:00:03. > :00:06.Welcome to Urban Jungle. I'm here in Gosport in Hampshire, better known
:00:07. > :00:10.for its naval history than its natural history, but stick with us,
:00:10. > :00:20.because I'm going to show you there's a wealth of wildlife living
:00:20. > :00:20.
:00:20. > :00:25.amongst the bricks, the mortar and the concrete. How about this?
:00:25. > :00:30.look! On the grave there! Elusive muntjac deer in a Reading cemetery.
:00:30. > :00:34.It looks like Bambi? It might be noisy, but it's just the ticket for
:00:34. > :00:37.these birds from Africa. And in Gosport, people call it the badger
:00:38. > :00:41.capital of the south of England. Jon Cuthill gets up close and personal
:00:41. > :00:47.with some of nature's rough diamonds.
:00:47. > :00:50.Pinch me. I can't believe what I've just seen.
:00:50. > :00:56.On an allotment in Oxford, I get to eyeball some other slippery
:00:56. > :01:00.characters. It's one of the most charming animals you can find in the
:01:00. > :01:04.UK. I'm Chris Packham and this may not look like our natural habitat,
:01:04. > :01:14.but trust me, because I'm going to show you that Britain's streets are
:01:14. > :01:27.
:01:27. > :01:32.teaming with wild things. This is wildlife in urban areas, you'll find
:01:32. > :01:42.a real variety, too. Take Reading in Berkshire, for example. If you're
:01:42. > :01:45.
:01:46. > :01:49.prepared to get up early, there are Welcome to Reading Old Cemetery.
:01:49. > :01:54.Built in Victorian times on what was then farmland, the surrounding area
:01:54. > :02:00.has long been swallowed by roads and housing. But the cemetery has become
:02:00. > :02:04.a refuge for wildlife and lovers of wildlife.
:02:04. > :02:07.Well done. Congratulations for getting up so early.
:02:07. > :02:10.This little group of Reading enthusiasts are here to listen to
:02:10. > :02:20.the dawn chorus and hopefully spot other creatures lurking in the
:02:20. > :02:25.
:02:25. > :02:30.wren, a small bird with a very loud voice. But there's another bird, the
:02:30. > :02:33.UK's smallest, trying to get a word in edgeways.
:02:34. > :02:41.Somewhere in one of these treetops is a goldcrest, and it's a very
:02:41. > :02:45.high-pitched call. Oh, there it is again. I'm a fan of urban wildlife.
:02:45. > :02:48.It's also nice we get a lot of people who come here because they
:02:48. > :02:54.don't experience much wildlife. The gardens here are really tiny. It's a
:02:54. > :03:00.very densely occupied part of Berkshire. And that area over there
:03:00. > :03:03.is the most densely populated part. And this is one of the few places
:03:03. > :03:06.they can come and see wildlife. It's called a garden cemetery, which
:03:06. > :03:14.is quite unusual, and it's a Victorian cemetery. It's closed now,
:03:14. > :03:17.so it's relatively undisturbed. And it's bordered by two major roads. So
:03:17. > :03:23.it's this lovely island. It's a really special, tranquil place. It's
:03:23. > :03:29.lovely. Disturbing the tranquillity is this
:03:29. > :03:36.strange sound. That was the muntjac. Did you hear
:03:36. > :03:42.it? People call it the barking deer. Most deer do bark, but muntjac is a
:03:42. > :03:49.particularly loud bark. If you didn't know, you'd think that was a
:03:49. > :03:54.dog, wouldn't you, really? No-one knows exactly when this
:03:54. > :03:57.little group of eight deer arrived in the cemetery. They are from China
:03:57. > :04:01.originally. They were brought here by the Duke of Marlborough who saw
:04:01. > :04:05.them grazing out in the open on a trip to China and thought, "They'd
:04:05. > :04:13.look nice outside my stately home." He had a few rounded up and brought
:04:14. > :04:23.them back and let them go and they promptly vanished!
