Jubilee quiz

Redstart, Sea Eagle and Common Blue Damselfly. The link being their all going to be featured on tonights show? haha :)

redstart

white tailed sea eagle

blue damselfly

The link is the three colours of the Union Jack, red, white and blue

Redstart, White-tailed sea eagle and common blue damselfly.

redstart

golden eagle

blue damselfly

Redstart

White tailed Eagle

Common Blue damselfly



link:- red, white and blue of flag

RED(start) WHITE(tailed eagle) and (common) BLUE (damselfly)...very patriotic!

I forgot to mention the link between the redstart, the white-tailed sea eagle and the common blue damselfly - it is the colours of the union jack -red, white and blue.

REDstart

WHITE tailed Sea Eagle

BLUE damselfly

Red, white and blue theme!

I got it straight away...but had to register first!!! Angie xx

Redstart, white tailed eagle and common blue damselfly



Link- colours of the union jack

white tailed sea eagle. blue damselfly. redstart. All colours of our Union flag.

redstart, white tailed eagle and blue damselfly. the link is they all have colours in their names! the union jack colours red white and blue

Redstart

White-tailed Eagle

Blue Damselfly

RED WHITE & BLUE of the Union Jack

Redstart

White tailed Eagle

Common Blue Damselfly

The link is that these animals have the colours of the british flag in their name.

Red start, Sea eagle & damsel fly. Link they are all recently started breeding at the nature reserve?

a redstart a blue damsel fly a white tailed sea eagle/ red /white/blue/union jack flag

Oh cmon guys.. too easy! Redstart, Sea Eagle, Blue Damselfly.. signifying the colours of the Union Jack!

WHITE (tailed eagle) RED (start) BLUE (damselfly)

Redstart, White-tailed Eagle and a Blue Damselfly!

Redstart

a white tipped eagle

blue damselfly



red white and blue

Redstart, white tailed sea eagle and blue damselfly - red white & blue. James my 6 year old son got the damselfly! Come on Chris, you can do better than that! Living it though!

Sea Eagle

Redstart

Damslefly

Colours of the union flag - i must say it's nice to see the flag the right way up for a change lol

Redstart, White-tailed Eagle, Common Blue Damselfly. All colours of the Union Flag

common BLUE damselfly , RED start , WHITE tailded eagle

THEYRE THE COLOURS OF THE UNION JACK! happy jubilee :)

REDstart, WHITE-tailed Eagle, Common BLUE Damselfly: the colours of our British tricolour



Where's the Redstart nest webcam!

and their dominant colour is stated in their name

Redstart, White Tailed Sea Eagle, Blue Damselfly.



Link being the colours in their name make up the colours of the Union jack flag.

Main cross is a redstart, the triangle is a blue damselfly and the other is a white tailed eagle

This concerns the sandpiper. Sandpipers will attempt to divert predators from their young and eggs using a variety of tactics, including running, to draw a predator away from the nest. It appears that the parent sandpiper in this instance runs in an attempt to lead the predator (train) away from the nest site. She is successful every time and returns to the nest to continue incubating the eggs once the danger has passed.



Being precocial, the sandpiper fledglings will leave the nest around 24 hours after fledging. Hopefully the Springwatch birds will move away from the track, and to relative safety, soon after hatching.

Common REDstart, WHITE tailed Eagle and a Common BLUE Damselfly. (All colours on the Union flag.)

Redstart, White-Tailed Eagle, Common Blue Damselfly. Link is the colours red, white and Blue, that of the Union Jack!

redstart, white-tailed eagle and common blue damselfly. connection, water???

Red start

White tailed sea eagle

Blue damselfly

The connection is the first word of each animals name is the colour of the union jack:red, white and blue

Can someone please ask Chris Packham where he gets his fantastic T-shirts from? Thank you.

How do we know Pine Martens like sardines? Using data collected from their supermarket reward cards, of course!!

REDstart; common BLUE damselfly; WHITE cap. The 3 colours of the Union flag!

Donaldo

redstart,sea eagle,comon blue damsilfly

Red white and blue is obviously the link. However I think you may have a problem with the damselfly which is obviously intended to be a Common blue. It could actually be an Azure damselfly. The most reliable way to distinguish the two species is the markings on segment 2 on the abdomen which is obscured in your montage. I think the thorax markings and what little is visible of the tail are more consistent with Azure than Common blue so I await publication of the full photo link with interest.

1. Redstart

2. White Tailed Sea Eagle

3. Common Blue Damselfly



Connection? Creatures that have made a comeback in the UK.

Did I just hear Chris say that a contributary factor to the demise of several of the Blue Tit chicks might be the location of the nest, ie. cold winds off the sea.......the nest was in a nest box!!!!....someone put it there.....

redstart sea eagle blue damsil fly

Pine martens are vicious predators - protected - so you cannot shoot them when they raid your chickens - killing everything without bothering to eat any.

Oh forgot the connection. Red, White and Blue.

In too much of a hurry! As a teacher I should know better!

They are a WHITE-tailed sea-eagle; a REDstart and a common BLUE damselfly. The 3 colours of the Union Flag.

Ah. I can sleep tonight. Donaldo

Can you stop Martin from making that stupid girly squeal - squeek - PLEASE

we think there are a white tailed sea eagle, redstart and a blue damselfly. we think the link is the colours of the union flag the WHITE tailed sea eagle, REDstart and BLUE damselfly

Bit late. It's taken me 10 minutes to register! O.K., Redstart, White-tailed eagle and common blue damselfly. The colours in the Union Flag (not the Union Jack)

Male redstart, blue damselfly and sea eagle (white tailed)

Union jack-red white and blue

I think the theme is red white and blue

Redstart , white tailed sea eagle and blue damselfly

REDstart WHITE tailed Sea Eagle and BLUE Damsel. Red white and Blue. Sam, aged 9 in Edinburgh

Redstart, White tailed Eagle, Blue Damselfly - Link is today's Jubilee celebration RED, WHITE AND BLUE

red-start, white tailed eagle and blue damsal, white tailed eagle in the white section of the flag, blue damsal in the blue section and red-start in the red section.

sea eagle, red start, blue damselfly

all extinct in Britain at the time of the coronation or on the brink?

