:00:35. > :00:37.Take three bemused presenters, nation of wildlife watchers two
:00:37. > :00:43.tawny owls, a yellow fox, Iolo Williams, stick them in the oven,
:00:43. > :00:53.gas lock for cook, serve them immediately. Welcome to tonight's
:00:53. > :00:54.
:00:54. > :01:01.hot and spicy Autumnwatch Unsprung. As usual, we have our marvellous
:01:01. > :01:05.audience. We have "Level-Headed" Joe, who is there ready to answer
:01:05. > :01:11.your questions, throw them at us and watch out for the quiz
:01:11. > :01:17.questions and Iolo Williams - give him a round of applause. Fantastic.
:01:17. > :01:20.We'll give your questions to Iolo later. What shall we do right away?
:01:20. > :01:29.We wanted to share this little thing for you. Thank you very much.
:01:29. > :01:35.This was sent in - this slightly It's from Andy Smith, an AA patrol
:01:35. > :01:40.man. He was called out to a car that had stopped. You can see why.
:01:40. > :01:48.A squirrel had been stuffed in there and had stuffed the entire
:01:48. > :01:53.intake full of nuts. How did he get in there? He had the key! Obviously.
:01:53. > :01:57.Thank you very much. Andy, are we going to do the loudest call?
:01:57. > :02:02.loudest call? Yes, this is interesting. Last week we had a
:02:02. > :02:07.question of which bird produced the loudest call. Last week I thought
:02:07. > :02:14.it might be a Nightingale. I wasn't sure. Did anyone else have any
:02:14. > :02:20.idea? Beryl Jones from Cheshire said Chris said last week the
:02:20. > :02:25.Nightingale was the bird had the loudest song. I would agree. I knew
:02:25. > :02:28.a chap who was a chaplain in World War II. He said when the
:02:28. > :02:34.bombardment in the evening began, he could hear them above the guns,
:02:34. > :02:37.and he found it a must moving experience. It must be a moving
:02:37. > :02:41.experience. There is a terrible edge to that but it does go along
:02:41. > :02:47.with the fact that we said the songbirds would raise the level of
:02:47. > :02:53.their song to try to compete with other noises. We also looked up -
:02:53. > :02:58.Nightingales can produce song at 95 decibels. How much is that? It's
:02:58. > :03:02.difficult to qualify, isn't it? We thought we'd play a Nightingale
:03:02. > :03:09.song Now at 95 decibels to see what the audience thinks of it. I have a
:03:09. > :03:14.gadget somewhere. Look at that gadget! Is that real? It's a CR-
:03:14. > :03:19.812A. It's a beautiful sound level metre. All right, then. Get on with
:03:19. > :03:26.it. I'm liking this. All right. Let's have the Nightingale song,
:03:26. > :03:36.and I'm going to see - I'm just going to check -
:03:36. > :03:45.
:03:45. > :03:53.CHIRPING OK. Now, what do you think? Did you
:03:53. > :04:03.think that was loud? It is loud. Seriously loud! That was loud.
:04:03. > :04:07.
:04:07. > :04:17.it the loudest bird? No! Oh! warbler. It's the only bird I know
:04:17. > :04:17.
:04:17. > :04:20.that actually shouts at you, "Here I am." I reckon it's louder.
:04:20. > :04:25.Yallows are loud, but they don't sustain the song. They're a bit -
:04:25. > :04:32.say a band like the Damned that do a track that last like a minute as
:04:32. > :04:37.opposed to Guns N Roses that drag it out over five, and in the end
:04:37. > :04:41.you get thoroughly bored. Let me tell you what the answer was - it
:04:41. > :04:45.was malfunction! Now, 106 decibels... Very good. Let's do
:04:45. > :04:50.some questions. The first question we have is from Fran Perry. In
:04:50. > :04:56.Greenwich park last week we saw yellow deer stag and fallow deer
:04:56. > :05:00.stag fighting each other. Why would they do that? We have a picture
:05:01. > :05:04.from Don Carey. Nice one, very odd. Is that unusual? I think it is
:05:04. > :05:08.unusual because it's pointless. There is no point in a fallow
:05:09. > :05:13.taking on a red because they're obviously not competing for females
:05:13. > :05:17.of the same species. I think what's happened is in Richmond Park, you
:05:17. > :05:21.have a density of these species. There is a huge amount of
:05:21. > :05:24.aggression and hormones pumping around. Because there is similarity
:05:25. > :05:28.between the two, I guess they get so frustrated, they need to take it
:05:28. > :05:31.out on the nearest male. What we see here is displacement behaviour
:05:31. > :05:36.perhaps, where they're doing something for the sake of doing it,
:05:36. > :05:42.but in the long term, my money is on the red. Can I make a
:05:42. > :05:46.suggestion? Of course. Maybe they're doing it for fun? Stop it.
