:00:27. > :00:31.Listen to that, that is the sound of a unique and rare urban visitor.
:00:31. > :00:36.Grey plumage, a distinctive recoginsable bill, gives pleasure
:00:36. > :00:46.to many of those that spot him, some would say he's an Oddie, it's
:00:46. > :00:47.
:00:47. > :00:55.Bill Oddie, come with me, you are our special guest on Unsprung. What
:00:55. > :01:01.a noisy audience we have tonight. They have to prove themselves. We
:01:01. > :01:04.have levelledheaded Jo, waiting for all your commends, waiting for them.
:01:04. > :01:10.Bill will be joining us on the sofa in a moment. That would be very
:01:10. > :01:18.kind, I'm not just stuck on periphery like this. Not at all.
:01:18. > :01:21.Come to the warm sofa. Especially considering, young man, that I have
:01:21. > :01:25.sponsored your flipping cuckoo. I didn't know when I did it that it
:01:25. > :01:30.was named after you, I said I will have that one, Chris, it looks
:01:30. > :01:35.shriek, it looks fast and then later somebody said, that's Chris
:01:35. > :01:40.Packham you know. You put your money on the wrong cuckoo, I have
:01:40. > :01:46.been loitering around a town called Bimbo, did you know that. Honestly.
:01:46. > :01:51.We were winning. I got hung up with a Bimbo. I will stop you boys
:01:51. > :02:00.bickering, we have questions for you. I have a question for you.
:02:00. > :02:09.What? That waistcoat, mate. Round of applause for the waistcoat! Do I
:02:09. > :02:15.get a round of applause for my swan earrings. We have some questions c
:02:15. > :02:19.from a guy called Crazy Owl, the squirrels in my garden have eaten
:02:19. > :02:25.an entire sheep skull, they have actively looked at it when I moved
:02:25. > :02:30.it around, why would they do that? This is habit of rodents, when I
:02:30. > :02:34.was a young child scouring the woods for skulls, often when you
:02:34. > :02:38.found them, I found they were chewed by things. I found tin
:02:38. > :02:43.tensely annoying, wood mice, all sorts of things, would go to the
:02:43. > :02:45.skull bones and chew them. They want the calcium for their own bone
:02:45. > :02:52.growth. It is something you will find. I can imagine the squirrels
:02:52. > :02:57.if there was a skull lying in the garden they would go and trash it.
:02:57. > :03:03.We saw it with Simon. Calcium is difficult to access in certain
:03:03. > :03:09.areas, it is the soil, if you have a lots of calcium in the soil then
:03:09. > :03:14.you are all right, if you are on an acidic or neutral soil you need to
:03:14. > :03:17.access calcium and skull chewing is one of those things. That explains
:03:17. > :03:22.a lot, not your answer, but the fact you go around the woods
:03:22. > :03:27.looking for kuls, it explains a lot. That answers Paula Smith's answer,
:03:27. > :03:31.who wants to know why do garden girls select chalk and carry it
:03:31. > :03:37.away. Matt from the 16th Royal Artillery
:03:37. > :03:42.has given us this question, they are a group of soldiers on mission
:03:42. > :03:48.in the Hebrides, they keep finding these catterpillars, surely it is
:03:48. > :03:53.too cold? It is a moth, it is fox moth. I won't go any further, it is
:03:53. > :03:58.fox moth. Do they come out when they are cold, I have seen them as
:03:58. > :04:02.well. They move out when moving to pupate. When it has done all its
:04:02. > :04:06.feeding, it may have fed in an I can't remember not suitable to
:04:06. > :04:10.pupate, and that is often in soil. They will move away from the bush
:04:10. > :04:14.or hedge they have been feeding on, and travel quite a distance until
:04:14. > :04:21.they find a fisher in the ground and they will dissend and go into
:04:21. > :04:25.the process of pupating, then you will find them. Food of the cuckoo,
:04:25. > :04:30.if there were more of these in the countryside we will have more
:04:30. > :04:35.cuckoos. They normally feed until September? The fox moth
:04:35. > :04:39.catterpillar, you will see a few moment. I found a smaller moth
:04:39. > :04:44.species wandering across my floor. What did you do? I put it outside
:04:44. > :04:54.in a nice place. It is not every day you find an octopus hanging on
:04:54. > :04:56.
