Springwatch episode 5 2021
Springwatch episode 5 2021: Chris Packham and Michaela Strachan report live from Norfolk, where Springwatch’s remote cameras are capturing the wildlife dramas at Wild Ken Hill.
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Transcript
00:06Just before dawn breaks, in a quiet
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00:30Springwatch.
00:49Hello. Hello. And welcome to
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undefined:undefinedwildlife, and this series is based
01:07around a mission. We want to talk
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undefined:undefinedsome classical conservation as well
01:24and the dividends are that it is
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undefined:undefinedright-hand side, what a splendid
01:40animal, with its little crest coming
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undefined:undefinedon Friday. It is sedge warbler.
01:55These are sub-Saharan migrants, they
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undefined:undefinedthey could be fledging. The parents
02:12are doing a brilliant job at feeding
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undefined:undefinedopens its beak, can you see a couple
02:30of spots? All the chicks have got
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undefined:undefinedmouse, its gate, and inside, the
02:50tongue, and those are the two spots
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undefined:undefinedlike white warts, and what
03:05scientists think is that it
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undefined:undefineddone studies on other chicks that
03:24have all kinds of colorations in the
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undefined:undefinedhow the chicks are doing before they
03:40fledge. Do
03:40how the chicks are doing before they
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undefined:undefinedbirds which have these gape markings
03:54and using a Hummer substance, they
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undefined:undefineda few years ago at Minsmere, they
04:08really have the most striking
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undefined:undefinednests above water and to keep the
04:25chicks says, they make them with
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undefined:undefinednest in holes in trees so I think it
04:40is to do with the darkness of the
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undefined:undefinedFriday again because if you are
04:52watching on Friday, you will know
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undefined:undefinedwe had never seen them before so we
05:13ask if you had seen them, and this
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undefined:undefinedclambered on top of it, got out my
05:28phone and started recording what I
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undefined:undefinedthese are males. And the males form
05:49these massive swarms like this, and
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undefined:undefinedthe wing. You might get injured or
06:10arrested. Fantastic stuff. It was
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undefined:undefinedmine, Paul Brock, who has given us
06:22this one, you can see the midges,
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undefined:undefinedthey weren't biting once because
06:36there were an awful lot of them and
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undefined:undefinedI tell you what, they are bigger and
06:55better, I reckon, here in Northern
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undefined:undefinedover the weekend, there was a very
07:10rare sighting indeed, now this is a
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undefined:undefinedhandful of these breeding birds on
07:30the island of Ireland so lots of
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undefined:undefinedyou there are no biting midges up PA
07:50yet, I'm sure the Scottish midge
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undefined:undefinedlandscape for the better. They have
08:05planted almost 1 million native
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undefined:undefinedand she found this. One of
08:22Hannah checked them over the weekend
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undefined:undefineda woodland or in a hedge bank but in
08:36the uplands, you will find them out
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undefined:undefinedlooking at more of Allan Dell's
08:50wildlife later on but for now, let's
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undefined:undefinedcelebrated by putting my badger tee
09:08shirt on! Nice to see them in the
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undefined:undefinedenjoying them over the weekend
09:23online, you would have noticed we
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undefined:undefinedfacing the right way but he may have
09:39noticed that there is one nest that
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undefined:undefinedsay about the nest is that they are
09:54very well hidden, normally made, I
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undefined:undefineda bit of finding, if you are looking
10:09visually. Of course, there are
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undefined:undefinedthere, was disturbed by something
10:23and popped out. A study published in
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undefined:undefinedjust muscles in through the side and
10:43the brown rat returned repeatedly at
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11:01functional part in the ecosystem
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undefined:undefinedthe foxes will be up to the brown
11:13rats, they have kind of integrated
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undefined:undefineddisappointed to find that the chicks
11:28had gone. Does not waste the food,
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undefined:undefinedpredator that visited the nest
11:43because today, we were watching that
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undefined:undefinedchiffchaff. Way back in the 1980s, I
12:00heard a pair of willow warblers
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undefined:undefinedinside the nest, coiled up very
12:14neatly and when I disturbed it and
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undefined:undefinedpredators on the live cameras and
12:28both of them have gone to the same
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undefined:undefinedwhat we are calling avocet Island,
12:43for the obvious reason it has got
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undefined:undefinedweekend. There we go, we have got
13:00the Audrey Hepburn, looking rather
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undefined:undefinedBut she's a bit fidgety, and there's
13:16good reason because as she stands
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undefined:undefinedstart to forage. Now, they won't
13:36fledge for another four or five
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13:54attack any predator and try to get
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undefined:undefinedmind their own business and forage
14:10but the avocet is having none of it
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undefined:undefinedmoment, here it is, as it gets up,
14:32there is one, two, three... Four,
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undefined:undefinedis so strong that when there is a
14:48predator, all the chicks run for
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undefined:undefinedyoung under them. Enough from us
15:06here at Wild Ken Hill, let's add
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undefined:undefinedand it took a lot longer for them to
15:34breed in Wales. To another black and
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undefined:undefinedfirst light. This far north that
15:57means setting off at two in the
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16:26to sit patiently and wait.
