What music would you choose for our animal stars?

How about weird al Yankovic Classic parodie of Michael Jacksons Beat it.... Eat it for when the parent birds are feeding young in the nest or what about the Sex pistol god save the queen for shots inside a bees hive..

Barn Owl Baby - I wanna be Bobby's Girl! Cant remember who sang it though.

For any chicks left in their nest whilst the parents hunt for food. Wish You Were Here by Pink Floyd.

for the Buzzard chick I would choose -- Born to be wild...

Storm 3000 by Leftfield, for anything, just because it sounds good :)

I know Herons already have their song, but I still think " Top of the World " performed by the Carpenters would be rather special :)



Barn Owles - I want to break free, Queen



The (beautiful beautiful) buzzards - bare necessities, from Jungle book.

When the barn owls fledge it could be:



Owl meet again, don't know where, don't know when....

@shazjane "You're not a kid anymore - Bobby's Girl" US 1962 Marcie Blane, but the 1962 UK #3 was Susan Maughan's great cover version. Many then echoed the words thinking of the new rising star a very young & handsome Mr Bob Dylan ;)

The Lazy Song by Bruno Mars for the Barn owl chicks?

All by myself by Celine Dion for the single Buzzard chick?

Walking on sunshine by Katrina and the Waves for the Grass-snakes?

For Bob - I'll be in the sky by B.O.B Well, the chorus part of it anyway!

We are the champions by queen for the Grasshopper Warblers.

oh,,, what about "he ain't heavy,, he's my brother.." for Bob and his kin....

For the oystercatcher I would go with James - Sit Down. Or Kate Bush - Sat in Your Lap.

For the Herons if they ever fully fledge "Freebird"! ...with it being such a long song they have plenty of time to make up their minds to actually go!! haha!!

BOB - Some girls are bigger then others - the smiths



Buzzards - Rebel, rebel - David Bowie



Oystercatcher - Enjoy the silence - Depeche mode

I think Touch Sensitive by The Fall for the Buzzards. Autorock by Mogwai for the Oystercatcher. Radio protector by 65daysofstatic for the owl... I don't know lol

For the Grass snakes....Born Slippy

For the herons - Hit The Road Jack by Ray Charles

either, high - james blunt or i want to break free - queen.

@EnglishFolkfan thank you very much! I just put that into YouTube and It's the Susan Maughan version I was thinking of, cheers! :)

Also, for the pied flycatcher mother who's brood died I'd go with the Manic Street Preachers - Little Baby Nothing... seeing as it was the father who messed that one up and Chris apparently can't go for an hour without mentioning a Manics song title :P

Oystercatcher-Sitting On The Dock Of The Bay,Otis Redding

Barn Owls,well,Bob-Adam And The Ants-Prince Charming

When looking at what's happening (or not happening) on River cam - Deep Purple's 'Smoke on the Water' or for the Herons - the hokey cokey...

I thought for the Redstarts - Prodigy Firestarter, simply because they are so brightly coloured, like fire and when they move they swirl about like flames.



For the barn owl chicks Billy Idol - Rebel Yell, because the lyrics are "in the midnight hour she cried more more more and its quite furious - like when the chicks are getting all manner of different things "down their neck"! Or Echo and the Bunnymen - Killing Moon because "fate up against your will, through the thick and thin - he will wait until you give yourself to him" I think is appropriate for feeding and both have a mystic quality suitable for owls.



Finally for the grass snakes in the compost heap - Souxsie and the Banshees - Dear Prudence because "the sun is up, the sky is blue, its beautiful and so are you, wont you come out and play, look around" Maybe this is appropriate for snakes, as it is a haunting tune, there are many of them, suggesting the snakes are asking each other to play together and as many people have a fear of snakes it has a fun element?

What about B-b-b-bird, bird, bird, b-bird's the word?

Originally done by the Trashmen - bought back to fame by Peter Griffin of Family Guy x

or 'Blackbird' by the beatles - i could go on!!

