Episode 5

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:00:09. > :00:14.As the sun sets over Suffolk, in a corner of a secret woodland, a

:00:15. > :00:22.female sparrowhawk patiently incubates her eggs. Live. Absolutely

:00:23. > :00:27.stunning. And so is the weather, because the sun here has finally got

:00:28. > :00:31.its hat on. We are certainly shouting hip hip hip hooray, and so

:00:32. > :00:36.is a lot of wildlife. In fact, some of it is literally jumping for joy.

:00:37. > :00:43.But it is not all fun and games. Tonight we have also got action from

:00:44. > :00:45.creatures great small. It is sizzling, it is spectacular, it is

:00:46. > :01:11.Springwatch! Yes, hello and welcome to

:01:12. > :01:15.Springwatch 2016. It is our second week here at the RSPB Minsmere

:01:16. > :01:20.reserve on the Suffolk coast. I have got to set the moment it feels much

:01:21. > :01:23.nicer than our first week, because, I'm not embarrassed to say, that on

:01:24. > :01:28.Thursday evening, despite the fact that it was June, I had my thermal

:01:29. > :01:32.underwear and a puffer jacket on. It was freezing, wasn't it? People were

:01:33. > :01:37.tweeting why are you wearing so many clothes? With the wind chill it was

:01:38. > :01:39.down to about five. Things have improved, and for the animals too

:01:40. > :01:44.because they have been enjoying the sunshine as much as us. Some

:01:45. > :01:48.beautiful sunrise is a port all of the rabbits out, even doing a bit of

:01:49. > :01:51.basking. That lovely warm, sandy soil. Lots of insects have emerged

:01:52. > :01:56.and as a consequence one of the things that feast on those insects

:01:57. > :02:01.have been extra busy, catching them and feeding them today young. I am

:02:02. > :02:04.very pleased it has got a bit warmer because quite frankly I was running

:02:05. > :02:08.out of clothes. Anyway we are going to show you wildlife from all over

:02:09. > :02:14.the UK. We have got a feast of wildlife you but we stop right here

:02:15. > :02:19.in Minsmere. Last week we were following the fight for survival

:02:20. > :02:22.between rabbits and their presences, stoats. There was one stoat we got

:02:23. > :02:28.to know quite well, -- their predators. It was a mother with

:02:29. > :02:34.kits. We thought she had four, we have since found out she has eight.

:02:35. > :02:39.She did a lot of this, moving her kits around. Eventually they moved

:02:40. > :02:43.them from this grassland area into the woodland. We actually thought

:02:44. > :02:49.that would probably be the last we saw of her and her family. But

:02:50. > :02:56.something rather dramatic happened on Friday in a rather unexpected

:02:57. > :02:59.place. And it was this. We saw this rabbit, we thought it might have had

:03:00. > :03:03.myxomatosis because it is behaving a bit strangely. And then, look what

:03:04. > :03:10.happened, the stoat comes into stub it is a bit gruesome this, it is

:03:11. > :03:13.over very quickly. This all happened in our production village. Lots of

:03:14. > :03:21.people around, we were all watching it. You can see the size difference

:03:22. > :03:26.is incredible. That stoat probably weighs about 200 grams. The rabbit

:03:27. > :03:34.about 1000, so it is five times its weight. And you can see it as having

:03:35. > :03:38.difficulty taking that rabbit. Remember, the stoat has eight kits

:03:39. > :03:44.that it needs to feed, and to do that it would need to provision

:03:45. > :03:47.itself and its family with two and a half times its own body weight, so

:03:48. > :03:53.that would probably last quite a long time. That is a monstrous

:03:54. > :03:58.amount of food to have caught. It is bound to try and hang onto it and

:03:59. > :04:05.get it to those kits. Butler but it is doing. It is dragging it over

:04:06. > :04:09.branches, over brambles. I mean, it has the most amazing strength to be

:04:10. > :04:13.up to do that. Then another rabbit comes in and chases it. Obviously we

:04:14. > :04:18.have no idea whether that rabbit is related to the dead one, but the

:04:19. > :04:25.stoat certainly is not going to give up its prey. It goes back and

:04:26. > :04:28.transit and starts -- and finds it and starts trading it across the

:04:29. > :04:32.grassland to where it's kits are. It really was an astonishing thing to

:04:33. > :04:35.see. The cameraman started filming it on their mobile phones actually,

:04:36. > :04:42.eventually got the proper cameras out and they followed it to 200

:04:43. > :04:46.metres, it drank to that rabbit. Absolutely incredible. And we did

:04:47. > :04:51.some calculations. We decided that would be the equivalent of me

:04:52. > :04:59.dragging a red deer stag in my teeth for one kilometre. I have seen you

:05:00. > :05:03.do it. It wasn't a pretty sight. It was remarkable, a record-breaking

:05:04. > :05:07.attempt. Just because we're not broadcasting, doesn't mean that you

:05:08. > :05:10.can't watch our cameras. If you gone to the website or our online

:05:11. > :05:14.presence allows you to choose one of four cameras to click on it and to

:05:15. > :05:19.watch those. You can do that for 20 hours a day. Last week, we left you

:05:20. > :05:23.a good watching for us on Thursday night. We asked you to keep an eye

:05:24. > :05:27.on a number of nests over the course of the weekend and one of them was

:05:28. > :05:32.our sparrowhawk. We can go live to it now. In a woodland quite close to

:05:33. > :05:37.our production village, in a pine tree. She is incubating five eggs.

:05:38. > :05:41.We don't know when they were laid so we can't value exactly when we think

:05:42. > :05:46.they will hatch. Typically they will hatch in the first week of June. We

:05:47. > :05:50.are hoping this week could be the week. She is up in this mess to most

:05:51. > :05:55.of the day because of this time of year the mail is catching all of the

:05:56. > :06:01.food and bringing it to her. He does that on a plucking post, about 50

:06:02. > :06:04.meters away from the nest. This gives us a great opportunity to see

:06:05. > :06:07.what the birds are eating. If we can catch a glimpse of them before they

:06:08. > :06:12.have all of their feathers torn out and they are consumed rapidly, like

:06:13. > :06:15.the female will consume this little rant very rapidly, that gives us a

:06:16. > :06:22.chance to look at the diet of these birds stash macro little Wren.

