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00:01It's cold.
00:03It's very, very cold.
00:06It's windy.
00:07It's very, very windy.
00:09But hey, we're here. We're live.
00:11We're bracing ourselves against the wind.
00:14The wildlife is coping.
00:16The big question is, will we?
00:19Well, we're going to find out over the next hour
00:21because it's time for Winter Watch.
00:30Hello, hello, hello, hello, hello.
00:49And welcome to Winter Watch 2026,
00:52coming to you live from the National Trust Mount Stewart Estate
00:57on the banks of Strangford Lock in Northern Ireland.
00:59Yes, if you were watching yesterday, you'll know that we've crossed the sea
01:02and for the first time we are basing ourselves here.
01:05We got off to a strong start yesterday.
01:08We introduced you to the Scarlet Caterpillar Club.
01:11Not a rave of disrepute frequented by Williams in the 90s,
01:15but a bizarre type of fungi that infects moth, larvae and pupae.
01:20Tonight, lots more science coming up.
01:21We've got a thermal drone
01:23and we're also going to be looking at the cognition of corvids.
01:26But first, we can start with a live badger.
01:30And there it is.
01:32Oh.
01:33Half a badger.
01:34Breathing the wind.
01:35Half a badger.
01:36The backside of a badger, even.
01:38Yes, indeed.
01:39That's a good start, isn't it?
01:40Well, it's the backside of a wet badger as well, isn't it?
01:42Look at that.
01:43But it's nice to see them.
01:44Look, you know, we've had a lot of badger activity.
01:46And a bit later on in the programme,
01:47Jack Baddams and I are going to be reviewing some of that.
01:50And there's some interesting observations, I've got to tell you.
01:53Things that we've never seen before.
01:55A good start, because actually on a windy night,
01:57you might not expect them to be out.
01:59Because let's face it, the last 24 hours has been very windy.
02:04We've certainly braced the elements.
02:07We've been buffeted by the wind.
02:10We've felt it.
02:11The trees have felt it.
02:13And as you can see, certainly made it very choppy on the lock.
02:17Not ideal for boats in that wind.
02:20But in any weather, it's an ideal habitat for waders.
02:24A flock of curlew coping well.
02:26Flying in a very straight line.
02:27Very impressive.
02:28But of course, you know, even when you get those crashing waves,
02:31the mudflats are the place to be for waders.
02:34That's what they've come here for.
02:36To gorge on all the food that they can find in the mud.
02:39You've got red shanks there, turnstones, green shanks.
02:43Coming for the abundance of food.
02:45They don't care if the waves are crashing.
02:47They're just getting their beaks in that mud.
02:50But you know, it's winter.
02:52It's a challenging season and everything is just trying to survive.
02:56We're very lucky here at Mount Shewitt.
02:58We have such an amazing mix of habitats
03:01and we've sprinkled our live cameras here, there and everywhere.
03:05Let's have a look.
03:06See if we've...
03:07Has that badger gone or is that badger still on there?
03:10I can't see it.
03:11Oh, look at...
03:12Oh, it's still there.
03:13It's still there.
03:14Look at that.
03:15It's near the wheel.
03:16He may well jump up on the wheel with a bit of exercise.
03:20Look at the wheel.
03:21We had this wheel last night
03:22because some scientists in the Netherlands
03:24had been using these to see if wild mammals would run in them.
03:28So come on, badger.
03:29Get up there and show some athleticism.
03:31That would be the best start to the programme, wouldn't it?
03:33To get a badger running in people.
03:34That would be a coup and a half, wouldn't it?
03:35A badger exercising on there.
03:38But the other night, we saw something quite unexpected.
03:42These are four seeker deer.
03:45Now, it's an invasive species here in Ireland.
03:48The only native species they have here is the red deer.
03:52They were introduced in 1860.
03:54These look to me like two stags, two young stags, two hinds.
03:58You see the antlers?
04:00They rot in October and then they drop the antlers
04:03and the antlers are regrowing.
04:05That one's got a broken antler there.
04:07Probably not from fighting, I would imagine.
04:09It's probably run into a tree or run into a branch or something there.
04:13But fairly unexpected.
04:15They're not numerous in this area.
04:17Well, that's a glimpse of some of the wildlife we're seeing here
04:20and we'll certainly keep our eyes on the live cameras.
04:22What about what you've been seeing?
04:24We love it when you send us some good stuff in.
04:26And look at this.
04:27We had a glimpse of a kingfisher last night on the programme.
04:30Debbie Lawson has had a very good glimpse of a kingfisher in Kent.
04:36Interesting this because normally you see kingfishers perched on a branch
04:40and then they'll do a little bit of hovering, dive down to get their prey.
04:45This one you can see there's no trees nearby, so nothing to perch on.
04:50So it's had to do a jolly good impression of a hummingbird.
04:52Lots of that hovering.
04:54It must be exhausting actually.
04:55Energetically expensive.
04:56Yeah, very energetic.
04:57Spends four or five times the amount of energy hovering
04:59than it would in level flight.
05:01So it's only going to do that if it really needs to, isn't it?
05:03Now we had a film on last night all about goldcrest.
05:06A delightful film explaining how they get through these freezing cold winter nights.
05:11Well, Ellie Raptor Simmons asked us,
05:13how do you tell a goldcrest from a firecrest?
05:16Well, Ellie, take a look.
05:18Firstly, look at the shape of the bird.
05:20I think we can all agree that the goldcrest is a little bit dumpy,
05:23a little bit neckless, whereas the firecrest has a more distinct neck.
05:27But to be truthful, the most obvious feature is that very distinctive black eyestripe on the firecrest.
05:33In my opinion, the goldcrest looks a little bit unfinished.
05:36So that's the thing to look out for.
05:38Because even if the crest erect their crests, the goldcrest is sometimes gold,
05:43but also a little bit fiery.
05:45So you can't rely on the colour of the crest to identify the bird.
05:49Just look for the eyestripe.
05:50Both of them are tiny, and you're really lucky to see either, aren't you?
05:53You are lucky to see either. They're fantastic birds.
05:56Do, too, continue to send in your photographs and videos to us.
05:59We all like to see those.
06:00You can use the usual social media platforms,
06:02but we also have a new WhatsApp number, 0800 022 4776.
06:10And if you can't be bothered to type it into your phone,
06:13then you can scan the QR code on the right-hand side of the screen there,
06:16and it will take you directly to that WhatsApp.