To tie in with chris's manics thing, for BoB and siblings, You're Tender And You're Tired, Manic Street Preachers. I'm sure there are other ideas but I was only into Manics for a short while in the late '90s.



Radiohead Street Spirit with a montage of b/w night-vision clips in slow-motion (ie: same style as that video)



Radiohead again, Give Up The Ghost, Pied Flycatchers. If you really want to set everyone off. :-}

The patient oystercatcher mum-have a little Patience By Take That

Soup Dragons - I'm free for the beavers, especially the ones on the Tay :-) Viva La Beaver!

'BIRDS' by Neil Young would be a great choice of music its so appropriate!

Buzzards - I agree with WildRobin's fine choice, has to be "Eat it"

Beavers - The boys are back in Town, Thin Lizzy

Pied Flycatchers - Don't leave me this way, Communards

Oystercatcher - Stay, Shakespears Sister

Dippers - Da' Dip, Freak Nasty

Barn Owls - Ghost in my house, The Fall

And to honour your Welsh location - Into The Valley, The Skids :)

Perhaps for pied flycatchers, Grenade by Bruno Mars as it's very sad when the chicks die and the song is quite sad too. Anyone agree?

Yupp, I'm definitely getting sadder by the minute - and my life more vicariously virtual (or virtually vicarious) but -



How about - "The Boys are back in Town" for the Buzzards and/or "Bob the (Best Nest) Builder" for ... well - Barn Owl Bob, too bobviously! ("Yes he can!" - sorry!!) ??



I now half can't wait for SW to be over again so that "real" life can continue more normally - tho' actually I really hate the fact that the countdown for the last episode of 2011 has, incredibly, already begun ... Well, regards and thanks, TB.



PS - Do/es some (or several) poor unfortunate/s really read through ALL this "stuff"?!? The Black Hole of overlooked and unnoticed, lost, mis-posted and generally forgotten hopeful thoughts, questions, ideas, pictures et al must by now be truly ENORMOUS ... All things WWW seem to grow exponentially under some strange and uncontrollable organic momentum. So ... Is everything on the Beeb (nature) web going to be archived for future broadcasting use (or even just for study by sad subsequent surfers) ???

Barn Owls....I saw a mouse where there on the stair

Oystercatcher........I'm still standing

Buzzards......Gangsters paradise

herons music. i believe i can fly

What about amazed by lonestar for all the animals n birds

as we are amazed by them all.

A eulogy to the buzzards' prey – Spaceman by the Killers

The oystercatchers – Whatever It Takes by Belinda Carlisle

Grasshopper Warblers – Let's Misbehave by Irving Aaronson

Buzzards – Schools Out by Alice Cooper

Herons – Hunting High and Low

barn owls-------strangers in the dark-by frank sinatra------the way they are looking at something that has come into the barn

Round round by s club 7 for the Barn owl chicks

or children of the revolution for all of the surviving chicks

for the owls strangers in the dark by frank sinatra, the way the owls are looking at what has come into the barn

Kevin Carter - lol, Chris!

Pied Flycatchers- Linkin Park: In the End

Oystercatcher - I'm Still Waiting?

However, for me, the oystercatcher music was wrapped up the moment I saw the suggestion posted by politeringo_rabbit earlier. Sittin' On The Dock Of The Bay is just perfect!

The Godfather Waltz for the buzzards.

for Bob- Linkin Park: Somewhere I belong

How about.....

