Episode 12

In this last Springwatch of 2020, the team reflects on an unprecedented year and nature’s power to help people cope with such challenging times.

Wildlife sound recordist Gary Moore searches for a 'lost' dawn chorus on the Knepp Estate in West Sussex, where numbers of rare songbirds like the nightingale are beginning to recover. Gillian Burke explains how she has been helping with a survey of one of Cornwall’s much-loved mammals, the grey seal.