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Listen to that, that is the sound of a unique and rare urban visitor.

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Grey plumage, a distinctive recoginsable bill, gives pleasure

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to many of those that spot him, some would say he's an Oddie, it's

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Bill Oddie, come with me, you are our special guest on Unsprung. What

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a noisy audience we have tonight. They have to prove themselves. We

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have levelledheaded Jo, waiting for all your commends, waiting for them.

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Bill will be joining us on the sofa in a moment. That would be very

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kind, I'm not just stuck on periphery like this. Not at all.

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Come to the warm sofa. Especially considering, young man, that I have

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sponsored your flipping cuckoo. I didn't know when I did it that it

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was named after you, I said I will have that one, Chris, it looks

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shriek, it looks fast and then later somebody said, that's Chris

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Packham you know. You put your money on the wrong cuckoo, I have

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been loitering around a town called Bimbo, did you know that. Honestly.

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We were winning. I got hung up with a Bimbo. I will stop you boys

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bickering, we have questions for you. I have a question for you.

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What? That waistcoat, mate. Round of applause for the waistcoat! Do I

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get a round of applause for my swan earrings. We have some questions c

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from a guy called Crazy Owl, the squirrels in my garden have eaten

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an entire sheep skull, they have actively looked at it when I moved

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it around, why would they do that? This is habit of rodents, when I

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was a young child scouring the woods for skulls, often when you

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found them, I found they were chewed by things. I found tin

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tensely annoying, wood mice, all sorts of things, would go to the

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skull bones and chew them. They want the calcium for their own bone

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growth. It is something you will find. I can imagine the squirrels

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if there was a skull lying in the garden they would go and trash it.

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We saw it with Simon. Calcium is difficult to access in certain

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areas, it is the soil, if you have a lots of calcium in the soil then

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you are all right, if you are on an acidic or neutral soil you need to

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access calcium and skull chewing is one of those things. That explains

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a lot, not your answer, but the fact you go around the woods

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looking for kuls, it explains a lot. That answers Paula Smith's answer,

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who wants to know why do garden girls select chalk and carry it

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away. Matt from the 16th Royal Artillery

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has given us this question, they are a group of soldiers on mission

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in the Hebrides, they keep finding these catterpillars, surely it is

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too cold? It is a moth, it is fox moth. I won't go any further, it is

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fox moth. Do they come out when they are cold, I have seen them as

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well. They move out when moving to pupate. When it has done all its

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feeding, it may have fed in an I can't remember not suitable to

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pupate, and that is often in soil. They will move away from the bush

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or hedge they have been feeding on, and travel quite a distance until

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they find a fisher in the ground and they will dissend and go into

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the process of pupating, then you will find them. Food of the cuckoo,

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if there were more of these in the countryside we will have more

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cuckoos. They normally feed until September? The fox moth

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catterpillar, you will see a few moment. I found a smaller moth

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species wandering across my floor. What did you do? I put it outside

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in a nice place. It is not every day you find an octopus hanging on

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a hence half a mile from the sea. What do you think, it was found in

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Scotland, was it from a bird? What do the audience think about that.

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Gone for a walk? Not favouring that. I'm going to, not learning to fly,

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I think I'm going for dropped by a bird. Nice to see an octopus,

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better to see them in finer condition than that. Keep your

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questions coming. What about our quiz, then. What we have here are

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some drawings, and the combination of the drawings, if you identified

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what they are, in combination, to tell you the name of an animal,

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this one is an example, we can explain how it works. Shall we try

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it out on the audience. I will point out what we have, I will

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stand up. It is a bottle with pear on it, and fizz coming out. On the

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other side we have a face, a very happy face. What do you reckon?