06:18So do send us your photos. We love seeing them.
06:20And I've got to say, we've had some pretty good photos sent in so far,
06:23and that's coming from me.
06:24High praise indeed.
06:25The uber-critic. The uber-critic.
06:27As I was saying, you've got to be pretty good
06:29to be able to see a firecrest or a goldcrest.
06:32You've got to be a good, keen birder.
06:34Now, Yolo and Chris think that they're good, keen birders,
06:37and they can be pretty competitive, let me tell you.
06:40So we decided to send them out around here on a birding challenge.
06:44Yolo, take a look at this. This is a blue tit.
06:48This one, wood pigeon.
06:50OK.
06:51Because I know you're struggling a little bit with your birds at the moment,
06:53right, so to get you back in practice, we're going to have a bird off.
06:56OK.
06:57See how many different species we can see in 20 minutes.
07:00OK.
07:01Can I just say one thing before we go?
07:02You haven't got a hope.
07:04Not a hope.
07:05We'll see about that.
07:07Now, I'm feeling really smug because I'm headed to Strangford Lough.
07:10With this huge expanse of mudflats, I'm going to see thousands of waders
07:15and thousands of wildfowl.
07:17Oh, no.
07:19I didn't check the tide times.
07:22Frankly, the conditions couldn't be worse.
07:26So here is my stopwatch, and I'm about to start it now.
07:31I am going to count the birds that I've already seen.
07:33There's a black-headed gull going along there.
07:35But on the way down, I saw a blue tit, a chaffinch, a wood pigeon,
07:38a hooded crow and a great black-backed gull.
07:42Meanwhile, I've got a trick up my sleeve.
07:46Why choose the woodland? You might think I'm mad.
07:49Oh, no, no, no, no, no.
07:51Bird feeders.
07:53Great tit, blue tit, colt tit, chaffinch, buzzard passing over.
08:04Blackbird over there as well.
08:07One, two, three, six already after 50 seconds.
08:15In the bag, in the bag.
08:17I might even have a little sleep if only I bought a cup of tea and some cake.
08:25Come on.
08:27Anything.
08:29Oh, hold on.
08:30Oh, hi there.
08:32Oh, my eyes are watering.
08:34It's enough to bring me to tears, really.
08:37Because at this point, I...
08:39I feel I...
08:41could lose the yolo.
08:49Oh, look, here. What's that?
08:52Well done, Pat.
08:54It's a red shank.
08:58A couple of jackdaws going over.
09:00Oh, that's nice.
09:02Long-tailed tit.
09:06What are we doing time-wise now?
09:09All the birds have been pushed off to their roosts.
09:12And those roosts, quite clearly, are nowhere near here.
09:16Wood pigeon going over.
09:18Oh, and an oyster catcher.
09:20And a hooded crow.
09:23Ha!
09:24Do you know what?
09:25It's raining birds.
09:26Don't even need this.
09:27Ah!
09:30Oh, I've got red-breasted meganza so far away that I think they could be heading to Nova Scotia.
09:38Lovely look.
09:41Five, four, three, two, one.
09:46Fifteen species.
09:49Fifteen species.
09:51Ha!
09:53The one time that you have to rely on your so-called feathered friends,
09:56And they leave you, quite literally, up the lot without a paddle.
10:01Look.
10:03One herring goal.
10:06Thank you very much.
10:09Twa-la-la-la-la-la-la-la.
10:11Laaaaa!
10:16Ha-ha-ha-ho-ho-ho!
10:19Oh, bravado.
10:21Yes, indeed.
10:22How many did you get, then?
10:23Well, you go first.
10:24No, no, no, no, no, no.
10:25No, no, no, you go first.
10:26No, no, no, no, I insist.
10:27Let's go together.
10:28I'll have to consult my notes.
10:29Let's go together, OK?
10:30Right, OK, on three.
10:31On three.
10:32I'll count.
10:33OK.
10:34One.
10:35Yep.
10:36Two.
10:37Yep.
10:38Three.
10:39Fifteen.
10:40What did you get?
10:42Fourteen.
10:43Oh ha!
10:44Ah!
10:45Yes!
10:46I don't believe it.
10:47So now, you can go to your grave, knowing that, yes, you are an inferior bird watcher.
10:58I love him. I love him, really.
11:05Well, I just got off the phone from my therapist
11:08and she said that probably with three or four years of treatment,
11:12I'll get over it.
11:13Oh, well done. Yeah, well, as you hear,
11:15I want you to witness the coronation of a king.
11:19I was actually going to ask you to put the crown on yourself.
11:22But, yeah, thank you, thank you.
11:24I think it's only fitting, you know.
11:25Thank you. I can be a good loser.
11:26Yes, thank you, my subject, thank you.
11:28You absolute swan.
11:29I'm going to wear this all week, all week, just to remind you.
11:31You did cheat.
11:32No, no, see, I went to the woods.
11:34Yes, there were bird feeders, but I heard you on there saying,
11:37on the way down I saw chaffinged blue-tipped wood pigeon.
11:40It was supposed to be within the 20 minutes.
11:43And if you can't get your tides right, schoolboy error.
11:46Had I got the tides right, had I got the tides right,
11:49I would have undoubtedly won because the mudflats out on Strangford Lock
11:54are not only internationally important for all of the birds,
11:57but they are packed through an extraordinary ecology
12:00of organisms and microorganisms.
12:03And Michaela is going to tell us a bit more about them all now.
12:06I am, but first of all, Chris, I'm going to say that was a rookie error.
12:11I mean, who goes to a lock at high tide to do a bit of bird watching?
12:15It's obvious you go at low tide.
12:17As Chris said, you know, that's when the mudflats are revealed
12:20and that has all that rich life.
12:23But you also get an enormous amount of life underneath the water.
12:28And it is absolutely beautiful.
12:31It may be grey above the water, but under the waves it's full of colour.
12:37And if you brave the cold, like diver Bernard Picton,
12:41who's been diving in the lock for over 50 years,
12:44then you're in for a real treat.
12:47All sorts of colourful crabs, starfish.
12:50You might even see a lobster peeking out.
12:53All sorts of colourful fish as well, like that wrasse.
12:56If you're really lucky, octopus.
12:59Absolutely beautiful scenes.
13:02As I say, loads of colour and loads of life.
13:06It doesn't bother the life underneath when it's windy
13:10and you've got crashing waves above.
