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00:09I can't help noticing that it's very dark.
00:13Why are we here this early?
00:14I don't normally get up sort of around 3.30.
00:18I know, but 4.30 is really quite early.
00:20Yes, fair point, all right.
00:23You got anything to sit on?
00:24I do, yes.
00:26I'm one of those people who buys things at garages.
00:28Oh, the day's looking better already.
00:31Does it happen here?
00:32They might do, if we're lucky.
00:38Do you have any coffee?
00:39I've got some coffee.
00:41I love you.
00:43So we should see birds.
00:46I can't see any at the moment.
00:49No, no.
00:50Well, that will change.
00:53I really enjoyed our little trip to Cornwall.
00:56I think I enjoyed bits that you didn't.
00:58I had this incredible experience with a robin.
01:03Yes.
01:04I mean, I can't tell you.
01:06I've told everyone about it when it was just where your knee is now.
01:09Yes.
01:09And I sang it a song and then it cheeped back to me.
01:12I don't think I've ever had that experience with a wild bird.
01:15I tend to look past the common stuff, like the robin or the red shank, and just go, oh, yeah,
01:21I know what that is.
01:23I think I'm going to make an effort on this trip, not to chase the rare stuff and just enjoy
01:28what we've got in front of us.
01:29All right.
01:33There's a lovely pink sky coming up over there.
01:37I've brought you here because Norfolk is one of the great birding destinations.
01:42In the world?
01:44Actually, yes.
01:45Yeah.
01:45I've brought you here because we're on a wild goose chase.
01:50Oh, I like that.
02:05I didn't bring my gloves.
02:06They're in my suitcase.
02:09Here we are.
02:10I mean, it's just slightly absurd, sitting in armchairs in the middle of a field at God knows what hour
02:15in the morning.
02:16Yeah.
02:16And what are we expecting to see?
02:18We are here to watch one of the great migration spectacles.
02:23You've got my interest now.
02:25Pink-footed geese arrive here in massive numbers around now.
02:31Norfolk sometimes holds about 70,000 of them, which is a quarter of the world's population.
02:36What do you call them?
02:37Pink-footed?
02:38Pink-footed geese.
02:39Where are they coming from?
02:40They're coming from Iceland.
02:41Right.
02:42And Greenland, where they breed.
02:44And they're coming to Norfolk.
02:45And they're coming to Norfolk.
02:48The thing is, geese flying south has been a mark of the seasons for millennia.
02:53This is the south they come to.
02:55Right.
02:55I mean, we think it's chilly, but this is their Benidorm.
02:58Oh, this is their summer holiday.
02:59This is their summer holiday.
03:01Well, I can see them now.
03:03Is it a lake down there?
03:05It is.
03:05They roost on lakes because they feel safer.
03:07They can see predators coming.
03:09So some unspoken command shoots through the flock.
03:14Yeah.
03:14And they all go.
03:20Here we go.
03:21Here we go.
03:33Oh, look at that.
03:39Oh, my God.
03:41Oh, my God.
03:44That's huge numbers.
03:51Oh, that is amazing.
03:56That is literally thousands, isn't it?
03:58Yeah.
03:58And they're coming over the top.
04:01Coming over us.
04:03What a sight.
04:07I see that.
04:08Here they come.
04:09World War II.
04:10Yes.
04:11Try not to sing the Danbusters.
04:12Operations room.
04:15Look at that.
04:21That is gorgeous.
04:27I just feel with this noise and watching this thing, you're touching the edge of something
04:33wild that's been going on for hundreds of thousands of years.
04:43I've been watching geese in Norfolk for 20 years, but I don't think I've ever seen that
04:49many.
04:56Do you mind if we can warm up in the car?
04:58I'm freezing.
04:58Very good idea.
05:04Well, that was good.
05:05This is the problem with birding, is it?
05:07And it all takes place when it's bloody freezing.
05:10Yes.
05:14I do have some connection with this part of the world, and it always makes me think of
05:21my mortality these days, in that I've got these suits that I wear, especially when I'm
05:27rehearsing.
05:27They used to be made by this couple in Holt.
05:30Oh, yes.
05:31They had a company called Old Town, and they wanted to retire, and they couldn't find anyone
05:35to buy the business.
05:36And so she rang me up, and she said, my image closed down.
05:40If you want any extra suits, order them.