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ideas which species? Well done, Peregrine, pear-green. This is A,

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OK. That is fairly easy. Don't say it, don't say it. You said the

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audience were good, fire him! management have the right to refuse

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admission here! OK that is, let's move on, this one is B, I won't say

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everything or I will give the game away. I will just point. This one

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is C, there is patch here, it is drawing. Don't say it. Another

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drawing, and a letter in the lower corner there like that. Now this

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one is trickery. It is well thought through, well conceived, it is a

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mosaic of colours, there is a D in the corner and an arrow there,

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can't be any more precise at the moment. If you think you know the

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answers to these, and this one is trickery, I will eat someone's hat,

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if anyone gets that one. Do post the answers on the messageboard and

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Level-headed will tell us if anyone gets the answer right. It is time

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for the legendary moment, it is "whose poo?". You think you have a

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waistcoat of distinction, wait until you see the smoking jacket.

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Please tell me that's not your's? It's not mine, I'm surprised I have

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to tell you that, you should have known. I have my Sheryl lock pipe

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poised. What -- Sherlock pipe poised. What is this one? It is

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still sticky. What does it say. found it under a pile of lotion

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near Salisbury. A pile of lotion. Why is it blue, says Charley?

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you know what I think this might be, I think sometimes when you see the

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fuing GAL hyphi growing in wood it can be coloured blue or green, it

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can be transferred to the poo, something that has beening the

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rotting vegetation. I will go for a p -- that has eaten the rotting

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vegetation. I will go for that what, hold on, I tell you what, it is a

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mol le, sc or something. I tell you what, that smells like cider,

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seriously mate, you have to try that, That smells just like cider.

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Extraordinary, amazing cider blue poo, under a log, something that's

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been eating wood with blue hyphy in it. Sometimes I feel like I'm in

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I'm a Celbrity Get Me Out of Here with you two.

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Sweet wrapper poo, from Matt, found in the nature reserve in

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Hertfordshire. Beautiful, beautiful. Get rid of that quickly. That is

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large. That is nice, that is nice. Basically, what we have here is a

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predator poo of some kind. It is dark in colour, it is twisted, and

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you can see that there is fabric inside it, that is typical of a

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predator of some kind. I'm going to put this piece down and break this

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piece up and see what we have here. We have fur inside here, rabbit fur

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in here. Looking at the sides of this, it could be small fox. It is

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too big for stoat, to be honest. This bit is nice, I'm going for fox

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poo, and it has been eating rabbit, nice. Last poo, Chris, for you.

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This is loft poo, in the envelope, Jeff from Berwickshire, is that a

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county Michaela? I don't think so. We have to wrap this one up quickly,

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poo apparently is becoming tedious. This was found in someone's loft,

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again it is predator's poo, it is small and tightly wound, this could

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be pole cat, it could be pine martin, it could be stoat. Where

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was it found? In the loft. In which part of the country. Berwickshire.

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It could be pine martins they go into lofts. I had the terrible

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encounter with the stoat in the trap in the loft. I have a question

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from Nathan aged seven, what is your favourite poo, you don't have

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to answer that, he has told you, is it a poo-dle! It most certainly is!

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A poodle, that's absolutely right. Shall we not bring on the star

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guest immediately. Mr Oddie! Thank you very much. I get the koisyee

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chair. I have to say, I never -- koisyee hair, I have to say I never

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thought the Daewoo come when I was the one bringing a bit of dignity.

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I have never heard anything so ridiculous in my life. I try, Bill.

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I try to bring it. We have lots of questions for you, we might as well

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fire away. From Sea Carrot. Can I stop you for two seconds, your map

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has gone, hasn't it, Woodcock, Hamstead heath, last week. Woodcock.

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At last. If only you have your map. We have it on the map. They have

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gone. I love moving a magnetic Woodcock from one side of the board

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to the other. Don't we all, quite! He's in heaven, poo and Woodcock in

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one sentence. From Sea Carrot, on the blog, hi Bill, do plastic fake

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birds actually deter other birds such as her Rons. Not plastic her

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Rons, they are not real! Actually this is interesting, anyone who has

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seen my garden, a few people have, it has been on the tele,

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occasionally, within the garden I have masses of plastic predators, I

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have got a Peregrine, I have got about five little owls, I have got

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a kes tral, I have an eagle owl and a plastic heron too. People are

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throwing memory sticks at me. You're one of our's too. What was I

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saying, within the seconds or a minute or two, little birds are

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perching on their heads and so on. It is absolutely true, I timed it,