:06:23. > :06:37.After a week of waiting, I finally got myself a pie diagram. We are

:06:38. > :06:42.also pleased! I am very pleased indeed. What we have is the pray we

:06:43. > :06:46.can identify. 50% of the things that came in we could not identify, no

:06:47. > :06:52.detriment to the team's skills, if they haven't got any feathers it is

:06:53. > :06:55.hard. Of those we could identify, we have great tits forming nearly a

:06:56. > :07:04.quarter of the diet, then bluetits, Bencic apps. Then we have got

:07:05. > :07:12.friends. -- and then Church House. And then wrens. -- and then

:07:13. > :07:20.chiffchaffs. All of the birds being it in our small birds because it is

:07:21. > :07:30.the male foraging. An incredible variety. It would be interesting to

:07:31. > :07:34.monitor the birds and see if the male sparrowhawk is choosing

:07:35. > :07:38.particular species or just because they are there in abundance. Alli it

:07:39. > :07:42.would seem that the sparrowhawk is the top predator in the word, or is

:07:43. > :07:47.it? Because look what this or over the weekend. This is a tawny owl on

:07:48. > :07:53.the plucking post. We are thinking it came there may be to eat the

:07:54. > :07:58.leftovers, or to see if it could catch a rodent eating the leftovers.

:07:59. > :08:02.We know a tawny owl would take sparrowhawk chicks, but would it

:08:03. > :08:10.take the sparrowhawk itself? Good question. We know that sparrowhawk

:08:11. > :08:16.steak birds off their nests. We have seen it before. Magpies and wood

:08:17. > :08:25.pigeons, tawny owls could take. Would they take a sparrowhawk? In

:08:26. > :08:31.the dark. Mind you, the sparrowhawk, we have trump cards here. A wingspan

:08:32. > :08:38.of 62 centimetres, female weight up to 260. Top speed 50 kph was that I

:08:39. > :08:42.don't suppose you can comfort in the woodlands. I could absolutely,

:08:43. > :08:54.because the tawny owl, a bigger size, April -- a bigger wingspan.

:08:55. > :09:01.Top speed 65 kph. I don't know what sheep market you brought your trump

:09:02. > :09:04.cards from. -- cheap market. It proves that the tawny owl could take

:09:05. > :09:10.the sparrowhawk. I think we will have to do a test in the future. We

:09:11. > :09:14.have had gyrfalcon against Peregrine, we have had Ross Hawkins

:09:15. > :09:18.sparrowhawk I think we need sparrowhawk against tawny owl on a

:09:19. > :09:28.speed camera. What about golden eagle? Trump this. Maximum wingspan

:09:29. > :09:32.of 82 centimetres, 320 kph. OK, you have won. If you were watching last

:09:33. > :09:34.week, you would know we have had some extraordinary views into a

:09:35. > :09:40.golden eagle's nest and they continued over the weekend. The

:09:41. > :09:43.youngster is mobile now and growing rapidly so it can get to the edge of

:09:44. > :09:46.the nest to squirt its pool over the side. They doesn't want to make a

:09:47. > :09:50.mess in the nest because it will have to sit in it for at least

:09:51. > :09:53.another four weeks, I should imagine. The adult bird you can see

:09:54. > :09:57.behind is the female. She has been very attentive up to this point,

:09:58. > :10:01.only leaving the nest for at most two hours, and I imagine then she

:10:02. > :10:06.has probably been sat close by just out of view. Here you can get a

:10:07. > :10:12.sense of why she is top trump. Look at the strength there, those massive

:10:13. > :10:16.talons as she stretches, repairing to take off, and leaving that

:10:17. > :10:21.youngster. Beautiful light on the nest as well. What a stunning image

:10:22. > :10:31.that is. Amazing to see how much that chick has grown. Much beefier.

:10:32. > :10:36.Someone came up with a good name, Fluffy McFace. It might win the vote

:10:37. > :10:40.but it won't get the name! More of an update tomorrow but if you can't

:10:41. > :10:45.wait until then, you can see an exclusive clip online. Check out the

:10:46. > :10:55.website. I have got another trump card for you. Style, seven. Bravery,

:10:56. > :10:59.11. Stamina, eight. Hair, two. That is the giveaway. I think the bravery

:11:00. > :11:05.is a bit questionable, but it is of course the one and only Martin

:11:06. > :11:10.Hughes-Games thank you very much, the hair is doing a lot better

:11:11. > :11:14.today, thank you. This wonderful weather has been great for all of

:11:15. > :11:18.our wildlife, especially for our moths. Last week I went out moth

:11:19. > :11:27.trapping on Tuesday and it was not a very good night, we got 60 moths.

:11:28. > :11:30.Last night, same trap, we got 300, a fivefold increase, we got some

:11:31. > :11:43.beauties. Let's see if we can get them out without them flying off.

:11:44. > :11:50.Look at that. And I'd talk more. -- and eyed hawk moth. It says on the

:11:51. > :11:54.books it is sombre until provoked. When it is provoked, it flicks the

:11:55. > :12:01.wings out, reveals its eyes. A dynamic sponsor. Let's put that one

:12:02. > :12:07.down. Right, we haven't tried this before. We have got another one

:12:08. > :12:18.here, hang on. This is the shark moth. Look, look, the shark moth.

:12:19. > :12:23.Now, again, let's look at your picture of the shark moth. Why is it

:12:24. > :12:27.called the shark moth? Look at that Finn on the nose. Ladies and

:12:28. > :12:32.gentlemen, I think you will agree that moth is absolutely terrifying.

:12:33. > :12:37.I'm frightened! It is evening so it can fly off now, go on, off you go.

:12:38. > :12:40.Thank you. It is a great time for the moths here, but there are all

:12:41. > :12:46.sorts of other fascinating invertebrates. Let's go down, come

:12:47. > :12:50.on down with me. OK, this is the inverted world, and you can do this

:12:51. > :12:52.at home. There are all sorts of interesting creatures underneath the

:12:53. > :12:58.leaves and so on. If you want to pick them up, you might use one of

:12:59. > :13:02.these. It is called a pooter. You put that in your mouth, and if you

:13:03. > :13:08.see an insect, there is one, hang on. Can't get it. Oh, I got it, I

:13:09. > :13:12.don't believe it! You get it, and it sucks it up into here without it

:13:13. > :13:16.going into your mouth. I once sacked and earwig up into my mouth without

:13:17. > :13:21.a pooter, and it is not a very pleasant experience, I can tell you.

:13:22. > :13:24.That is the pooter. We have managed to get quite a few animals just over

:13:25. > :13:29.the last 24 hours and get close to them. Here is a wonderful millipede.