Barn Owls - Ghost Town by The Specials

Snakes - Slither by Velvet Revolver ( a bit too obvious perhaps)

Baby Buzzards (eating) - Turn You Inside Out by R.E.M, or something from Meat is Murder by The Smiths

Baby Pied Flycatchers - Another Man is Gone by Willard Grant Conspiracy (perhaps a bit insensitive)

Herons - maybe a song by Nik Kershaw as they have the same "hair"do

The Dippers - Deeply Dippy by Right Said Fred (oo er)

The boys are back in town..by thin Lizzy

how about NO MUSIC just natural sound, and if that is not available, just silence

Motorcycle emptiness

Bob the barn owl - Bob Marley - Three little birds

Sex on fire wen animals are mating

Living on a prayer by Bon Jovi for wen the birds are fledging

For the Herons... Venus in Furs by Velvet Underground... just cos I love it

I may have missed you saying it, but PLEASE could Springwatch/viewers encourage people NOT TO CUT THEIR HEDGES between March and August. Those massive great hedge cutters must terrify the nestlings and must be a cause of the decline in the garden bird population.

I think the best Original Sound Track for all birds is from Bruno Coulais "La peuple migrateur" which is the most wonderful documentary ever about migrating birds!!!!

There are about 15 tracks, plenty of material to be used as soundtrack of our webcam superstars!!!!! Susanna

Songbird - Oasis for any.. well.. song birds. If you play any song by Oasis, Beady Eye or The Libertines I will love you all forever. Ha ha :)

I think the Oystercatchers have been so patient they need some really relaxing music. I offer Santana's Moonflower.

Oh and perfect song for fledging birds - Escape the nest by Editors. Great song!

Given the amount of food going into the Barn Owls' nest - how about Overkill by Motorhead

Hi all at Springwatch, over the last few nights we have had large holes dug into our lawn. They vary between 1ft to 18 inches across and up to 18 inches deep. Our lawn is bone dry and very hard (no rain) so whatever animal has dug them must have very powerful claws. Each of the holes appears to be a Bumble bees hive or nest. Do you have any idea what animal could do this ?

Regards Ken.

Herons: Should I Stay or Should I Go (because they keep leaving the nest then coming back).

Robins should have 'ROCKIN' ROBIN'!!!!

When the hrons fly properly: Albatros- Fleetwood Mac.

In advance of Chris's trip to Newcastle- Bat Out Of Hell Meat Loaf.

For any of the little birds- maybe a montage of leaving the nest and coming back: The Birdy Song by the Tweets (I believe one of Chris's favourites!)

...but actually, I prefer no music over wildlife especially if they make their own sounds...

Maybe the producers could keep Chris unaware of the music to be used, and then do a compilation of really corny music to the "best bits".

- Birdy Song; swallows flying to Viva Espana; Chirpy Chirpy cheep cheep to well, anything etc....

hushaby mountain... for all sleeping chicks lol

For BOB the Barn Owl chick - I'm The Leader of the Gang (Gary Glitter) because of his burgeoning fan club on Facebook and because he's a gallus wee chap, or I Get Knocked Down But I Get Up Again (Chubbawumba), or I Will Survive (Gloria Gaynor) because of his indomitability in the face of seemingly insurmountable odds during the hot weather and the threat of being food for his siblings.



For the Oystercatchers - We've Got All the Time In The World (Louis Armstrong).

Thunderbirds theme, as my son currently is learning to play it on the trumpet (fantastic tune), when the chicks fledge. May be the woodwarblers?



Blitzkrieg Bob - The Ramones for our lovely Bob the barnowl

Flight of Icarus - Iron Maiden

Rebel, Rebel - David Bowie



And for all the birds not featured on the program: 'when will I be famous' by Bros

For all those birds: Buffalo Springfield - Expecting to fly



greetings from The Netherlands

For all those birds: Buffalo Springfield - Expecting to fly



Greets from The Netherlands

What about a load of shots where Animals are falling over, especially the young Birds :) You could play 'I get knocked Down, but I get up again, you're never gonna get me down' for that!! :D



Or for Chicks waiting to be fed whilst the Adults are out Hunting, you could play that song 'Why are we waiting,why are we hesitating'



For the Buzzard, you could play 'Lonely, I'm mister lonely'



Thanks :) Hope you like my siggestions :D

Another one, what about "There she Goes" by The Laas for fledglings? great song and appropriate maybe? for each chick leaving the nest. This is great fun, getting listening to ipod list again!!

