:00:31. > :00:36.It's time for Unspring. Now, Sun spring is a dynamic progress, you
:00:36. > :00:40.never know exactly what is going to happen, it's completely unscripted.
:00:40. > :00:46.So I don't think it's a programme that you want to introduce with
:00:46. > :00:56.jazz or the blues. What we need to introduce Sun spring is a bit of
:00:56. > :01:03.
:01:04. > :01:12.I tell you what, Chris, I think the glam rock has got our audience
:01:12. > :01:18.moved. Say hello, audience. ALL: Hey. And amongst them is Richard
:01:18. > :01:23.Taylor-Jones, who will join us. And the lady who produced the programme
:01:23. > :01:33.you've just seen. Well done! So get your questions, anything you want
:01:33. > :01:40.to say to us into Level headed. Live. What next? We must do an
:01:40. > :01:48.official change ever of our tea cosy. We have a special tea cosy.
:01:48. > :01:53.Look at that. What a work of art! What species is that, Chris? Can
:01:53. > :02:00.you tell? I'm going to with hold judgment on that. We have a treat
:02:00. > :02:06.here, because Lynn, hello. Here is the real person. She is the one who
:02:06. > :02:13.makes these fantastic tea kosies for us and has done for years.
:02:13. > :02:22.You have to put the tail up. It's beautiful. And you are going to
:02:22. > :02:30.Croatia for us, live. This is live...An Apple cosy. And we'll cut
:02:30. > :02:36.through to her to see how it is coming on throughout the programme.
:02:36. > :02:44.Live Croatia, whatever next! We're at Slimbridge so let's start
:02:44. > :02:54.with some goosey-type of questions. A picture from Ian W, why are these
:02:54. > :02:55.
:02:55. > :03:01.geese hanging upside down. They really are. These geese are
:03:01. > :03:09.whiffling. What they do to lose altitude very fast is basically not
:03:09. > :03:14.fly! They flip on to their backs and it makes them entirely unaero-
:03:14. > :03:18.dynamic and they fall from the sky. So if they're trying to land
:03:18. > :03:25.quickly, to get away from a predator, or join their friends in
:03:25. > :03:31.a small space, they will basically whiffle and turn themselves upside
:03:31. > :03:41.down and tumble to the ground. you ever seen one of them get it
:03:41. > :03:42.
:03:42. > :03:52.ronk? No, but I have - wrong? No, but I have seen one fly into things.
:03:52. > :03:57.
:03:57. > :04:07.I saw a goose take off and hit a Impala directly in the backside, it
:04:07. > :04:09.
:04:09. > :04:16.was rather ignominios end to the bird.
:04:16. > :04:26.And don't forget that many birds can fly into your patio windows, so
:04:26. > :04:26.
:04:26. > :04:31.do put stickers on them to help prevent that. And this watcher says
:04:31. > :04:36.do Canada geese never, never shut up? Well, they have to communicate
:04:36. > :04:40.with one another and when they're flying in the typical V pattern the
:04:40. > :04:46.one at the front is doing more of the work because it's creating an
:04:46. > :04:50.air flow to make it easier for the others to fly. So obviously the
:04:50. > :04:54.poor goose at the front can't do all the work all the time, so they
:04:54. > :05:02.do swap over so they have to communicate. But whether they do it
:05:02. > :05:07.all the time, I don't know. One of the things they're worried about is
:05:07. > :05:13.losing moisture when they're migrating they don't want to lose
:05:13. > :05:20.moister. And if you're always hanging....! What are they saying
:05:20. > :05:24.to each other?, "Your turn N." they don't want to lose their
:05:24. > :05:30.youngsters, otherwise they'd be doomed. Keep your questions coming
:05:30. > :05:40.in. It's quiz time. This week we've been very inventive, I think.
:05:40. > :05:43.
:05:43. > :05:48.Because we have some wild foul which we've transformed into sort
:05:48. > :05:54.of stained-glass images. You've got to try and guess what this abstract
:05:54. > :06:01.image of a bird is. This one we're going to tell you. Here it is, now
:06:01. > :06:10.watch it transform. And it will turn into the barnacle goose.
:06:11. > :06:20.So these are part of the quiz. This is A. Try and identify this bird.
:06:21. > :06:21.