:04:23. > :04:27.Stand there with your binoculars. It looks like Bambi? Look, look! Behind
:04:27. > :04:30.the grave! Just over there. They escaped or disappeared and spread
:04:30. > :04:34.all around the country, they're still spreading north. I think they
:04:34. > :04:37.got as far as Sheffield. But all around southern Britain, they've
:04:37. > :04:44.followed the railway embankment. Anywhere you've got a railway line,
:04:45. > :04:47.you've got muntjac deer. We used to get a lot of complaints from people
:04:48. > :04:51.who had their flowers eaten by muntjac deer. So we experimented
:04:51. > :04:59.with what we could spray the flowers with to stop the muntjac eating
:04:59. > :05:05.them. And we found hairspray. WD-40 worked, but we found the flowers
:05:05. > :05:12.dissolved! There's a big mosaic of habitats in the urban area. This
:05:12. > :05:15.area we've covered today could be one crop in the countryside. It
:05:15. > :05:19.could be sprayed, but have no wildlife living there. It looks
:05:20. > :05:23.green, but there's no wildlife there. You come into town and you've
:05:23. > :05:26.got swifts in the rooftops, house martins under the eaves of some of
:05:26. > :05:36.these houses. Lots of ducks and swans and grebes and stuff. We've
:05:36. > :05:46.got sand martins on the riverside. So there's a lot more wildlife in
:05:46. > :05:46.
:05:46. > :05:49.and around the town than you'd get In this Brunel railway bridge in
:05:49. > :05:56.Reading, sand martins have migrated all the way from Africa to use
:05:56. > :05:59.drainage pipes as nest chambers. As their name suggests, sand martins
:05:59. > :06:06.usually nest in sandy banks or cliffs, but these have found
:06:06. > :06:11.somewhere that suits them just as Back at the cemetery, there's
:06:12. > :06:14.another delight awaiting the locals. The contents of a moth trap set in a
:06:15. > :06:18.nearby garden last night. People think moths are just brown and
:06:18. > :06:20.boring, hopefully we're going to dispel that myth. Often, moths are
:06:20. > :06:26.beautiful colours and they've also got quite incredible names,
:06:27. > :06:34.actually. This one's a small magpie. It's black and white with a yellow
:06:34. > :06:44.nose. And this one is a buff ermine. It sort of sits in a tent shape.
:06:44. > :06:44.
:06:44. > :06:50.It's got a little line of black dots there. Will it eat me? This moth is
:06:50. > :06:55.called a peppered moth. It comes in two forms. This lovely mottled black
:06:55. > :06:59.and white form and an all-black form. And back in the Industrial
:06:59. > :07:03.Revolution, when it got to be very black and smoky, these moths rested
:07:03. > :07:10.on treetops all day. And suddenly, all the white moths are getting
:07:10. > :07:14.pecked off by the birds and the black ones were surviving. So in the
:07:14. > :07:18.smoky industrial areas, there were a lot more black ones than black and
:07:18. > :07:22.white ones. But now, in the clean air, the black ones are more
:07:22. > :07:28.noticeable. And in Reading nowadays, you only get these black and white
:07:28. > :07:38.ones. The black ones have just about gone. There's another lovely one
:07:38. > :07:38.
:07:38. > :07:41.here, it's called a buff-tip. That looks just like a bit of birch twig.
:07:41. > :07:47.This handsome elephant hawk moth is a great opportunity for budding
:07:47. > :07:55.wildlife photographer Reese Tejani. I really enjoy coming here. It's
:07:55. > :08:02.much more wild compared to other church cemeteries. Where would he
:08:02. > :08:07.fly? In the sky, yeah. I think in a way, it's much more natural. It sort
:08:07. > :08:12.of seems a bit more tranquil and peaceful almost. We were born here.
