:00:32. > :00:38.We've got creepy Crawley spiders. Things that screech in the dark.
:00:38. > :00:48.have got that's in your hair. have got the one and only, the man
:00:48. > :00:48.
:00:48. > :00:58.who knows the dark side will stop visit Hallowe'en? Not yet. No, it's
:00:58. > :01:00.
:01:00. > :01:09.Autumnwatch Unsprung! What a fabulous audience we have
:01:09. > :01:19.today. Of course, we have the essential, keeping us all in order,
:01:19. > :01:24.
:01:24. > :01:31.and getting odder messages. It's a L'Orage. As I mentioned earlier,
:01:31. > :01:35.its neck. You're talking about the black build a blackbird? That was
:01:35. > :01:40.an little bit of a worry because last week, some of you send in
:01:40. > :01:48.photographs and asked questions about blackbirds and Chris said
:01:48. > :01:52.that they were probably... This thing was, people wrote in and said,
:01:52. > :01:58.these are just amateur blackbirds but at the that was unfair because
:01:58. > :02:03.we didn't prison it was immature blackbirds. We got they were black
:02:03. > :02:11.with properly black bowls. Look at these pictures please. There they
:02:11. > :02:16.are, this is an example of exactly what you were talking about. The
:02:16. > :02:24.the one on the bottom left-hand corner, right hand corner, is a
:02:24. > :02:28.proper black bird. The others look like immature blackbirds and we're
:02:28. > :02:38.not interested in those. I didn't know what it meant when it came to
:02:38. > :02:44.these faux blackbirds so tell us. He it's on my card, apparently!
:02:44. > :02:50.official response is, some juveniles that have underdeveloped
:02:50. > :02:53.yellow beaks yet but we get birds that come in from Scandinavia over
:02:53. > :02:58.the winter and they are slightly slimmer and have these distinctive
:02:58. > :03:04.darker birds. There are Scandinavian the blackbirds. We got
:03:04. > :03:10.that from our friends at the BT though. We have real treats, Mark
:03:10. > :03:18.Bardsley who has been here before, look at these, you will like these
:03:18. > :03:26.a lot. Who is this supposed to be? Years is brilliant, but at the
:03:26. > :03:31.detail in that. I don't look like that, do I? Look at mine, we
:03:31. > :03:37.haven't changed our tea-cosy this week but I have one on my head and
:03:37. > :03:47.look, we have a naturalist their and the sticky toffee apple - it's
:03:47. > :03:49.
:03:49. > :03:59.absolutely Fabulous. I like the way I've got bird's legs! What I like
:03:59. > :04:00.
:04:01. > :04:06.down in the corner is the associated species. A I think we
:04:06. > :04:16.should have an audience from the vote - whose thinks that Martin's
:04:16. > :04:23.
:04:23. > :04:33.looks like him? Who thinks that mine is a good image of me? Chris?
:04:33. > :04:33.
:04:34. > :04:41.He is accomplished, that is fantastic. That will take pride of
:04:41. > :04:51.place in my toilet. I'm only joking, I'm really chuffed with that.
:04:51. > :05:02.
:05:02. > :05:04.we have a quiz? Let's have the Quiz here. Right, because this week his
:05:05. > :05:09.ass go on courses and we have three skulls. We have been talking about
:05:09. > :05:16.all these animals in the series so far. The first one is this small
:05:16. > :05:21.one at the bottom here. Look at the distinctive shape and those eye
:05:21. > :05:28.sockets. The eye sockets and the shape of the beak. The second one,
:05:28. > :05:38.a much larger scale, covered in some distracted wedding. A species
:05:38. > :05:42.we have been talking a lot about. Cover the name up! The third one is
:05:42. > :05:46.a much smaller one because that teachers will need to be seen to
:05:46. > :05:52.provide a clue as to what this is. I have to tell you that this is not
:05:52. > :06:02.a full adult of this species, this is an animal that is have grown and
:06:02. > :06:03.
:06:03. > :06:12.it was full size, it would be out here. The other parties to identify
:06:12. > :06:20.a this breed of dog. A wonderful breed Of Dock, which breed is that?