:06:21. > :06:31.What do you reckon audience? Don't say. Did you get it? ALL: Yes.
:06:31. > :06:41.
:06:41. > :06:46.is bird B. Slightly harder? Here is I have to say, this is the first
:06:46. > :06:52.quiz that I think I've got all three right. If you sit at home
:06:52. > :07:02.every week, like I do thinking, "I don't know any of those" you might
:07:02. > :07:09.be able to get all of these. Last week, we were asked about giant
:07:09. > :07:15.spiders. We're not coming to that yet. No, it comes later in our
:07:15. > :07:21.running order, but we're telling you now. But we don't want to scare
:07:21. > :07:25.all those people who don't like spiders off.
:07:25. > :07:30.Now. Our live animals today are hedgehogs. But we'll come to them
:07:30. > :07:35.in a minute. Now, we have been a little bit light on videos from you
:07:35. > :07:41.at home up to now. We really, really want them. And all of a
:07:41. > :07:51.sudden they've come flooding in. Let's have a look at some. This is
:07:51. > :07:51.
:07:51. > :07:57.from John. It's a deer. What is going on? 4 And there you
:07:57. > :08:07.just saw something jump up, and he's rushing around. Let's see what
:08:07. > :08:08.
:08:08. > :08:14.it was. And it is a...fox! And not
:08:14. > :08:19.surprising, the fox. And it had a youngster there, in the grass, and
:08:19. > :08:24.it was very worried about that fox coming in and doing that youngster
:08:24. > :08:28.a bit of mischief. That was very nice footage. Thank
:08:28. > :08:36.you, John. This is from Derek. Oh that my
:08:36. > :08:42.garden was like this! Have you seen anything like this,
:08:42. > :08:47.Chris? These are goldfinches. They have become an increasingly common
:08:48. > :08:55.garden bird. They're taking advantage of garden feed,. Look at
:08:55. > :09:01.the lawn, it's covered and the tree too. There were about 80 to 100
:09:01. > :09:08.there. Chris, do you remember this week we met someone who said, "Why
:09:08. > :09:13.don't I have any birds in my garden this year? They've all gone there!
:09:13. > :09:20.I think he lives near the countryside and they've been out
:09:20. > :09:25.foraging, and they've suddenly discovered those feeders and
:09:25. > :09:31.flocked in. Do they normally come in pairs,
:09:31. > :09:38.frinches.. I had two in my garden. They were sitting either side of
:09:38. > :09:44.the feed are. Very spiritual. But they didn't last for long,
:09:44. > :09:54.because a great big sparrowhawk came in and got one!
:09:54. > :09:56.
:09:56. > :10:03.David Bradley, this is curious, has sent us video of an animal that it
:10:03. > :10:09.is hard to get exited about, but these are fresh-water shrimp.s.
:10:09. > :10:16.They're climbing up a trickle of fresh water. And it had rained and
:10:16. > :10:20.this pond had filled up and the shrimps were migrating up to it.
:10:20. > :10:27.Theories. Firstly, they want to colonise new areas. So they could
:10:27. > :10:33.be moving just to get into that new area. They might be moving from
:10:33. > :10:38.stagnant water, with not a lot of oxygen, into fresh water full of
:10:38. > :10:42.oxygen to keep them happy. It was fascinating. I've never seen
:10:42. > :10:48.anything like it. Keep them coming in, they're brilliant.
:10:48. > :10:52.And how are you getting on, Lynn? That is quick! But it won't fit my
:10:52. > :11:02.head. I think it's time to bring in our
:11:02. > :11:02.
