Springwatch episode 2 2020

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Springwatch episode 2 2020: Chris Packham, Gillian Burke and Iolo Williams are live again close to their respective homes in the New Forest, west Wales and Cornwall, where overnight events have already created dramas.
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Transcript
00:25Hello and welcome to Springwatch
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00:44can to bring the very best show we
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00:59Our team is scattered all across the
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01:15they are not here with me, they are
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01:36Later in the programme I will be
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01:53the heart of mid Wales. Later on we
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undefined:undefinedmeeting some Riverside residents
02:18including a long distant migrant
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undefined:undefinedand other animals. These tiny
02:37non-obtrusive pieces of technology
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undefined:undefinedin the Mendip Hills about 18 miles
02:53away from here. Here are nine of
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03:08If we take a look at the outside of
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03:29time and re-emerge in the springtime
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03:47Interesting story behind this nest,
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undefined:undefinedand was removed by the female and as
04:04you can see now she is feeding those
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04:24has supported a tiny panel of
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04:43fertile, what happened to him we
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undefined:undefinedshe was in a 21 times. Fingers
04:56crossed that she is active enough to
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05:16outside of the street providing a
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undefined:undefinedcan see distinctively bear the shape
05:36of that bill that they used to prise
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05:56youngsters. It is a lovely site but
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undefined:undefinedof the numbers in the UK we think we
06:15have about 225,000 pairs of these
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06:33they'll through predation, it is one
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undefined:undefinediPlayer and our website you can keep
06:49your eyes on that and fingers
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undefined:undefinedwill tell about a couple of those.
07:07Yes, we do have plenty of other
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07:31Coming towards the camera, swimming
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07:52don't forget this, along with all
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08:13sunset. Inside there are two birds
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undefined:undefinedend of the month. These cameras are
08:39streaming right around the clock and
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undefined:undefinedup-to-date with the cameras but many
08:57things we can squeeze into our
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undefined:undefinedat nine in the morning but you can
09:18watch on iPlayer and our Facebook
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undefined:undefinedpretty good nests over there, fair
09:43play to you, but I think we can
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undefined:undefinedfirst, three chicks high up there in
10:04a conifer tree, around two weeks
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undefined:undefinedvery healthy. That is an average
10:27brood for Wales. The long eared owl,
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undefined:undefinedold. It looks like that youngster
10:44will try to bring up a pellet. I
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undefined:undefinedringed plover. Rests on river single
11:03like this and we will be following
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undefined:undefinedweeks now but nature has carried on
11:22without us and I have to be honest I
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undefined:undefinedorder to record the dawn chorus.
11:48order to record the dawn chorus.One
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undefined:undefinedUsually this area is a cacophony of
12:05city noise. But over the past few
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12:26BIRDSONG. It is really good
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undefined:undefinedperiod of dawn chorus are half an
12:47hour before it gets light and half
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undefined:undefinedlike he is posing to remember what
13:15to say. One of the theories why the
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undefined:undefinedthing any money. Lots of debate but
13:35I think the Robin Singh is first and
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14:02all through the night in urban
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undefined:undefinedare some exceptions, the Robin in
14:20the winter, the female Robin in the
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14:41will travel 20 times further three
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undefined:undefinedloud violent song. The machine-gun
15:11like a trill towards the end. The
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undefined:undefinedit's light, the dawn chorus is
15:46pretty much over. I spent a lot of
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undefined:undefinedlike to think he's saying, I know
16:11I'm boring, I know I'm boring! I
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undefined:undefinedsong of that bird. If you learn
16:32three birds a year, that's more than
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undefined:undefineddefinitely worth getting up at 5am
16:55and I got to combine two of my
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undefined:undefinedmy stepdaughter, Megan. A fine young
17:24zoologist, helping me out but hasn't
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undefined:undefinedlocal, monotonous cooing.The
17:52woodpigeon! Even Gary says it's
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undefined:undefinedscratchy.It is scratchy, it's
18:10trying its hardest and I love it,
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undefined:undefinedwren as an example, a common UK bird
18:30and one of the loudest. We hear
18:32wren as an example, a common UK bird
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undefined:undefinedThat's too fast for us to process,
18:47so we don't hear those notes but for
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undefined:undefinedcommunication but if we are able to
19:05slow down the birdsong, the wren
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undefined:undefinedanalogy!Well, he couldn't whistle
19:24very much! Maybe he was ahead of his
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undefined:undefinedearlier, me speaking at the same
19:45rate as a wren song.