13:12So that's what's under the water.
13:14But as well, the mudflats are full of life.
13:19So when it's low tide, the mudflats are revealed
13:23and they've got this sumptuous buffet of microorganisms and invertebrates
13:28for all of those wading birds with all of those different length beaks
13:32that are probing to get their food.
13:35And that's what makes the lock internationally important
13:39and such an important habitat for all those overwintering birds.
13:43But, you know, there are so many organisms in that mud,
13:46they're very difficult to see with the naked eye.
13:48They're brilliant if you can get a macro camera.
13:51So we've got a macro camera.
13:52We've also got an expert.
13:54Thank goodness for that, because they're complex,
13:57a lot of these little organisms.
13:59So thanks so much.
14:00This is Dr Patrick Collins, who's from Queen's University, Belfast,
14:04who's come in to show us some of the things that I've got to say,
14:07I'm very impressed.
14:08You collected today in the wind and the rain.
14:10That's dedication.
14:12What have you found?
14:13We brought a small sample of what we get in the lock.
14:17Because it is, it's thousands.
14:18Oh, there's a lot.
14:19It's a biodiversity hotspot in the lock.
14:21It was very cold today.
14:23Tides weren't great, so we didn't go out for too long.
14:25But we got you some stuff to show.
14:26OK.
14:27The first animal is a relative of your earthworm.
14:31It's what's known as a bristleworm or a polychaete.
14:33Now, it's bright red, and it looks like a strawberry.
14:36And the English term for it is the strawberry worm.
14:38Now, it's got a lovely and ornate Latin name,
14:40which is Eupolemnia nebulosa.
14:42And this is, it's an animal that lives its entire life on its own.
14:46It lives under stones in muddy areas.
14:49The bright red colour is because there's not a lot of oxygen down there,
14:52so it needs haemoglobin in the blood.
14:54And how it feeds is interesting.
14:55So it lives in a tube, which it never leaves for its entire life.
14:58That tube, it secretes out of its own mucus, which is quite revolting.
15:01Lovely.
15:02It's got bits of sand and bits of pebble on it.
15:05And it sends its tentacles out over the mud because it can't move.
15:08It's stuck in there.
15:09And these tentacles are like gutters on the side of a house,
15:12except they're made out of tissue.
15:13And they have little cilia inside it.
15:15It sends it over the mud and it finds little particles
15:17and it cracks them back through the tentacles,
15:19through the little gutters with the cilia to its mouth.
15:22And it eats them.
15:23I don't know if you know this.
15:24We love props on this show, Patrick.
15:26Yes.
15:27So I've got a prop of this because you explained it beautifully,
15:30but I think we can explain it even more beautifully with this.
15:33So this is our strawberry worm underneath its rock.
15:36Yes.
15:37That's what you said, underneath its rock.
15:38There it is.
15:39And then if I pull these, these are those tentacles that you were talking about.
15:45Very lengthy tentacles.
15:47And it never needs to leave its little home.
15:50And it wafts those around and catches its prey.
15:53Do you like that?
15:54It's good, isn't it?
15:55It's good, isn't it?
15:56OK, what else have you got?
15:57That's an animal known as a deposit feeder.
15:59So it sends its tentacles out over the surface of the mud.
16:02We've got a relative of it that looks quite like it,
16:05but it's a bit of a confused animal.
16:07It's known as a sand mason worm.
16:09Otherwise known as in Latin, it's got a wonderful name,
16:12or if you're an American,
16:15I don't know why.
16:17This animal is a deposit feeder,
16:19but acts and lives like it's a filter feeder,
16:21like the lovely fan worms you find on tropical reefs.
16:24How it does this is, I suppose, a bit revolting.
16:27It creates a home out of mucus,
16:29where it attaches bits of pebbles onto it,
16:31and it builds a lovely little tube,
16:33and then it has what looks, for all intents and purposes,
16:36like the top of a palm tree on the top.
16:40And what it does is it orientates that perpendicular to the water flow.
16:44So the water flows this way, and it's got the palm out like this.
16:47And that creates tiny little microwetries
16:49and small little particulates that are in the water,
16:52are brought in to these little palms,
16:55and it sends it to the tentacles out and feeds on top of it.
16:57So it's a fantastic creature.
16:58And we've got a prop of that as well.
17:00You knew we would have, didn't you?
17:02So this is it.
17:04So that's the mason worm.
17:06And then, and as you say, it's got this sort of palm...
17:09Made out of sand and mud.
17:11Yeah. And then the particles in the water come along.
17:14So that's the seabed, this is the sea, although it's black.
17:17And they'll come along and get caught in the top of the...
17:21Oh, one's fallen off.
17:22And that's how they catch their prey.
17:24They're really cool, aren't they?
17:25Because you can see they're really long,
17:27but it's only a tiny bit of it that if you were diving you'd see,
17:30because it's only that part of it that sticks out.
17:32They're juicy, they're small, and lots of animals like to eat them.
17:35So their bodies are full of these little hooks
17:38that kind of stick it into the side of the hole
17:40and so that when it's threatened, it can dart down quickly into it.
17:43So only a small bit of it is out at any one time.
17:45And what's the last one you've got to show us?
17:47The last one we have is a small animal known as corofium.
17:50It's a crustacean. It's a type of amphipod.
17:53And this is basically...
17:56They're the chips of the intertidal, as in the edible chips.
18:00You can see there's two little morphs there.
18:03There's one really long antenna on the front.
18:05Those are the males.
18:06And you've got ones with short antennae.
18:08Those are the females.
18:09The male's got the big long antennae
18:11because the female can only reproduce after it's molted,
18:15which doesn't happen very often.
18:16So there's a lot of competition between males to fight each other to get access
18:21and also to guard her because they're in the intertidal,
18:24they get washed away and he wants to keep piled on them.
18:26The females have little pouches like kangaroos,
18:29not quite like kangaroos, but for all intents and purposes like kangaroos.
18:32And their eggs hatch on them and the little small versions of them crawl off.
18:36And these guys can exist in absolutely phenomenal densities on the mudflats.
18:41In our areas, about 10,000 per metre square.
18:44In the Baltic, up to 100,000 individuals per metre square.
18:47It's insane.
18:48And the birds, what we tend to happen with all the waders coming in,
18:51the waders time their arrival to when the abundance of these guys are at their maximum
18:58because they're a fantastic and easily gotten food source.
19:00I find it absolutely fascinating.