:08:12. > :08:18.I've got generations of my family buried here. We've actually lived
:08:18. > :08:22.around the corner for over 12, 13 years. It's quite nice. We've never
:08:22. > :08:25.set foot in this cemetery until the last month, since it's been opened
:08:25. > :08:29.up for more of the wildlife expeditions, walks and talks. So
:08:29. > :08:35.it's been a good opportunity to see a part of Reading we haven't seen
:08:35. > :08:40.before. I have a very hectic life. I have two kids and a business to run.
:08:40. > :08:47.So for me to come here and just relax and find myself, who I am, it
:08:47. > :08:55.really helps me a lot. Reading has plenty of places to
:08:55. > :08:58.enjoy nature, but not always where you'd expect.
:08:58. > :09:05.The industrial heritage that helped build the town is now providing
:09:05. > :09:08.family homes for a remarkable range of wildlife.
:09:08. > :09:12.You've probably heard that old expression that wherever you are in
:09:12. > :09:15.the country, you're probably no more than six foot from a rat. Well, it
:09:15. > :09:19.isn't true. Well, here in Gosport on the south coast, they say the same
:09:19. > :09:22.thing about badgers. It might be a bit of an exaggeration, but not much
:09:22. > :09:26.of one. We sent Jon Cuthill to investigate, and he also popped
:09:26. > :09:31.along the coast at Chichester to check out the fastest animals on our
:09:31. > :09:36.planet. Fred and Brian might not be the
:09:36. > :09:42.fastest animals, but they don't hang around either. They love bikes and
:09:42. > :09:46.badgers. We do get an awful lot of calls. I've had calls saying,
:09:46. > :09:52."Excuse me, Mr, there's a bear in the middle of the road." I get all
:09:52. > :09:56.sorts of different calls. You can go out on an evening and come back and
:09:56. > :10:00.quite often stumble across a badger walking down a pathway or a road.
:10:00. > :10:03.There've always been lots of badgers in Gosport and Brian and Fred have
:10:03. > :10:09.even filmed them. It's thought there's at least a hundred badger
:10:09. > :10:12.setts in the town. The reason we think there's a lot of setts in
:10:12. > :10:17.Gosport is basically because it's been a protected area, with the
:10:17. > :10:24.MOD's presence. So a lot of the badger groups that were here have
:10:24. > :10:29.been here for generations. First stop on our badger tour is
:10:29. > :10:33.right next to the high street. Gosport's CAB.
:10:33. > :10:36.There's a nice little entrance there. What do you think?
:10:36. > :10:40.This might look like an innocuous hole. In fact, it's the entrance to
:10:40. > :10:44.a huge void under the building which a family of badgers have made their
:10:44. > :10:47.home. It's pretty evident there isn't a lot of spoil. So it doesn't
:10:47. > :10:54.need to make the chambers, it doesn't need to make its home and
:10:54. > :10:58.keep digging and digging. They're moving around the town quite readily
:10:58. > :11:05.and they will find odd areas like this and occupy it and use it as a
:11:06. > :11:11.sett. If these sticks are disturbed later
:11:11. > :11:16.on, Brian will know if the sett's still active. If I was a badger with
:11:16. > :11:19.a self-made home, that's the place I'd like to go to. I don't know if
:11:20. > :11:26.they communicate with each other and tell each other which are the best
:11:26. > :11:30.select areas of Gosport to live in. Fight our way through the jungle.