:04:57. > :05:01.a hence half a mile from the sea. What do you think, it was found in
:05:01. > :05:08.Scotland, was it from a bird? What do the audience think about that.
:05:08. > :05:12.Gone for a walk? Not favouring that. I'm going to, not learning to fly,
:05:12. > :05:19.I think I'm going for dropped by a bird. Nice to see an octopus,
:05:19. > :05:29.better to see them in finer condition than that. Keep your
:05:29. > :05:29.
:05:29. > :05:33.questions coming. What about our quiz, then. What we have here are
:05:33. > :05:39.some drawings, and the combination of the drawings, if you identified
:05:39. > :05:44.what they are, in combination, to tell you the name of an animal,
:05:44. > :05:48.this one is an example, we can explain how it works. Shall we try
:05:48. > :05:53.it out on the audience. I will point out what we have, I will
:05:53. > :06:02.stand up. It is a bottle with pear on it, and fizz coming out. On the
:06:03. > :06:12.other side we have a face, a very happy face. What do you reckon?
:06:13. > :06:17.
:06:17. > :06:23.ideas which species? Well done, Peregrine, pear-green. This is A,
:06:23. > :06:30.OK. That is fairly easy. Don't say it, don't say it. You said the
:06:30. > :06:39.audience were good, fire him! management have the right to refuse
:06:39. > :06:49.admission here! OK that is, let's move on, this one is B, I won't say
:06:49. > :06:55.
:06:55. > :06:59.everything or I will give the game away. I will just point. This one
:06:59. > :07:06.is C, there is patch here, it is drawing. Don't say it. Another
:07:06. > :07:14.drawing, and a letter in the lower corner there like that. Now this
:07:14. > :07:18.one is trickery. It is well thought through, well conceived, it is a
:07:18. > :07:21.mosaic of colours, there is a D in the corner and an arrow there,
:07:21. > :07:26.can't be any more precise at the moment. If you think you know the
:07:26. > :07:33.answers to these, and this one is trickery, I will eat someone's hat,
:07:33. > :07:38.if anyone gets that one. Do post the answers on the messageboard and
:07:38. > :07:48.Level-headed will tell us if anyone gets the answer right. It is time
:07:48. > :07:50.
:07:50. > :07:54.for the legendary moment, it is "whose poo?". You think you have a
:07:54. > :08:00.waistcoat of distinction, wait until you see the smoking jacket.
:08:00. > :08:06.Please tell me that's not your's? It's not mine, I'm surprised I have
:08:06. > :08:16.to tell you that, you should have known. I have my Sheryl lock pipe
:08:16. > :08:20.
:08:20. > :08:25.poised. What -- Sherlock pipe poised. What is this one? It is
:08:25. > :08:30.still sticky. What does it say. found it under a pile of lotion
:08:30. > :08:36.near Salisbury. A pile of lotion. Why is it blue, says Charley?
:08:36. > :08:43.you know what I think this might be, I think sometimes when you see the
:08:43. > :08:47.fuing GAL hyphi growing in wood it can be coloured blue or green, it
:08:47. > :08:54.can be transferred to the poo, something that has beening the
:08:54. > :09:01.rotting vegetation. I will go for a p -- that has eaten the rotting
:09:01. > :09:05.vegetation. I will go for that what, hold on, I tell you what, it is a
:09:05. > :09:15.mol le, sc or something. I tell you what, that smells like cider,
:09:15. > :09:18.
:09:18. > :09:22.seriously mate, you have to try that, That smells just like cider.