:13:30. > :13:37.You can tell a millipede, it has two pairs of legs per segment, isn't it

:13:38. > :13:43.only has one. Woodlice, we have over 30 species of woodlice. Only one can

:13:44. > :13:50.roll itself up. Beetles, you are bound to find beetles. 400,000

:13:51. > :13:55.species, more than any other animal. Why are they so good? They modified

:13:56. > :13:59.the basic insect plan of having two pairs of wings. The front pair of

:14:00. > :14:03.wings have become these hard, protective Electra, that protect

:14:04. > :14:07.them when they are moving around. When they want to fly, they flip

:14:08. > :14:12.them up, and they are away. Absolutely brilliant. Now if you

:14:13. > :14:16.wanted to survey the insects, and they do want to do that here at

:14:17. > :14:19.Minsmere, if you used your pooter it would take you forever. You want

:14:20. > :14:24.something a bit tougher, bigger, something with an engine. A kind of

:14:25. > :14:32.DIY insect sampling special power tool. How about this baby? Look at

:14:33. > :14:41.that! We had a few problems getting this going, but let's give it a try.

:14:42. > :14:44.Visit on? Choke on. Nearly. Yes! Oh, never mind. We will be coming back

:14:45. > :14:48.to this one a bit later on to see what it actually does. What do you

:14:49. > :14:59.think of that, Chris and the Kello? Yes!

:15:00. > :15:10.In spring the Forest of Dean is a vision. Carpeted in delicately

:15:11. > :15:15.drooping bluebells. The signs of life abound. But this is not any

:15:16. > :15:23.bluebell wood, this is a special patch of woodland. After a 300 year

:15:24. > :15:24.absence, the Forest of Dean is once again home to an extraordinary

:15:25. > :15:40.species. Whilst boar. This area has the

:15:41. > :15:46.largest breeding population of this bee she's in England with estimates

:15:47. > :15:49.of over but boar normally take cover during the day but the hunger of a

:15:50. > :15:55.growing family has brought them out into the open just before sunset to

:15:56. > :16:06.feed amongst the bluebells. This group is made up of for cells and

:16:07. > :16:10.this year they have 25 boarlets. Together they form a tight social

:16:11. > :16:16.group called a sounder. With plenty of mouths to feed the female is set

:16:17. > :16:20.to work routing and turning the earth. The eldest in the crash are

:16:21. > :16:27.to months old and learning to forage by themselves. Boar have a varied,

:16:28. > :16:33.and never as diet and use their powerful snouts to turn over the

:16:34. > :16:39.soil, primarily for routes, bulbs, nuts and tumours, although they have

:16:40. > :16:51.been known to eat mice, birds, eggs, snakes, vertebrates and even carry

:16:52. > :17:00.on. -- carrion. The youngest are to weeks old. They are only just as

:17:01. > :17:10.tall as the bluebells and are still very much dependent upon their

:17:11. > :17:16.mother's milk. But they are not fussy and will cross - Sakho from

:17:17. > :17:28.any female in the sand. If they get the chance. -- - cross-suckle. The

:17:29. > :17:33.females have to keep foraging, to make enough calories to make milk.

:17:34. > :17:38.By way of feeding the youngsters shed parasites and their favourite

:17:39. > :17:39.scratching posts, reaching parts that the tree stumps simply cannot

:17:40. > :18:14.reach. And then it is playtime! Finally, as dusk approaches, one

:18:15. > :18:15.decisive ground from the matriarch sends the sounder trotting to

:18:16. > :18:28.pastures new. I like a wild boar. And me, they are

:18:29. > :18:32.very cute. They do a lot of digging, you do not want them in your garden

:18:33. > :18:36.but they are fantastic and at one stage they were native in the UK,

:18:37. > :18:41.they are back and playing an important role in managing the

:18:42. > :18:45.ecosystem, we find out about that later in the week. Back they

:18:46. > :18:50.certainly add to the biodiversity. Another important thing to have in

:18:51. > :18:53.the ecosystems in the UK are predators. On Autumnwatch last year

:18:54. > :18:59.we featured an ambitious project by the Vincent trust to put the pine

:19:00. > :19:06.Martin back into its natural habitat in Wales. There is the lovely pine

:19:07. > :19:09.Martin, believed extinct in Wales, a few sightings happened recently so

:19:10. > :19:15.that was questioned but they needed to get more back into Wales. They

:19:16. > :19:19.brought 20 of them down from Scotland, they put radio

:19:20. > :19:28.transmitters on them, they want into an enclosure for while before they

:19:29. > :19:35.were released into the wild. What happened? They put transmitters and

:19:36. > :19:40.cameras on them, look carefully as one of the pine martens comes down

:19:41. > :19:46.the tree, what is it carrying? A grey squirrel. This is interesting.

:19:47. > :19:49.We had already seen a paper published in 2014 by Sheehy and

:19:50. > :19:55.Lawton. They had looked at pine martens in Ireland. They had covered

:19:56. > :20:00.their range into about 9000 square kilometres when no red squirrels

:20:01. > :20:04.have been seen for 30 years. The red squirrels moved in alongside the

:20:05. > :20:08.pine martens and then became common. When they investigated further they

:20:09. > :20:13.found a positive correlation between the numbers of pine martens and the

:20:14. > :20:15.numbers of red squirrels and a negative correlation between pine

:20:16. > :20:24.martens and grey scrolls. Suggesting that if the pine marten would make a

:20:25. > :20:28.full recovery over its range which would include Suffolk, then perhaps

:20:29. > :20:32.the grey squirrels, the naughty non-natives, might take a thrashing

:20:33. > :20:41.and the red squirrels could in theory increase. Amazing to have

:20:42. > :20:44.pine martens across the UK. If the grey squirrel population went down

:20:45. > :20:50.you would have to reintroduce red squirrels. It is all possible if the

:20:51. > :20:56.research showed it was feasible. Great news. And more great news

:20:57. > :21:00.because researchers noticed that the pine martens, the females, was

:21:01. > :21:05.spending more time in one particular area, so they put up more cameras

:21:06. > :21:08.and this is what they saw. Going up the tree the pine marten has

:21:09. > :21:16.something in its mouth, they found in the nest there was a kit. Not the

:21:17. > :21:18.only one. A larger one coming out-of-the-box and exploring its

:21:19. > :21:23.surroundings. They know that at least three of the females had at

:21:24. > :21:28.about five kids between them. Good news because it's a low number this