:06:20. > :06:29.Does anyone know what they might be? We have a few. Let's have some
:06:29. > :06:33.questions. Billy - why don't feed fares breed here in the UK? They
:06:33. > :06:38.have bred here but not in large numbers. There are sporadic
:06:38. > :06:41.breeders. They have bred in Scotland. They are a bird that has
:06:41. > :06:47.adapted to a thrash which is breeding in the northern parts of
:06:47. > :06:51.Europe. We have thrash, song thrushes and blackbirds and they
:06:51. > :06:56.have evolved to live in an environment for the North and so as
:06:56. > :06:59.a consequence, there are aspects of their physiology not suited to this
:06:59. > :07:09.this eulogy. As climate change continues, they will be pushed
:07:09. > :07:10.
:07:10. > :07:14.further our words. Presumably they have a similar diets to our native
:07:14. > :07:19.thrushes. There are always subtle differences, that is the whole
:07:19. > :07:25.point. To separate yourself from your nearest rivals, reduce
:07:25. > :07:30.competition so you have a resource to yourself. At some point in the
:07:30. > :07:33.origin of the evolution of the thrush of birds, they had separated
:07:33. > :07:43.so they have nested in the Highlands, they probably do still
:07:43. > :07:48.every year but not very many. next one sent us a letter with a
:07:48. > :07:53.weird at a corner. I think the record is in there. Please can you
:07:53. > :07:58.solve a mystery. Just off a beach, I came across scrolls looking like
:07:58. > :08:03.acorns but on further inspection, there were no cooked trees but she
:08:03. > :08:09.located these unidentified trees. I know these extremely well. These
:08:09. > :08:15.are home book Trees, 16 century invaders and they are evergreens so
:08:15. > :08:20.they don't lose their leaves. They are tolerant to living on rough
:08:20. > :08:26.conditions and they took over a little bit. I do a lot conservation
:08:26. > :08:30.work in difficult places and I am forever chopping down these because
:08:30. > :08:34.people don't like them. But they provide good cover in the winter
:08:34. > :08:40.and there was one year us which was a great roosting site for birds
:08:40. > :08:46.because they are evergreen. They are not all bad. And not going to
:08:46. > :08:56.cut them down any more! That is the second question about acorns. We
:08:56. > :08:56.
:08:56. > :09:06.have a good sound question from Joe he says, what is this signed?
:09:06. > :09:08.
:09:08. > :09:15.GRUNTING. Does anybody know what that is? Anyone have any idea?
:09:16. > :09:25.Let's hear it again. It doesn't even sound leaden animal. I've got
:09:26. > :09:27.
:09:27. > :09:32.very low volume, to be honest, but it could be a keeper career. It was
:09:33. > :09:39.recorded in the Forest of Dean. sounds more like a bird, that
:09:39. > :09:49.repetitive call. Can we have it at a higher volume. I just been told
:09:49. > :10:01.
:10:01. > :10:04.him idea what it is. It is a raving. - Mike Raven. We've been saying
:10:04. > :10:10.curious things have been happening this autumn and many have been
:10:10. > :10:14.talking about strange bird nesting habits. Chris SOBS swallows on the
:10:14. > :10:18.nest in October, but as ridiculously late. Jehan saw
:10:18. > :10:25.magpies are building a nest just last week and gym socks and
:10:25. > :10:35.ducklings on Wednesday. But then we heard about this very extreme
:10:35. > :10:35.
:10:35. > :10:42.example. Can you please come in? Look at that, he is hissing isn't
:10:42. > :10:49.he? We ought to say that this is a wild bird and Pauline wants to keep
:10:49. > :10:59.this bird or wild. Where did he come from? He has been in with us
:10:59. > :11:04.for a fortnight life. He was taken into a vet so we hope that there
:11:04. > :11:09.are no siblings needing help but a bar and now at this age is six
:11:09. > :11:13.months too early or six months too late. He is facing a harsh winter
:11:13. > :11:23.and it is a problem but there are a species that breed in every month
:11:23. > :11:23.
:11:23. > :11:28.of the year. If we get a year where there is lots of food, they will
:11:28. > :11:34.have one batch, then another, then another so they are designed to
:11:34. > :11:39.respond in this way. I remember seeing some that had just left a
:11:39. > :11:45.nest of Christmas Day! If he was let in the wild, would he make it?