05:44And I thought about it, and I ordered three.
05:48Yes.
05:48And I remember saying to her, I think that'll see me out.
05:52Oh, aid.
05:53Indeed.
05:54You do start to think about the end.
06:02Well, talking of which, since we last met, my mum died a week ago, one day after what
06:12would have been her 62nd wedding anniversary, last week we went down to Shaftesbury Avenue
06:21to see the West End theatres dim their front of house lights for her, which is something
06:27which would have astonished and delighted her, but it really, it really floored me.
06:39How old was she?
06:40She was 93.
06:42Hmm.
06:45The last proper conversation I had with her was when a couple of years ago she said, how
06:54old am I?
06:55And I said, you're 91 now.
06:57And she said, 91.
07:01Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha.
07:08It's beautifully timed, beautifully enunciated.
07:11I mean, we had a few more conversations after that, but that, that may be the last one I
07:15remember.
07:15Yeah.
07:16but um that's good to have in the memory yeah it's a goodie it's a goodie and I
07:23certainly got my love of the outdoors from her and there's a Skylark yeah you
07:28can hear it that sort of buzzing song more of a call really
07:57let's grab those chairs and see what else we can find well done they were very useful
08:08£2.50 well spent oh I'm glad you came Sam yeah so am I let's see what else Holcomb's got
08:20to offer us
08:49Holcomb's incredible you you never have to drive far between the best spots it's got everything
08:56what have we got here we've got sand dunes we've got marsh yeah I mean it's reads it's a brilliant
09:02place for so many habitats close together you have pines for perching birds and then dunes over
09:09the other side of the trees where you get snow bunting and shore lark and we hope Brent geese
09:16is this our uh the bird we're looking for today yes are we on a mission we've got a mission
09:20you like a
09:21mission wild goose chase I tell you Brent and Pinkfeet are the true wild geese they don't
09:26breed here they're just winter visitors so that's why they're interesting right
09:35let's go and find some Brent geese
09:41I think our best bets probably go through the woods get out onto the beach and the marsh where
09:46they like to feed
09:50oh there's a birdie what was that a little birdie turn the engine off again
10:02in the bracken there two birds here that's a Robin just here
10:10he's probably following me around again hello mate I'm here
10:17have you come all the way from Cornwall
10:31so head up towards the beach
10:36what's that I think that's a bird of prey of some sort isn't it
10:40oh it's a sparrowhawk female I think look at that oh that's stiff-necked job nearly fell over
10:50good spot though well done
10:53so a sparrowhawk does that eat sparrows yes does it yes another another well-named bird well that is very
11:00good yes it does
11:10this Brent goose I think they're lovely are they are they something to look at is it a work of
11:16art if you like your birds minimalist and charismatic yes
11:27that's some beach that is some beach absolutely beautiful
11:43I'd say there's no geese at all no I can't see any more importantly I can't hear any
11:51we could try along there yeah that's a good viewpoint
11:56naturism is only permitted within the red shaded area come on let's go
12:04come on we found them straight away it wouldn't be a proper wild goose chase
12:15I wonder if you and my mum had something in common
12:19so much of your career
12:22was defined by
12:24one job
12:25I know
12:25I always say that about the young ones
12:2714 weeks
12:2814 weeks of the young ones and two series of 40 towers
12:33when she was so celebrated for 40 towers
12:35she said the only downside was that she didn't get offered any more classical plays
12:39yeah I think it's one of the great tragedies of doing comedy
12:44well it is that it is that it kind of kiboshes your
12:49possibilities
12:56yeah
12:56oh look at that
13:00oh wow
13:02ha ha
13:04this is gun hill needs to be an anti-aircraft gun emplacement here
13:09it's a beautiful spot isn't it
13:11yeah
13:12this is what we call salt marsh
13:14and brent geese thrive on the space between the land and the sea
13:18so
13:19they're going to be around here
13:23yeah we're sharing the airwaves with RAF Lake and Heath
13:29it's not like being disturbed by spitfires is it
13:32it's a big ugly
13:33flying triangles
13:35yeah
13:41oh Jesus Christ
13:49I don't really know my RAF planes these days do you?
13:53no
13:54I knew them all when I was a kid
13:56we used to live on an RAF base in Bahrain
13:59oh that would do it
14:00yeah
14:00yeah my dad used to teach forces to kids
14:05I was sent to a boarding school and the general expectation was that you would follow the line
14:12yeah
14:13and join up
14:14yeah
14:14and I was suspended in my final year
14:19what was that for?