:05:46. > :05:53.They're so full of hormones. They're so pumped up. My chickens
:05:53. > :06:00.do the same thing. My cockerel gets carried away I come in to break it
:06:00. > :06:08.up. He attacks me. It's just a mistake. From Jennifer Miller, "I
:06:08. > :06:12.remember being amuds when I saw a maganza displaying to a huge
:06:12. > :06:17.goose." Do these crushes happen often? No, I think it's more here
:06:17. > :06:20.at Slim Bridge, where they have a captive collection of birds. Most
:06:20. > :06:23.of them, certainly from the northern hemisphere, are thinking
:06:23. > :06:27.of breeding at the same time. There is a huge amount of displaying, and
:06:27. > :06:31.sometimes they fixate on the wrong bird. I have to say at this time of
:06:31. > :06:36.year we see a lot of homosexual behaviour in ducks. If there is a
:06:36. > :06:41.shortage of females, they'll start to display to each other. Mallards
:06:41. > :06:46.are like that. In crowded area, that's a result of that. Basically,
:06:46. > :06:51.we're featuring muddled creatures in these answers... Not muddled,
:06:51. > :06:55.really, but different - shall we have the quiz? OK. This week's quiz.
:06:55. > :06:59.It is a name quiz, a bit of etymology. I'm going to give you
:06:59. > :07:02.some names, old names that are no longer in use for British creatures.
:07:02. > :07:06.You have to see if you know which they are. These are the old names.
:07:06. > :07:10.We'd like to know the contemporary, more modern - the ones you have in
:07:10. > :07:20.your field guides at home - the first one, A, mouldywarp -
:07:20. > :07:24.
:07:24. > :07:32.Anyone know what it is? Hands up? Yallo w - that's not fair. Second
:07:32. > :07:41.one, B, sea pie, sea pie? Anyone? Welsh name for that particular
:07:41. > :07:48.animal is sea pie in Welsh. Is it? It is, yeah. Good skill. Would be
:07:48. > :07:56.easy for a Welsh viewer. They've got it right. You're fine! C,
:07:56. > :08:00.broc... A bit easier. A few nods in the audience. Lastly, let's finish
:08:00. > :08:09.this off, D, yaffle. So these are the old names. We'd like from A
:08:09. > :08:13.through to D the modern names of mouldywarp, sea pie and yaffle.
:08:13. > :08:23.Send them in, see if you got them right. I thought they were really
:08:23. > :08:24.
:08:24. > :08:32.hard. These two said they were easy. We were wrong. Whatever. I think
:08:32. > :08:36.you need to start sensoring all the questions. Iolo, come and join us.
:08:36. > :08:46.You dropped your poppy. Thanks, mate. Cheers. Before you start, I'd
:08:46. > :08:48.
:08:48. > :08:54.like to draw everyone's attention This is a cat that is in love with
:08:54. > :09:01.Iolo. He loves programmes like Autumnwatch where you appear.
:09:01. > :09:08.Apparently, every time you're on TV, the cat gets up and strokes you.
:09:08. > :09:18.Well, sorry, Sweetpea, I am not a cat fan. I am a dog fan, but I will
:09:18. > :09:18.
:09:18. > :09:23.make an exception just for Sweetpea. Who is doing this bit? Is it me?