19:02I mean, these are things that you wouldn't see unless you were going in the mud
19:07and sort of, you know, digging around.
19:09And yet the stories of them are so interesting, aren't they?
19:12And they're so important.
19:14I mean, they're ecosystem engineers.
19:16If we lost all this, the whole ecosystem would fall apart.
19:19The luck wouldn't be what it is.
19:21Thank you, Liz.
19:22Thank you so much for coming in.
19:23Thank you very much.
19:24I mean, it's one thing, isn't it, to see macro, but when you go into microscopic,
19:29then you see single cell organisms and there are whole dramas going on there as well.
19:36This is one in particular and it's starring a little single cell organism called a stentor.
19:42One thing is fairly predictable in the UK. Winter can be wet.
19:55And as water levels rise, rivers burst their banks, spilling into nearby fields.
20:05But with disruption comes opportunity.
20:12At the surface, these temporary wetlands attract bird life as flocks gather to exploit the new habitat.
20:24Yet far stranger events are unfolding beneath the surface.
20:33Within these muddy pools lives a whole range of aquatic life.
20:37Amongst it, something remarkable.
20:46A stentor.
20:49One of the simplest forms of life on Earth.
20:52This is an ancient organism.
20:56Although made up of just a single cell, this stentor is a relative giant in the microscopic world,
21:03capable of growing to one millimetre in length.
21:09It's also a master of contortion, able to stretch and contract into a trumpet shape.
21:18A form it adopts when feeding.
21:22Other microscopic organisms are its preferred food.
21:26But winter presents a challenge.
21:27You see, as nutrients become scarce, some stentors turn to an ingenious solution.
21:42Whilst some are transparent, this individual has a striking green hue.
21:47Having filled itself with hundreds of algal cells.
21:56They've been absorbed by the stentor, but they have not met their end.
22:02In fact, this marks the beginning of a marvellous symbiotic relationship.
22:07The algae are held within the stentor, close to the cell wall.
22:16Here, they gain protection from more hostile predators.
22:22And their host receives nourishment in the form of sugary compounds released by the algae.
22:30But there is a catch.
22:33The algae only produce this food when they photosynthesize.
22:38And for that, they need sunlight and plenty of it.
22:43For this microscopic organism, deep within a murky puddle, that requires some action.
22:51As dawn breaks, the sun's rays begin to penetrate the surface of the water.
23:07It's time for the stentor to provide for its paying guests.
23:11It's time to move.
23:21The stentor makes for the surface.
23:23Hair-like structures cause cilia to propel it forward.
23:26But at this tiny scale, pushing through the detritus can take a Herculean effort.
23:42Success!
23:59It settles just below the surface, basking in the winter sun.
24:04Here, using carbon dioxide provided by the stentor, the algae begin to photosynthesize.
24:15And the more they do, the more food they produce and the more they excrete.
24:22So the stentor can collect its rent with interest.
24:28With sufficient sunshine, its tiny lodgers can provide enough nutrition
24:33to sustain the stentor through the lean winter months.
24:39And the effort of reaching the sun is not a one-off for the stentor.
24:44If the surface of the water is disturbed, it will retreat down,
24:48before making its way back up to the light.
24:54They might be eons old, but the algae, the stentor and the sunlight
24:59are a thoroughly modern thruffle.
25:05The stentor, the stentor.
25:08What a remarkable little organism, just going to prove that you don't have to be big to be exciting.
25:14And that's all happening out there in muddy puddles.
25:18The wonder of life.
25:19Now, I've come down here to the heart of the Winter Watch Village.
25:23This is where the action really happens.
25:25I can tell you that inside these cosy, warm cabins at the moment are all of our producers and directors
25:32sipping their brandy and eating their chocolates,
25:34whilst the likes of myself and Yolo and Michaela are out here with the crew getting soaking wet.
25:38But look, this is the tangle of wires that gives you Winter Watch.
25:43This is where all of those cables from all of the cambers that we got out across Mount Stewart
25:47come together and they join in this truck.
25:51Now, we've been in here before. This is Mission Control, if you like.
25:55This is where all of our screens are being duly watched by our dedicated team of Helen, Rachel, Ian, Jack, Joe and Al.
26:06Got the names right. Good start, wasn't it?
26:09Really? Then you can see this bank of screens here.
26:12Now, at the moment, is there anything like...
26:14Oh, I just saw a mouse exiting.
26:16Was that it? Was that our live animal that we could have cut to?
26:20Is there anything? Joe, is there anything there?
26:22No.
26:23Nothing live there at the moment.
26:25Nothing live there at the moment.
26:26There was a mouse only minutes before.
26:28I tell you what, let's go to that squirrel feeding station that we've been looking at,
26:33because obviously it's dark now, no chance of any red squirrels.
26:37But we have been seeing pine martens there.
26:40Now, no pine martens at the moment, but during the daytime,
26:44plenty of other activity with those squirrels.
26:47And we can take a look at that now.
26:49There they are, chewing on those nuts.
26:52Now look, lovely little eotuffs, but look at the jaws of these animals.
26:57Incredibly powerful. These are cob nuts, giant hazelnuts.
27:01Imagine trying to bite into one of those yourself.
27:04A tough job.
27:05But not for the squirrel, because it has remarkable leverage and powerful muscles in its jaw,
27:11which sandwich the nut between its tough teeth in its skull and its lower jaw,
27:15and quite neatly snip through it like that.
27:18Of course, they don't eat all of them.
27:20Sometimes they'll carry them off and cache them.
27:22And sometimes they'll climb onto the bird feeders.
27:25And sometimes they're not very good at that, are they?
27:28They fall off.
27:29Now, if you were watching last night,
27:31you know that we featured an experiment that was conducted in the Netherlands,
27:34looking at whether wild mammals would run in wheels.
27:38Now, if you've kept hamsters or gerbils or mice,
27:41then you might have put an exercise wheel in their enclosure,
27:44and they would run around that.
27:46Would the wild equivalent do it?
27:48Well, what they found was that they did.
27:51Now, we've tried to replicate that in some way by putting some wheels out.
27:55Let's go live to our mouse wheel.
27:58Well, it's mouse-less at the moment, but we have had a mouse visiting this wheel.
28:03We put some bait in there.
28:05This is a young woodmouse.
28:07It's on the wheel.
28:09It's got the bait.
28:10It's thinking about it.
28:12It's thinking about it.
