Well Springwatch has now started the cameras are up and Springwatch Extra is on The Red Button & Online can't wait for tonight's show.
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Springwatch 2014 (2 Viewers)
- Thread starter Euan Buchan
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derek marsden
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The 1st programme was great also different story's so 1down11more to go it can only get better well done.
Was good see Nick Baker has a new look a beard he looks so different with it.
AlfArbuthnot
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Blue Tits, Badgers and Bill Oddie - might be a bit too retro for me. And last year was really great, with lots of interesting new species and footage. Still, it's early days - maybe the Badgers wont show (as usual) and the Blue Tits will quickly fledge or die off (as usual), and we can see lots of new stuff like last year!
Fozzybear
Ich bin ein Vogelbeobachter
Well judging from that first programme and unsprung as well as the badgers and blue tits they've got bullfinches, nightingales, stone curlews, avocets… so all seems pretty great to me! Was lovely to see the close up footage of the ringed plovers, and to see the sand martins in one of their clips too; would be nice to see more of them. I love that area of Suffolk and it has masses of interesting wildlife at this time of year so is a good location choice; with any luck they'll feature nightjars and dartford warblers and some terns too. Maybe some green tiger beetles with the newly-beardy Nick. :t:
Farnboro John
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The off-colour item was the falconer's White-tailed Eagle. Totally unnecessary plug for an out of date activity with an unsavoury element.
Why not go out with, and plug, one of the boat trips that chuck fish for wild eagles? A better spectacle, funding the local economy instead of the local elite and something that Joe Public can do on holiday.
Nice to see Iolo being eaten alive though.
John
Why not go out with, and plug, one of the boat trips that chuck fish for wild eagles? A better spectacle, funding the local economy instead of the local elite and something that Joe Public can do on holiday.
Nice to see Iolo being eaten alive though.
John
Richard Prior
Halfway up an Alp
Blimey! I'm glad I can't get the programme out here, it sounds too x-certificate for me, are you sure you weren't watching 'Flesh-eating Zombies 2' on another channel John?
Richard
Farnboro John
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I'd rather fight flesh-eating zombies than Scottish midges any day of the week! 3
John
Telephoto Paul
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Live bitten nest on the streams this morning.
Fozzybear
Ich bin ein Vogelbeobachter
That was pretty amazing to watch. Loved the Reed Warbler and Nightingale nests too, very cool!
Farnboro John
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Speaking of bitten nests the Grass Snake that nailed the nestling Meadow Pipit last night was amazing!
John
string boozel
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I thought the programme was pretty good, particularly the Stone Curlew shots. The one creature that I could do without is Martin, more irritating than a million midges!
James.
James.
They have only come for your blood and they Always payI'd rather fight flesh-eating zombies than Scottish midges any day of the week! 3
John
You back kindly with a Dose of venom In Its Place Poor Midges I Kill Every
One I find ....
JTweedie
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It's been a good couple of programmes. I don't mind the common stuff as much now, especially since they don't endlessly jump to live cameras in the hope of seeing something. There's loads of other good stuff around the common birds/mammals stuff, so something for everything. And tomorrow they're heading out to sea which they don't do all that often.
Missed tonight's show I'll watch it on catch up later.
Farnboro John
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martin kitching
Obsessed seawatcher
"Birds moult all of their feathers every year" erm, no, they don't, and an excellent example of birds not moulting all of their feathers every year is provided by...none other than large raptors, like the WTE Maybe I'm getting increasingly crotchety and pedantic as I grow older, but I find inaccurate information - delivered as fact - really annoying. On the other hand, maybe the girl with the WTE actually believes what she was saying, in which case she probably isn't fit to look after a goldfish, never mind a large raptor.
cheers
martin
Maybe I'm getting increasingly crotchety and pedantic as I grow older, but I find inaccurate information - delivered as fact - really annoying. On the other hand, maybe the girl with the WTE actually believes what she was saying, in which case she probably isn't fit to look after a goldfish, never mind a large raptor.cheers
martin
Boro Birder
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Loving the show, some excellent nest finding, however some of the footage in the first program i had seen on the BBC1 show "Hebrides, Islands on the edge".
Damian
Damian
Monahawk
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I find I'm enjoying the live programmes through the day when I get a chance to look at them. The live cam programmes are great even when little is going on. Love the bitterns and the nightingales. Very relaxing viewing and no commentary. Just lazy birdwatching via your TV. I could get used to this.
Si.
Si.
What did anyone make of the shots of how the team precede the show finding nests....?
I thought it was a shocker really, walking down the paths and swatting bushes with sticks etc until a bird flew out and then probing for the nest.... we never did that in my day when we went nesting...! We just waited and observed with no forced reaction of "belting" the bushes....even we in our naivety we had standards..!
Do we really need new footage this badly .....?
I thought it was a shocker really, walking down the paths and swatting bushes with sticks etc until a bird flew out and then probing for the nest.... we never did that in my day when we went nesting...! We just waited and observed with no forced reaction of "belting" the bushes....even we in our naivety we had standards..!
Do we really need new footage this badly .....?