Redstart, White tailed Eagle, Blue Damselfly. :-D

redstart. whitetailed eagle, blue damsell. red white and blue. union jack.

Redstart ... White Tailed Eagle ... Common Blue Bragonfly

Redstart, blue dameselfly & Sea eagle ( Red White & Blue)

Happy Jubilee..

Redstart, White-tailed sea eagle, Azure blue damselfly



Red, White and Blue of Union Jack

Redstart, White tailed Sea Eagle, Blue Damselfly. Red White and Blue. From Sam Clarke Age 11

redstart , blue damselfly and white tailed sea eagle . basicly the union jack .

White Tailed Sea Eagle, Blue Damselfly and Redstart.

Jubilee Red, White and Blue!!!



Shirley Davies. xxx

Robin redbreast

White-tailed eagle (not found in UK though!!)

Blue damsel dragonfly

Colours of the Union Jack

redstart, white tailed sea eagle & blue damselfly

redstart

blue damselfly

white tailed fish eagle

all the colours of the union jack.

REDstart,WHITE tailed sea eagle,comon BLUE damsilfly

REDstart, WHITE-tailed sea eagle, BLUE damselfly

redstar

white tailed fish eagle

blue damselfly

make up the union flag

Redstart - white tailed sea eagle (are there many of these?) - blue damselfly - the colours of the union jack

Redstart, White tailed sea eagle, Blue damselfly!

Colours of Union Jack!! :)

The "Common blue" damselfly IS an AZURE damselfly. The flat bottomed "U" marking on S2 is definitive. See my earlier post no 38

Last week my son photographed a grass snake catching and eating perch, he was able to photograph the whole process

I agree with comment 70 the Common Blue Damselfly you say it is is not its an AZURE Damselfly told by the U mark on segment two and the short black mark on the throax..please get it right

I always thought it was the female peregrine that controls the territory!

Had the third bird been a female, it would be a fight to the death.

Redstart .

White tailed seal eagle .

Blue damsel fly

Link - three colours of the union jack .

God save the queen xx

I believe your damselfly image (in the quiz) was an azure blue not a common blue - U mark on second segment and the half stripe on side of thorax. Enjoying the series.

Sorry, Springwatch team, but a common mistake over the blue damselfly: it's an Azure Damselfly (Coenagrion puella) not Common Blue Damselfly (Enallagma cyathigerum). Azure is a snooker player: it carries a beer glass, snooker cue and bow tie! For the explanation, see 'Britain's Dragonflies' (Smallshire & Swash, 2010).

I agree Azure. See my posts no38 and no70

REDstart WHITEtailed sea eagle, Common BLUE damselfly. Colours of the Union Flag

Definitely an Azure, not a Common Blue. Diagnostic features being the fact that the blue stripes on the thorax are narrower than the black stripes, the presence of the small black line or 'spur' on the side of the thorax and the black 'U' shape on segment 2 of the abdomen.

Exactly, it's an Azure not a common blue.

I am not quite sure if this is where I need to post this comment but Springwatch please please help, I feed my birds every morning, but just lately I have been having more trouble with pigeons, there must be about 15-20 pigeons decend on my garden when I put the food out and some seem to stop in and around the garden all day. how can I get rid of these pigeons without disturbing the other birds? Jacqueline

I note you have renamed the the damselfly photo above as "azure blue". The common name of this species is Azure damselfly not azure blue. I realise you are deperate to maintain the validity of the quiz and apparently admitting your mistake on the TV show where the original incorrect answer was given and also on Facebook and presumably Twitter where the quiz was published but that is no justification for compounding your error. If you are determined to maintain some sort of integrity for the quiz you could probably get away with describing it as "one of the blue damselflies" but not with inventing a completely new name.



The BBC has a responsibility for accuracy and therefore to be open about the errors which will occasionally arise. I don't believe publishing a blog which will be read by far fewer people than watched the programme and has not been publicised on any other BBC platform is an adequate response. Nearly all of your viewers still think you showed a photo of a Common blue damselfy! You should correct your error on the live show at the earliest opportunity and also link to the new blog from your Facebook and Twitter accounts.



Publicising the correct ID will not only satisfy the requirement for accuracy but could also provide an opportunity to enthuse your viewers with the beauty, fascination and intricacy of these insects. I am not looking for a sack clothand ashes apology and handled in the right way it need not be embarrasing. You had at least two ideal opportunities to announce the correct answer without too much fuss on last night's show. The section on the pond including the Broad-bodied chaser would have been ideal but you could also have worked it fairly seamlessy into Chris's explanation of toe length in relation to Meadow/Tree pipit. I'm sure you can find a way of dealing with this in an appropriate way on to-night's programme.

If you need any evidence of the inadequacy of the blogs as a means of communicating your error take a look at the Kingfishers predated by Mink story. The blog had been up here for nearly an hour with absolutely no response before I posted the news on Facebook, followed by your link to this blog 3 minutes later (coincidence or am I turning into a conspiracy theorist?). It's gone mad.



How about posting a link to the Damselfly ID blog on Facebook now?

I thought there might have been a mention of the error in the programme, but apparently not :(

Maybe one of to-night@s programmes?

Are you going to explain here why you have not corrected your answer on air or do I have to try to get the answer in some other way?