:21:29. > :21:33.year and they need a lot of polls to survive. Maybe this is why they are

:21:34. > :21:41.doing OK. Good news all round. It has exceeded expectations so far,

:21:42. > :21:45.fabulous. Hats of to the Vincent Wildlife Trust. The reason they take

:21:46. > :21:49.the grey squirrels is that they are lighter and spend more time in the

:21:50. > :21:53.trees at the edges, the pine marten is heavier and cannot reach them,

:21:54. > :21:59.the grey squirrel spends more time on the ground looking for food so

:22:00. > :22:05.this is why we think the pine marten is taking the grey squirrel. One man

:22:06. > :22:08.keen to hear about this is your Williams, a passionate Welsh

:22:09. > :22:13.naturalist, years and in Wales at the moment, he's on the islands and

:22:14. > :22:18.seems to have his hands full because they have more of their fair share

:22:19. > :22:23.of drama. That's right, we've been on an emotional roller-coaster in

:22:24. > :22:27.the last few days, now I'm on the farm which is the home of our

:22:28. > :22:35.wonderful female, our loan shark and the Spring watch first, -- our

:22:36. > :22:45.single shark, and the Springwatch first. And yes, perhaps is back!

:22:46. > :22:48.Last week when we left you we had one a row with an egg being

:22:49. > :22:52.incubated inside and I can show you the borough, it's right by the side

:22:53. > :22:58.of the walkway. See the cables coming in? The camera is under my

:22:59. > :23:04.hand and the entrance to the Barrow is there. We can go in and see what

:23:05. > :23:09.is happening right now. As you can see one of the adults is still

:23:10. > :23:14.incubating the egg. They take it in terms, roughly 24 hours each, while

:23:15. > :23:19.one is incubating the egg the other is offshore feeding. Another thing

:23:20. > :23:33.they do is, they will turn the egg periodically. To make sure that the

:23:34. > :23:37.whole of the egg gets warmed up. Our second burrow, is in those metals.

:23:38. > :23:41.When we last left them we wish you with a female was about to leave the

:23:42. > :23:48.egg, this turned out to be a false alarm and then, disaster struck!

:23:49. > :23:52.Part of the burrow wall collapsed. Are they still in there? Have they

:23:53. > :23:58.moved further? We simply don't know and we don't know why burrow

:23:59. > :24:02.collapsed. It did rain quite a bit one day last week, did that affect

:24:03. > :24:08.it, did they dig too much? We are not sure. S we will let you know if

:24:09. > :24:16.anything changes. In the meantime, we do have some good news for you.

:24:17. > :24:23.You may remember that our shag, Cathy, spent weeks waiting for a

:24:24. > :24:27.partner from last to return. But Heathcliff, as we now call him

:24:28. > :24:31.returned to another nest entirely and shacked up with a different

:24:32. > :24:43.female. Our hearts went out to poor Cathy. But she has finally woken up

:24:44. > :24:48.and smelt the guano because after seven weeks of waiting live is very

:24:49. > :24:52.much in the air for our female. Last week she took a shine to a young

:24:53. > :24:58.male and since then has begun to make a nest with him. This is her

:24:59. > :25:03.partner, this is the male. He's still got a lot of Brown on him so

:25:04. > :25:08.he is very inexperienced. And this lack of experience has meant that a

:25:09. > :25:13.few days ago the nest looked less like a nest and more like a scrape.

:25:14. > :25:18.A pretty sad state of affairs! But know they might just be getting the

:25:19. > :25:23.hang of it. Only yesterday the young male was seen returning to the nest

:25:24. > :25:28.with some soft fur. So we are really helpful that Cathy may be able to

:25:29. > :25:33.lay, soon. Schmeichel really helpful. With limited supplies, the

:25:34. > :25:40.farm shags use whatever they can get their beats on. We have seen

:25:41. > :25:46.seaweed, vegetation, dead rabbit carcasses and even the occasional

:25:47. > :25:51.ornamental chair leg! Shags have to be quite creative with their choice

:25:52. > :25:57.of soft furnishings! Come and look at this. I want to show you these

:25:58. > :26:01.breeding shags. Shag number one, Sheikh Nimr to, shag number three is

:26:02. > :26:06.right out of sight. They have stolen the blue rope that normally keeps

:26:07. > :26:10.visitors away. And one has wrapped it around the nest and passed it on

:26:11. > :26:22.to them too, was done the same, and you think, what level the sharing

:26:23. > :26:27.birds. Number one is higher up and has pooed over number to, number

:26:28. > :26:33.three is below and I hate to think what kind of a mess he's in! When it

:26:34. > :26:45.comes to nest building it really is a shag each shag world! - shag eat

:26:46. > :26:49.shag. When Bird sitting calm and serene throughout this is the

:26:50. > :26:56.beautiful eider. Almost unmoved since we last saw her, she has been

:26:57. > :27:00.sitting out in all the weather, the fog, Varane, the wind, hankering

:27:01. > :27:04.down, simplicity and it out. Those eggs will hatch over the next few

:27:05. > :27:11.days so we will keep a very close eye on her. And one last success

:27:12. > :27:18.story, for now, at least, is the new age puffins in their TB. They are

:27:19. > :27:27.still happily incubating and if we are lucky we may see a puffling

:27:28. > :27:32.before the end of my stay. As you can see this season is still young

:27:33. > :27:37.and it is only just kicking off. Stick with us, we have plenty more

:27:38. > :27:42.to share with you over the next couple of weeks, especially as many

:27:43. > :27:55.of the eggs are only just hatching. S for now, it's back down to Suffolk

:27:56. > :28:01.and Minsmere. What I think the comparison stands for is the

:28:02. > :28:04.closeness to wildlife. The Galapagos wildlife is famed for being ten,

:28:05. > :28:10.when you get that it's right in front of you, follow in the

:28:11. > :28:15.footsteps of your is my advice. This weekend many of you were on egg

:28:16. > :28:19.watch, watching the live cameras to see if any eggs had hatched and you

:28:20. > :28:25.also want fledge watched and many of you were watching our gorgeous tits

:28:26. > :28:28.to see if any of them fledged. We left the nest bulging at the seams

:28:29. > :28:35.on Thursday and the parents were incredibly diligent on Friday. They

:28:36. > :28:40.were doing plenty of feeds. Gorgeous bird, I called it the Lulu of the

:28:41. > :28:48.bird world, Lulu, the long-tailed tit, feeding their chicks. A huge

:28:49. > :28:53.Caterpillar, taking it in. At peak they fed every to minutes, 29 tonnes

:28:54. > :28:58.per hour. But Caterpillar isn't going down, Chris, we have all been

:28:59. > :29:04.there. I is too big for the belly. In fact it is coming back up. Ludger

:29:05. > :29:07.Beerbaum is watering! I thought you were talking about feeding a child,

:29:08. > :29:15.not doing it yourself, I have never choked on a Caterpillar! It still

:29:16. > :29:22.needs to lighten its load. It does what every child does, it throws up.