14:21throwing up in the prefect's waste paper basket
14:24um
14:25one of my best on the list of crimes was attempted asphyxiation of a chemistry master
14:32it was just part of a catalogue I think it was the final straw
14:36and erm
14:37I was suspended
14:38and the only reason I was brought back
14:41was because it was er
14:44half way through the term
14:46and we were doing Hamlet and I was Hamlet
14:51red kite quite close
14:52yeah
14:55that's sexy
14:57there you are sexy bird
15:01look at the way it steers with its tail
15:05that is I mean that is ooh
15:11you had a very different dad to mine
15:14I suppose I did
15:15did your dad expect you to become an actor?
15:18I'm the fourth generation
15:20wow
15:20so in the end it just became hard to avoid really
15:24oh
15:26well what was that?
15:28on the salt marsh
15:29just
15:30on the brownie bit?
15:31yes
15:31you can see a little black and white flock
15:36is that our
15:36is that them?
15:37that's them
15:39just here
15:39oh yeah yeah I see them
15:41Brent geese
15:43Brent geese in flight
15:45there you are
15:46I promised you wild geese
15:49ha ha
15:50isn't that amazing?
15:52ha ha ha
15:55that's nice
16:00the latin name of the Brent goose is
16:02Branta Bernicla
16:04and Branta is an Old Norse word meaning burnt
16:09it's a burnt goose
16:10burnt goose
16:12there are about five different shades of grey
16:15I love them
16:16yeah
16:17really classy
16:18let's put the scope up
16:20I want to get closer
16:22come and have a look
16:23I have to say they're better close up than they are from a distance
16:26yeah I told you
16:28oh they're so stylish
16:34pump
16:38oh that's made my day
16:39I'm happy now
16:44okay let's go
16:45there's a lot more to see on the coast here
16:47you wait
16:50I love this place
16:52love my new trousers
16:56so that was Holcomb
16:57now we're off to see where we're staying
16:59I hope you like it
17:03it's a famous bird watching village called Klai
17:06spelt Klai
17:07but birders call it Klai
17:09it's just down the coast
17:11it's going to be a great base for tomorrow's birding adventure
17:33oh it's lovely
17:35it's a little cottage
17:39you see the moon
17:40yeah
17:41yeah
17:42see the windmill
17:43very nice
17:45shall we open a bottle of something
17:46god yes
17:54Tuesday 4th November
17:57North
17:59Norfolk
18:00pink footed goose
18:02pink footed goose we saw
18:04bloody loads
18:07it smells fantastic
18:09well it's only onions and garlic so far
18:11I learned to cook at school because the food was so shit
18:14there was a single ring
18:16baby belling in the boot room at school
18:18and I used to cook spaghetti bolognese on it
18:21you must have been quite popular for that
18:23was it just for yourself
18:25I don't think I shared it
18:27you read it?
18:28you read it to all yourself?
18:34Brent goose
18:35Brent goose
18:37I think it might have been my favourite bird of the day
18:40okay
18:41that's nice
18:41that's a good choice
18:42swifts have gone home
18:43I've got one woodpecker
18:45skylark
18:46good numbers
18:47well birded
18:49thank you
18:49well done you
18:50can you open a window
18:52I'm still wearing my fleece but I'm a bit hot
18:56red kite
18:58here you are
18:59here you are
19:00oh look at that
19:02that's beautiful
19:03it's really good
19:07I found this in the bookshelf
19:09Diana Riggs' No Turn Unstoned
19:12it's a collection of bad theatrical reviews
19:15both my parents are in it
19:17let me find the one about my mum
19:19she did a play when I was about ten called Anatole
19:22where all six parts are usually played by the same actress
19:27vocally Prunella Scales distinguishes nicely between the six roles
19:30but she cannot change her face
19:31which is that of a worried hamster
19:33no
19:36that's very unkind
19:43I find the older I get
19:45the more I
19:46struggle
19:46staying up past
19:47half past nine
19:50got a tourney
19:51yeah
19:54an owl
19:54yeah
19:55a tourney owl
19:56do you want to finish our list with
19:58with an owl before we go to bed
20:00we have to go out again
20:03we're going out there
20:04it's where hobbies can go wrong
20:05you can take your wine with it if you like
20:08hmm
20:08is that a good idea?