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I put the plastic Peregrine on top of the shed, we have pigeons around

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there. They are meant to be terrified of plastic Peregrine,

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within five or ten minutes I got photographs and film of them just

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walking around the Peregrine, and I have lovely pictures of Robins

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perched on owls' heads. Birds are not stupid, but people are. If you

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think about it, and you put a heron on to your fish pond, another heron

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going by will not go, there's somebody there already, sorry, fair

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dos, you take the fish, it is going to come down, because it thinks

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there must be some fish in there. Herons perfectly happily will feed

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together if there is fish. It really doesn't work. Save your

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money unless you want to look at them asthetically. Save the money

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on the heron, buy more goldfish and field them to the owls! Yes. Time

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for another question, from Jack, why are Jays so colourful? Why does

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the rainfall from the heavens, why does the sunshine! How long have we

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got? Come on, In the bird world way's are not colourful, they do

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have to be, as all of you will confirm, the bird which the public

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tend to see and come up to you and say, Chris, I have seen this funny

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bird, Jay. Extraordinary exotic species. It is Jay, it is a Jay. It

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depends on which bit they see, they say I saw this bird with bright

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white. Or white briet blue because they saw the bit on the wing. Who

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knows why they are colourful, the one thing, both male and female are

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the same with Jays. I will give awe slightly easier one to answer.

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is quite easy to answer. pigeons only scared of Sparrowhawks

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in flight. This is the reason they are asking. Because look, you have

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a sparrowhawk eating a pigeon, with another pigeon looking on. Is that

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unusual? Chris, I would say it is unusual. I would say that is

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bizarre. He hailted him, didn't he. He was like, go on mate, get him.

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He was like, I wanted to do that to Barry for years, he nicked my

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roosting spot. I think that is right. That one hired the

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sparrowhawk as a hit man! Take him out. It is a dangerous game. It is

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unusual, unless it is camera trick. He's treading on the feathers, it

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looks pretty good. We will have to ask you about the next one. Where

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is that other picture of the pigeon. Here we go. We have the pigeon here,

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look at this, I love this. The dead one or the live one. This came in

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an envelope, it says I'm wearing my lunch. Basically it is a pigeon,

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there we go. I tell you something. That is actually from a new branch

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of McDonalds up the road, it is half a pigeon sandwich! If that

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last pigeon was in trouble, that next one is toast! Thank God you

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said that, Chris. What about our largest spider competition. We have

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been running a competition to find the largest teg inaria in the UK.

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Of what the lady's name, Emme suggested this, we thought this was

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a great challenge. Once again, if you want to focus on the lower part

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of your screen, this week we offer you cute squirrels, and they will

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distract you if you are ar rack phobic, from the horrors we are

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about to expose, including this magnificent specimen. Gosh, do you

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We thought that was quite big, we went back and said can you measure

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it. We then got the correct size of Teddy bear, it wasn't that big.

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Unlike Pudsey who could do with a plug. What about the graph, which

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has been extended. Here we are, here is the mini-spider, no points

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for that, through the middle here a fine array of specimens making

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their way towards the upper erb lons, right up here at 14 points --

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14.2ms, what a magnificent spider that must have been. I was told

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that's the width of a �10. I don't carry that, nothing less than a �50.

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We have had a trophy made, here is the winning spider. Who is the

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winner? I don't know, I can't see it. I do know. What, what, where?

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Back of the graph, somebody is shouting. It is Les, 14.2cms, yeah,

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the length of a �10, I wish I knew who he was. Look at that, imagine

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that on your mantle piece, that is something to behold. What about

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that? Superb, great idea, well done to Les. Some of your videos now,

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this one is fantastic, this is from Phil Smith, have a look at this one.

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Very, very special for me. He's made his own bird feeder and on it

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is a greater and lesser spotted woodpecker. When do you get to see

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those. That is a good sight? It is a good sight to see, every time I

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see a picture like that which is so unusual, I have to say I haven't

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seen a lesser spotted woodpecker up on the heath now for three or four

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years. It used to be one of the best places in the country, we had

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about six pairs. They are disappearing, any ideas. I really

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haven't. Except that great spotted are definitely increasing. Some

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people have suggested there is competition between the two, and

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damaging the nests. I have not seen any evidence to support that.

