of eyes. Oh my goodness,
:29:06. > :29:11.somebody is here, look who it is! It's Iolo. The birds aren't all
:29:12. > :29:15.around your feet like on the farm. I can't find a ringed plover anywhere,
:29:16. > :29:22.they were everywhere on the farms, where are they around here? First of
:29:23. > :29:27.all, what about that Arctic Turner? The record-breaking Arctic turn?
:29:28. > :29:37.What a beauty she was, 96 thousand kilometres. -- Arctic tern. Amazing,
:29:38. > :29:41.amazing bird. She is still in debating two eggs, still sitting
:29:42. > :29:47.tightly on those eggs. About half of the Arctic terns have hatched. We're
:29:48. > :29:53.expecting her to hatch lovably any time over the next two or three
:29:54. > :29:55.days. -- incubating. After going so far we hope the weather holds for
:29:56. > :30:05.her and she can read some young. She really is a record-breaking
:30:06. > :30:11.bird, isn't she? There might be birds that have flown further, but
:30:12. > :30:15.they haven't been recorded. 96,000 kilometres, and she weighs just over
:30:16. > :30:20.100 grams. A lot of people were talking about your hat. I mean, look
:30:21. > :30:31.at that, that is a work of art, how many birds have pooed on that? Look
:30:32. > :30:36.at that, that is arctic tern, gulls... But there is a reason you
:30:37. > :30:43.have to wear those hats? On the boardwalks on the fun islands, you
:30:44. > :30:47.have nest everywhere, and I am being mobbed constantly. These birds are
:30:48. > :30:53.defending their nests, and they are ferocious in the way they defend the
:30:54. > :30:57.nests. I had one perch on my head and peck away like a woodpecker, and
:30:58. > :31:04.it does hurt. I had a full head of hair when I went up there, but look
:31:05. > :31:08.at me now! That is arctic tern is. But they are fantastic birds. I
:31:09. > :31:12.remember going to the Farne Islands, and if you haven't got a hat on, you
:31:13. > :31:17.have to do this, because they are vicious. A hat is essential. Not
:31:18. > :31:24.only do they attack, but they are fierce. Listen, Iolo, we have had
:31:25. > :31:29.the sparrowhawk that today, so can you give us good news about the
:31:30. > :31:33.puffins? One of the rangers was walking past on Tuesday, he saw an
:31:34. > :31:40.adult bringing in fish, so we went in and had looked, and this what we
:31:41. > :31:48.saw. The eggs has hatched. This is a log pile pair, not in a burrow, but
:31:49. > :32:00.look at that. It is fabulous news, and I now have an excuse to say the
:32:01. > :32:05.word puffling, and they are bringing back sand eels to feed the
:32:06. > :32:11.youngster. It will be in their four at another 35-40 days. And they look
:32:12. > :32:26.nothing like the adult, just a black bundle of further -- feathers. You
:32:27. > :32:30.can see the eggs tooth there, this one is starting to hatch, and the
:32:31. > :32:34.adult is getting agitated moving it around, and by 11pm it had hatched
:32:35. > :32:38.out, and there is now a fluffy little puffling in there as well.
:32:39. > :32:43.Even though the weather is not great, I am told there is plenty of
:32:44. > :32:50.fish, so those puffling Blue will hopefully survive. In the very last
:32:51. > :32:55.week, they will hopefully survive. Our star birds have waited until the
:32:56. > :33:02.last couple of days to hat. We have new news left! -- no nails left. But
:33:03. > :33:07.we have thoroughly enjoyed it. We are supposed to be looking for this
:33:08. > :33:10.wind plover chip, but to be honest, Iolo, I don't think we have a
:33:11. > :33:17.chance, so do you fancy a swim? I will race you!
:33:18. > :33:26.Matt Taylor and Iolo go skinny dipping. -- Michaela and Iolo.
:33:27. > :33:36.We were watching the blue tit earlier in the season, and we rather
:33:37. > :33:41.neglect to the great tip. We have seen this nest fledge in the last
:33:42. > :33:46.couple of days, only two on hat eggs, but they have been fledging,
:33:47. > :33:50.and here we have the adult bird going in and teasing them out, she
:33:51. > :33:56.leaves, and pretty soon afterwards, one of them thinks, time to get out
:33:57. > :33:59.into the big wide world. Squeezes out through the hole and
:34:00. > :34:07.successfully makes it to the tree. Pretty soon after that, this one
:34:08. > :34:10.jumps up... He makes it to the branch, which is perfect. Doesn't
:34:11. > :34:17.really want to be on the ground at this stage. And that just leaves
:34:18. > :34:20.this one here. A little bit later, this one, and it has missed the
:34:21. > :34:25.branch and gone down onto the ground.