16:42The first birds have just arrived
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undefined:undefinedfemales arrive on the lek the
17:19dominant male will mate with up to
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undefined:undefinedof the other females as well. And
17:44this is why they turn up every
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undefined:undefinedto all these black grouse. It is
18:18really magical.
18:30An early morning start but well
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undefined:undefinedcall and no other noise, just
18:47absolutely magical. What was
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undefined:undefinedof the males can jump up on the
19:06posts on display on there as well.
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undefined:undefinedearlier on in spring. This footage
19:26was sent to us from a lek in
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undefined:undefinedtheir claws, their beak, their wings
19:49to get any advantage that they
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undefined:undefinedwas watching a lek with eight males
20:04unbowed in the middle was this
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20:24it wanted to and passed on its genes
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undefined:undefinedThe RSPB do it, then do so because
20:48it is just fantastic. I'm pleased to
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undefined:undefinedsouth-west. The sunshine finally
21:14begins to warm up the coasts. And
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undefined:undefinedready to impress. Shape shifting
21:53common cuttlefish arrive from the
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undefined:undefinedSneaking up from behind his dramatic
22:17dress is a show of aggression. Dark
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undefined:undefinedbigger interloper is victorious. The
22:50female is stolen right from
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23:19Party. They have a more fatal
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23:51Have eyes for each other. They
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undefined:undefinedpouch with sea water as a
24:15declaration of readiness. But for
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undefined:undefinedparty guests continue to pile in.
24:51Soon these coastal waters will be
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undefined:undefinedkeeps the crowds away. This
25:23particular species only lives
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undefined:undefineddazzling and diverse. Especially
25:58during the party season. Finney
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undefined:undefinedblack headed gull called Betty. She
26:36is just one of hundreds and let's
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undefined:undefinedattentive mother, we saw her feeding
26:56her chicks but we have a surprise in
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undefined:undefinedlike the cuckoo land their eggs in
27:27the list of other species to let
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undefined:undefinednest. That clears up what happened
27:45with the egg but what about the
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undefined:undefinedYou can see there Betty with her
28:02chicks and as that leans back it
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undefined:undefinedquite worried but it did find its
28:26way back to safety. Again we have
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undefined:undefinedcolony is very fluid indeed. But the
28:48extra mouths to feed have taken a
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undefined:undefinedchicks were still doing well so we
29:09still have three chicks. Betty
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undefined:undefinedis amazing is we only focused on
29:25this one nest and there are hundreds
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undefined:undefineda wildlife in the UK has faced many
29:38challenges especially this spring
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undefined:undefinedhuge swing from the sunniest,
29:58fastest and one of our driest April
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undefined:undefinedsomething else going on? I'm talking
30:18about longer spells of the same type
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undefined:undefinedpressure unsettled weather. Many of
30:43last year the jet stream became
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undefined:undefinedbirds the blackbird with the ground
31:00being rock so it was tough for them
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31:21returning such as the Swift with a
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31:41on breeding success. What we have
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32:22beginning of the item, it has been a
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undefined:undefinedsomething missing, and Sarah Jane
32:39wrote to us on
32:40something missing, and Sarah Jane
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32:52since I've been doing the programme.
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undefined:undefinedgarden or that it has failed. We had
33:07this on Twitter.
33:17John wrote
33:18John wrote me a letter that I
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33:34hatched, it had six chicks and then
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33:50subject of comment and we all like
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34:10the preliminary data
34:13since 1947. She's given us some of
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undefined:undefined4% of them failed. This year, a very
34:28different picture, so here, 24% of
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undefined:undefinedthe earliest broods died before
34:46reaching two weeks old. This year,
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undefined:undefinedthe nest before they are two weeks
35:03old. This isn't just down to the
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undefined:undefinedhatching of bluetits. The hatching
35:25of winter moth caterpillars is timed
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undefined:undefinedcaterpillars. So adult bluetits have
35:42food to feed their chicks but this
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35:59vehicle you are going to love this
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undefined:undefinedtheir buds around here and then they
36:11start to open towards the end of
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36:27is all in order but what about if
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36:45unfortunately, did not switch to
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undefined:undefinedleaves, unfortunately, they simply
37:01weren't there yet. And what made it
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undefined:undefinedthe ground, the parole bluetits were
37:18going hungry. It certainly seems,
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37:34at this photo from Melissa from
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37:45are usually only 8-10. I reckon that
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undefined:undefinedZoe Ball on radio two this morning
37:58and she has got a nest in her garden
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undefined:undefinedIt has been a really challenging
38:16year, the last year, for many
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undefined:undefinedthought she would ease the stresses
38:35and strains of the pandemic to
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undefined:undefinedsea that mesmerises me. As a child,
39:03it was always the horizon that I
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39:33I had two seabirds nesting on my
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undefined:undefinedworld of so much mystery. This is a
39:58bird that has seen life over the
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undefined:undefinedfulmars because they dance in the
40:28wind, they are so free and
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40:51strong character trait of the
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41:19As I walked towards the cliffs in
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undefined:undefinedtheir bills together. It is a really
41:38lovely sound.