:11:30. > :11:38.Many of the other badger setts are in tiny green spaces that were left
:11:38. > :11:43.as houses were built around them. Urban badgers. Fantastic. There's
:11:43. > :11:49.their carry-out from the Chinese. They regularly kick spoil out and
:11:49. > :11:55.change their bedding or bring bedding out. Basically, it's good
:11:55. > :11:58.housekeeping. I think we've found another sett entrance. A couple of
:11:58. > :12:02.tunnels, another one other there. If you look around, we've actually got
:12:02. > :12:08.the whole badger path and we have a vent here, so the whole system is
:12:08. > :12:15.coming all the way across here. These badgers have probably occupied
:12:15. > :12:20.this sett for generations. OK, so there's lots of badgers in
:12:20. > :12:26.Gosport and they like to sample few tasty titbits. Maybe that's the key
:12:26. > :12:29.to me getting to see them. We're in another part of Gosport and despite
:12:29. > :12:34.being surrounded by houses and suburbs, there's another link with
:12:34. > :12:38.nature and it's just over there. That tunnel links this part of the
:12:38. > :12:41.housing estate with a nature reserve over the road. And the badgers come
:12:41. > :12:46.through to see what food they can get every night. And tonight, we're
:12:46. > :12:49.going to watch them. Pat Clipstone and her friend Jill
:12:49. > :12:51.have been putting down food in Jill's front garden to tempt the
:12:52. > :12:57.badgers in. Peanuts and dog biscuits, plus sometimes a special
:12:57. > :13:07.treat, chicken bones. They've been feeding the badgers for a fortnight
:13:07. > :13:10.
:13:10. > :13:14.now, but will they come out tonight? Yes! Just as it's getting dark, the
:13:14. > :13:21.first brave visitor pops his head out.
:13:21. > :13:26.Followed not long after by his slightly shyer friend. I don't think
:13:26. > :13:32.I've ever, ever got this close to a badger. And to think we're right in
:13:32. > :13:42.the middle of a housing estate in Gosport. It really does show how
:13:42. > :13:45.nature adapts to its environment. I hoped my night vision camera would
:13:45. > :13:55.catch one of the badgers having a drink, and that's exactly what it
:13:55. > :13:56.
:13:56. > :14:06.did. Look at this. He's about five yards away and they've got braver as
:14:06. > :14:13.
:14:13. > :14:19.we've just seen. That's what it's all about. Sit here quietly and
:14:20. > :14:24.they'll do it for you. The first one came out, led the way. The other one
:14:24. > :14:27.kind of came out, but a couple of times, straight back in the hedge.
:14:27. > :14:34.don't know what he heard, actually. His nose went up in the air. He
:14:34. > :14:40.smelt something. He may have just been smelling you. How rude!Sorry
:14:40. > :14:46.about that. How rude.I wouldn't be surprised if they were this year's
:14:46. > :14:50.and just learning. Really?Yeah. Because they are quite big when we
:14:50. > :14:54.get to see them. You don't very often get to see them when they're
:14:54. > :14:57.tiny. It was lovely. It's always lovely. Even if you only see one,
:14:57. > :15:00.it's lovely. You've done this before. Why do you keep coming back?
:15:00. > :15:03.What is it about badgers that you love? They're just adorable little
:15:03. > :15:06.creatures, aren't they? How can anybody hurt them? They're lovely.
:15:06. > :15:15.And they're so fascinating to watch, they get used to humans very quickly
:15:15. > :15:18.and they make it easy for you, really.
:15:18. > :15:25.Next stop, Chichester in West Sussex. Shops, cafes, historic
:15:25. > :15:29.buildings and, yes, more wildlife. The thing about urban wildlife is
:15:29. > :15:34.you can find it just about anywhere, including way up there at the top of
:15:34. > :15:38.the cathedral. For at least 12 years, a pair of
:15:38. > :15:43.peregrines have been nesting on the cathedral tower. And it's been the
:15:43. > :15:48.same female all that time. In recent years, remote cameras have
:15:48. > :15:53.been giving close-ups of peregrine family life. And on this day,
:15:53. > :15:57.everyone's feeling very expectant. Don't be fooled be the tea and jam
:15:57. > :16:00.surroundings. Up there, it's all happening. We've even had a dance
:16:00. > :16:06.with Lauren from the RSPB. Why? Because? About two hours ago, the
:16:06. > :16:12.first egg started to show signs of hatching, so we're really excited.