20:10good idea
20:13whoa
20:14dear
20:15alright
20:16I just can't see
20:17you look rather spooky
20:19I've got a torch here
20:20hang on
20:21look at that moon
20:27oh hang on
20:27I've got something
20:30it's the male
20:32that's the female now
20:35so they're talking
20:37you alright?
20:38yeah I'm looking for heat
20:41looking for heat?
20:43what do you mean?
20:45well
20:46I've got these heat sensitive bins
20:51there's something in there
20:51like infrared sort of thing
20:53yep
20:54what do I look like in them?
20:55can you see me?
20:57oh yes
20:58you look like a ghost
20:59yeah?
21:00yeah
21:01yeah you're really hot
21:03let's have a look
21:04go on have a look at me
21:07oh I got him yeah
21:08oh yeah
21:10god you look vicious
21:13oh that's even worse
21:14that's like Tommy Cooper's laugh
21:17I went to the doctor and he said
21:19he said I've got three minutes to live
21:21I said
21:22can you do anything for me?
21:24and he said
21:24a boiled egg
21:28we're perfectly alright to go past a sign saying private aren't we?
21:32I mean what could possibly go wrong about walking past it?
21:34yes
21:35he's got his determined stride on
21:37he just goes a bit mad
21:40for birds
21:41he's mad for them
21:42it is a kind of madness
21:45do you think
21:46you know we haven't heard it for five minutes
21:48do you think
21:50we got up in the dark
21:52and er
21:54and I've nearly finished my wine
21:56oh I see your point
21:58I might just go on a little way
21:59yes
22:00I might
22:01not
22:02go the other way
22:04righto
22:04will you
22:05will you get back alright?
22:06yeah I expect so
22:07if I'm not back in three days
22:08send help
22:09right okay
22:21oh jesus
22:26there's a pheasant
22:29several pheasants
22:31oh my god they're everywhere
22:34oh my god they're everywhere
22:38doesn't look spooky at all
22:41I've seen this film
22:42it doesn't end well
22:44right
22:45in a Dutch carriage
22:50I think there might be some people coming out
22:54that man's got a shotgun
22:57no he has
23:00he has he's got a shotgun
23:01stay back
23:06I think there might be some other people coming out
23:11that man's got a shotgun
23:13no he has
23:16he has he's got a shotgun
23:19hello
23:19hello
23:20stay back
23:21stay back
23:25hello
23:26hello
23:29Sam West how do you do?
23:31oh how do you do?
23:32so is this is this your house?
23:34this is my house
23:35and are we staying in your cottage?
23:37yes yes down the lane
23:39yes
23:40what what what were you doing?
23:42well
23:43we saw a torch
23:44yes I'm so sorry
23:45I shouldn't have disturbed you
23:47we were looking for owls
23:48and I thought it might help in finding them
23:50but um
23:51I think they're
23:51they're either asleep or
23:53what about a hoot?
23:55yes
23:55can you do that?
23:56no go on can you?
23:57I used to be able to do it
23:59give it a go
24:00you know
24:00I'm not very good now
24:01but you used to be able to do it
24:03you know with on tans
24:06I can't
24:07I have to practice
24:08it'd be very good
24:09anyway
24:11woohoo
24:13no they will
24:14they will
24:21you sleep
24:22you do sleep the bedroom window open don't you?
24:25of course
24:25yes
24:26because you'll probably hear them in the
24:28from the
24:29from the cottage
24:30oh wonderful
24:31how long have you lived here?
24:32I've lived here all my life
24:33really?
24:34I've hardly gone beyond the bottom of the drive
24:36would you like to come in for a drink?
24:39why not yes
24:40come do do
24:40thank you very much
24:43are you on your own?
24:44I seem to be
24:45you are
24:46oh look at this
24:48gosh this is beautiful
24:53what a beautiful freeze
24:55yeah
24:55yeah
24:56she's very gorgeous
24:56huh
24:57yeah
25:13just popping out before breakfast
25:16i caught a bar now from the bathroom window
25:19which was over there, so I think I'm going to try and find that.
25:27There's a dunnock calling.
25:29I'd like to see a dunnock.
25:31As my mother is named after one.
25:36There it is, over there.