:11:45. > :11:50.If he was being fed by the adults, they would rare a few out of their
:11:50. > :11:56.brood but for them, success is getting one or two of them through.
:11:56. > :12:02.For him, without his parents he but perished very quickly. Have we
:12:02. > :12:08.actually said that it is a barn owl? Sir, It is a barn owl. You are
:12:08. > :12:12.hoping that somebody in the country, somebody out there might know of
:12:12. > :12:16.another chick because she would like another? Obviously we are
:12:16. > :12:19.going to release it but it won't be until the spring and he will do so
:12:19. > :12:22.much better if he can be with another young a barn owl so if
:12:22. > :12:25.there is another one in captivity waiting for Rehabilitation, it
:12:25. > :12:29.would be good to get the two together so that he doesn't face a
:12:29. > :12:35.winter on his own. I have known you for years and you have brought up
:12:35. > :12:41.all sorts of animals are usually in your house but have you ever looked
:12:41. > :12:44.after barn owls before? At one time, be used to do the barn owl release
:12:44. > :12:49.scheme and for many years we were part of that before they eventually
:12:49. > :12:53.decided that it wasn't successful and was stopped. We have done barn
:12:53. > :12:58.owls quite a lot but I had never ever seen a barn are at this time
:12:58. > :13:02.of year at this age. Are you hopeful for his release? I think so,
:13:02. > :13:07.we would have to take him through to the spring but we bring up our
:13:07. > :13:14.birds now so it will be nice to follow what happens. He has stopped
:13:14. > :13:18.kissing. Thank you so much for bringing him in and good luck.
:13:19. > :13:23.Thatcher Christmas sorted out, you'll be feeding him mice. We like
:13:23. > :13:27.to get questions from the public and we like to get out and about to
:13:27. > :13:37.see people who want to ask us questions so we went to a rather
:13:37. > :13:38.
:13:38. > :13:46.unusual group this week to see what Hello Autumnwatch. We are the Avon
:13:46. > :13:55.bat group. How do you want me to start? I'm Joe, what's the largest
:13:55. > :13:58.fugi in Britain.? We are picking up a bat and it's a pippistral. Almost
:13:58. > :14:07.every evening we seem to have a frog in the garden but we don't
:14:07. > :14:13.have any ponds near us. I wondered how far frogs travel? Vampire bats,
:14:13. > :14:23.flower bats... Hello, I'm Josephine. Hello, I'm Ethan. Can beavers
:14:23. > :14:26.
:14:26. > :14:29.climb? Can badgers climb? Look, go on? Can bats walk? Thanks and bye!
:14:29. > :14:34.It's the Avon bat group, not the Trust asking those questions. Did
:14:34. > :14:41.you get the questions? No, remind me, please. One of them about the
:14:41. > :14:45.largest ever fungi. That could be a trick question. Yes! When you look
:14:45. > :14:50.at the if you thinkal body that,'s only a tiny part of the organism
:14:50. > :14:55.because the bulk of it, the mycelia which look like white threads
:14:55. > :14:59.spread over huge areas and in a forest, they can spread for
:14:59. > :15:04.kilometres, so if you manage to pull them out of the soil,
:15:04. > :15:08.impossible task, something like you do in a fairy tail, just get a
:15:08. > :15:13.Princess or something, they'll be absolutely massive. So it could be
:15:13. > :15:21.a trick question. Other than that, I thought it was beef stake fungus
:15:21. > :15:28.but it wasn't. There was a thing called a giant polyfore fungus.
:15:28. > :15:36.big was it? Big! Massive. Very, very massive! So the answer is a
:15:36. > :15:41.very big one. Sorry. Richard asks, how far do frag frog travel? A long
:15:41. > :15:49.way, there you go, I can answer this one. These questions are great.