:16:12. > :16:15.So two little openings in the first egg. Yes.How long have we been
:16:15. > :16:18.waiting for this? We've been on anticipation for 32 days since her
:16:18. > :16:23.last egg was laid. She's sitting on four eggs. Incubation can take
:16:23. > :16:27.between 28 and 33 days, so she's not late, she's on time. And you are the
:16:27. > :16:31.expectant mum and that's why we had the dance of excitement. I feel like
:16:31. > :16:35.it. We have been watching these peregrines really closely for a
:16:35. > :16:39.number of years. She has raised 42 chicks over the last 12 years. This
:16:39. > :16:42.is her 13th year, but she has a new male, so it has thrown a spanner in
:16:42. > :16:48.the works. We weren't sure what would happen this year, would the
:16:48. > :16:52.eggs be viable. Under there, we have got four eggs, one ready to go.
:16:52. > :16:55.The excitement two hours ago was faithfully recorded by Graham. The
:16:55. > :16:59.moment when the female came off the eggs and revealed things were
:16:59. > :17:06.starting to happen. When she gets off the nest, you'll see a hole in
:17:07. > :17:14.one of the eggs. There it is! at that! Just there! It shows up
:17:14. > :17:22.quite well. I love the way she's watching us watching her. She stares
:17:22. > :17:26.at the cameras sometimes. She's such a tease! She's gone to sleep! As
:17:26. > :17:29.long as you don't go to sleep. all right. I won't go to sleep,
:17:29. > :17:33.don't worry about that. While they wait for the great event,
:17:33. > :17:43.a husband and wife team are waiting for a great shot of the planet's
:17:43. > :17:43.
:17:43. > :17:49.These are some of their cracking images from previous years. And
:17:49. > :17:55.today, they've bagged another belter for their album. I don't think I can
:17:55. > :18:00.take any more drama. You've got it, have you? Look. Look at the picture.
:18:00. > :18:07.That is a stunning photograph. I've got to ask, who took that one?
:18:07. > :18:11.did, I'm afraid. I'm really pleased with that. The female had just come
:18:11. > :18:16.off the nest because the male had brought some food in. And she left
:18:16. > :18:19.her food there and went off like a rocket after this buzzard.
:18:19. > :18:25.buzzard made two mistakes. One, getting too close to the nest and
:18:25. > :18:30.two, interrupting lunch. Absolutely. That's something you don't do with a
:18:30. > :18:34.peregrine falcon. Look at the talon. That's absolutely extraordinary.
:18:34. > :18:39.Several times, she had a go at him. Peregrines are a passion, even an
:18:39. > :18:46.obsession. Is that fair? Unfortunately, you're absolutely
:18:46. > :18:49.right. Tricky to photograph the fastest thing on the planet. Why not
:18:49. > :18:59.a snail or a tortoise? Easier, surely! It would be easier, but not
:18:59. > :19:00.
:19:00. > :19:09.so much fun. There he is.Yes! if that's not enough, good news from
:19:09. > :19:14.maternity Chichester. We've seen the first chick hatching, which is
:19:14. > :19:20.number 43 for this female. Have you tweeted yet? Been on Facebook, been
:19:20. > :19:23.on Twitter. Not even a minute old and it's out there on the Internet
:19:23. > :19:27.already! Bless him. In the end, three chicks hatched successfully.
:19:27. > :19:34.So all in all, in the last 12 years, there've been 45 peregrine chicks
:19:34. > :19:37.hatched at the cathedral. 45, what a magnificent total. And
:19:37. > :19:41.just to think, peregrine falcons were a national rarity when I was a
:19:41. > :19:46.kid and now they've bounced back and can be seen in cities all over the
:19:46. > :19:51.UK. Talking of cities, Oxford is famed for its university life, but
:19:51. > :19:57.it's not just a city of learning. It can also be a top spot to find
:19:57. > :20:01.wildlife. The city is famous for its dreaming
:20:01. > :20:06.spires and in the tower of the Natural History Museum, a colony of
:20:06. > :20:12.swifts have been nesting every year since 1948. They've been monitored
:20:12. > :20:16.all that time. These days, live nest cams give great close-up views. But
:20:16. > :20:20.there's plenty more wildlife elsewhere.