:29:23. > :29:27.That is what babies do. It is true, they do other things as well, not

:29:28. > :29:33.just that! They fledge the nest. Only it takes years and years. But

:29:34. > :29:38.look at this. This is what happened on Saturday at five past seven. The

:29:39. > :29:44.adult comes in, does not feed the chicks but tempts them out. This is

:29:45. > :29:48.the start. It entices them. The first one is not too keen to go, the

:29:49. > :29:56.second hops out more confidently. They gorgeous birds.

:29:57. > :30:06.If you take a look at the nest, two more peeking their little faces.

:30:07. > :30:10.This is the fourth one. That also lightens it slowed a little bit.

:30:11. > :30:16.Then followed by a fifth one. And finally you can see the sixth one

:30:17. > :30:21.poking its head out and coming out of that nest. Then the adult bird

:30:22. > :30:25.flies in. Just to make sure that they are all gone, and have all

:30:26. > :30:34.fledged nest. If only it was that easy. They all come back again in

:30:35. > :30:38.real life! I like a long tail tit's nest, though. It can expand to

:30:39. > :30:46.control the number of birds inside. They can have up to ten. Covered in

:30:47. > :30:50.lichen, keeps it camouflaged, a fantastic piece of artistry. Great

:30:51. > :30:54.to see the birds leaving. We are very pleased you have joined us for

:30:55. > :30:57.our live programme now, that you can watch those programmes throughout

:30:58. > :31:02.the course of the day. So how do you watch our cameras? It has never been

:31:03. > :31:06.easier to follow Springwatch, wherever you are and whatever device

:31:07. > :31:11.you are using. By going to the Springwatch website on your laptop,

:31:12. > :31:15.phone or tablet you can enjoy Springwatch live at any time of day.

:31:16. > :31:20.Catch the action as it happens with live webcams as well as updates,

:31:21. > :31:26.news and expert analysis. You can join in the conversation on

:31:27. > :31:31.Facebook, Twitter and the Springwatch Flickr group. To have

:31:32. > :31:34.things to show you would have to go and find them, particularly the

:31:35. > :31:46.nest. Martin thought he would try his hand at this.

:31:47. > :31:57.Here we go. To find a nest in this dense watery bed, we form a line,

:31:58. > :32:01.each of us just a metre or so apart. But even so, within no time at all,

:32:02. > :32:13.I can barely see Neil to my left and Nigel to my right. It is amazing how

:32:14. > :32:18.difficult it is to see, just a metre away and they are completely gone.

:32:19. > :32:29.So to watch them and look for the nest is tricky. Within a few

:32:30. > :32:44.minutes, Neil spot something. I have got one nest. It is an old nest. It

:32:45. > :32:52.looks like a duck. Pass the eggs down, Steve. Duck. It is tough going

:32:53. > :33:00.but then... Here is a nest! I have found one. He reed warbler nest. It

:33:01. > :33:06.has got eggs in it! Four. They all looked to be the same, they are duck

:33:07. > :33:15.egg blue with all of Splott is on them. There is no bigger egg as far

:33:16. > :33:19.as I can see, no. They are looking for cuckoos, obviously. That is a

:33:20. > :33:30.result. Now to market so the team can start to rig up a camera. Bingo.

:33:31. > :33:34.I found a nest! Top work by Martin, finding a reed warbler, they are a

:33:35. > :33:38.relatively common bird and not too difficult find. We have found a

:33:39. > :33:43.number and we have got a camera on one of them, we can go to it live

:33:44. > :33:47.now. Here is our reed warbler. You have to look carefully, the adult

:33:48. > :33:54.bird, could be the mail or the female. Sat right on that deep cup

:33:55. > :34:01.and it is a deep cut. All you can see is the breathing back of the

:34:02. > :34:05.bird and its bill on the left-hand side. We have been watching this

:34:06. > :34:11.very closely over the weekend. This is what we saw. When we first found

:34:12. > :34:14.it it had four eggs. But look very carefully, the one on the right-hand

:34:15. > :34:23.side appears to be a little paler than those eggs. This led us to

:34:24. > :34:26.wonder, could this be the egg of a different species? Because the

:34:27. > :34:32.species we are thinking about here is a bird which migrates to Minsmere

:34:33. > :34:36.in the summertime to parasitise the nest, you know what I am talking

:34:37. > :34:44.about of course, the Eurasian cuckoo. Here is a male calling away.

:34:45. > :34:51.Reed warblers are the most familiar hosts of this nest. So was it a

:34:52. > :34:56.cuckoo's eggs? We didn't think so but we thought we would check. We

:34:57. > :35:01.spoke to Professor Nick Davies at Cambridge University. He is the

:35:02. > :35:05.world expert and he said that is definitely a clutch of four reed

:35:06. > :35:08.warbler eggs. No cuckoo in there, but it is typical for the last egg

:35:09. > :35:13.laid to be a little paler and we don't know why. He then went on to

:35:14. > :35:17.say it is unlikely that the female runs out or pigment when she is

:35:18. > :35:21.covering those eggs. Rather it might be to benefit the egg by marking

:35:22. > :35:28.that last one. One idea that he had was with asynchronous hatching it

:35:29. > :35:31.might be advantageous to be able to identify the last laid egg as it

:35:32. > :35:37.would then need a little bit more incubation to get it to hatch. That

:35:38. > :35:40.is Nick's hypothesis. We fitted to the test straightaway, because we

:35:41. > :35:45.watched these eggs straightaway and we saw which hatched, and in the

:35:46. > :35:49.order. So at 6:13am yesterday, the first one hatched. It took about 20

:35:50. > :35:56.minutes for the youngster to wriggle out of the shell. And eventually it

:35:57. > :36:02.made it out. The adults began to arrive with food, and to offer it to

:36:03. > :36:10.that youngster. But it wasn't too keen to take it straightaway. But

:36:11. > :36:13.having gone to the trouble of catching that insect prey, the

:36:14. > :36:17.adults doesn't waste it, it's follows it itself. This went on for

:36:18. > :36:27.a number of visits. The adult came in, youngster didn't seem too

:36:28. > :36:31.interested, that is not to -- too surprising. They often have a bit of

:36:32. > :36:39.yolk left in the shell, which will label them to start. And then late

:36:40. > :36:45.in the day, at 2:19pm, another one beginning to hatch, and then at

:36:46. > :36:51.4:19am this morning another egg is hatching there. There is one left in

:36:52. > :36:59.there and Nick was absolutely right. The pale egg was the last one to

:37:00. > :37:02.hatch. Suggesting, again, that it might be that the female would

:37:03. > :37:08.therefore know that it has got to keep incubating to get that last egg

:37:09. > :37:13.to hatch. That is Nick's hypothesis. He is the sort of bloke that likes

:37:14. > :37:18.to test those things so I'm sure he might be doing that in the future.