:09:22. > :09:30.Extraordinary, amazing cider blue poo, under a log, something that's
:09:30. > :09:36.been eating wood with blue hyphy in it. Sometimes I feel like I'm in
:09:36. > :09:46.I'm a Celbrity Get Me Out of Here with you two.
:09:46. > :09:47.
:09:47. > :09:51.Sweet wrapper poo, from Matt, found in the nature reserve in
:09:51. > :09:56.Hertfordshire. Beautiful, beautiful. Get rid of that quickly. That is
:09:56. > :10:00.large. That is nice, that is nice. Basically, what we have here is a
:10:01. > :10:04.predator poo of some kind. It is dark in colour, it is twisted, and
:10:04. > :10:09.you can see that there is fabric inside it, that is typical of a
:10:09. > :10:14.predator of some kind. I'm going to put this piece down and break this
:10:14. > :10:20.piece up and see what we have here. We have fur inside here, rabbit fur
:10:20. > :10:25.in here. Looking at the sides of this, it could be small fox. It is
:10:25. > :10:34.too big for stoat, to be honest. This bit is nice, I'm going for fox
:10:34. > :10:43.poo, and it has been eating rabbit, nice. Last poo, Chris, for you.
:10:43. > :10:49.This is loft poo, in the envelope, Jeff from Berwickshire, is that a
:10:49. > :10:53.county Michaela? I don't think so. We have to wrap this one up quickly,
:10:53. > :10:57.poo apparently is becoming tedious. This was found in someone's loft,
:10:57. > :11:02.again it is predator's poo, it is small and tightly wound, this could
:11:02. > :11:09.be pole cat, it could be pine martin, it could be stoat. Where
:11:09. > :11:15.was it found? In the loft. In which part of the country. Berwickshire.
:11:15. > :11:19.It could be pine martins they go into lofts. I had the terrible
:11:19. > :11:23.encounter with the stoat in the trap in the loft. I have a question
:11:23. > :11:32.from Nathan aged seven, what is your favourite poo, you don't have
:11:32. > :11:36.to answer that, he has told you, is it a poo-dle! It most certainly is!
:11:37. > :11:46.A poodle, that's absolutely right. Shall we not bring on the star
:11:47. > :11:51.
:11:51. > :11:56.guest immediately. Mr Oddie! Thank you very much. I get the koisyee
:11:56. > :12:03.chair. I have to say, I never -- koisyee hair, I have to say I never
:12:03. > :12:07.thought the Daewoo come when I was the one bringing a bit of dignity.
:12:07. > :12:11.I have never heard anything so ridiculous in my life. I try, Bill.
:12:11. > :12:16.I try to bring it. We have lots of questions for you, we might as well
:12:16. > :12:23.fire away. From Sea Carrot. Can I stop you for two seconds, your map
:12:23. > :12:28.has gone, hasn't it, Woodcock, Hamstead heath, last week. Woodcock.
:12:28. > :12:32.At last. If only you have your map. We have it on the map. They have
:12:33. > :12:38.gone. I love moving a magnetic Woodcock from one side of the board
:12:38. > :12:45.to the other. Don't we all, quite! He's in heaven, poo and Woodcock in
:12:45. > :12:53.one sentence. From Sea Carrot, on the blog, hi Bill, do plastic fake
:12:53. > :13:01.birds actually deter other birds such as her Rons. Not plastic her
:13:01. > :13:05.Rons, they are not real! Actually this is interesting, anyone who has
:13:05. > :13:09.seen my garden, a few people have, it has been on the tele,
:13:09. > :13:14.occasionally, within the garden I have masses of plastic predators, I
:13:14. > :13:24.have got a Peregrine, I have got about five little owls, I have got
:13:24. > :13:26.