:34:26. > :34:31.The adults will be feeding all of these birds. Ideally they want them
:34:32. > :34:37.up in the trees like this, they are safer up there. And so the answer,
:34:38. > :34:42.if you can't fly up, is to scramble up, and that is what we saw
:34:43. > :34:47.happening. I am pleased to say, last time we saw these birds, they were
:34:48. > :34:49.also being fed by their parents. So a successful fledging, and the
:34:50. > :34:53.adults have done a great job of feeding them. We have been thinking
:34:54. > :34:56.a lot about the adults providing food for their young here, all of
:34:57. > :34:59.the species we have been looking at have been doing that, so now I will
:35:00. > :35:05.present you with something very special. Beneath this cloth is the
:35:06. > :35:13.mother of all bar charts. Just brace yourself for this.
:35:14. > :35:22.This is our super parent bar chart. I tell you what we have done. We
:35:23. > :35:26.calculated on the very best day of their foraging, the day when they
:35:27. > :35:31.got more food than on any other occasion the weight of the food that
:35:32. > :35:37.each parent brought in, and to make it fair, we divided it by the weight
:35:38. > :35:40.of that parent, so this is a way, if you like, of generating the relative
:35:41. > :35:43.weight of food provided to the young. And we can therefore see
:35:44. > :35:51.which of these parents is doing best of all. Let's look at the great tits
:35:52. > :36:01.to start with. Here they score a four. What about the little owls?
:36:02. > :36:05.There is no doubt whatsoever that our little owls have been doing a
:36:06. > :36:10.fantastic job of supplying food to the youngsters. Here is one of the
:36:11. > :36:14.youngsters, there were three in there, and they are all prospering.
:36:15. > :36:22.We have seen all sorts of things are brought in, insects like this cock
:36:23. > :36:25.chafer, and also plenty of small mammals, that looks like a roll. So
:36:26. > :36:31.our little owls have been tremendously busy, and on one night
:36:32. > :36:33.they brought in 160 separate feeds, see you think they would score
:36:34. > :36:41.highly when it comes to being a super parent. Quite low, lower than
:36:42. > :36:46.the great tits, so why is that? This is possibly and embarrassingly a
:36:47. > :36:51.statistical anomaly, due to the fact that many of the things they bring
:36:52. > :36:56.in our low in weight, so they are going fine numbers not bulk. Let's
:36:57. > :36:59.move onto sparrowhawks, and in this case, we are interested in the
:37:00. > :37:04.activities of the male bird, not the female. The female has been
:37:05. > :37:11.incubating the eggs, but he has been enormously busy, here with a great
:37:12. > :37:15.tits. Typically the male will bring in five items a day. On his best
:37:16. > :37:20.days, and there were several of them, he was bringing in ten, so
:37:21. > :37:25.surely the sparrowhawk will score more highly than both of them. When
:37:26. > :37:31.you divide the weight down, he is still not doing as well as the great
:37:32. > :37:40.tit, which moves us neatly on here. We go on to the blue tit. And this
:37:41. > :37:45.is the single parent raising this brood of great tit young, and she
:37:46. > :37:48.was in and out of bringing in huge numbers of caterpillars. We
:37:49. > :37:52.regularly counted her visiting that nest box more often than both of the
:37:53. > :37:58.great tit parents put together, just a single mother, so let's see how
:37:59. > :38:08.she scores. She actually just be the two birds here in the great tit, so
:38:09. > :38:22.one bird here, is doing a remarkable job. Let's move on to the stoat,
:38:23. > :38:26.because our stoat mother has been remarkable. She has found
:38:27. > :38:27.woodpeckers, rabbits, and dragged them enormous distances all the way
:38:28. > :38:38.back to her kits. Let's remove the Gold card here to
:38:39. > :38:45.reveal the fact that our super mother 2016 is undoubtedly our
:38:46. > :38:49.female stoat. She is scoring more highly in terms of the food that she
:38:50. > :38:50.is bringing in relative to her body weight than all of the others. She
:38:51. > :39:19.is undoubtedly an action hero. Meet our stoat mum. Just 30
:39:20. > :39:28.centimetres long, and with eight hungry mouths to feed, her challenge
:39:29. > :39:33.seemed impossible. We found her on the grassland with its abundance of
:39:34. > :39:42.prey, albeit of the agile, jumpy kind.