:09:23. > :09:27.Iolo, here's some film filmed by Kimara McCrindle who works in the
:09:27. > :09:34.Marine Discovery. Let's have a look at that film. Can we see it? What
:09:34. > :09:39.do you make of that? Apparently, this is the very first time - we
:09:39. > :09:42.tried to get some footage from the BBC library of this. This is
:09:42. > :09:46.actually a dwarf sperm whale. We couldn't find any photos, nothing
:09:46. > :09:54.at all. That's all we've got. One of the runners drew a picture of it.
:09:54. > :10:00.Here we go. Who drew this for us? Nicola. I like that! A round of
:10:00. > :10:04.applause! Well done, Nicola. think this is a first, isn't it?
:10:04. > :10:09.is. It's a first for UK British waters, the first time it has been
:10:09. > :10:14.seen here. It's a very odd one. It's the smallest of all the whales.
:10:14. > :10:19.It's smaller than three metres, so some of the dolphins are bigger
:10:19. > :10:23.than it. Tiny. It is, and usually found further south. They don't
:10:23. > :10:27.usually come further north and Spain - across there in a line to
:10:27. > :10:32.sort of Central America, Brazil, and they go down as far as South
:10:32. > :10:35.Africa, but they don't come up this way, so that is the first one ever
:10:35. > :10:37.seen. But the other thing, of course is they don't blow. They
:10:38. > :10:43.don't advertise themselves. When they come up, they just come up
:10:43. > :10:48.quietly, then go back down. They usually feed quite deep. One of the
:10:48. > :10:52.amazing things about them is they have this red oil - you know like
:10:53. > :10:59.squids and octopuses will squirt out ink? They have a red ink, which
:10:59. > :11:02.is a defence, so it's an amazing mammal and one we know little about.
:11:02. > :11:06.Fantastic we're still seeing new things in the waters that surround
:11:06. > :11:09.our country. It's brilliant, and a lot of these new things are in the
:11:09. > :11:12.sea. Two-thirds of the world is ocean, and there are so many things
:11:12. > :11:16.down there we know very little about, and you don't have to go far.
:11:16. > :11:19.You just have to dive or even go rock pooling. You'll sometimes find
:11:19. > :11:24.weird things in there. That's one of the fantastic things about this
:11:24. > :11:28.whole thing. We keep saying autumn is a great time to do it. It is.
:11:28. > :11:33.Here is one from Linda from Antwerp in Belgium - we have viewers in
:11:33. > :11:38.Belgium - hi, Belgium. She was on Skomer earlier in the year and she
:11:38. > :11:42.was wondering when the puffins leave, where do they go? That's
:11:42. > :11:47.God's own country, God's own country. Five years ago, I'd have
:11:47. > :11:51.to tell you we don't really know. They go out in the open ocean where
:11:51. > :11:55.they survive, avoid the winter storms, but over the last five
:11:55. > :11:59.years, scientists from Oxford University have attached
:11:59. > :12:03.geolocaters on to puffins. We know where they go. The odd thing is
:12:03. > :12:09.they don't all go to one place. They scatter. Some go to the north-
:12:09. > :12:16.east Atlantic Ocean. Some go up as far as the Farrows. Some go to the
:12:16. > :12:26.North Sea. Some go to the Med. The odd thing is if one goes there one
:12:26. > :12:31.
:12:31. > :12:35.year, it will go back the next year. Puffins just scatter. Puffins in
:12:35. > :12:42.the Med! Whatever next, Chris? That's where I would go. What about
:12:42. > :12:52.some photographs from our Flikr site? We haven't had many of those.
:12:52. > :12:53.
:12:53. > :13:52.Apology for the loss of subtitles for 59 seconds
:13:52. > :13:58.Take a look. Here's a montage of I think they're fantastic. He's off
:13:58. > :14:05.again. Stop it. I didn't say anything. You didn't need to. Shall
:14:05. > :14:10.we do our favourites? MP Goodley of the snipe. I think it's great
:14:11. > :14:16.because you don't instantly know what it is. How does a snipe with
:14:16. > :14:21.its beak preen the back of its head? It reaches around using its
:14:21. > :14:25.long neck and it's accessing... Come on! What do you mean? No, they
:14:25. > :14:34.have a very long neck. Feet - competition - apparently somebody,
:14:34. > :14:41.no names, thinks they use their feet. To do what? The back of their
:14:41. > :14:45.head. I thought you said preen gland! What sort of beak has he
:14:45. > :14:49.got? A rubber beak! Now he's going to claim he's a little bit short of
:14:49. > :14:53.hearing. This is my favourite. I would have wallpaper like that.