:13:26. > :13:34.a kes tral, I have an eagle owl and a plastic heron too. People are
:13:34. > :13:38.throwing memory sticks at me. You're one of our's too. What was I
:13:38. > :13:43.saying, within the seconds or a minute or two, little birds are
:13:43. > :13:48.perching on their heads and so on. It is absolutely true, I timed it,
:13:48. > :13:51.I put the plastic Peregrine on top of the shed, we have pigeons around
:13:51. > :13:56.there. They are meant to be terrified of plastic Peregrine,
:13:56. > :14:00.within five or ten minutes I got photographs and film of them just
:14:00. > :14:07.walking around the Peregrine, and I have lovely pictures of Robins
:14:07. > :14:12.perched on owls' heads. Birds are not stupid, but people are. If you
:14:13. > :14:17.think about it, and you put a heron on to your fish pond, another heron
:14:17. > :14:21.going by will not go, there's somebody there already, sorry, fair
:14:21. > :14:26.dos, you take the fish, it is going to come down, because it thinks
:14:26. > :14:32.there must be some fish in there. Herons perfectly happily will feed
:14:32. > :14:35.together if there is fish. It really doesn't work. Save your
:14:35. > :14:41.money unless you want to look at them asthetically. Save the money
:14:41. > :14:51.on the heron, buy more goldfish and field them to the owls! Yes. Time
:14:51. > :14:56.for another question, from Jack, why are Jays so colourful? Why does
:14:56. > :15:06.the rainfall from the heavens, why does the sunshine! How long have we
:15:06. > :15:10.got? Come on, In the bird world way's are not colourful, they do
:15:10. > :15:15.have to be, as all of you will confirm, the bird which the public
:15:15. > :15:25.tend to see and come up to you and say, Chris, I have seen this funny
:15:25. > :15:26.
:15:26. > :15:32.bird, Jay. Extraordinary exotic species. It is Jay, it is a Jay. It
:15:33. > :15:39.depends on which bit they see, they say I saw this bird with bright
:15:39. > :15:43.white. Or white briet blue because they saw the bit on the wing. Who
:15:43. > :15:48.knows why they are colourful, the one thing, both male and female are
:15:49. > :15:57.the same with Jays. I will give awe slightly easier one to answer.
:15:57. > :16:05.is quite easy to answer. pigeons only scared of Sparrowhawks
:16:05. > :16:10.in flight. This is the reason they are asking. Because look, you have
:16:10. > :16:15.a sparrowhawk eating a pigeon, with another pigeon looking on. Is that
:16:15. > :16:25.unusual? Chris, I would say it is unusual. I would say that is
:16:25. > :16:26.
:16:26. > :16:30.bizarre. He hailted him, didn't he. He was like, go on mate, get him.
:16:30. > :16:35.He was like, I wanted to do that to Barry for years, he nicked my
:16:35. > :16:43.roosting spot. I think that is right. That one hired the
:16:43. > :16:48.sparrowhawk as a hit man! Take him out. It is a dangerous game. It is
:16:48. > :16:52.unusual, unless it is camera trick. He's treading on the feathers, it
:16:52. > :16:56.looks pretty good. We will have to ask you about the next one. Where
:16:56. > :17:02.is that other picture of the pigeon. Here we go. We have the pigeon here,
:17:02. > :17:06.look at this, I love this. The dead one or the live one. This came in
:17:06. > :17:13.an envelope, it says I'm wearing my lunch. Basically it is a pigeon,
:17:13. > :17:22.there we go. I tell you something. That is actually from a new branch
:17:22. > :17:32.of McDonalds up the road, it is half a pigeon sandwich! If that
:17:32. > :17:33.
:17:33. > :17:39.last pigeon was in trouble, that next one is toast! Thank God you
:17:39. > :17:46.said that, Chris. What about our largest spider competition. We have
:17:46. > :17:51.been running a competition to find the largest teg inaria in the UK.
:17:51. > :17:54.Of what the lady's name, Emme suggested this, we thought this was
:17:54. > :18:00.a great challenge. Once again, if you want to focus on the lower part
:18:00. > :18:04.of your screen, this week we offer you cute squirrels, and they will
:18:04. > :18:10.distract you if you are ar rack phobic, from the horrors we are
:18:10. > :18:20.about to expose, including this magnificent specimen. Gosh, do you
:18:20. > :18:26.