:15:49. > :15:53.Do badgers climb? Yes. Frogs - about a kilometre? They will travel
:15:53. > :15:57.a long way from their ponds to find somewhere to hibernate. So if you
:15:57. > :16:02.haven't a pond in your garden, you might have somewhere where they
:16:02. > :16:08.want to hibernate, or they might be going across your garden to your
:16:08. > :16:12.neighbour's garden which is a hotspot for hibernating. They go
:16:12. > :16:18.back to their breeding ponds and sometimes people stop them getting
:16:18. > :16:24.run over because they aggregate in one spot. On a if you occasions,
:16:24. > :16:33.they'll travel far. Josephine, do badgers climb, she asked? I love
:16:33. > :16:41.this. We can do better than answer that. Some film has been sent in
:16:41. > :16:45.from Guy. Look at this. Fantastic! Stirling effort. That must have
:16:45. > :16:49.been about five foot. Badgers can definitely climb and honey badgers,
:16:49. > :16:53.they can't jump at all, but if they want to get up something, I've
:16:53. > :16:57.filmed this, they create a little tower, they drag blocks in, they
:16:57. > :17:02.keep looking where they want to g, pull in another and another and
:17:02. > :17:11.make a tower. That reminds me of the incredible badger that
:17:11. > :17:15.performed in a circus in 1987! Anyway, yes, so they do climb. Very
:17:16. > :17:23.well. How far? I'm joking, they didn't ask that. Ethan wants to
:17:23. > :17:33.know, do bats walk? We can answer that as well. They don't just walk,
:17:33. > :17:47.
:17:47. > :17:52.What is going on?! A couple of bats floating over your head. Yes.
:17:52. > :17:57.know the clocks change on Saturday night, it gives us an extra hour.
:17:57. > :18:00.What is everyone going to do with that? I'm going to get someone
:18:00. > :18:03.who's currently offline online because the BBC are running an
:18:03. > :18:06.excellent campaign which is designed to get more people web
:18:06. > :18:10.active, if you like. It's worth doing, particularly for us, because
:18:10. > :18:13.we rely on your comments which come in via the website. There might be
:18:13. > :18:17.some people out there, for one reason or another, who're not
:18:17. > :18:23.online so. Think about joining that campaign. I have a web address for
:18:23. > :18:27.you, www.bbc.co.uk/givanhour. Just an hour of your time, to introduce
:18:27. > :18:30.someone to the wonders of the web. It's got to be worth it.
:18:30. > :18:38.special guest now, great friend of mine and someone I've worked with
:18:38. > :18:43.on the Really Wild Show for years, it's Nick Baker. Nick's braut all
:18:43. > :18:47.sorts of creepy Crawleys in for us on the Halloween theme -- brought.
:18:47. > :18:52.They're the sort we have in our houses and we overlook them and
:18:52. > :18:57.don't even notice them, do we? These are as much about autumn as
:18:57. > :19:02.anything. These, if it's wet over the next couple of weeks, you can
:19:02. > :19:10.go looking for these in your own house. This is Ian by the way,
:19:10. > :19:16.filming these with the special camera. Don't lose him. Oh, no!
:19:16. > :19:24.There's a spare! I've got it. That's a daddy long legs spider.
:19:24. > :19:31.Really difficult to say. I prefrb its Latin name. -- prefer its Latin
:19:31. > :19:35.name. They are so brilliant. It's got very long, thin spindly legs
:19:35. > :19:38.which, when you think about what they feed on, they specialise in
:19:38. > :19:44.eating other spiders, if they were trying to wrap up their prey next
:19:44. > :19:47.to them, they're likely to get a nip so they process it at arm's
:19:47. > :19:52.length. They're cool spiders. You can find them in any quiet corner
:19:52. > :19:56.of your house. Really cool. They get confused with these guys, not a
:19:56. > :20:03.spider at all. I don't know how we are going to get a shot of that.