19:53Hmm!Entirely inaudible! You can't
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undefined:undefinedlook at me on this hedgerow singing
20:18my heart out, exposing myself to the
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undefined:undefinedfemale, come and look at one of the
20:30six nests I've already pre-made for
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undefined:undefinedTotally, our brain can't process it
20:50but the birds can hear those details
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undefined:undefinedmemory and learning. And also
21:13plasticity, the bird's ability to
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undefined:undefinedproduction of the song. Bird brains
21:30are quite small but there's a lot
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undefined:undefinedcall and it is pretty raspy and
21:50noisy.It is but biologically,
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undefined:undefinedof a jay. This is a typical call it
22:13would produce. Quite scratchy,...
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undefined:undefinedthis. Unfortunately this jay decided
22:34to sit on top of the camera but you
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undefined:undefinedsong and reproduced it in spring,
22:59perhaps even
23:00song and reproduced it in spring,
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undefined:undefinedsomething I never expected to see.
23:14This is jays like they are having a
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undefined:undefinedreplies.Bizarre, isn't it? It is
23:34checking out the camera. I wonder
23:35replies.Bizarre, isn't it? It is
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undefined:undefinedbrains change sizes.In the
23:51springtime, their brains actually
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undefined:undefinedThe weather often plays a role on
24:11how our spring shapes up. To tell us
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undefined:undefinedwarm and dry and also very sunny.
24:28You'd be forgiven for thinking we
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undefined:undefinedwarm air coming from the south.
24:46Favourable for the birds migrating
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undefined:undefinedof these in early April in Greece.
25:06Look at this Met Office weather
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undefined:undefinedhappening in the spring but many of
25:26you have been sending sightings to
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undefined:undefinedrecord and with the ground so hard
25:47it is difficult for blackbirds and
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26:08Springwatch website. Spring is in
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undefined:undefinedhave found something interesting
26:24about the weather influencing bird
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undefined:undefinedenergy to go through the nest making
26:41process in the daytime otherwise
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undefined:undefinedmove in, the blue tits move onto
26:58those and that triggers egg laying.
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undefined:undefinedmoving three or four days per one
27:21Celsius increase, so what's going to
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undefined:undefineda patch in the West Country that he
27:44is nurturing, turning it into a
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undefined:undefinedopportunity to connect with the
28:00place he is sculpting for wildlife
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undefined:undefinedspring is beginning. Some
28:58much-needed colour.
29:06much-needed colour. With the spring
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undefined:undefinedfirst to migrate back from Africa,
29:41if any bird deserves a rest and to
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undefined:undefinedyear I find them nesting. But I'll
30:01need to be patient. The fields
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undefined:undefinednature runs free, the benefits are
30:24clear.
30:31Knowing I am doing my bit as
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undefined:undefinedwith trying spotting a nest is away
30:58straightforward. But still the
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undefined:undefinedseems to go into overdrive. The race
31:28is on. The leaves are intensely
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undefined:undefinedmaterials they need to start
31:56building. I do what I can to
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undefined:undefinedfeathers and horsehair. Soft
32:23furnishings she needs but somehow
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undefined:undefineda better angle to get a proper look
32:49at her nest. It has been a joy to
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undefined:undefinedbetter the more I neglect it.
33:19better the more I neglect it. What a
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undefined:undefinedhe is also able to watch the adults,
33:40and feed the chicks. Able to fold
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33:58summer, flies to southern Europe and
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undefined:undefinedbeak. What they call a pollen horn.
34:16But scientists have found is that
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34:35also attacking the nectarines and
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undefined:undefinedbecome a BBC TV chef. Here we go,
34:56every chef needs an apron. This is
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undefined:undefinedbirds generally in spring,
35:24invertebrates, but then in the
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undefined:undefinedmuscular site. The grit goes in and
35:47when the seeds arrive it matches it
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undefined:undefinedthe water to make it more palatable.