:39:43. > :39:48.But our pocket rocket made swift work of bringing home the bunnies.
:39:49. > :39:56.When the tables were turned, what this supermum did net was stoatally
:39:57. > :40:04.amazing. She gathered up our family and headed for the woods. You see,
:40:05. > :40:10.she was ready to raise her game. First she tried to break into the
:40:11. > :40:17.blue tit box. Next she set her sights even higher. The result was
:40:18. > :40:29.stoatal wipe-out. Then, with her family increasingly
:40:30. > :40:36.mobile and exposed to danger, she brought them right to our doorstep.
:40:37. > :40:42.Perhaps being the people would keep them out of trouble.
:40:43. > :40:47.After three weeks of mayhem, all eight of her kit are on the verge of
:40:48. > :40:57.adulthood, and our supermum looks none the worse for wear. It has been
:40:58. > :41:08.quite a journey. You could say it has been stoats emosh, if you were a
:41:09. > :41:14.teenager or something. Super stoked. When I have seen one in the past is,
:41:15. > :41:17.a stoat, you get a glimpse, it is nothing like that. We have been so
:41:18. > :41:22.fortunate to be able to what these animals. We last saw her down by the
:41:23. > :41:26.visitor centre a couple of days ago, and we will wondering what has
:41:27. > :41:30.happened to her kits. She was moving again, she has moved them throughout
:41:31. > :41:35.the course of the series, and I am pleased to we have found them. They
:41:36. > :41:38.are in an old rabbit burrow on the edge of the woods down there, and
:41:39. > :41:45.here they are peeping out. Just look at this. This is an extraordinarily
:41:46. > :41:49.intimate view into the life of an animal which as you say is so
:41:50. > :41:56.difficult to watch. They are just pure naughtiness in animal form.
:41:57. > :42:01.Very, very naughty animals. At the moment, some of you might be tempted
:42:02. > :42:07.to think that they are playing. They are playing, Mate. They are not.
:42:08. > :42:09.They are practising. They are establishing a dominance hierarchy,
:42:10. > :42:14.because there will be males and females there, the males will grow
:42:15. > :42:17.larger. At the moment they look the same size, but all of this chasing
:42:18. > :42:25.and nipping and rough-and-tumble, look at that! Eight of them
:42:26. > :42:30.altogether! That is just glorious, honestly. If you put your hand in
:42:31. > :42:35.there, it would just be a stump by the time you took it back out. And
:42:36. > :42:40.she is doing a meerkat, constantly on the alert. Although we have been
:42:41. > :42:45.talking a lot about these animals as being predators, they are also pray,
:42:46. > :42:50.of course. Foxes would have them, buzzards would have them. She is
:42:51. > :42:55.doing a great job. All eight of them are here, those two that got lost
:42:56. > :42:59.obviously met up with the others, so they are altogether down in that
:43:00. > :43:03.row. So they are learning how to hunt, because they will be hunting
:43:04. > :43:07.pretty soon. There are eight or nine weeks old at the moment, and by the
:43:08. > :43:11.time they are ten weeks, they might be making clumsy kills. But by the
:43:12. > :43:15.time they are 11 weeks old, they were making their own kills, just
:43:16. > :43:22.another couple of weeks and they will be actively hunting. I wouldn't
:43:23. > :43:27.want to be a vole round here, or a shrew. They won't stay together,
:43:28. > :43:32.they will disperse all over Minsmere. The males will move out,
:43:33. > :43:38.but the females will stay in the Natal area. On average they live
:43:39. > :43:41.about a year and a half. Only that? They have to live long enough to
:43:42. > :43:46.breed successfully at least once, and that is long enough for them to
:43:47. > :43:48.do it. What an extraordinary privilege it has been to look at
:43:49. > :43:53.these animals, a testament to the hard work our cameramen have put in,
:43:54. > :43:58.not only in terms of filming but the natural history skills. A couple of
:43:59. > :44:04.nights ago, I was introducing you to a Nightingale nest. We managed to
:44:05. > :44:09.get a camera on it. Let's go to that nest live now. Oh, dear, there is
:44:10. > :44:15.nothing in it. You might think they have probably fledged. They didn't.