:11:02. > :11:08.special guest, Richard Taylor-Jones. And I've brought you this. Thank
:11:08. > :11:14.you very much. That's to stop me coughing. You've been a very busy
:11:14. > :11:19.man because not only have you been doing seals, but all the other
:11:19. > :11:24.guest presenter films. Yes, it's been a busy few weeks. There's an
:11:24. > :11:31.update about the mystery seals. I wanted to know how many were
:11:31. > :11:36.there, because nobody seems to know. We did a survey and it is reckoned
:11:36. > :11:41.150 are there, which is the most recorded around the sands. And I
:11:41. > :11:47.spoke to Brett Lewis, who has studied the seals for a number of
:11:47. > :11:52.years. He thinks part of the issue is that more and more wind farms
:11:52. > :11:57.are going up off-shore, around the Kent coast and those wind farms
:11:58. > :12:03.could be acting as no take zones, so there are more fish and the
:12:03. > :12:09.seals are benefiting from the more fish. So, wind farms can cause
:12:09. > :12:17.problems, but it is an interesting take on it. It would be nice to
:12:17. > :12:21.have a bof reason to champion - a positive reason to champion
:12:22. > :12:28.sustainable energy. A couple of questions. Emma says,
:12:28. > :12:36."Why do seals lift up their heads and tails when basking. I knew
:12:36. > :12:42.somebody would ask me this. don't know! If - I've been
:12:42. > :12:47.Googleing all day. And the best I can come up with is that they're
:12:47. > :12:53.really happy. But seals do get really, really hot so they want to
:12:53. > :12:59.expose as much of their surface area to the wind to cool out and by
:12:59. > :13:04.bending, as much as possible is exposed to the winds. But they do
:13:04. > :13:09.like it hot, because they come out of the water to get more warmth to
:13:09. > :13:16.digest their food. A lot of the reasons why we have so many grey
:13:16. > :13:21.seals in this country is because we have so many islands so they're
:13:21. > :13:27.protected from predators and humans. And it's there that they come out
:13:27. > :13:33.of the water to do their digestion. We've been sent a video of a seal
:13:33. > :13:39.that maybe went to sleep, perhaps to digest. And then had a nasty
:13:39. > :13:47.surprise! Oh, dear, what happened to all the
:13:47. > :13:55.water! He's gone to sleep and the tide's gone out. Poor thing. I'd
:13:55. > :14:04.like to report that he did get off safely. It was a rather beautiful
:14:04. > :14:12.belly flop. We've all done that. Fallen asleep somewhere strange.
:14:12. > :14:22.Now, what next? Next week, we are chasing whales. It's weather and
:14:22. > :14:26.timing. So you haven't found them yet? No, no. You have a programme
:14:26. > :14:32.next week, you have to have something in it? And the highlight?
:14:32. > :14:36.I think one of the best things we've done is bring eels to the
:14:36. > :14:42.forefront. It's been a story that we've all talked about for years,
:14:42. > :14:48.and it was finding a way to get the story on. Well, thank you very much.
:14:48. > :14:54.You've done a great job with the guest presenters. And thank you for
:14:54. > :14:58.finding the grey seals. We've been sent a picture. Chris
:14:58. > :15:04.loves this. It's from Thomas, aged six. Thank you very much. It's a
:15:04. > :15:10.buzzard, obviously. Thomas has sent a question too. He
:15:10. > :15:16.says, "What is the loudest bird call?." Yes, loudest. We had a
:15:16. > :15:22.dispute about this. I went for nightingale, because they are
:15:22. > :15:30.really loud when they chuck out their song. One of our researchers
:15:30. > :15:40.has dug up some facts. Urban noises can force nighting gales to sing
:15:40. > :15:41.
:15:41. > :15:47.loudy to overcome them, so they break European rules! They can
:15:47. > :15:56.elevate the volume of their song ten times to drown out the noise of
:15:56. > :16:06.traffic. European laws have been against exposing workers to more
:16:06. > :16:16.than 08decibels, but one singing at 90decibels has been recorded.
:16:16. > :16:29.
:16:29. > :16:33.There's different types of sound This south is not about volume,
:16:33. > :16:42.it's about distance travelled. And the very low frequencies of that
:16:42. > :16:47.sound, it's like elephants using infrasound, it carries a further
:16:47. > :16:52.distance. And these birds want to get the sound through all the reed
:16:52. > :16:57.beds to communicate with other birds. So, the loudest, I've always
:16:57. > :17:03.thought was the nightingale, but if you know better, do let us
:17:03. > :17:13.know..Now It's time to crawl on the floor and look at these wonderful
:17:13. > :17:15.