:14:53. > :14:56.Wouldn't you? Wouldn't that be gorgeous around your room? This is
:14:56. > :14:59.taken by Lee Yatesix. This is beautiful. It's very difficult to
:14:59. > :15:05.photograph animals in flocks or herds because trying to get them
:15:05. > :15:08.all in the right place where they don't overlap and trying get some
:15:08. > :15:12.little distraction like that little mess of widgeon over there - I
:15:12. > :15:16.would go for this one as my favourite - simple, plain,
:15:16. > :15:20.symmetrical - I would go on Photoshop and lighten this eye to
:15:20. > :15:25.balance it with this one, but I think this is a very powerful image.
:15:25. > :15:31.This one was taken by Richard Nichool. Shall we see what our
:15:31. > :15:41.audience think? Go on. Put your hands up if you think Chris's is
:15:41. > :15:44.
:15:44. > :15:49.the best. Put your leaves up if you What about the wallpaper, chaps?
:15:49. > :15:54.You bribed them all! You do. cheque's in the post. A couple of
:15:54. > :15:58.weeks ago we asked you to send us photographs of the largest house
:15:58. > :16:03.spiders you could possibly find. We have had a number of photographs
:16:03. > :16:09.sent in. Now we know that a lot of people - we don't want to lose you
:16:09. > :16:13.as viewers, we treasure you as viewers. In the corner of the
:16:13. > :16:21.screen will be cute seal cubs for to you focus on while the rest of
:16:21. > :16:31.us talk about spiders. Just stare at the corner and go "oh-oh" whilst
:16:31. > :16:31.
:16:31. > :16:41.we deal with spiders. Show us the photos. Gosh, help! This is Alan
:16:41. > :16:44.
:16:44. > :16:51.from Essex. That is enormous. I think it might be dead! This is
:16:51. > :16:59.nice. It too will be dead! That's an interesting scale. Are you sure
:16:59. > :17:06.that is liquorice? This one, this might be our winning one at the
:17:06. > :17:12.moment. Yes, it is. Oh, that's huge! It's enormous and it measures
:17:12. > :17:18.an incredible 14 hadn't 5 -- 14.5 centimetres. I love this graph.
:17:18. > :17:26.This is a great graph. It really, really is. We have extended it,
:17:26. > :17:31.look, it's had an add-on here. This is a miserable tiny spider. We have
:17:31. > :17:38.had fine spread. Come on, we want to spread it. Continue to send your
:17:38. > :17:42.giant spider pictures. The seals are still there! We have to move on.
:17:42. > :17:46.Right, here is a special guest. Who am I talking to? This week I was
:17:46. > :17:50.lucky enough to have that amazing encounter with the foxes, let us
:17:51. > :18:00.now see - watch out behind you, if we can have another encounter with
:18:00. > :18:04.a fox. Come on in. Lovely. Now this is Jeff. You are
:18:04. > :18:09.Jeff. Yes. Please tell White House is this -- please tell White House
:18:09. > :18:13.is this. Roxy, she is ten and a half years old. How did you come to
:18:13. > :18:17.be with Roxy? Roxy was tied up on some railings when she was about
:18:17. > :18:23.three months. We done a rescue and brought her back. We didn't release
:18:23. > :18:27.her because she was too tame. So now she's the angel. She's the
:18:27. > :18:32.sanctuary mascot. I believe you take her round to schools and so on.
:18:32. > :18:39.Do you all sorts to tell people about foxes. We do. We do education
:18:39. > :18:48.talks on foxes, we take them around schools, do shows and she loves it.
:18:48. > :18:52.Put her down on the ground. Oh, she's off! She's very alert.