:44:16. > :44:21.Something happened a matter of hours ago, high drama. Here is the nest
:44:22. > :44:25.with the Chicksen, and listen to that calling, that is an adult
:44:26. > :44:30.coming in with some food, but it notices something and gets very
:44:31. > :44:37.agitated. Look at that! It is an adder. Both parents now, what can
:44:38. > :44:43.they do? This is a venomous snake coming in to have a go at the chick.
:44:44. > :44:49.Can they fend it off somehow? Let's have another look at that. The
:44:50. > :44:55.parent comes in the first and wax that at the head. What a brave
:44:56. > :44:59.animal that is. The chicks have all flown out of the nest, well they
:45:00. > :45:04.have leapt out to get away from the adder. It isn't going to give up,
:45:05. > :45:10.and it has another go. Still attacking. I think it is female, and
:45:11. > :45:14.she needs to feed, but the parents backing, wondering where the chicks
:45:15. > :45:19.are, and the adder is still there, and of course the adder can sniff
:45:20. > :45:22.around, use its tongue as it goes along sniffing the air to try to
:45:23. > :45:25.find out where those chicks might be. It tastes the air literally with
:45:26. > :45:34.its tongue. Well, they've gone, all the chicks,
:45:35. > :45:40.it was a bit early for them to go, they weren't quite ready to fledge.
:45:41. > :45:45.What on earth is going to happen? Until we have cameras on the nest I
:45:46. > :45:49.don't think we realised how arboreal the adders were here, they went up
:45:50. > :45:53.quite high in trees. We've seen ad adders going into all sorts of nest.
:45:54. > :45:57.If you look at textbooks they say occasionally take round nesting
:45:58. > :46:03.birds but these things have been right up in the brambles. -- round
:46:04. > :46:07.nesting. An update, we heard the nightingales singing. Not singing,
:46:08. > :46:11.Corning, we heard the chicks calling. It's very likely inside the
:46:12. > :46:16.dense bush the adults are still managing to feed those chicks. It's
:46:17. > :46:21.part of the strategy, although they are not ready to fledge fully, they
:46:22. > :46:24.will scatter if a predator terms. They've got to find them
:46:25. > :46:34.individually now, the bug, but they will do that. -- they've got to find
:46:35. > :46:39.them individually now, the adder. What is next? Bees. We've been
:46:40. > :46:44.following a high-tech project in Bristol, the Bristol bee project.
:46:45. > :46:49.The idea of this is to compare country bees and town bees to see
:46:50. > :46:54.what differences there are. We've reported on some of the differences
:46:55. > :46:57.so far. Town bees seem to have to stay out of the hive longer to find
:46:58. > :47:03.food. Here's the fascinating question now, can bees perhaps
:47:04. > :47:10.predict the weather? Predict the weather? It would make sense, if you
:47:11. > :47:13.are a yolks you don't want to be battered out of the sky by a
:47:14. > :47:17.thunderstorm, can't forage, why not go back to the hive? They might be
:47:18. > :47:22.able to predict the weather, they might do it in a way that might
:47:23. > :47:24.surprise you, Martin. In a way we've seen you demonstrating yourself in
:47:25. > :47:27.the last couple of weeks. What can he mean?
:47:28. > :47:43.Oh, my hair? You've been putting on quite a show. It has, hasn't it? Oh
:47:44. > :47:51.dear... Oh dear! Oh very dear. What did you call my hair? Your erectile
:47:52. > :48:01.knob to plumage. Enough of that. -- your erectile nuptial plumage.
:48:02. > :48:12.Basically, the electrostatic charge... In the balloon. That's it
:48:13. > :48:16.now. You have a sparse Mohican, grandad Mohican. The electrostatic
:48:17. > :48:22.charge in the balloon is lifting your hair, bees are completely
:48:23. > :48:28.covered with tiny little hairs. Here they are coming you can see them.