:17:15. > :17:21.hedgehogs. And bring in Annie. These come from the hedgehog
:17:21. > :17:26.hospital which is very near to Slimbridge. It is at this time of
:17:26. > :17:31.year we have to worry about them. It's Bonfire Night this weekend,
:17:31. > :17:37.and they start to go into hibernation. But they're not doing
:17:37. > :17:43.well, are they? No, they're in trouble at the moment. The latest
:17:43. > :17:50.survey in June, in the 1950s there were 36 million in the UK and that
:17:50. > :17:55.has now dropped, really worryingly to 1.5 million. That's a dramatic
:17:55. > :18:00.drop! And there are so many reasons for that drop. One of the main
:18:00. > :18:04.reasons is the second litter. The second litter is being pushed very
:18:04. > :18:09.late because the first litter is being pushed late because of global
:18:09. > :18:15.warming, I believe. No April showers or food for them to put
:18:15. > :18:20.weight on. And unfortunately, the second litter - these little guys,
:18:20. > :18:26.there's no way they could hibernate. But if you look, I've brought a few
:18:26. > :18:31.along today. You'd probably look at this
:18:31. > :18:38.hedgehog and think it could hibernate. This would be 400 grams
:18:38. > :18:44.and this won't hibernate. It would die. What will happen is all of
:18:44. > :18:51.these I've brought. I'll have to open the box. Oh, look, it's full
:18:51. > :18:56.of them. Wow! This little one here is 300 grams. You'd look at it, but
:18:56. > :19:01.it's not until you weigh them. If you see a hedgehog out, day or
:19:01. > :19:06.night. If you could put garden gloves on, they're not going to
:19:06. > :19:11.bite you. They're lovely. Weigh them in grams and if they're under
:19:11. > :19:17.600 grams you need to go either to the Hedgehog Preservation Society,
:19:17. > :19:23.where there are carers all around the UK. Or you need to contact a
:19:23. > :19:28.local wildlife rescue. What can people do? We've had a lot of
:19:28. > :19:38.people asking if they should still be feeding them at this time?
:19:38. > :19:38.
:19:38. > :19:43.please. Keep feeding them, because A, you could collect them as well.
:19:43. > :19:50.Meal worms, and biscuits. They don't have to hibernate, but they
:19:50. > :19:56.probably will after four or five frosts when the food is in de clin,
:19:56. > :20:02.but I have known hedgehogs not hibernate if they are continuing
:20:02. > :20:06.being fed. It's only a cold spell that would drive them into
:20:06. > :20:10.hibernation. This is the only one that is up to weight. All the
:20:10. > :20:16.others would die if they hibernated. Thank you very much for coming in,
:20:16. > :20:22.and it's a big subject which we don't have time to cover. But there
:20:22. > :20:29.is a lot of information on our website. And never, never feed them
:20:29. > :20:33.milk. And the bonfires. The only safe way to have a bonfire is in
:20:33. > :20:43.the morning and make it, don't threev there. Because they do nest
:20:43. > :20:44.
:20:44. > :20:49.in them. Now, to an animal that is not
:20:49. > :20:56.cuddly at all. We asked you for pictures of giant spiders. At this
:20:56. > :21:02.time of the year, they will come into your house because it's warm
:21:02. > :21:07.and dry, because they love that kind of environment. We have some
:21:07. > :21:11.photographs that people have sent This extraordinary picture here.
:21:11. > :21:18.Look at the size of it. Here is a ruler that the photographer has
:21:18. > :21:28.placed in the bottom here. And this is 6cm down there. That's a monster.
:21:28. > :21:29.
:21:29. > :21:37.In fact, that was such a monster, Mike, we realised thaw must have
:21:37. > :21:42.increased the size of it. So we don't want cheating!
:21:42. > :21:52.But he was open about it. Now, we wanted you to give some
:21:52. > :21:53.
:21:53. > :21:59.scale for the spider. I love this! So, your cat. We don't know how big
:21:59. > :22:05.the cat is! I'm worried about the spider This next one. These are
:22:05. > :22:11.slightly more sensible. You can see that this couple of spiders have
:22:11. > :22:18.had rulers put beside them. That's the sort of thing we're after What
:22:18. > :22:25.about this one! This is taken by Jamie. This is a pint glass
:22:25. > :22:29.covering a spider. And I think we all agree that that is a monster,
:22:29. > :22:36.monster spider Now, we put together a graph of the results that we've
:22:36. > :22:42.had so far. I like this. This is a graph of distinction, to
:22:42. > :22:47.be honest. We have body length against entire length, that's the
:22:47. > :22:53.span of the legs. We have a couple of mini ones, and
:22:53. > :22:58.a mass in that range, but at the moment there is one spider. That's
:22:58. > :23:06.Jamie Barnet. Oh, so that's the pint spider, which is the biggest
:23:06. > :23:14.one so far. I think one of them has been measured at 15.2cm leg-to-leg.
