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Message: <blockquote data-quote="King Edward" data-source="post: 3408519" data-attributes="member: 80872">I don't agree with the idea that "if you don’t like it…. then don’t watch it". People aren't criticising Springwatch because they find the whole concept boring, but because parts of it have got pretty repetitive and the presenting style is often (in my view at least) rather tedious. Martin particularly. The focus on British wildlife is fine, but it could be better. The country has plenty of fascinating wildlife, so why does it have to be badgers again and again and again.Martin particularly irritated me this week in the first episode when he pointlessly grabbed a big handful of underwater mud to talk about the huge amount of creatures living in it, despite the fact that most aquatic invertebrates are not living buried in the mud at all (at least, not the more interesting ones). I remember him doing exactly the same thing last year. Why not do some proper pond netting instead, preferably accompanied by someone who knew what they were doing, which would be both more interesting and more informative.I've no problem with the attention given to nesting birds, but I think there could be rather less of the 'live' coverage of birds doing nothing in particular and the exagerated 'drama' of fledglings leaving the nest. To me, the single best clip they've shown was the Grass Snake a couple of years ago raiding a Meadow Pipit's nest. That's the advantage of having cameras on multiple nests for long periods - you catch these very rare events. In real time though, a bird just sitting incubating her eggs doesn't make partiicularly interesting TV.I also don't like the way Michaela tends to do down Chris's bar charts etc. - you could argue it's just inter-presenter banter, but I think it reinforces the whole anti-intellectual, science is uncool & nerdy aspect which is prevalent in British culture. If you're going to be watching nests for weeks round the clock, it's interesting to show what the parents have been feeding & how often etc, rather than just laughing at the clumsy/cute way a chick falls out.PS. Wrote the above before seeing John's post, which I pretty much agree with. Less so on the European aspect, although I'm not against it, but they could do the British wildlife a lot better.</blockquote>

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