:48:29. > :48:31.What we now think is, we know actually, bees approach flowers and
:48:32. > :48:35.are able to detect whether the flower has an offering of nectar,
:48:36. > :48:40.because of the charge the flower is giving off and they are using their
:48:41. > :48:44.hairs for that. There is evidence to suggest they are equally using these
:48:45. > :48:49.tiny little hairs to detect changes of the electricity in the air
:48:50. > :48:53.related to weather. You might think it sounds far-fetched but have a
:48:54. > :49:00.look at this graph, this was from yesterday would you believe? This is
:49:01. > :49:04.bee activity, the dark blue. You can see there is a peak in bees going
:49:05. > :49:11.back to the hive at 12 o'clock. The light blue one is rainfall building
:49:12. > :49:16.to a massive thunderstorm. Look, the bees went back to the hive about two
:49:17. > :49:22.hours before it started. I think it's pretty conclusive. They sense
:49:23. > :49:26.the weather is going to change and the vast majority of the bees, when
:49:27. > :49:34.the thunderstorm hits, they are back in the hive. If you don't have that
:49:35. > :49:38.much faith in the bees as predictors of whether or sensitive hair, I can
:49:39. > :49:43.tell you someone we can have faith in. Nick Miller in the weather
:49:44. > :49:47.centre. With those intense downpours we've been seeing, those bees won't
:49:48. > :49:50.know whether they are coming or going, in, out, perhaps more out
:49:51. > :49:53.than in this weekend because they land us will take advantage of quiet
:49:54. > :49:58.weather with fewer showers as high pressure builds for time. Not long,
:49:59. > :50:04.next week more Atlantic weather systems coming our way, more rain
:50:05. > :50:10.for the osprey chicks, Coughlin is on the Farne Islands. -- baby
:50:11. > :50:13.puffins on the fun islands. Southerly wind rather than easterly.
:50:14. > :50:19.Easterly is to blame for a huge influx of these, you saw them on
:50:20. > :50:22.Springwatch, now they are making news headlines, the diamondback moth
:50:23. > :50:27.coming in tens of millions, not seen in numbers like this since 1996.
:50:28. > :50:34.They and us will be wondering what is lying ahead for the summer
:50:35. > :50:37.weather. We'll be looking over the next few weeks, looks like dry warm
:50:38. > :50:42.weather rat times but also wetter weather occasionally. Shaping up to
:50:43. > :50:47.be typical British summer weather, we'll have to see how it plays out.
:50:48. > :50:51.Whatever the weather, no excuse not to go out and do something great,
:50:52. > :50:56.sparrowhawks bringing new life into the countryside. How we've enjoyed
:50:57. > :51:00.watching on those cameras. We can go out, explore, support what is going
:51:01. > :51:04.on around us, like the reed warblers, we can fledge and do
:51:05. > :51:09.something great. In the fabulous summer months ahead.
:51:10. > :51:18.Wasn't it great to see our little moths have hit the headlines.
:51:19. > :51:23.Amazing. Yes! Nice to see you. I'm going to ask you teach your
:51:24. > :51:29.favourite moment through the series. It's got to be golden eagle, going
:51:30. > :51:33.up to Scotland in 1972 as a young lad I went looking for golden eagle,
:51:34. > :51:38.didn't see one, when I saw one a few years later it was a spec. Look at
:51:39. > :51:42.that, iconic species, the bird everyone wants to see. What I like
:51:43. > :51:48.about when we do this, we learn new things, you would have known the
:51:49. > :52:00.golden eagle would feast on small birds? New science. See Lamb prize.
:52:01. > :52:03.-- sea Lahm praise. I had no idea they could move stones around with
:52:04. > :52:12.their mouth to build that nest. Look at that. The oral dexterity. They
:52:13. > :52:18.drag them back. -- lampreys. Henry the first died of a surfeit of
:52:19. > :52:22.lampreys. Bit of history, too. Is position and said don't eat any
:52:23. > :52:25.lampreys, he ate them and he died. I thought they got stuck to him or
:52:26. > :52:31.something. Should have been vegetarian. Your favourite,
:52:32. > :52:35.Michaela? You know I love a good story, you couldn't have written
:52:36. > :52:40.this story, like a great soap opera on Christmas Day. It was the bluetit
:52:41. > :52:44.story. We had a single hard-working mother, working so hard she looked
:52:45. > :52:50.ragged. She was bringing up her chicks. Then we found out they were
:52:51. > :52:57.adopted, not even blue tits, they were great tits. Then drama started,
:52:58. > :53:03.there was a near break-in by a stoped. They were just about saved,
:53:04. > :53:10.then started to fledge. -- by a stoat. Three of them were taken.
:53:11. > :53:15.Would the remaining ones survive? Yes, it was a happy ending. It
:53:16. > :53:20.fledged. Honestly, you couldn't write it. I love that story.
:53:21. > :53:26.LAUGHTER Calm down! Can we see it on stage?