:23:14. > :23:22.That is enormous. This one? another one, but it was squashed!
:23:22. > :23:28.I think it was fine! But mine, I've been speeding mine up and
:23:28. > :23:34.eventually it will make an appearance, once it is bigger.
:23:34. > :23:43.you fattening it for Christmas? That's OK. So, folks if you have
:23:43. > :23:49.spiders you can fatten up or exaggerate their size, we'd like to
:23:49. > :23:54.see them. We want larger spiders to keep sending in the images, and a
:23:54. > :24:02.degree of accuracy would be appreciated. Now, the quiz answers
:24:03. > :24:07.Yes, Level headed. Most people have got them right. One viewer got them
:24:07. > :24:17.right, even though he's colour blind. That's pretty good.
:24:17. > :24:22.
:24:22. > :24:32.So, let's reveal the answers. 4 A Canada goose!
:24:32. > :24:38.
:24:38. > :24:44.Let's ask the audience. ALL: Teal. The notable green And a golden
:24:44. > :24:48.bottom. I worry about you! And the last bird is this one.
:24:48. > :24:53.I won't even ask the audience because they've been swimming
:24:53. > :24:59.around behind us all evening. If anyone at the wild foul and Wetland
:25:00. > :25:07.Trust doesn't know what this is, you're fired!
:25:07. > :25:17.It's a shell duck. And Chris, one for you. Can you, Chris...Oh,
:25:17. > :25:20.
:25:20. > :25:24.at that. Can we reveal what this is? Beautiful! It's the lads.
:25:24. > :25:32.Beautiful! Brilliant. Right, now you may remember, Pauline came in
:25:32. > :25:36.last week with that little barn owl. Fantastic news, at least two,
:25:36. > :25:42.possibly three chicks have been found and those people got in
:25:42. > :25:48.contact with her, so that little barn owl now has friends. We wanted
:25:48. > :25:53.to get a picture of them kudgesed up together, but haven't been able
:25:53. > :25:58.to yet. So a good story for that one. Now, we are doing a Christmas
:25:58. > :26:07.special. And this is where we want you to help us. We want you to
:26:07. > :26:12.either really impress Chris with something special that you've got
:26:12. > :26:18.wildlife-y, of course! Or ask him a question that might stump him. So
:26:18. > :26:28.if you've got any unusual feathers, bones or a really, really
:26:28. > :26:34.interesting question, please send it into us.. Yes, we're going have
:26:34. > :26:41.Chris's Christmas grotto. If you've found something that you think is
:26:41. > :26:48.absolutely brilliant, a covetious little object, a skull, a feather,
:26:48. > :26:54.a pellet, it could even be....poo! If you have some super poo, we'd
:26:54. > :27:02.like to see it, because we'd like to share your enthusiasm with the
:27:02. > :27:09.nation. We never get through a programme without you saying poo;
:27:09. > :27:16.Jan said she saw a buzzard swoop down into the garden and carry off
:27:16. > :27:25.a live hedgehog. Sorry about that. As if they haven't got enough
:27:25. > :27:34.problems. Is that usual? Well, hedgehog aren't palletable with all
:27:34. > :27:44.those spines, so I would say it was highly unusual. And how would it
:27:44. > :27:48.
:27:48. > :27:54.pick it up?. Now, I have to go to the map.
:27:54. > :28:03.There is a whale fest and tomorrow there is an Autumnwatch wildlife
:28:03. > :28:08.watch in bridge end. And there are grey and common seals at Blakely
:28:08. > :28:18.Point. And there is a lot of information on the website. I
:28:18. > :28:24.wonder what a whale fest is, that's interesting? They, it's a
:28:24. > :28:34.celebration of all things in that family, so get a long to that.
:28:34. > :28:41.
:28:41. > :28:50.Now, look at that. Television first! And that will fit in your