28:13But unfortunately, this is one of life's lazier mice.
28:17And this is not one that's going to show any degree of athletic alacrity whatsoever.
28:22It wasn't just that, of course.
28:23We've also put out a larger wheel,
28:26which we were hoping that maybe, I don't know, badger might get on it.
28:30Let's have a look at what we've seen on that now.
28:32There it is live.
28:33No activity at the moment.
28:36But look, this doesn't surprise us because obviously the smell of that mouse in that wheel has meant that the pine martin has come in for a sniff.
28:47Not looking to exercise itself, of course, but looking for a meal.
28:51Now, again, if you were watching last night, you know that we started strong with our badgers.
28:55We've got a good collection of badgers here.
28:58And Jack, you've been out, haven't you, to take a look at the set in daylight?
29:01Yeah, it's a great set that we've got for this winter watch.
29:04And although we've got amazing views of it on the live cameras, it's sometimes a bit difficult to get off.
29:08Just the context of how it sits in the landscape.
29:10So a few days ago, I went down to check it out.
29:23The signs of them are absolutely everywhere.
29:26Down here, got a little snuffle mark where they've been foraging.
29:30And there are tracks criss-crossing this wood, all leading back to one spot.
29:40Behold, badger-tropolis.
29:47This is one of the coolest badger sets I've ever seen.
29:50It's huge.
29:51There's a hole there, there's a hole there, there's a hole there, there's one over there.
29:55All of the bare earth shows just how active this badger set is.
30:00These sunken pathways must have been used by generations of badgers to move to and from this set.
30:06I mean, have a look at that, it looks like some sort of badger BMX track.
30:10It really is quite an extraordinary set up here.
30:16And get a load of this.
30:17If we get down here, we can see all along these tracks are hairs.
30:20Now, how can we be sure that these are badger hairs, other than the fact that they're outside a giant badger set?
30:25Well, if we put them between our finger and our thumb, and we try and roll them, then the badger hair doesn't spin.
30:31And that's because it's coarse and more oval in shape, whereas lots of other animal hair is very rounded, which means it spins quite nicely.
30:38But this doesn't.
30:40It's a good way of being able to tell what hair you're looking at, if you find some while you're out and about.
30:45Obviously right now they're all tucked up underground sleeping, but we've got our cameras and our infrared lights above to watch them throughout the night.
30:59We've got some really nice shots of them in the spring, and I'm really looking forward to seeing what we get over the next few days.
31:04So, Jack, we've got the lie of the badger land there, but we've subsequently seen quite a lot of really interesting behaviour.
31:20We have, yeah. A couple of nights ago, let's have a look at this clip, we've got some really interesting behaviour.
31:24We've got here a badger standoff. Now, I'm not going to talk too much because the sound is really cool.
31:34But what we've got here on the right, a male badger facing off against another that seems to be angling itself a little bit.
31:45You'll see it scoops around to try and keep that male potentially away from the set.
31:54But the vocalisations are really cool. I've never heard badger sounds like this before, personally.
31:59It's definitely antagonistic, isn't it? It's not a friendly chuckle.
32:04Occasionally they go for each other, but there's a lot of this behaviour standing face to face.
32:12And then this sound is really cool.
32:15Do you know who's down in the set at this point?
32:19So, at the minute, there's at some point, there's points where there are other badgers in there.
32:24There's other points where this animal does just seem to stand at the set entrance,
32:28and we're not sure if there is a badger blocking it or not.
32:32But it's definitely, in this case, we can see in this instance a badger does come out.
32:38But it's definitely avoiding going down. It's definitely uneasy about going down.
32:42There's a bit of aggression there.
32:43Yeah.
32:45Yeah.
32:46What exactly is happening here. We're not really sure.
32:48That male badger then just walks off. We never see it fully enter the set.
32:53We don't really know what's going on.
32:55I mean, one of the theories that we've heard is that that could be a male from another clan.
33:00Yeah.
33:01That's coming in to try and mate with some of the females in there.
33:05Because they do, at this time of year, come into season as soon as they've given birth to their young, of course.
33:11But they do also extra pair matings.
33:13So it's not just one male.
33:14So it could be a male coming in from another clan, but there's not that much aggression there.
33:18The other theory is that, of course, that could be a female badger protecting the place that she's going to give birth or maybe she's even given birth.
33:26Yeah. It's not all out war in there.
33:28They're not properly going at each other, which makes us think maybe it's not a badger from another clan and there's maybe something a little bit more subtle going on.
33:34Keep your eyes peeled and we will go back to that, I imagine, tomorrow.
33:39If we can get any more, we'll get a better idea of exactly what's going on.
33:42Absolutely. We'll be watching.
33:43Excellent.
33:44Lots of badger action here, but, of course, lots of bird activity during the daytime.
33:48And now, Yolo and Michaela are going to be taking a much closer look at some of the species that we've seen on our live cameras.
33:55Yes, indeed we are.
33:56Do you know what? Of all the habitats we have here, I think the most valuable from a wildlife point of view has got to be the woodlands.
34:02Well, that and the loch, I guess.
34:03Well, yeah, no, no, I mean, on the estate itself, you've got mature, deciduous, mature conifers, young trees as well.
34:12That encourages things like the lower plants, the ferns, the mosses, the mammals.
34:17We've seen many of those, but also a wide variety of woodland birds, many of which will be familiar to all of us.
34:25Our bird feeders there, the robin is a regular visitor, the red robin.
34:30Nice mix of tits as well. We saw long-tailed tits on the bird race yesterday.
34:34This, of course, is a great tit here.
34:37And the coltid. But this coltid is not all it appears to be.
34:42Because this is the Irish subspecies. Look at the rufous flanks.
34:47And the yellow cheeks. Our coltid has got white cheeks. So this is the Irish subspecies.
34:55Jays, well, they visit the bird feeders as well. But this jay, like the coltid, is quite different.
35:04Because this is an Irish subspecies of jay. Did you know that such a thing existed?
35:12Well, I didn't before today. It's really interesting, isn't it?
35:15If you look at them side by side, you can see there is a distinct difference.
35:20You've got the Irish one on the left, the British one on the right.
35:23And the Irish one has a lot less white on its throat and head.
35:27And you can see it's much darker, richer in colour. I mean, beautiful birds.
35:32But amazing that there is that little subspecies going on.
35:35And it is a significant difference when you see them side by side like that.