:53:27. > :53:33.I've written it, it's called the sound of bluetit. Any guess,
:53:34. > :53:36.sparrowhawks. The sparrowhawks, not the peeping eggs but something even
:53:37. > :53:42.more poignant today, we saw the first feed. This could be the first
:53:43. > :53:47.feed for the adult, it obviously is for the chick, she has brought in a
:53:48. > :53:53.young bluetit. Emphasising the circle of life we've been watching
:53:54. > :53:57.here. Look at this. She's breaking it up into tiny little pieces. So
:53:58. > :54:03.delicately putting it into that chick's mouth. Having trouble with a
:54:04. > :54:09.feather. Look at this, instinctively, the adult picks up
:54:10. > :54:14.the feather and eats it. Goes back to the bluetit, tears off a little
:54:15. > :54:18.bit more. Perhaps this is inexperienced in this adult, she has
:54:19. > :54:22.given it a mouthful of feathers, the chick doesn't want it, so she eats
:54:23. > :54:29.them herself and goes back to feeding its neat little slivers of
:54:30. > :54:38.meat. What a fantastic thing that is, absolutely amazing. That has
:54:39. > :54:42.been superb to see. Let's go live. Live sparrowhawk, there she is. I
:54:43. > :54:50.wonder if any more of those eggs have hatched. She's been fidgeting.
:54:51. > :54:53.Keen to keep incubating. How long does it normally takes, Chris,
:54:54. > :54:59.between the first and second hatching? It'll be a few days. As
:55:00. > :55:02.long as that? She's fidgeting a lot, this is what she was doing this
:55:03. > :55:06.morning before the first one hatched. Shall we look at the Little
:55:07. > :55:13.owls to say goodbye. They've been fantastic. They are branching out,
:55:14. > :55:18.semi-fledging, they've come on the branch to wave goodbye to us. That's
:55:19. > :55:25.all we've got time for for this series. Join me tomorrow night on
:55:26. > :55:29.BBC Two at 6:30pm for unsprung. George McGavin will be my guest.
:55:30. > :55:33.Time for a quick round of thanks to all of the RSPB staff here who have
:55:34. > :55:36.been tremendously helpful and hospitable. Too many other
:55:37. > :55:41.organisations and individuals across the country, the British trust for
:55:42. > :55:45.ornithology, wildlife trust and Woodland Trust. From all of us, a
:55:46. > :55:50.big thank you. The people of Seahouses, such a welcome. The cake
:55:51. > :55:53.ladies to the boatmen, William and his crew, who were fabulous. To
:55:54. > :56:02.natural England and all those wonderful rangers. Thank you very
:56:03. > :56:06.much. And anyone else who knows him! Thank you in particular to you, the
:56:07. > :56:09.viewers, for being with us through this, in particular anyone who has
:56:10. > :56:16.done something special for nature. Did I say that right? Do something
:56:17. > :56:21.great for nature. Even got that wrong. Nature needs our help. We're
:56:22. > :56:24.online, on Twitter and Facebook through the year. You can catch up
:56:25. > :56:31.on any of your favourite bits from these three weeks, there will be
:56:32. > :56:35.updates, photos, blogs, and news of our chicks, sparrowhawk chicks, and
:56:36. > :56:39.gorgeous golden eagle chick in Scotland. What I think that is.
:56:40. > :56:43.There is a very good chance David Anderson will be helping put a
:56:44. > :56:48.satellite tag onto that eagle, meaning we'll be able to follow it
:56:49. > :56:51.when it leaves the nest, takes to the air and sores around the Glens
:56:52. > :56:56.in Scotland. What a fantastic thought. We'll hopefully catch up
:56:57. > :57:01.with it in autumn watch but fought a night we'll leave you with
:57:02. > :57:03.highlights. The very special highlights of Springwatch 2016.
:57:04. > :57:16.Goodbye! Why are we back at winds because
:57:17. > :57:20.it's a top spot. We turn up at these places, sneak about, find nests,
:57:21. > :57:25.stick in tiny cameras then stick our noses into the private business of
:57:26. > :57:29.the wildlife here. It's a Springwatch fest, Chris!
:57:30. > :57:34.I like the hairdo, it reminds me of... What do you reckon? I think
:57:35. > :57:48.we're in for a treat. Then he ride a horse? He can ride a
:57:49. > :58:13.motorbike. -- can he ride a horse. We promised you drama and we've got
:58:14. > :58:18.some. I've reinforced my trousers with Kevlar because I'm stroking
:58:19. > :58:22.them so furiously into light at this ornithological miracle. What a bird!
:58:23. > :58:26.-- furiously in delight.