Springwatch highlights: Mon 14th June
|18:02 UK time, Tuesday, 15 June 2010
Chris and Kate moved into the dingly dale here at Pensthorpe to introduce a particular favourite of Chris's, the sparrowhawk... the avian terminator. There was more teasing from the will-they-won't-they swallows. Over at the wader scrape there had been savage drama as a jackdaw plundered the little ringed plover nest. One egg, though, managed to hatch before the raider returned. This had to be our first highlight.
For the Abbotsbury swans Simon had been following, life was no less dramatic. Of the seven eggs, only one had survived and its chances of making it to adulthood were small. On a lighter note, Simon also revealed the secret maker of his mysterious Dorset web to be the ermine spindle moth and listened to the sounds of the sea with Chris Watson. But the sheer amount of life he found in a rockpool meant this had to be our second highlight.
Last but not least, it's Chris and Kate's cruise around the Norfolk coast in search of seals and terns (in two parts here). You can watch the whole programme on iPlayer if you missed it and/or catch up on Thursday's highlights. We'd love to hear what your favourite bits were too.
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Comment number 1.
At 20:33 15th Jun 2010, Jen Jones wrote:The highlight for me was seeing badgers for the first time on this year's springwatch. I hope there will be more of these later in the week!
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At 23:19 15th Jun 2010, Francis Spring wrote:This comment was removed because the moderators found it broke the house rules. Explain.
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Comment number 3.
At 04:51 16th Jun 2010, John Bathurst wrote:What has happened to the nightingale? This bird used to be iconic when all there was was sound. Is it under threat as a species?
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At 09:11 16th Jun 2010, thoreauwasright wrote:How did you manage to get all that footage of seals when they weren't there?
https://www.flickr.com/photos/nickpix2008/4640780343/
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Comment number 5.
At 16:25 16th Jun 2010, mikethefrith wrote:I am a Spring watch addict, and wildlife enthusiast. We had treecreepers nesting in our garden this year successsfully.
There was mention of small grants to aid wild life - where can I get the information that was to have been on the Springwatch site, please ?
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Comment number 6.
At 09:24 17th Jun 2010, Jason Waine wrote:Congratulations on another excellent series. I have particularly enjoyed the broadening of the topic base. I am a vet working with captive birds and wildlife. With respect to the overgrowth of the female sparrowhawks beak: the most frequent cause of this abnormality is a malocclusion between the upper and lower beaks preventing normal beak wear. The sparrowhawk has an injury to the base of the beak where the horn-forming tissue is found and this is a very likely cause for the overgrowth of the upper rhamphotheca (horny beak) - a regular cause for this problem in wild birds.
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