:37:19. > :37:23.We will be watching the adults coming in. You can watch them live

:37:24. > :37:25.on our cameras. They will require an enormous number of very small

:37:26. > :37:32.insects, which they will find out here in the reedbeds. I wonder if

:37:33. > :37:41.Martin will find an enormous number of small insects in his rather

:37:42. > :37:45.curious device. BUZZING MACRO this beast is the insect Hoover, it is

:37:46. > :37:56.not a Tory, it is real. Let's do some hoovering. -- it is not a

:37:57. > :38:01.poorly. That's better. Let's see how this works, a very serious bit of

:38:02. > :38:06.scientific kit. It is actually a leaf blower. You have probably seen

:38:07. > :38:12.these at home. But it has been reversed, it sucks rather than

:38:13. > :38:17.blows. Brown the end, you can see this gaffer tape, inside there is a

:38:18. > :38:20.muslin bag, so any insects are sucked in, and the mesh is carefully

:38:21. > :38:25.worked out so it doesn't damage them. Let's empty it out. We haven't

:38:26. > :38:35.got very much there, but we have been sampling, I got one woodlouse!

:38:36. > :38:39.Still, luckily, like Blue Peter, we have been sampling things before.

:38:40. > :38:46.Oh, there is an ear week, my favourite animal! It is a female.

:38:47. > :38:49.Careful, love. Let's look at some of these creatures close up. We have

:38:50. > :38:56.got a spider here. Don't know if you can see this. A spider with an egg

:38:57. > :39:03.sac next to a woodlouse will stop she is off. Let's go down this end.

:39:04. > :39:08.There is a huge millipede here. I have never seen one they speak in

:39:09. > :39:13.the UK. Isn't it gorgeous? Let's just see if we can get the ear week.

:39:14. > :39:17.Hang on, there is an ear week. Look at her go! You can tell it as a

:39:18. > :39:22.female because the calipers are straight on the back. I got really

:39:23. > :39:28.carried away with this. Right, that's lovely! Sorry about that.

:39:29. > :39:34.Now, you might think what is so important about these? They are just

:39:35. > :39:39.inconspicuous invertebrates, why should we care? If you thought that,

:39:40. > :39:42.you would be wrong. These are crucially important, and I'll tell

:39:43. > :39:46.you why. Let's just have a look at some of the bird nests we have been

:39:47. > :39:55.following this year on Springwatch. What are they being fed? That is a

:39:56. > :40:00.dragonfly insect. Here we have got the bluetits. They are getting a bit

:40:01. > :40:13.of spider abdomen. The owls, they are eating clock capers, a type of

:40:14. > :40:19.beetle. -- they are eating cock-chafers. Bluetits, an amazing

:40:20. > :40:28.statistic, they timed their meeting for prime Caterpillar time. It is

:40:29. > :40:35.estimated that the bluetits in the UK have to eat to bring up their

:40:36. > :40:38.chicks 35 billion caterpillars. So these little creepy crawlies here

:40:39. > :40:43.are crucial to the survival of some of our favourite birds. So it is

:40:44. > :40:47.very important to survey the insects. And of course, think about

:40:48. > :40:51.it, the migrant birds, swallow, Swiss, they all come here because of

:40:52. > :40:55.the richness of our insect life. This sort of thing, sampling these,

:40:56. > :40:59.it is critically important and that is a very important little tool.

:41:00. > :41:05.Inconspicuous but vital to the survival of many of our birds.

:41:06. > :41:11.Should we just highlight the fact, what was it, one woodlouse, all of

:41:12. > :41:15.that noise, LAUGHTER All of that terminator gay, comes up

:41:16. > :41:21.with one woodlouse. If we did the trump card again, ability with the

:41:22. > :41:25.Hoover, zero! Insects are so important, as Martin was saying,

:41:26. > :41:31.this time of the year, for so mere var chicks in the nest, including

:41:32. > :41:35.our little owls. -- for so many of our chicks. Remember, we have got

:41:36. > :41:39.three gorgeous chicks in a hole in an oak tree. They have grown a lot

:41:40. > :41:43.in the last week. They asked leaving at the moment. They are two and a

:41:44. > :41:47.half weeks old, and the parents have been really brilliant parents, and

:41:48. > :41:52.have said them very well over the last week or ten days. It might

:41:53. > :41:55.surprise many people to know that little owls actually eat a large and

:41:56. > :42:00.other of insects, they try to. Of course insects used to be much more

:42:01. > :42:03.abundant until we used to freely all of the insecticides that we have,

:42:04. > :42:10.particularly in the last 50 years, and as a consequence the population

:42:11. > :42:15.of little owls has gone down. We have been trying to monitor whether

:42:16. > :42:20.there is any influence on the weather which would affect insect

:42:21. > :42:25.abundance. At night will negate infrared, you can see the adults

:42:26. > :42:34.flying into the nest. -- when we go to infrared. A small mammal, looks

:42:35. > :42:43.like a little mouse. On Friday, what were they up to? In goes the adult.