35:41And jays, well, the member of the Corvid family, of course, and they are excellent mimics.
35:46Now, listen to these two jays. Listen to this first one.
35:55This jay is in Sherwood Forest, right above a cycle track.
36:00And it's mimicking the brakes of a bicycle.
36:05They need oiling those brakes, don't they?
36:08It needs a service. And this one.
36:11Okay, Michaela, what's that one mimicking?
36:13That sounds like a bird of prey, like a buzzard.
36:15It is. That's exactly what it's doing.
36:17This jay is doing a perfect mimic of a buzzard's cat like mucol.
36:23Isn't that fantastic? Brilliant mimics.
36:27Now, why do they do it?
36:29Well, first of all, actually, let's give you the jay's normal call.
36:33Very different.
36:38There we are.
36:39Harsh. Really harsh.
36:40Do you know what the Welsh word for a jay is?
36:42I could give it a guess, but I'd get it wrong. Come on.
36:44In Welsh, we call them scrachachoid.
36:48The woodland screecher because of that call.
36:52Now, why do jays mimic?
36:55Well, there are several schools of thought.
36:58One is the fact that if a male mimics and adds these various calls
37:04to its usual repertoire, he's more attractive to a female.
37:09Another school of thought is that the jays, if they mimic raptors,
37:14birds of prey, then they'll scare other birds off a food source,
37:19including other jays. Ingenious, isn't it?
37:22It really is ingenious. That's the why, but what about the how?
37:27Well, jays are songbirds, and unlike us, we have a larynx,
37:31they have a syrinx, and that allows them to create different notes
37:35at the same time.
37:36So they have this ability to make a range of sounds,
37:40and they also have a large prefrontal cortex,
37:44and that gives them the ability to decide what to do with those sounds.
37:49So, as Yolo was saying, they can decide to sound like a bird of prey,
37:55which obviously is an advantage for them.
37:58But they are incredibly intelligent birds.
38:01And this was shown with something that was done to them.
38:05They did an experiment.
38:07And this experiment was something that was done for children.
38:10And the children were given marshmallows, and they were given a choice.
38:13They could either get one marshmallow straight away,
38:16or they could wait for the treat of two marshmallows.
38:20And this experiment was adapted, and it was tried out on the jays.
38:25And here it is.
38:26Now, this was done at Cambridge University
38:28by Professor Nicola Clayton and Dr. Alex Schnell.
38:32And you can see they've got two boxes, the jays.
38:34Now, in the first box, it could have taken a bit of cheese.
38:38Very fond of cheese.
38:39It's even more fond of mealworms.
38:42So it waits for the better treat of the mealworms.
38:47I mean, that's amazing, isn't it?
38:49Yeah.
38:50And do you know, with that experiment and all the other things
38:52that they've done with jays, they actually think
38:54that they probably have a similar intelligence to chimpanzees.
38:58Yeah.
38:59They are amazing birds.
39:01And they believe that this intelligence evolved
39:04due to their ability to cache and rediscover food.
39:09So they'll go out, they'll hide things like acorns,
39:12sometimes thousands of acorns,
39:14and they can rediscover over 85% of them.
39:19But it goes beyond that because they believe that jays are able to look ahead.
39:25They've observed jays hiding soft food,
39:29cashing things like fruits and berries,
39:32and also hiding hard foods, seeds and nuts.
39:37And they always retrieve the soft food first
39:41because they realise that that is the perishable food.
39:45That's the one that'll rot first.
39:48The jay, incredibly beautiful, very intelligent, and a fantastic mimic.
39:55Not a bird to be underestimated.
39:57No, not at all.
39:59We're getting a bit wet out here, aren't we?
40:01I was going to say that...
40:02It's lovely, it's all right.
40:04You know, when you go out into nature, it can bring you great joy.
40:07It can get you with the real elements.
40:10But it can also bring you a great deal of calmness.
40:13I mean, the healing power of nature has been proved.
40:16And for Billy Heaney, he decided to embrace winter wildlife
40:20so the healing power of nature could work its magic.
40:27Having built my career around the natural world,
40:42nothing makes me happier than being outdoors.
40:46But in winter, that becomes much harder.
40:51At the age of five, I was diagnosed with seasonal affective disorder,
40:56often called the winter blues.
40:59As the days get shorter and the nights draw in,
41:02I notice my mood begins to slip.
41:05The winter of 2019 was a particularly low time for me.
41:11So I escaped to a friend's wildlife-rich farm on the Isle of Islay.
41:17It's become my sort of annual migration,
41:20this safe harbour that I seek out every winter.
41:23I can come up here, listen to the sound of the waves hitting this beach.
41:26I can just breathe.
41:31As a zoologist and wildlife filmmaker,
41:33it felt like the perfect place to reset.
41:36That trip hasn't just transformed one winter for me.
41:42It's transformed every winter since.
41:45And that's thanks to one particular species.
41:49This is just magic.
42:01Thousands of barnacle geese descend on Islay every year,
42:06escaping the cold, dark days further north.
42:12It's beautiful and noisy and food for the soul.
42:19That is the sound of winter.
42:24My affiliation with these birds runs deeper than just the spectacle.
42:29We're both escaping darker days.
42:32My mind races all the time,
42:35but at this time of year,
42:37those frantic thoughts that are usually quite positive and creative
42:40can get a little bit negative.
42:43There were times,
42:44I'm happy to admit,
42:45where I was bent over a sink having panic attacks.
42:47I was feeling that sense of worthlessness
42:49really hit home a couple of years ago.
42:53I came up here to watch the geese and have a reset.
42:56And at that point, I got the clarity,
42:58I got the headspace that I needed.
43:00And everything got a bit better from there.
43:02And it's not just the barnacle geese here.
43:09There's a much rarer visitor
43:11that I always look forward to seeing.
43:15Ah, yes, yes, yes.
43:18This is what I'm really here for.
43:21Green and white-fronted geese.
43:25And these really are the best goose in the world.
43:28They've got those wonderful black bands on their belly,
43:33that iconic white patch,
43:35that white front above their bill.
43:41Because these Greenland white-fronted geese
43:43return to the same field every year,
43:45I've started to be able to recognise individuals.
43:49I know these guys.
43:51And sitting with them allows me to completely immerse myself
43:55back into my wildlife comfort zone.
44:00What's really special about this group
44:02is the adults have these collars
44:04and they were actually ringed here two years ago
44:07in these exact fields.