:18:26. > :18:36.We thought that was quite big, we went back and said can you measure
:18:36. > :18:37.
:18:37. > :18:41.it. We then got the correct size of Teddy bear, it wasn't that big.
:18:41. > :18:48.Unlike Pudsey who could do with a plug. What about the graph, which
:18:48. > :18:52.has been extended. Here we are, here is the mini-spider, no points
:18:52. > :19:00.for that, through the middle here a fine array of specimens making
:19:00. > :19:10.their way towards the upper erb lons, right up here at 14 points --
:19:10. > :19:13.
:19:13. > :19:22.14.2ms, what a magnificent spider that must have been. I was told
:19:22. > :19:29.that's the width of a �10. I don't carry that, nothing less than a �50.
:19:29. > :19:35.We have had a trophy made, here is the winning spider. Who is the
:19:35. > :19:43.winner? I don't know, I can't see it. I do know. What, what, where?
:19:43. > :19:49.Back of the graph, somebody is shouting. It is Les, 14.2cms, yeah,
:19:49. > :19:54.the length of a �10, I wish I knew who he was. Look at that, imagine
:19:54. > :19:59.that on your mantle piece, that is something to behold. What about
:19:59. > :20:03.that? Superb, great idea, well done to Les. Some of your videos now,
:20:03. > :20:10.this one is fantastic, this is from Phil Smith, have a look at this one.
:20:10. > :20:15.Very, very special for me. He's made his own bird feeder and on it
:20:15. > :20:20.is a greater and lesser spotted woodpecker. When do you get to see
:20:20. > :20:25.those. That is a good sight? It is a good sight to see, every time I
:20:25. > :20:30.see a picture like that which is so unusual, I have to say I haven't
:20:30. > :20:34.seen a lesser spotted woodpecker up on the heath now for three or four
:20:34. > :20:38.years. It used to be one of the best places in the country, we had
:20:38. > :20:44.about six pairs. They are disappearing, any ideas. I really
:20:44. > :20:47.haven't. Except that great spotted are definitely increasing. Some
:20:47. > :20:53.people have suggested there is competition between the two, and
:20:53. > :20:56.damaging the nests. I have not seen any evidence to support that.
:20:56. > :21:01.Literally vandalism, I don't see why that should be, particularly. I
:21:01. > :21:06.have no idea, I have no idea why they are going. To actually see the
:21:06. > :21:12.two together is rather nice, it is rather nice that they are friends.
:21:12. > :21:17.Greater and lesser spotted. You old softy. The farmers and the thingys
:21:18. > :21:23.should be friend. A beautiful home made feeder, rustic. Another one
:21:23. > :21:30.here, Kate, she has made this, have a look at this, she filmed this,
:21:30. > :21:38.two mice, a vole, a mousse and the shrew, all together, she didn't put
:21:38. > :21:47.them in, she set up this. Look at this brute of a shrew. He's a
:21:47. > :21:53.toughy. Get out of it, get out of it. I like that shrew.
:21:53. > :21:58.And don't come back! Shrews can be ferociously aggressive to one
:21:58. > :22:02.another, hugely territorial, some have toxic saliva, they have nasty
:22:02. > :22:07.glands which means things like owls and certain other predators won't
:22:07. > :22:12.eat them because of that. They can be jolly feisty. When I used to
:22:12. > :22:17.catch small mammals, the only thing I got bitten by were shrews and
:22:17. > :22:24.yellow neck mice, I like them. can confirm that, the shrew, out of
:22:24. > :22:28.the shrews, I think it was the water shrew, have you ever tried to
:22:28. > :22:33.hold one of those. I have been bitten repeatedly by them. I had
:22:33. > :22:36.one in a bag, and I had a couple of other small mammals, we had all
:22:36. > :22:40.three shrews together at the same time. This one bit its way through
:22:40. > :22:47.the bag in seconds and it was on noo my knee, it is seriously
:22:47. > :22:53.painful. We are going to see our third video being sent in, this is
:22:53. > :22:57.a highlight of Unspuing, as well as Bill. Of all the Unsprungs we have
:22:57. > :23:07.seen. This was filmed by Sophie and Liberty on the Shannon River in
:23:07. > :23:07.