36:14Scientists believe there are three
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undefined:undefinedthat they regurgitate. Thirdly they
36:31believe it helps in attacking
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undefined:undefinedin catching and eating sand martins
36:53of all things. It does this on wet
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undefined:undefinedit or ingest it in the normal food,
37:16others have to seek it out. They
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undefined:undefinedhave found, absolutely remarkable,
37:35they seek out calcium at last light
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undefined:undefinedtake some deep breaths, take some
38:00deep breaths, because now we have
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undefined:undefinedyou a beautiful film by Raymond up
38:20on Orkney. With nothing but the
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undefined:undefinedhas two heal us, but obviously
40:15nature also has the power to heal
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undefined:undefinedseveral decades now. We know that
40:34beavers can restore ecosystems. They
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undefined:undefinedlittle bit of beaver appreciation. I
40:51like to introduce Trevor the Beaver,
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undefined:undefinedsowing about and we only got the
41:08guns of the Herald look a size of
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undefined:undefinedyou notice is the nostril eyes and
41:28ears are in a perfect line. This
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undefined:undefinedpretty well, and their ears as well.
41:44But it is still a pretty compromised
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undefined:undefinedabout doing things like building
42:03complicated dams limiting view of
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undefined:undefinedbuild their dams. It is quite
42:21extraordinary. I imagine it is like
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undefined:undefinedwater. That is how one half of the
42:38story of dam building, it is a feat
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undefined:undefinedbetter view of these things. You'll
42:53see that there is an orange on the
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undefined:undefinedmeans that that is likely self
43:16sharpening service. It wears down
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undefined:undefinedabout the fate? These are tiny
43:33little front feet. Let's have a look
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undefined:undefinedreally do manipulate them and use
43:54them to dig around, looking for
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undefined:undefineduse that to groom their fur and
44:13beaver fur is incredibly soft and
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undefined:undefinedend of the Beaver but there is such
44:29a structure called a customer site,
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undefined:undefinedCastor sex because they produced a
44:48natural aspirin and also a substance
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undefined:undefinedused as an alarm so that the beavers
45:06will use it to slap the surface of
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undefined:undefinedstyle anatomy which has made beavers
45:26incredibly well suited to an aquatic
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undefined:undefinedthe river, the weather hasn't been
45:46quite so welcome.
45:54Flowing through the beautiful
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undefined:undefined16 days of diligent waiting commode
46:42their efforts are rewarded.
46:50their efforts are rewarded. --
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47:23Hidden from plain sight, these new
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undefined:undefinedfruits of their labours are
48:09beginning to show their faces. But
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undefined:undefineddroppings and nest matter will give
48:41away their location, making them
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undefined:undefinedto fish, wouldn't turn his beak up
49:15at a small dipper chick. The parents
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undefined:undefinedthe first well-developed chick
50:21plucks up the courage to leave the
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undefined:undefinedthis year, despite the threats of a
51:00drought. But it's just the start for
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undefined:undefinedpicturesque place with a fabulous
51:33bird in it. I don't know dippers
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undefined:undefinedtributaries of the Thames as a
51:51vagrant bird? -- occasionally we get
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undefined:undefinedacute repercussions for the river
52:10life depending on this water,
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undefined:undefinedbouncing above the riverside is and
52:31reedbeds, providing this incredible
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undefined:undefinedyou have this abundance of food it's
52:53not surprising that some predators
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undefined:undefinedthe opposite, sweeping up to catch
53:17insects on the wing, especially
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undefined:undefinedsometimes known as C swallows, which
53:33is my tenuous link to actual
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undefined:undefinednone of the work! The prime site for
53:55nesting swallows is at Cookham
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undefined:undefinedMartins under the bridge which is
54:18slightly underwhelming and it is one
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undefined:undefinedthis stop a challenging place to
54:50make a nest, they have to skim along
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undefined:undefinedswallow nests. The only thing that
55:06would get in under there are some of
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undefined:undefinedIn March I swam under and put a
55:26camera there. The swallows were
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undefined:undefinedbrooding and turning her eggs. At
55:45dinner time we have the screen
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undefined:undefinedintimate way of finding out about
56:06the lives of these birds. Perhaps
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undefined:undefinedsnatching insect is sublime,
56:32catching them in their talents. My
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undefined:undefinedcatch insects on the wing and eat
57:02them on the fly, transferring them
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undefined:undefinedspreading out around the country,
57:19even I believe making it down as far
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undefined:undefinedreleased. Steve, Subbuteo, before
57:40your time? Give us a break! Sadly
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undefined:undefinedmarvellous magical minnows in the
57:59water, Chris.I'll be listening to
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undefined:undefinedall our cameras on the BBC iPlayer,
58:26the Facebook page and off course on
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undefined:undefinedpollinator watch, created to help us
58:46learn more about insect pollinators.
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