41:46The fulmar pair. The males make
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42:07the fulmars, I noticed that passion
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42:36because their cackle is so harsh, it
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undefined:undefinedand this one is swaying, talking...
42:59This one is flapping, talking. I
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undefined:undefinedfulmar pair will stay on the cliffs
43:20to raise their check for the summer
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undefined:undefinedlike that, fighting spirit, doesn't
43:49let it get her down, went to the
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undefined:undefinedall of those birds have a strange
44:10nose... Petrels and storm petrels.
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undefined:undefinedpart of the beach and drips off the
44:28end but also, they are equipped with
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undefined:undefinedIsland, St Kilda of the West Coast
44:46of Scotland but when we started
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undefined:undefinedpretty good. They are amazing birds
45:01and if I tell you this next bit, you
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undefined:undefinedIt is a defensive tactic and I'm
45:17going to demonstrate it using this
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undefined:undefinedis coming to attack. Know, I've got
45:37a bit more. Come on. Oh, no, we run
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undefined:undefinedwon't be able to get the chicks or
45:55the eggs. I think that's pretty
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undefined:undefinedwindowsill and it regurgitated all
46:10of that over me, that mixture of
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undefined:undefinedgive you the predator? Yes, it was
46:28pretty bad. No, it's just gone in my
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undefined:undefinedTwitter, Instagram, Facebook but
46:46some people take the trouble to
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undefined:undefinedhave always had between six and
47:02eight housemartin nests around my
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undefined:undefinedDistrict is concerned about how
47:21housemartins. I know you've been
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undefined:undefinedmuch of me which is kept a lot of
47:45the birds down in both Africa and
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undefined:undefinedyour birds to make it back just like
48:04our birds have done... I hope. And
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undefined:undefinedleaf. Looking stunning. Compare that
48:28with this year it just looks like
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undefined:undefinedI'm pleased to say in the last five
48:47or six days it has warmed up and
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undefined:undefinedof the big house right now. A
49:06typical house martins nest with a
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undefined:undefinednest building, mating, and they are
49:31lining it with bits of grass and
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undefined:undefinedScotland over exactly the same
49:54period we had an increase of an
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undefined:undefinedwill just have too broods for in.
50:23Wales I would add to my local
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undefined:undefinedso cold and there was so little food
50:46around and I suspect that this
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undefined:undefinedand subject to this part of shares
51:07with mid Wales. Something I saw too
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undefined:undefinedallowed us to keep a close eye on
53:04our feathered friends here in
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undefined:undefinediconic profile of a beautiful bird,
53:21the curlew. In spring this time of
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undefined:undefinedamongst the wild flowers, the
53:37perfect cover for the nests. And in
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undefined:undefinedthese birds. Again we were able to
53:56film here and this is footage from
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undefined:undefinedand there is the chick and of course
54:13this habitat offers good foraging
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undefined:undefined12 fires in total that happened in
54:39the area between April and June and
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undefined:undefinedreally paid off. The normally
54:56incubate their eggs for a period of
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undefined:undefinedfirst thing is that they had of the
55:18world. This incubator under red
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undefined:undefinedpen where they got to practice
55:36feeding, stretching their legs.
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undefined:undefinedfor them to be released into the
55:58wild. This year the team have been
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undefined:undefinedthat nesting ground year-on-year is
56:21going to become more and more
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undefined:undefinedbeautiful shot of a hovering kestrel
56:41and just look at the way it is
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undefined:undefinedplunge down on their prey in the
57:06grass. That is all for today, will
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undefined:undefinedeven more good news for you. And I
57:35will be joining a sensational
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undefined:undefinedthat we want you to look out for in
57:56this spring, it is called the
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undefined:undefinedand ascended into us. If we have a
58:15chance we will show it on the
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undefined:undefinedGoodbye.