:23:07. > :24:16.Apology for the loss of subtitles for 68 seconds
:24:16. > :24:20.Ireland. It is astonishing. Look at Unbelievable. That is astonishing.
:24:20. > :24:25.Beautiful. Have you ever? What is so lovely about it, is, yes we have
:24:25. > :24:29.seen starling flocks doing amazing things, and various places,
:24:29. > :24:37.Brighton pier, or Somerset, or wherever, but to actually be out
:24:37. > :24:47.over the sea, near that little island. They went so close to the
:24:47. > :24:47.
:24:47. > :24:53.water. They rk cona million birds. -- they reckon a million birds.
:24:53. > :24:58.far do starlings travel to roost? They have to spread out to feed, in
:24:58. > :25:05.the flocks you will see groups of 20-30s, flying horizon to horizon
:25:05. > :25:09.to join up with the roosts, I would say many kilometres. I would agree,
:25:09. > :25:14.if one should repeat this, if you get a chance to go to roost it is
:25:14. > :25:19.fabulous, get there early enough to see the roost building up. That is
:25:19. > :25:23.brilliant, there is the first one, five, 20, 30, it just gets bigger
:25:23. > :25:27.and bigger and bigger. In fact, there is plenty of information on
:25:27. > :25:32.the website about where to go, and when to go. There is a blog as well
:25:32. > :25:36.for people to say when they went. So, yeah, get on-line and let us
:25:36. > :25:41.know what you see. We have the quiz answers don't we,
:25:41. > :25:46.has anyone got it right. They have, Hazel, and Keith, are amongst the
:25:46. > :25:52.first, quite a few people have got it right. That is exorderry let's
:25:52. > :26:00.run this past the audience. OK so here we are, the first one, anyone
:26:00. > :26:09.in the audience get this one? Hold on a moment. Not horseshoe
:26:09. > :26:18.bat? The lesser horseshoe bat, that is the smaller one! No points there.
:26:18. > :26:28.B then, we have a bottle, lots of "no" and a flipper. You slightly
:26:28. > :26:31.
:26:31. > :26:40.gave that away. This one is more trickery, anyone in the audience.
:26:40. > :26:49.Grey fallow rope,. This one was really trickery, really trickery,
:26:49. > :26:55.anyone in the audience? You got lots of blues here. Common blue!
:26:55. > :26:59.Yes, Sir. Lots of blues, the most common of
:26:59. > :27:03.the blues, very imaginative. Top work to Sam and Gavin for coming up
:27:03. > :27:08.with that idea, I would say. I will wander over to the map, I will tell
:27:08. > :27:12.you it is Children in Need, it has been happening on BBC One, we are
:27:13. > :27:20.auctioning off a goody bad, with some autumn and Springwatch things
:27:20. > :27:26.in. We are auctions off the cartoons by Mark Bardsley, all
:27:26. > :27:34.signed, there they are, two Springwatch tea kosies, there are
:27:34. > :27:40.links to how to bit for those. Tomorrow if you speak Welsh there
:27:40. > :27:47.is a wildlife in Welsh at Newport Wetland's Reserve. On Sunday there
:27:47. > :27:53.is a beach clean at Flamboroug h cliffs, there is the spot the
:27:54. > :27:58.birdie in Glasgow, loads of events on the website. Try and get out to
:27:58. > :28:02.see some starling roosts, that should be absolutely fabulous.
:28:02. > :28:10.have to say, stay tuned if you would like to, we have our chat
:28:10. > :28:15.coming up on red button and on the website. Chis Sperring speaking
:28:15. > :28:22.about swans. Hope you enjoyed Unsprung, going for another