:18:52. > :18:57.Absolutely gorgeous. Right, do you want to sit down? Yes. We have some
:18:57. > :19:06.questions. Yeah. How do you tell the difference between a male and
:19:06. > :19:11.female fox? She is female, obviously. Yeah, a male is a lot
:19:11. > :19:14.bigger and are more thicker. This time of year they have obvious
:19:14. > :19:19.testicles, the man, we won't go into that in detail. That's a bit
:19:19. > :19:25.of a giveaway, that one. Only if you can see underneath F you see
:19:25. > :19:32.them from the front you can't see the testicles. The testicles grow
:19:32. > :19:42.dramatically this saoeupl of the year, they start off cashew size
:19:42. > :19:44.
:19:44. > :19:52.and turn into wal -- into walnut size. She's relaxed down there. Why
:19:52. > :19:58.do foxes have such thick luxurious tails, do they serve any purpose?
:19:59. > :20:03.They are for warmth. A fox kurpls up -- curls up and the tail is for
:20:03. > :20:07.warmth. As you were saying, Chris, they're used for display. They wrap
:20:07. > :20:12.them around their nose, which is the only bare skin they have got.
:20:12. > :20:18.It's balance, as well. When they run, it has a counterbalance as
:20:18. > :20:25.well. It is more luxurious in winter. It thickens up. Is she all
:20:25. > :20:30.right there? Yeah, she's looking around. One more quickly: I have
:20:30. > :20:39.seen crows and magpies harassing foxes out and about in fields
:20:39. > :20:45.during the day, why would they do this? Territorial. We have had a
:20:45. > :20:53.seagull attack Roxy. But why, because they're thinking if she was
:20:53. > :20:58.a wild fox, when they're nesting she could then be... That's it, yes.
:20:58. > :21:01.You told me as well that she lives happily with your dogs? She does,
:21:01. > :21:08.walks with four dogs and will only eat chicken, but it has to be
:21:08. > :21:13.cooked. She won't eat raw meat. think the staff at the trust are
:21:13. > :21:23.pleased about that. Just in case she gets off the lead. She doesn't
:21:23. > :21:33.
:21:34. > :21:39.like swan. One more. People who haven't toys or teddy bears in the
:21:39. > :21:44.garden, child's toys, they wake up and find toys, the foxes bring them
:21:44. > :21:50.in. It's common. If you leave shoes out as well, they love the smell of
:21:50. > :21:55.shoes and will pinch them and roll in them. She's quite ripe, the fox.
:21:55. > :22:04.There is a smell over here. You could be enjoying the full benefit
:22:04. > :22:08.of Roxy. I like the smell. I had a couple when I was a kid like this
:22:08. > :22:13.and it reminds me of that, the whole house smelt like that. My
:22:13. > :22:23.room stank a bit! For the best part of three years. Thank you very much
:22:23. > :22:24.
:22:24. > :22:34.for bringing her in. It's been How are you going to get her out
:22:34. > :22:35.
:22:35. > :22:42.from there? Come on. While we try and extract our gorgeous fox we
:22:42. > :22:49.should give the answers to our quiz. Leave her, she's fine. She didn't
:22:49. > :22:53.want to go. Did anybody get it right? Most people did. I told you.
:22:53. > :22:56.Chris, are you going to give us the answers? I am, but they're trashed
:22:56. > :23:04.by the fox. Here we are. I don't need the the answers, I can
:23:04. > :23:12.remember. Did many people get - are we going to name any people? Steve
:23:12. > :23:17.Knowles and Graham Westen. answers were Mouldywarp was a mole,
:23:17. > :23:22.good thinking. Don't answer them all, give them a chance! I have to
:23:22. > :23:31.find my notes, because I had interesting things, here we are. It
:23:31. > :23:41.comes from the German language, it means soil and throw, mouldywarp.
:23:41. > :23:45.Dirt tosser is the quote. Sea pie? Come on, oystercatcher. They come
:23:45. > :23:51.from the sea obviously and don't eat oysters in this country, the
:23:51. > :24:01.American ones do and we stupidly copied the American name. Broc?
:24:01. > :24:05.