:20:03. > :20:10.Another daddy long legs. That is actually a harvestman. It's an
:20:10. > :20:13.arachni but not a spider. Early shepherds apparently used to wear
:20:13. > :20:17.stilts in order to keep an eye on their flock and that's what these
:20:17. > :20:23.guys are supposed to look like. What, because they kept an eye on
:20:23. > :20:29.sheep? It's OK, I got it! There's your harvestman. The other daddy
:20:29. > :20:34.long legs is the crane fly which I've tried so hard to find for you
:20:34. > :20:38.so we have all three, but this weather's destroyed them. Is it a
:20:38. > :20:42.good year for spiders and creepy Crawleys in your house? It's been a
:20:42. > :20:45.brilliant year in the sense of, we had a brilliant dry start. Many
:20:45. > :20:48.survived the vulnerable stage because of that. At this time of
:20:48. > :20:52.year, everything's maturing so the spiders that set off on the journey,
:20:52. > :20:56.a lot of them made it and a lot of them are big and adult. This one
:20:56. > :21:01.over here, the garden cross spider, is the one you will notice stuck
:21:01. > :21:08.slap-bang in the middle of the classic webs at the moment. You can
:21:08. > :21:14.see the cross on its back there. Nick, I know you've got loads of
:21:14. > :21:18.spiders to show us, but we've run out of time to show them. Already.
:21:18. > :21:24.They're fantastic and Chris you are going to set a challenge, aren't
:21:24. > :21:27.you? We have had a good idea here from a lady called Amy who said,
:21:27. > :21:32.why don't you try and find the biggest house spider in the UK.
:21:32. > :21:35.It's a good idea because people exaggerate the size of spiders all
:21:35. > :21:39.the time. People say they had a spider in the house like that. Go
:21:39. > :21:43.and see. Photograph them, send it in, but you've got to put a ruler
:21:43. > :21:47.or something of a known size in the photograph so that we can calculate
:21:47. > :21:50.how big your spider is. Perhaps we can come up with a prize for
:21:50. > :21:55.Britain's biggest spider. excellent idea. I would like to
:21:55. > :22:00.start the ball rolling. I took this photograph this morning in my
:22:00. > :22:04.upstairs bathroom. I tried to get the 20p near the spider but it was
:22:04. > :22:08.difficult. This is my own first attempt. He's called Eddie, he's
:22:09. > :22:14.eaten two of his wives so far. He's a brute actually. That's the
:22:14. > :22:20.beginning. That's the 20p? Yes. You've got to get it closer, please.
:22:20. > :22:25.I tried prodding him. Use more expertise than Hugh's games over
:22:25. > :22:35.here. I thought it was a good effort. And the cardinal spider, so
:22:35. > :22:40.called because it frightened Cardinal Walsey centuries ago, they
:22:40. > :22:44.were supposed to be 13 centimetres. Always exaggerating. Time for a
:22:44. > :22:54.special, special quiz. It has its own sting. Let's have the sting,
:22:54. > :22:58.
:22:58. > :23:03.Marvellous. We've only got time for one poo apparently. Loads of poos
:23:03. > :23:13.here. Let's have a look at the poo. Have a look at this. That's
:23:13. > :23:20.beautiful. Do you know what, I'm afraid that's not poo. Ten by four,
:23:20. > :23:24.not poo at all? Looks like a pellet of a cow. It's a pellet. I've got
:23:24. > :23:28.one similar in my collection! more for you, quickly, have a look
:23:28. > :23:33.at that one? Got to get it out! Test-tube from Nigel Brown.
:23:33. > :23:37.won't come out. This is a man who collected poo as a child! Must have
:23:37. > :23:47.come from the Isle of Wight I suppose. Can't get to the poo.
:23:47. > :23:47.
:23:48. > :23:52.While you are doing that, shall we go... There you go. Yummy. OK. It
:23:52. > :23:57.says brown. Yes. The smell isn't characteristic. It's been damaged
:23:57. > :24:01.by moths. I'm searching for excuses but it's got insect remains in it
:24:01. > :24:06.so some sort of predator in there. It's quite small. I'm not sure this
:24:06. > :24:16.is a poo. I think this could be a pellet as well. We did a special
:24:16. > :24:19.
:24:19. > :24:25.poo quiz thing as well! It's a bit of a poo... Shall we try to get
:24:25. > :24:32.some quizzy answery things? Yes. Are we doing the answers? Yes.