44:09And they've now returned this winter
44:10with last year's and this year's goslings.
44:16Migrating as a family has its perks.
44:19By travelling around 3,000 kilometres with their parents,
44:22young geese learn important life skills,
44:25like migratory routes
44:26and where the best spots are for feeding.
44:29Just like this one.
44:33So then the green and white fronts
44:35will be feeding on cotton grass,
44:37white beaked sedge and bog bean,
44:39using their slightly chunky beaks
44:41to dig down and get in amongst the tubers.
44:44Which is really cool
44:45because they're here with barnacle geese.
44:46And actually, you'd think there'd be competition,
44:48but the barnacle geese will be using their smaller beaks
44:51to sort of clip the top hedges of the grass.
44:53So by having this niche separation,
44:56feeding slightly differently in the same habitat,
44:58they can co-exist here pretty nicely.
45:04They spend most of their time here feeding up
45:06to prepare for the long journey back
45:08to their breeding grounds
45:09when the Arctic winters subside
45:11and Greenland begins to thaw.
45:13But with the day drawing to a close,
45:16it's time for these geese to head out to roost.
45:31Thanks to this little pocket of paradise,
45:33rather than fearing winter's arrival,
45:35I now have a little something that helps me look forward to it.
45:40And as long as the geese keep coming back here,
45:43so will I.
45:44So will I.
46:01Sense and kindness has prevailed,
46:03and our producers have allowed us to come inside the teepee.
46:07Thank you very, very much indeed.
46:08Hey, Mick, close your eyes a minute.
46:09Just close your eyes.
46:10OK.
46:11Imagine a clear blue sky,
46:13watery winter sunshine,
46:15and a massive flock of barnacle geese flying over.
46:19Wow.
46:20Sound, eh?
46:21That is one of our greatest winter spectacles.
46:24And if you live anywhere near a place
46:26where those animals aggregate,
46:28I urge you to go out and enjoy that.
46:30You know, I think there might be a gale later on.
46:33I think there's going to be a storm.
46:34Just listen to that wind.
46:36Obviously, it's getting worse, isn't it?
46:38But anyway, today in this programme,
46:40we have looked at the woodlands,
46:42we've looked at the macro marvels of the mudflats,
46:45but we haven't really focused very much on the farmland,
46:48because here there is a lot of farmland.
46:51There's plenty of fields.
46:53And if you look at them in the day,
46:55they appear to be pretty quiet,
46:58almost void of wildlife.
47:01But if you take a look after dark,
47:03then it can be a very different story.
47:06Now, how do we take a look after dark?
47:07Well, we have purloined...
47:09I love that word.
47:10Purloined?
47:11I love that. It's nearly as good as invaginate,
47:12but purloined one of these drones.
47:15And this one is fitted here
47:17with not a normal camera, but with a thermal camera.
47:20And, of course, we've been out and about at night
47:22flying this drone.
47:24Now, I've got to say, we are flying it very high,
47:26and it's got a powerful telephoto lens,
47:28so no danger of disturbing any of the animals below.
47:31But, look, this is what we saw.
47:34The drone went up.
47:36And looking down on the fields,
47:38you can see all of those little white spots.
47:40Each one of those is heat.
47:42Remember, this is picking up a heat signature.
47:44And these are birds.
47:46The question is, which type of bird are they?
47:48Now, look at the one on the left there.
47:50It's got an extraordinarily long bill.
47:52And we all sat round and pontificated.
47:54We think that's a snipe.
47:56And we think that some of the other birds are woodcock.
48:00Badgers, as well, were spotted,
48:02gambling across there, scattering some of those waders
48:06that were out in these very, very, very, very,
48:08very, very, very wet fields after earthworms.
48:11It is amazing, though, isn't it?
48:13Because you just wouldn't see that normally.
48:15And to put a thermal camera out
48:16and see just how much wildlife there is
48:18is a great thing to do.
48:19So once we knew that there was a lot of wildlife,
48:21we sent Mark Yates out there
48:23with a thermal wildlife camera
48:25to get some more close-ups.
48:27And he had a pretty good time.
48:29Look at that.
48:30That is indeed not a snipe,
48:32but a woodcock probing away in the fields,
48:36feeding itself.
48:37And then there's a badger.
48:39Badger out and about.
48:43And then two badgers, being very active,
48:47they are indeed...
48:48Can we call it Nick, very active?
48:49Yeah, that's what I call it.
48:50I mean, you know, there's a biological term for that
48:52we could use.
48:53Mating.
48:54They can mate all year round.
48:55January is the peak time,
48:56so they've obviously read the book
48:58and they're doing what they should do.
49:00Three of them there,
49:01so three badgers joining in, mating.
49:03A lot of scent arcing going on as well.
49:06So, yes, very active on this field.
49:08Very, very active.
49:09Very, very active indeed.
49:11Not the only mammals up in the trees.
49:12What did we see?
49:14Very delighted to say it's a pine martin.
49:17So, yes, there's a lot of activity in those fields at night.
49:21That's a cracking view of a pine martin, isn't it?
49:23It really was.
49:24Lovely view.
49:25But we also witnessed some unusual behaviour
49:28on that thermal camera with the pine martins.
49:30We saw them climbing around up in the trees.
49:32Now, look, at some times of the year,
49:35trees will secrete sap.
49:38And animals like this might go up and lick it off
49:40because of the sugar in it.
49:42If you watch this animal,
49:43it's definitely sniffing around on those branches
49:45and at times it appears to be lapping something up.
49:48What is it after?
49:49Well, we thought about a number of things.
49:51Could it be invertebrates like beetles?
49:53Well, it's been so windy,
49:54any beetle of any size would be blown away.
49:56Could it be tree slugs?
49:58Well, we thought if it had eaten a tree slug...
50:00I mean, last time I ate a tree slug,
50:01it took me ages to masticate it and swallow it down.
50:04We haven't seen that.
50:06Joe Charlesworth, one of our camera operators,
50:08said that he saw a bear once licking the moss of a tree
50:12to get the moisture from it.
50:13So, is it that this animal is actually simply drinking in the tree?
50:17I'm not sure.
50:18Do you know what?
50:19It could just be after tiny snails or wood lice
50:22or anything in those crevices.
50:25Fascinating, isn't it, really?
50:27Fascinating stuff.
50:28It's a mystery.
50:29We've had a couple of mysteries this show, haven't we?
50:31The mysteries with the badgers.