:42:44. > :42:46.That one youngster had a cock-chafer, a large beetle. Here,

:42:47. > :42:52.the adult comes in with what appears to be a moth. That might have been a

:42:53. > :42:56.cock-chafer as well, I'm not sure. Insect prey without a shadow of a

:42:57. > :43:01.doubt. On Sunday, though, in the come with worms. And we have seen

:43:02. > :43:05.these birds feeding on lots of worms. That seems to be one of the

:43:06. > :43:09.key things. That wasn't a worm, it was another insect of some kind. But

:43:10. > :43:14.one of the key things they have been eating our earthworms. It is going

:43:15. > :43:18.to be interesting to see, Michaela, now the weather is beginning to dry

:43:19. > :43:23.out, there won't be so many worms on the surface. This would suggest that

:43:24. > :43:31.the owls might switch to something else. It was a double treat for me,

:43:32. > :43:36.a pied diagram and now a bar chart. Look at that smile. The young were

:43:37. > :43:42.much smaller so they would not have needed so many visits to keep them

:43:43. > :43:46.completely sated. Now there was a real dip on Monday. You will

:43:47. > :43:52.remember that is when we had that horrendous storm. It meant the birds

:43:53. > :43:57.could not forage very effectively. They did come in the next day with a

:43:58. > :44:01.bluetit. But they're feeding rate were still reduce. This does show

:44:02. > :44:04.you the impact that weather will have on the foraging capacity of

:44:05. > :44:10.these birds. Luckily it was just one or two days and they are now hunting

:44:11. > :44:16.effectively. 89 feeds, they are doing incredibly well. But they

:44:17. > :44:21.could be small items. It will not be 89 with mice. Otherwise they would

:44:22. > :44:24.be bursting. When you think about worms, a very high percentage of

:44:25. > :44:30.water, I am going to guess about 80% water possibly. I have to say, after

:44:31. > :44:32.all of that food what do they do? What every youngster does on a full

:44:33. > :44:43.tummy. They have a little snooze. They try to, it is all a bit

:44:44. > :44:50.restless and they fidget. See how much they have grown. I think that

:44:51. > :44:53.one has been listening to your bar chart info! He's yawning! It'll be

:44:54. > :44:59.interesting watching little owls in the next weeks because we will see a

:45:00. > :45:04.huge change in size and their characters will come out. They

:45:05. > :45:10.certainly will. I will take the insult on the chin. We will see what

:45:11. > :45:17.happens off-camera in a moment, it is very muddy over there. The BBC

:45:18. > :45:21.has launched a campaign, Do Something Great. On Thursday we

:45:22. > :45:24.charge you to go out on the weekend and join in the National by the

:45:25. > :45:30.Blitz. I am pleased to say that many of you did. We've had 1800 reports

:45:31. > :45:40.of all sorts of animals you spotted like voles and frogs and I am

:45:41. > :45:45.pleased that you identified 731 different species. These reports

:45:46. > :45:49.continue to come in and out to our knowledge of the distribution and

:45:50. > :45:55.diversity of species in the UK. Bio blitz is a great idea and Nick Baker

:45:56. > :46:01.has gone somewhere posh, to another ISP reserve, a great one in Dorset

:46:02. > :46:12.and he's gone there to conduct his own bio blitz over the weekend. I am

:46:13. > :46:16.at RSPB Arnott and it is a great place that keeps drawing me back. It

:46:17. > :46:20.is managed by a relatively small team so we don't know as much about

:46:21. > :46:30.what they see as we'd like. That is what this weekend is about. The plan

:46:31. > :46:34.is to use a team of experts and volunteers to find and identify as

:46:35. > :46:45.many should be she's as possible in just 24-hour is. We will be using

:46:46. > :46:50.all sorts of techniques and expertise and enthusiasm. It should

:46:51. > :46:57.be fun. This is a great scene, somewhere at Heath peppered with the

:46:58. > :47:01.people, it's such a fantastic place for rarities. It's so great were

:47:02. > :47:06.rarities that we overlook the common things. This is a great way of

:47:07. > :47:15.making sure we know what is here by getting everyone to record

:47:16. > :47:23.everything they see. Even I might add something to the Arne list.

:47:24. > :47:29.Everyone is piling in, the totals are mounting. This is just from me

:47:30. > :47:32.collecting, every single individual on the reserve today, look at the

:47:33. > :47:40.tubes, everyone has tubes in their hands. Already we are finding plenty

:47:41. > :47:50.of invertebrates but plants and birds are also in our sites and of

:47:51. > :47:53.course mammals including bats. This is the largest British bat with

:47:54. > :47:59.gorgeous ginger fur, the fifth when we have seen today, we have found

:48:00. > :48:11.common purpose trails, and Brian Long eared bats. It will be bat

:48:12. > :48:14.paradise. After only six hours we have already gathered an incredible

:48:15. > :48:21.amount of data. It has been a staggering day. We've only just

:48:22. > :48:27.started to scratch the surface, processed 370 records. Godmother

:48:28. > :48:38.your! And about 200 or 300 just from this morning. I've got more for you!

:48:39. > :48:45.Lets go. As desk gathers time to head back to the Heath with some

:48:46. > :48:52.very excited and methodologies. I have an flying around to the right.

:48:53. > :49:07.Look at him, see the stiff wings. No bird song says heathland to me

:49:08. > :49:14.like the sound of them might jar. As night falls, Rob takes me back, his

:49:15. > :49:21.trap is already producing results. We will see where this is called

:49:22. > :49:25.along is about. His is occurred belittle and when I let him go often

:49:26. > :49:31.they will do this marvellous thing, stay on your hand, look around, put

:49:32. > :49:37.up their ears, and then go. Great work. When we are only halfway

:49:38. > :49:45.through our 24 hour blitz. At one time to check them off trap, first

:49:46. > :49:50.up, moth Tiger. You don't get many colours like that in nature on the

:49:51. > :50:06.same creature. It throws away this stereotype that moths are dealt. -

:50:07. > :50:12.Strictly Come Dancing. Have his love of those before? Look at your face!

:50:13. > :50:17.He just had his hand over his mouth -- have you seen one of those

:50:18. > :50:26.before? And the caterpillars are even better, a proper monster! The

:50:27. > :50:32.bio blitzers have caught six of the UK's native reptiles, just one more

:50:33. > :50:37.to go, local speciality. Look about. The first time I've held a smooth

:50:38. > :50:44.snake and it is pretty smooth. You need a license for this which you

:50:45. > :50:49.have. I have. It makes it a red letter day when you get a day with a

:50:50. > :50:54.smooth snake. And in the nick of time as well. I had better check out

:50:55. > :50:59.the final tally. The results are coming in thick and fast. It will

:51:00. > :51:07.take days to identify everything but preliminary results are astonishing.