:24:32. > :24:35.Anyone got them Allwright? Loads of people got them Allwright. A small
:24:35. > :24:41.apology to make because loads of people got it right even though we
:24:41. > :24:47.labelled them wrongly on the web. Craig Round, Nick Tobb and Nicola
:24:47. > :24:53.Main were gong the first to get it right. Large eye sockets and of
:24:53. > :24:58.course that predator beak identify this as a tawny owl. Skull two,
:24:58. > :25:05.well, down here you are looking for the tusks. This could only be one
:25:05. > :25:12.animal from the UK and it's the one and only wild boor, the skull of a
:25:12. > :25:22.male here. And this one? It was the teeth, the canines at the front.
:25:22. > :25:26.
:25:26. > :25:30.Clearly, it's a type of otter. Part D, the finest dogs in the world.
:25:30. > :25:34.They were poodles. Well done to everybody who got it right. We have
:25:34. > :25:39.some buggy questions now. Baker boy, in you come. You should answer some
:25:39. > :25:42.of these. Joanne Clegg sent us this picture if we can have the picture.
:25:42. > :25:46.These spiders were concentrated in one field. It was like a sea of wet
:25:46. > :25:50.cob webs coating every blade of grass and when you look closely,
:25:50. > :25:56.there were millions of little black spiders and under the web, there
:25:56. > :26:06.were flies and other insects trapped. Next day it was all gone.
:26:06. > :26:06.
:26:06. > :26:10.Whofrpblgts sent that in, Tol st oy? -- Tolstoy. Why one field and
:26:10. > :26:16.why just one day? Chris gave me a quick flash. They could be
:26:16. > :26:21.youngsters. They do ballooning this time of year, when you get a good
:26:21. > :26:25.day, you used to get lots of down floating in the sky. Spiders do a
:26:25. > :26:29.lot of ballooning and join up the grass webs. Not sure what this is
:26:29. > :26:35.exactly going on, but what happens is, you get convection currents and
:26:35. > :26:40.a cold air, warm sun, all the cob webs lift in the air and it comes
:26:40. > :26:44.down again. Joanna Clegg sent this one in and this one in. I think
:26:44. > :26:48.they're youngsters dispersing, they go up and become aeriel plankton
:26:48. > :26:53.and travel many miles up there. live one from Jim O'Neil. A live
:26:54. > :27:02.question. The red mites found on the underside of beetles, are they
:27:02. > :27:05.parasites or do they benefit the beetle? It depend on the species.
:27:05. > :27:11.Some will be parasites and some will be getting from A-to-B like
:27:11. > :27:16.catching a bus. One from STVPQ - my goodness - love slugs and I noticed
:27:16. > :27:22.many with passengers on. The Millie peeds appear to be attracted to
:27:22. > :27:27.slugs and apear to groom them. Why do they do this? I was out trying
:27:27. > :27:32.to catch crane flies for you guys, millipedes like the sugars and
:27:32. > :27:36.proteins in the slime. doesn't?! I do suck a slug every
:27:36. > :27:39.now and again myself. Wood lice do it and mites. If you look at a slug
:27:40. > :27:44.closely, when it opens its breathing pore, you will see little
:27:44. > :27:47.white mites running round, then they rush to get in before it shuts
:27:47. > :27:52.the pore. That's all we've got time for. It's Halloween this weekend so
:27:52. > :27:56.there are loads of things going on. Let me make my way to the map and
:27:56. > :27:59.level-headed Joe will tell us where to go this weekend to get out and
:27:59. > :28:03.about. There are events right across the country so go to the
:28:03. > :28:08.things to do part of the website, put in your postcode and you can
:28:08. > :28:14.find things near you. Tomorrow, the Al-Arabiya are holding an arts and
:28:14. > :28:18.crafts eevent at the Royal botanical gardens in Edinburgh --
:28:18. > :28:22.the RSPB. The National Trust have an event just outside Birmingham
:28:22. > :28:28.and also, if you want to see some wild life at the weekend, the
:28:28. > :28:33.barnacle geese are coming in en mass in the Solway Firth. Bradgate
:28:33. > :28:36.Park in Leicester, an event there. A heap of swans arriving in
:28:36. > :28:39.Northern Ireland. Of course, it is Halloween, so
:28:39. > :28:45.there will be masss to do and so get out there, see some wildlife
:28:45. > :28:50.and have some fun. Yes. We are going to see the barnacle geese,