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Literally vandalism, I don't see why that should be, particularly. I

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have no idea, I have no idea why they are going. To actually see the

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two together is rather nice, it is rather nice that they are friends.

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Greater and lesser spotted. You old softy. The farmers and the thingys

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should be friend. A beautiful home made feeder, rustic. Another one

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here, Kate, she has made this, have a look at this, she filmed this,

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two mice, a vole, a mousse and the shrew, all together, she didn't put

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them in, she set up this. Look at this brute of a shrew. He's a

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toughy. Get out of it, get out of it. I like that shrew.

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And don't come back! Shrews can be ferociously aggressive to one

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another, hugely territorial, some have toxic saliva, they have nasty

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glands which means things like owls and certain other predators won't

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eat them because of that. They can be jolly feisty. When I used to

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catch small mammals, the only thing I got bitten by were shrews and

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yellow neck mice, I like them. can confirm that, the shrew, out of

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the shrews, I think it was the water shrew, have you ever tried to

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hold one of those. I have been bitten repeatedly by them. I had

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one in a bag, and I had a couple of other small mammals, we had all

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three shrews together at the same time. This one bit its way through

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the bag in seconds and it was on noo my knee, it is seriously

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painful. We are going to see our third video being sent in, this is

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a highlight of Unspuing, as well as Bill. Of all the Unsprungs we have

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seen. This was filmed by Sophie and Liberty on the Shannon River in

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Apology for the loss of subtitles for 68 seconds

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Ireland. It is astonishing. Look at Unbelievable. That is astonishing.

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Beautiful. Have you ever? What is so lovely about it, is, yes we have

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seen starling flocks doing amazing things, and various places,

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Brighton pier, or Somerset, or wherever, but to actually be out

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over the sea, near that little island. They went so close to the

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water. They rk cona million birds. -- they reckon a million birds.

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far do starlings travel to roost? They have to spread out to feed, in

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the flocks you will see groups of 20-30s, flying horizon to horizon

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to join up with the roosts, I would say many kilometres. I would agree,

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if one should repeat this, if you get a chance to go to roost it is

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fabulous, get there early enough to see the roost building up. That is

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brilliant, there is the first one, five, 20, 30, it just gets bigger

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and bigger and bigger. In fact, there is plenty of information on

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the website about where to go, and when to go. There is a blog as well

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for people to say when they went. So, yeah, get on-line and let us

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know what you see. We have the quiz answers don't we,

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has anyone got it right. They have, Hazel, and Keith, are amongst the

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first, quite a few people have got it right. That is exorderry let's

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run this past the audience. OK so here we are, the first one, anyone

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in the audience get this one? Hold on a moment. Not horseshoe

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bat? The lesser horseshoe bat, that is the smaller one! No points there.

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B then, we have a bottle, lots of "no" and a flipper. You slightly

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gave that away. This one is more trickery, anyone in the audience.

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Grey fallow rope,. This one was really trickery, really trickery,

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anyone in the audience? You got lots of blues here. Common blue!

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Yes, Sir. Lots of blues, the most common of

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the blues, very imaginative. Top work to Sam and Gavin for coming up

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with that idea, I would say. I will wander over to the map, I will tell

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you it is Children in Need, it has been happening on BBC One, we are

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auctioning off a goody bad, with some autumn and Springwatch things

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in. We are auctions off the cartoons by Mark Bardsley, all

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signed, there they are, two Springwatch tea kosies, there are

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links to how to bit for those. Tomorrow if you speak Welsh there

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is a wildlife in Welsh at Newport Wetland's Reserve. On Sunday there

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is a beach clean at Flamboroug h cliffs, there is the spot the

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birdie in Glasgow, loads of events on the website. Try and get out to

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see some starling roosts, that should be absolutely fabulous.

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have to say, stay tuned if you would like to, we have our chat

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coming up on red button and on the website. Chis Sperring speaking

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about swans. Hope you enjoyed Unsprung, going for another

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