25:39That single note called T or Titi is the dunnock.
25:44Frunella modularis, which means small brown singer.
25:49.
25:59Does he eat scrambled eggs?
26:02Because that's what he's going to have.
26:04Notice.
26:07Hello.
26:11Always a good day when you see a barn owl.
26:15Flies just high enough to be able to look down into the reeds.
26:21They have incredibly dense feathers.
26:24So they're totally silent in flight.
26:28And you don't know they're chasing you until it's too late.
26:37Oh, what did I just hear?
26:38.
26:44I heard a yellow bar.
26:45It's rare.
26:46It's the one we didn't see in Cornwall.
26:48It's got an unmistakable call.
26:49It goes, Chewy, Chewy.
26:52I heard it from across here.
26:54So I'm going to try and find it.
27:00What is that?
27:13There it is.
27:17Oh, you bugger.
27:18I think it looks like one.
27:22Yes.
27:28We should report that as well.
27:31Oh, here he comes.
27:38And what sort of time do you call this?
27:40I've got an excuse, though.
27:42What is it?
27:43I found a yellow brow.
27:45The one we didn't see last time?
27:47Yes.
27:48Hmm.
27:50Are you going to post it on your little website?
27:53Well, nobody else has reported it, which is good.
27:58The following sightings of yours have been submitted for approval by our team.
28:02Anyway, how are you?
28:03Did you sleep well?
28:04I sort of...
28:05Well, I worried.
28:06I fretted.
28:07I walked on and I found this extraordinary gabled, fronted house looming out of the night.
28:17And then the door opened and silhouetted against it was a man with a dog and a shotgun.
28:24Hmm.
28:25He came out and it wasn't a shotgun, it was a large walking stick.
28:30Right.
28:31Was he threatening you?
28:32He seemed completely unfazed by the fact that I was on his lawn looking for owls.
28:36Yeah.
28:37It couldn't have been sweeter.
28:38Hmm.
28:39Did you find an owl?
28:40I didn't see any tawnies, but I heard several.
28:43I think there was one on my window, sir, all night.
28:45Really?
28:46They said very nice eggs.
28:48So, where are we going today?
28:50If Clyde Reserve was an instrument, it would be a Stradivarius.
28:54Hmm.
28:55So, we're going to spend most of the day in the reserve.
29:00Lots of birds?
29:01Lots of birds.
29:02Lots of water birds.
29:05Who knows what might fly in?
29:07Hmm.
29:17So, yeah, we're heading on to the A149, which I've taken to calling the Birding Silk Road.
29:23Why is it the Silk Road?
29:24Well, because it just connects so many brilliant sights from Snettisham on the Wash round to, well, Cromer, really.
29:33But the jewel in the crown of the Silk Road is Clyde.
29:40Have we got a mission today?
29:42Um, well, look around one of the most beautiful and famous nature reserves in the world.
29:50Not really.
29:51We'll see what turns up.
29:52Hmm.
29:54That's a new attitude.
29:55Yes!
29:55I'm working on it.
30:04You know all that, um, noise, the aeroplanes?
30:07Yeah.
30:07I saw on the local news last night, it was all a NATO exercise.
30:11Was it?
30:12Another helicopter up there.
30:14Bloody hell!
30:16Oh, look, there's a huge flock of salmon over there.
30:18That is...
30:19Is that starling?
30:20No, they're geese.
30:21What are they, do you think?
30:22I imagine they're, um, Pinkfoots.
30:26They are.
30:26Well done, they're pinks.
30:27There you go.
30:29This is very comfy.
30:29I like it.
30:30You like the bit where you get to sit down?
30:32Yeah, well, it's, you know, there seems to be plenty of bailout.
30:35You, um...
30:35This is our patch and we'll just see what comes.
30:37You've sort of changed your attitude since Cornwall.
30:40You were always on your phone looking for, to see,
30:42oh, there's been a thingy thingy in here, we've got to go there, you know.
30:45Yes.
30:46Running about, you know.
30:48Have you calmed down?
30:49I might have calmed down a bit, yeah.
30:50Is it my steady influence?
30:52Or my laziness?
30:54Yes, I think, I think you have had a good influence on me.
30:57I, I sometimes think that my search for rarity stops me looking at the common stuff.
31:02And I think perhaps I, I looked at you enjoying a robin and a red shank and thought,
31:07I could do a bit more of that.