Watching the 2nd Buzzard family now (sunday 12th 9am), with the adult sheltering the chicks, made me think of the chorus from Rihanna's Umbrella. "Now that it's raining more than ever, Know that we'll still have each other, You can stand under my umbrella, You can stand under my umbrella"

So inspired by Springwatch and Kate, Chris and Martin, do you have any suggestions as to organisations which run indepth courses on birds/wildlife/habitat t improve my knowledge? Have volunteered for RSPB and done the odd half day course with them, but would like something more detailed? Have others found good courses? Thanks for a great programme, loved Skomer and all of it.

OOOO OOO OOOO, SHAKE A TAIL FEATHER

SHAKE A TAIL FEATHER SHAKE A TAIL FEATHER

Isn't there one called "Jump" by someone or other (sorry, brain cells have gone again - maybe I can blame the lack of light/Vit.D today ..?) which could possibly suit the baby herons, et al. And maybe Ian Dury's "Hit Me/Rhythm Stick" (lack of grey matter again ... or maybe too much (clouds again), sorry!) - for the wonderfully mobile dippers?? (Tho' "Pogo-Packham" songs generally seem tailor-made for most of the delightfully enthusiastic youngsters featured!) Regards, TB.

PS - I, too, love just the natural sounds of all these brilliant creatures (Chris Watson - much more please!!), or no sound at all to accompany at least some of the excellent wildlife footage (don't get me started on the Beeb's seemingly inescapable, intrusive, gratuitous, wallpapery, "incidental" music (excellent audio-camouflage, also, for the Chris P generation - and many either side of this I suspect! - grumpy, grumpy!!) - but I also greatly enjoy the so-speedily and cleverly-choreographed, anthromorphic pieces to specially selected tracks! I also recognise that Springwatch has, to some extent, become similar to a magazine-style programme, and seems to aim to include a little of something for everyone, across all age groups etc, etc - and so, almost inevitably, works better in places for some folk than for others and "vice versa". I imagine that it is thus all too easy to inadvertently cause offence and this must be tricky for the producer et al to juggle, especially over a three-week period, using a lot of live or quickly-recorded pieces - the old fine line problem I guess. I imagine I'm being highly annoying (including to myself!) just by contributing this "stuff", but I've become side-tracked yet again from what I was planning to do on-line and the "STOP!!!" button has, as ever, failed ... (I'm sure the "PS" bit should be shorter - considerably! - than the main message ... ). Sorry all! The END.

For the Oystercatcher at the moment:

Raindrops keep falling on my head by Sacha Distell (remember him?) (or should I say Waindrops...)

For any of the baby birds as they're ready to fledge and leave the nest... 'Should I Stay Or Should I Go', by The Clash.

In addition to my other suggestions (Editors - Escape the Nest and Oasis - Songbird) I've just thought of another - 'The World Is Outside' by a band called Ghosts - perfect for fledging barn owl chicks ! (Ghost owls)



Grace

Mr Packham...how dare you be rude about the mighty Van Halen..!!! Tssk, tssk !! And for the record, those herons don't look PUNK, they are beautifully reminiscent of some early 70's PROG ROCK ( YEAH!) album cover with their ruffled feathers like opulent fur coats and with the mountains and eerie light in the background, almost hipgnosis in it's stark simplicity !!! The soundtrack should be Fly By Night by the mighty Rush...LOVE the show, though...

NO 'MUSIC' AT ALL, THANK YOU! I am not alone in being profoundly irritated by the awful background noise (masquerading as music) that mars this, and so many other BBC programmes. Let the sounds of nature speak for themselves. I know we are banging our heads against a brick wall on this one but that won't stop us from trying to get back to the era of GOOD TELEVISION PRODUCTION VALUES. And while we're on the subject, a protest about the Americanisms used by Chris Packham e.g. 'snuck' for sneaked....