50:32Yeah.
50:33And now the mystery of what the Pine Martin's doing up those trees.
50:35But we can keep our eyes peeled, of course,
50:38and you can do that from 10 to 10 on our cameras.
50:41Not that thermal camera, but the other cameras.
50:43Now, look, whilst we're on Pine Martins,
50:45we've got to say that for a long period of time,
50:47Pine Martins were absent over much of Northern Ireland,
50:50probably due to direct persecution.
50:52But thankfully, they've been making a comeback,
50:55and Yolo's going to tell us a bit more about that.
50:58Isn't it fantastic, that thermal camera?
51:01We can use that to see a Pine Martin in the dark of night,
51:05right up at the top of those trees.
51:07Beautiful animals.
51:08And, of course, we've been seeing them on our live cameras, too.
51:12Now, they're omnivores.
51:13They'll take advantage of virtually any food,
51:15and that includes the squirrel feeding station.
51:19All the food in there has attracted at least two Pine Martins.
51:23There's one filling its mouth with seeds and berries,
51:30and off it goes.
51:31It's a little bit nervous, this one.
51:33Maybe because it encountered a badger last night.
51:36And then once it's eaten the seeds, of course,
51:38it needs a drink.
51:39It goes down to the water and has a bit of a drink.
51:42Quite a delicate little one.
51:43This may be a youngster.
51:45And then it comes right by the camera and scats.
51:49Poos, if you like.
51:51And that scat, it's much more than just undigestible food.
51:55It's got chemical messages in there for any other Pine Martin passing by.
52:00And, lo and behold, later on, another Pine Martin does come,
52:04sniffs the scat, and deposits its own.
52:08So, by these chemical messages, what do I mean?
52:11Well, it could have anything.
52:13It could tell the other Pine Martin,
52:15I'm a male, I'm a dominant male, I'm a young male, I'm a female,
52:19I'm a female who is receptive to a male at the moment,
52:23and I'm going to break there for a minute,
52:25because I do think we actually have live Pine Martin as I speak.
52:30Let's have a look.
52:31Have we got a Pine Martin?
52:34He's just gone into a hole into a tree.
52:38Doesn't matter, doesn't matter.
52:39But the messages, yeah, the messages on those scats are vitally important.
52:44Now, I was up here, of course, for Spring Watch,
52:47and we saw two or three Pine Martins then,
52:50and that got me thinking,
52:51I wonder, are we seeing the same Pine Martins again?
52:55Well, you can identify them by the individual marks on their bibs.
52:59There's one that we saw,
53:01and there's zit.
53:03That's the one we've seen in Winter Watch.
53:05The one in the middle is the one we saw initially in Spring Watch.
53:08And look at that.
53:10Isn't that amazing?
53:11That one is the same one with the three spots that we saw in Spring.
53:17And you'd expect that as well because they will live for, on average,
53:21about three to four years.
53:23And it's wonderful to see these mammals making a comeback here
53:27because for hundreds of years they were in steep decline.
53:31They were hunting for their fur, they were persecuted, and also they lost their woodland habitats.
53:39But they've come back with a vengeance, especially over the last 20 years.
53:45Have a look at this map.
53:47This map has recorded the sightings in Northern Ireland over the past two decades.
53:51Starts off slowly and then accelerates.
53:55Now, they were given full protection in the Republic of Ireland in 1976 and here in Northern Ireland in 1981.
54:02And that has certainly helped, as has the planting of trees too.
54:08Exactly how many Pinemartens do we have in Ireland?
54:12We don't know.
54:13But today, Ulster Wildlife is launching its All-Island Pinemartens and Squirrel Survey.
54:21So if you've got some records or if you'd like to help and get involved, then visit our website.
54:27All the information you need is on there.
54:32Right, we are going to escape this wind and the rain now for 90 seconds of our mindful moment.
54:40And tonight, we give you a starling murmuration over a winter reed bed.
54:51How do you?
54:53Agh.
54:54Agh.
54:55Agh.
55:00Agh.
55:02Agh.
55:06Agh.
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55:20All right.
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56:19Not the sound of this, but the sound of those starlings.
56:24Absolutely stunning, isn't it?
56:25We're coming to the end of our programme.
56:27We can take another look at that pine marten on our live camera.
56:30There you can see it on the side of that tree.
56:32Look at that.
56:33In this terrible weather, that pine marten is climbing up into the naked boughs of that tree,
56:38which suggests to me there's got to be a very good reason for it.
56:41So we'll have to further...
56:42And up another tree.
56:43We'll have to further investigate that.
56:45But before we go, we want to show you this.
56:46Take a look at this.
56:47Is this a plucky or a psychotic stoat?
56:50The heron has no doubt tried to attack it and eat it because they do eat small mammals.
56:54But look at the stoat.
56:56I mean, talk about fighting back.
56:58That is brilliant.
56:59It's just fantastic.
57:00In the end, it drives the heron away.
57:02Wow, look at that.
57:04That's something a little bit calmer.
57:06But fantastic if you see this in your back garden.
57:08Tawny owl.
57:09This is the first time that Derek Simpson saw it.
57:12It was in Surrey and it's eating worms, which is also a little bit unusual.
57:16It would be very unusual to see a tawny owl here in a garden in Northern Ireland
57:19because they're famously absent.
57:23Just got time to show you a couple of photos that you've sent in as well.
57:27Lovely robin sent in by Katie Nixon.
57:29And a bearded tit sent in by Alan Lambert.
57:33That was taken at Leighton Moss.
57:34I like that.
57:35A fine photograph.
57:37Well, that's it for tonight.
57:39We'll be back tomorrow if we survive the gales.
57:43What will we be doing?
57:44Well, we will be shedding light on biofluorescence.
57:49Look at that.
57:50Look at the colours.
57:51Extraordinary.
57:53And we're going to be celebrating the success of the return of red kites
57:58to Northern Ireland.
58:01And, of course, we'll be keeping our eyes on those live cameras
58:04that we've got out there.
58:05Remember that you can watch them from 10 until 10 during the course of the day.
58:10Go to iPlayer or our website.
58:12We'd love to hear from you.
58:13If you've got any clips like that, Stoke versus the Heron,
58:15then definitely send them in.
58:16Remember the WhatsApp number, 0800 022 7446.
58:21Of course, we'll be back here tomorrow night at 7 o'clock.
58:25More news on the Pinemartins and the Badgers.
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