:20:20. > :20:24.This part of eastern Oxford is very built up. There's a huge housing
:20:24. > :20:29.estate, no less than three hospitals and just over there is Cowley, where
:20:29. > :20:32.they're still producing the Mini. But hidden behind all of this
:20:32. > :20:42.suburban sprawl is an absolutely fantastic little piece of ancient
:20:42. > :20:51.
:20:52. > :20:56.Hogley Bog, as was known in the 1600s. A surviving bit of ancient
:20:56. > :21:01.wetland in the city of Oxford. at that. A red kite up there. You
:21:01. > :21:04.wouldn't have seen that 20 years ago. That's spectacular.But, of
:21:04. > :21:09.course, red kites would have been over this place before they became
:21:09. > :21:13.almost extinct in England. It's fantastic. What's its richness?
:21:13. > :21:17.What's so important about it? springs that have been running since
:21:17. > :21:21.the last Ice Age, fed by water from the limestone. And the plants have
:21:21. > :21:24.been here a very long time. We have rare orchids, marsh helleborine,
:21:24. > :21:33.grass of parnassus, bog pimpernel, marsh pennywort and a host of rare
:21:33. > :21:36.insects breeding in the wetland. enclosed in this tiny site, locked
:21:36. > :21:40.in by all the housing. Houses up there, church and hospital, main
:21:40. > :21:45.roads. You wouldn't know it, would you? Aside from the sounds, no, you
:21:45. > :21:49.wouldn't. If we could switch our ears off, we could be lost in a
:21:49. > :21:53.corner of old England. You could be back in the 1600s. This is what it
:21:53. > :21:56.would've been like. You're standing on a plant described in the 1690s by
:21:56. > :22:05.Bobart, this is Bobart's bottle sedge. Where's this?First described
:22:05. > :22:09.in 1690. Where are we?They look like grasses. This is it. I'm going
:22:09. > :22:13.to pick one because there are quite a lot. Each one looks like a brandy
:22:13. > :22:19.bottle. This is the bottle sedge, first described as a British plant
:22:19. > :22:23.from this very spot. What about that! Described in the 1690s by
:22:23. > :22:28.Bobart. There are loads of rare and
:22:28. > :22:33.beautiful flowers, like this marsh valerian. This is the female, which
:22:33. > :22:37.has only stigmas, and this is the male, which has only anthers. This
:22:37. > :22:41.plant has only come back in the last six years due to careful management
:22:41. > :22:45.through increased cutting and raking. This is the orange tip, my
:22:45. > :22:55.second favourite butterfly. And that's what makes this place so
:22:55. > :22:58.
:22:58. > :23:01.special, the sheer amount of have a look at your flies. I'm
:23:01. > :23:05.partial to a fly. I think they're a hugely underrated group of animals.
:23:05. > :23:09.There are a large number of them and you're going to ask me how many
:23:09. > :23:12.there are here. I haven't got a number, but I know there are more
:23:12. > :23:15.than 7,000 species of fly in this country. And wetlands have the
:23:15. > :23:19.highest number, especially ancient wetlands, like fens. These are
:23:19. > :23:22.common spring hover flies. There's some solitary bees in there, as
:23:22. > :23:30.well. Yes. Bees nesting in cut bramble stems or earth banks and
:23:30. > :23:34.visiting the flowers for pollen. Wetlands produce so much bird food.
:23:34. > :23:39.This is a huge producer of crane flies and the chicks at this time of
:23:40. > :23:45.year depend on large amounts. of the warbler species go mad for
:23:45. > :23:51.crane flies. They're easy to catch and super abundant.