:24:06. > :24:11.Easy, a badger. The Gaelic name for badger. Lastly, Yaffle? Green
:24:11. > :24:21.wodpecker indeed. Many folk names for the woodpecker, its laughing
:24:21. > :24:25.
:24:25. > :24:32.call, yapping dale, it's suggested it brings on rain. Apparently
:24:32. > :24:36.Bagpuss - was that an educational prog? Fans will remember Professor
:24:36. > :24:42.Yaffle based on a woodpecker. People who had better things to do
:24:42. > :24:47.with their time won't remember that at all. Chris tkorbgs they do that?
:24:47. > :24:54.Yaffling making that call, is it a precursor of bad weather, rain?
:24:54. > :24:58.mate, that's a folk tale. I thought it was science! It's not science!
:24:58. > :25:01.am going to mention ladybirds, we have had loads of people saying
:25:01. > :25:04.they have seen an unusual amount of ladybirds and why is that and
:25:04. > :25:07.they've been asking loads of different questions. Go to the
:25:07. > :25:11.website because we have an interview with a ladybird expert
:25:11. > :25:16.who will answer all of those questions for you. Don't look at me
:25:16. > :25:21.because I have no talkback left in my ear whatsoever! We have some
:25:21. > :25:28.questions. Can I just throw one straight in for you. Kirsten is
:25:29. > :25:38.desperate to hear Iola say "puffling" again and could you just
:25:39. > :25:42.
:25:42. > :25:52.say it for them. Here we go. Go in tight, OK. Puffling. Once more?
:25:52. > :25:54.
:25:54. > :26:02.Puffling! Can you walk over and do it now? Calm down! In fact, you can
:26:02. > :26:08.walk over - for goodness sake, it's saeury. -- scary. A question, why
:26:08. > :26:13.do some sea birds stand on one leg? It's a way to keep warm because
:26:13. > :26:17.they have veins near the surface on the leg and if it's cold then it
:26:17. > :26:21.will lose heat. So what they do is tuck one leg into these warm
:26:21. > :26:25.feathers here, use the other leg and when that gets cold they pull
:26:25. > :26:31.that up and the other one down. Actually they put the other one
:26:31. > :26:41.down first or they would fall. your socks. From Steve, my daughter
:26:41. > :26:42.
:26:42. > :26:48.wishes to know if there are cases of badgers with claustrophobia?
:26:48. > :26:55.That's a fantastic one. Are there any? As far as I know every single
:26:55. > :27:00.one lives in a sett, so probably not. It wouldn't be an evolutionary
:27:00. > :27:05.stable strategy. We have a barn owl update. We asked you, I don't know
:27:05. > :27:13.if we have a picture, yes, we have. We asked you to help out if we
:27:13. > :27:17.could find a friend for our little barn owl chick that was abandoned,
:27:17. > :27:20.if you remember that. It's the lower one here. That was the one we
:27:20. > :27:25.actually met on Unsprung and here is the little friend. Thank you
:27:25. > :27:30.very much. That's fantastic. They've feathered up a lot. Thank
:27:30. > :27:34.you for that, perfect. I am going to wander to the map, while Jo
:27:34. > :27:43.tells us about things to do this weekend. All weekend the National
:27:43. > :27:52.Trust have a wildlife spotter event near bath. On Sunday from 9.30 to
:27:52. > :27:57.12.13 there is a wildlife walk in Norfolk. And a planter tree event
:27:57. > :28:02.near Oldham. You don't need to book for those. Tkpwubg to our website,
:28:02. > :28:10.put in your postcode and you can find other things. What are all
:28:10. > :28:18.these things? They're commemorations. Newport Wet lands
:28:18. > :28:21.and the RSP B has 100,000 Starlings. The marine show we did, get out on
:28:21. > :28:26.to the beaches, help clean beaches up because we did feature that,
:28:26. > :28:31.that there was a lot of rubbish on the beach. I have to tell you
:28:31. > :28:34.something quickly, I met somebody here in a camper van and they had
:28:34. > :28:38.decided, due to Autumnwatch and Springwatch, that they would rent
:28:38. > :28:42.their house and go on the road and go bird-watching around the country.
:28:43. > :28:52.They've been on the road a year. I said when are you going back? They