Winterwatch 2021 (1 Viewer)

[IAN JAMES THOMPSON]

The live wildlife webcams from Winterwatch where due to start today as was mentioned on the BBC Springwatch Facebook website from 10.00am-10.00pm from Monday 18th January the day before the Tuesday-Friday hour long evening Winterwatch programme started that series. There must be some technical problems as no word from the BBC today.

 

[Farnboro John]

Pretty good first episode. Enough to keep the interest going and some decent factoids. Great camerawork! Looking forward to tomorrow's one.

John

 

[Euan Buchan]

I really enjoyed it good films.

 

[aeshna5]

Particularly liked the young guy with the Crossbills & the Goshawks-an amazing local patch!

 

[jurek]

If you want even more to watch, then Wildearth channel on youtube posts daily 3 hours morning and 3 hours evening live safari from South Africa. I especially liked frogs, spotted flycatchers, wood sandpipers and swallows... just kidding, best is the prime megafauna. In the past month there was a drinking cheetah snatched by a crocodile and a leopard hunting a warthog - both on live stream.

 

[davpen]

Particularly liked the young guy with the Crossbills & the Goshawks-an amazing local patch!

Yes. Some very odd crossbill calls on the soundtrack to that piece though....

 

[PYRTLE]

Yes. Some very odd crossbill calls on the soundtrack to that piece though....

In what way did they seem odd? Seemed a fairly standard call to me at the time. I'll have another listen later.

 

[davpen]

It's the calls in the background I'm meaning. Out of curiosity I made sonograms, and there are some which seem unlike any known W Palearctic vocal type (as well as others which look similar to Parrot).

 

[Farnboro John]

In what way did they seem odd? Seemed a fairly standard call to me at the time. I'll have another listen later.

They were probably AB negative when Sherwood Crossbills should be O positive. Or as you and I would put it "a fairly standard call".

John

 

[davpen]

They were probably AB negative when Sherwood Crossbills should be O positive. Or as you and I would put it "a fairly standard call".

John

Haha! Point taken.... It's raining here, and there's a lockdown.

 

[pppppvvvv]

I stumbled across a winterwatch bird of prey quiz on the BBC website.
I thought "baited breath" was a very strange term to use, especially with respect to illegal persecution. However, I have since found out "bate" does have a falcon or maybe falconry related meaning about flapping wings or something.

 

[Farnboro John]

A strange little cheat in last night's programme - a couple of seconds of a Red Fox on snow: clearly (to me) a North American Red Fox. They are hairier, having longer, more flowing guard hairs - less pumped up by dense-packed winter fur than our own. What was the point? It just didn't look like a British fox, and this programme is supposed to be about British wildlife. I suppose they think the hoi-polloi won't notice, but even if that is the case, its no excuse for showing them inappropriate fox photos from which even the observant can only learn wrong things. Very odd.

John

 

[davpen]

I take it it's raining down there too.

 

[Farnboro John]

I take it it's raining down there too.

Not like last night but damn the days are dragging at the moment......

John

 

[aeshna5]

My highlight last night was Iolo in the cave- seeing the Cave Spiders, the hibernating droneflies as well as Herald & Tissue moths.

And boy did that Goosander have a hearty meal with that Salmon. Great footage though will probably irk anglers wanting to cull more of them!

 

[Euan Buchan]

I enjoyed the film on The Mandarin Duck a bird I last saw in 2016 found it interesting and I actually loved Chris's film on finding empty nests in winter and guessing what birds would use them, I got 2 out of 5. Maybe it's just me but I feel they are not showing live cameras as much as they have done before they just keep saying 'You too can keep a eye on the live cameras they are available from 10am-10pm' but they haven't done the usual oh there's a live badger, oh there's a Otter etc that's my only criticism.

 

[Farnboro John]

Another good programme with the highlights much as described above. Within the limitations of both distancing and scale imposed by the pandemic they are doing very well indeed.

 

[Euan Buchan]

I enjoyed it last night especially Iolo’s film with Mya Rose & Megan’s film was really good.

 

[Farnboro John]

As if it wasn't bad enough Iolo calling Penduline Tits parrotbills last night, why is there a drake Redhead supposedly on the Minsmere scrape tonight?
John

 

[ClarkWGriswold]

As if it wasn't bad enough Iolo calling Penduline Tits parrotbills last night, why is there a drake Redhead supposedly on the Minsmere scrape tonight?
John

Just before the Lesser Scaup?