:23:51. > :23:55.Judy has been catching flies with a net and something called a pooter.
:23:55. > :23:58.There's a glass tube which runs into the glass vessel and here is another
:23:58. > :24:07.tube covered with a gauze which stops any insects passing through
:24:07. > :24:15.it. And this tube here, you put into your mouth and suck out any insects
:24:15. > :24:23.out of here. You need to spot the insect and with a sharp intake of
:24:23. > :24:28.breath, suck it up so it can be examined clearly in the glass tubes.
:24:28. > :24:31.One of these bungs is removable so you can release the insect. I can
:24:31. > :24:34.tell you, you might have seen classic movies, listened to
:24:34. > :24:40.brilliant rock music, but until you've pootered, you just haven't
:24:40. > :24:50.lived. So some pretty groovy action in the
:24:50. > :24:52.
:24:52. > :24:58.Lye Valley. But up at one end is of creatures. Look at this. It's one
:24:58. > :25:02.of the most charming animals you can find in the UK. It's a slow worm.
:25:02. > :25:08.Looking at its body, you might think it's a snake, but it's not, it's a
:25:08. > :25:15.legless lizard. You can tell this if you look at its eyes because it has
:25:15. > :25:22.eyelids. No snakes have eyelids, but lizards do. It's got a lovely tongue
:25:22. > :25:27.it flicks out like that, sampling the air. Tasting it. This is an
:25:27. > :25:34.animal which feeds on invertebrates, but does like eating slugs. So it's
:25:34. > :25:39.going to be very welcome here in the allotment. W hen I was a kid I used
:25:39. > :25:42.to love playing on the local allotments. I say playing, I wasn't
:25:42. > :25:45.running around doing cowboys and Indians, I was looking for bugs,
:25:45. > :25:48.beetles and all the slow worms I could find. You see, the thing about
:25:48. > :25:56.allotments is they're terribly productive. People go there and grow
:25:56. > :25:59.things like these blackcurrants. And they attract lots of wildlife.
:25:59. > :26:09.Allotments can be quiet corners of our cities which act as oases for
:26:09. > :26:10.
:26:10. > :26:14.allotments and sometimes they get larger species like deer and
:26:14. > :26:24.badgers. And on some of those allotments, these things are not
:26:24. > :26:32.
:26:32. > :26:36.quite so popular because they're The saying is, if you don't net it,
:26:36. > :26:41.you don't get it. So you put nets over. We're creating an environment
:26:41. > :26:45.animals like to live in. By digging here, we let the weeds come, which
:26:45. > :26:50.would be otherwise choked by the grass. So we have more flowers than
:26:50. > :26:53.other places. We've got compost bins the slow worms live in. If we
:26:53. > :26:57.weren't here using compost bins, they wouldn't have them to live in.
:26:57. > :27:01.We actively look after our ladybirds. It's warm in the sunshine
:27:01. > :27:10.and it's sheltered here. That's just what we need for when the greenfly
:27:10. > :27:16.come. We do share a bit with the nasties. The slugs. They've got a
:27:16. > :27:22.role to play. Yes. They have some of it. We try and avoid it, mechanical
:27:22. > :27:32.barriers and all sorts of things, but nothing's successful. I like
:27:32. > :27:37.wildlife. Down here, you get all sorts. Slow worms, bugs, foxes. Lots
:27:37. > :27:43.of birds eating the berries. It's good. I don't mind them pinching my
:27:43. > :27:46.food. It's good for them to have something to eat, so I don't mind.
:27:46. > :27:49.Another creature that loves places like this is the common lizard. It's
:27:49. > :27:57.cold blooded and basking in the sunshine helps it keep the right
:27:57. > :28:03.body temperature. And frogs like allotments, too. It's not
:28:03. > :28:07.surprising. There's so much here to eat. There you are, proof that Great
:28:07. > :28:11.Britain's urban areas are packed full of wildlife. And there's a