Gillian is OK and credit to the Watch team for giving her time to settle down, because when first brought in she was really not very good. However, she now needs more and better material to continue to improve. There really isn't anything more to say about fenced-in Beavers (except perhaps when are the fences going to be removed so they can apply their work to the entire watercourse, and other watercourses across the South-west and elsewhere?)
On the other hand Megan has shown herself an absolute natural at presenting from the off: the fact that she is now undertaking independent reporting instead of just being Chris's sidekick (though that still works) means that has been recognised.
But frankly I do not care whether the presenters are male or female - the positions should be purely on merit. The ability to present the material (and perhaps to recognise in time when the script is wrong, and correct it, instead of claiming Penduline Tits are parrotbills, or not knowing that Penduline Tits were suspected of breeding in the UK due to a nest being found over thirty years ago) is the important thing.
What they could perhaps do with is some subject-competent editors so we don't continue to get stupid anomalies like Redheads and Lesser Scaups supposedly on Minsmere scrape, to pick an obvious recent error.
I'm also starting to get irritated with the heavy emphasis on Nature as being "calming". Well-being isn't all about calming down: its about getting excited by stuff and revelling in it. Which is another reason why the current Government approach to lockdown is foolish: and I see a very dangerous development in the research being shown on Winterwatch last night. Although the researcher thought he was working on whether it is possible to bring nature to those who can't go out, our moronic Government will interpret any success as meaning nobody should go out at all as they can get nature by watching wall-to-wall Attenborough etc. This is plainly rubbish: Nature is a multi-sensory experience, in which the breeze on your cheek, the smell of the tideline/red Devon earth/fox turd on the track, sounds making up the movement of animals, birdsong, plants in the wind, as a chorus not a level-adjusted focus on one species and the fleeting nature of encounters driven by one's own alertness are all significant contributions to well-being.
Of course nature should be on the TV and available to all, but the reasons for that are far wider and deeper than well-being for the immobile; and the dangers to the rest of us of that research means it should be buried deep, as quickly as possible.
John