:51:08. > :51:12.783 should be she's recorded into the computer, master of coming in, I

:51:13. > :51:17.think it won't be less than 1000 when we get everything processed and

:51:18. > :51:22.with the 700 we have entered we have found another 152 species we had not

:51:23. > :51:28.previously recorded on the reserve. You must be really pleased. The

:51:29. > :51:32.numbers are one aspect of this but we have met so many people and find

:51:33. > :51:39.so many new relationships and the technical knowledge from these

:51:40. > :51:42.people is the nominal, now we understand more about the reserve

:51:43. > :51:46.and why it is important, some of the requirements of the species,

:51:47. > :51:55.hopefully we can enable the success of these species. To get involved

:51:56. > :51:59.there is bound to be a bio blitz you, get in touch with your local

:52:00. > :52:03.RSPB, and if there is not, set up your own bio blitz in the garden, in

:52:04. > :52:09.the park, in the school grounds, just get out there and do something

:52:10. > :52:15.great! Wise words, mate! It is worth doing. Nick's team did really well,

:52:16. > :52:24.this and collected 1403 different animal species, and some plants and

:52:25. > :52:34.fundi as well. Of those, 677 were identified Jewish dishes level and

:52:35. > :52:36.306 new for Arne. I think they assembled specialists and looked at

:52:37. > :52:45.groups of animals they have not looked at in detail and it brought

:52:46. > :52:50.the total for Arne, not quite up to the 5500 bed and Izmir has yet but

:52:51. > :52:55.we do have more reports to analyse. Great to see some new volunteers,

:52:56. > :52:59.having such a great day, and if you did bio blitz on the weekend I'm

:53:00. > :53:04.sure you did as well. Time to update you on our tit nursed back to Mac

:53:05. > :53:13.nexts. Something fascinating to tell you. Let's look at the great tit

:53:14. > :53:22.nursed. Both parents are in attendance, everything is going OK.

:53:23. > :53:25.11 days old, the females generally stop brooding by now although she

:53:26. > :53:32.does seem to be doing a bit of brooding. Let's look at our tit

:53:33. > :53:37.nest. We know it is a single female feeding the chicks. Now that they

:53:38. > :53:41.have feathers the eagle eyed amongst you may notice something absolutely

:53:42. > :53:50.fascinating. Those chicks have yellow cheeks, yellow wheelbarrows,

:53:51. > :53:54.you can see better and stretching its wings and exercising, and black

:53:55. > :54:05.heads. This means that they are not blue chicks at all, they are great

:54:06. > :54:09.tits. So in our tit nest week had great tits being fed by a blue tit

:54:10. > :54:16.mother. Incredible, were just noticed that because they have

:54:17. > :54:22.feathers no, we had no idea that was happening in that nest box. Have you

:54:23. > :54:26.heard before, Chris? I haven't although reports of one species of

:54:27. > :54:31.bird feeding and there are not uncommon. In mammals we see and to,

:54:32. > :54:36.the urge to feed again when you are in breeding condition is very

:54:37. > :54:41.strong. Hormonal. I can't think of the gnome of the hormone but it is

:54:42. > :54:46.really powerful. -- can't think of the name of it. We will have to

:54:47. > :54:51.investigate that further. We can go all the way back to the time that we

:54:52. > :54:56.had eggs in the nest and hopefully we can go back and analyse what

:54:57. > :55:02.happened. My theory is that a great tit sneaked in and laid some eggs in

:55:03. > :55:07.that box. There were 13 eggs to begin with. There certainly were.

:55:08. > :55:12.How they will prosper now will depend on the weather, like with all

:55:13. > :55:19.the species. It is teeming with insects, including religious! --

:55:20. > :55:23.including mergers. If they could all be removed but be fantastic. Nick

:55:24. > :55:30.Miller, in the weather centre, is not likely to happen, whether be a

:55:31. > :55:34.swarm of swallows for me? I am so happy that the sun has finally

:55:35. > :55:38.arrived at Minsmere and the wildlife is having a better time together

:55:39. > :55:41.with much of the rest of the UK away from the cooler used coast

:55:42. > :55:45.temperatures were soaring today and will again tomorrow which means a

:55:46. > :55:51.lot of insects for those busy bird families like the little owls. And

:55:52. > :55:54.the reptiles as well, we have heard about the slow worms, they rely on

:55:55. > :55:58.warmth from their environment to give them the energy they need to

:55:59. > :56:04.forage for food, so look out for them. We have heat and nudity and

:56:05. > :56:09.also thunderstorms and we will again tomorrow, some torrential downpours

:56:10. > :56:13.in places. Some of the ground is dry which will bring more worms to the

:56:14. > :56:16.surface of the blackbirds and the thrushes, many birds who come to the

:56:17. > :56:21.UK are here now we are still waiting for lovely butterflies like the

:56:22. > :56:25.painted Lady, they migrate all the way from Africa, some have been

:56:26. > :56:31.spotted ladies keep an eye open this discouraging headwind for the last

:56:32. > :56:35.leg of the journey so they may remain a treasured find. This is the

:56:36. > :56:39.forecast for you this week. Maybe a stray shower although it is looking

:56:40. > :56:43.fine on the whole and will turn warmer with more sunshine. The

:56:44. > :56:44.wildlife is happier, I know that you are, this party has really started

:56:45. > :56:55.now! Thank you, Nick, we like that, one

:56:56. > :57:01.stray shower and more sunshine. Have you ever seen it appeared as big as

:57:02. > :57:10.that? You did not get that in your hoover. We will go back to Eggwatch.

:57:11. > :57:16.We ask you to watch over excellent we have not checked up on our

:57:17. > :57:23.special one. I don't know if this is the male or the female, sitting on a

:57:24. > :57:29.cheque, or on an egg? It did manage to be loyal and protect that egg

:57:30. > :57:43.from predation. We know that but did it hatch? Let's take a quick look at

:57:44. > :57:47.that egg, quickly. As Michaela says, it was meant to have hatched, six

:57:48. > :57:56.days ago, sadly it does not seem to have done that. The RSPB plan to

:57:57. > :58:03.investigate, I hope to go in with them and look at it. Tomorrow, news

:58:04. > :58:13.from our avocet couple. And an entire family of shoulders, keep it

:58:14. > :58:19.up, madam, or Mr! And we find out what wild boar till after dark. And

:58:20. > :58:26.I will be back and we will have a very special guest. Then I Bethan

:58:27. > :58:38.Will Junger, joining us to talk about his passion for wildlife. --

:58:39. > :58:46.Will Young. The real Will Young! We will see you tomorrow night, during

:58:47. > :59:12.us then! Goodbye! Joely us then! Goodbye!

:59:13. > :59:16.It's home to a million people at any one time...