31:09Yeah.
31:19So we're going into a number of hides now.
31:22The clue is in the name.
31:24The birds won't be able to see us.
31:26No, it's all.
31:27Yeah.
31:40No, this one's on me.
31:41It's never quite a bit higher.
31:42No, it's not a rock.
31:43No, it's a rock.
31:44No.
31:49No, it's not a rock.
31:52No, the, it's not a rock.
31:55color yeah that only comes out of a thermos oh yeah you see the there's three mostly white bodied
32:05but with black just on this yep bank the first island yep what are they they're shell duck right
32:13so just to the right of the shell duck yeah you can see some white bellied waders with dark legs
32:19there's a lap one also known as peewit oh that one's going up incredibly acrobatic
32:29they change directions so fast no they're coming in formation
32:35that bird standing on one leg yeah they do that do they yeah just to save save one leg
32:43most waiters can stop blood going into their feet as well if it's really cold
32:47i mean not completely stalks that stalk margarine stand on one leg once ended a competition
32:55stalk margarine and you know it's back in the 60s and 70s when you had to say i like
33:01stalk margarine because yeah and rick's dad went i like stalk margarine because i've only got one leg
33:19a white bird swimming to the side is an avocet by itself in the middle of the channel swimming right
33:29just going behind the the reeds now it's a filter feeder so it's you could use it's running water
33:36through its bill taking it up and lifting its head and running the water through its bill
33:41black head white black and white head yeah yeah well that's lovely the black streak
33:48is it mostly getting a shot of its arse the bill curving upwards is unique oh it's gorgeous the other
33:58set
34:02you're a regular here once a year i might go down with me normally with my youngest son yeah
34:09what about yourself i'm uh i'm i'm the new recruit did you grow up knowing all the birds because i
34:18didn't is that there seemed to be a missing part of my education no i you know of me grandad
34:24and then
34:24my dad it's a lovely spot this isn't it yeah what's your favorite bird i would say that i've
34:32said one of the would you yeah i'm interested i mean that's why the rs may be pretty used as
34:38i think
34:38there's quite a lot of beauty in common birds i think i think a robin is rather beautiful yes you
34:43know no i'd rather see a common bird up close than a rare one 500 yards yeah that's well said
34:52yeah very good point oh it's beautiful that little avocet look at it there coming back it's kind of
34:58performing for us oh it is gorgeous yeah i love how quickly adrian falls in love with a particular
35:08species today it's the avocet and he's right there very charismatic oh it's gorgeous that's lovely
35:17should we have a bite to eat okay is it lunchtime i think it's lunchtime when we say it's not
35:23i mean
35:23birders traditionally have lunch very quickly it doesn't matter though you go that way
35:35but i dillied and dally lost me way and don't know where to roam brent geese what
35:45brent geese yes well spotted little white mark around the neck yeah
35:52look at that look at that we spent all yesterday looking for them there's hundreds of them must be
35:58a hundred there that's pretty spectacular oh wow
36:18i thought i'd test your your birding fidelity fidelity oh god you haven't got me foie gras
36:23it's duck duck pate go on then
36:36we're being very well protected today by the raf aren't we i feel really safe yeah i don't think
36:41the russians are going to get hold of me today this is where it was going to come
36:47there's a come on the on the beach isn't it there's a gun emplacement further down the beach i think
36:52yeah that stopped him yeah they've done what he thought twice about invading clive
36:58yeah it was coming because they're binoculars they've alert the authorities
37:07as you can tell i've played a lot of german
37:12it's a Nazi get me edmondson i must have edmondson
37:15i played um uh an officer from the first order in um star wars in a star wars film and
37:23of course you
37:23did and but i it was it was the weight was a problem then right and i went in for
37:31this uh fitting
37:32for because they make you these suits and they're they're those suits are based on the sort of hugo
37:37boss right now that's you know you're taking well okay really tight kind of job pre-type trousers and
37:43they and they and they they cut this kind of costume for me there was just so i could not
37:49move
37:49right and i think that's why the Nazis were so cross because all their uniforms were just far
37:56too tight and it made them really vicious and only when they got out of their uniform at night did
38:01they
38:01become human again oh oh thank god for that so if if in between takes i sometimes had to take
38:08my trousers
38:09down because it was just so if they'd been wearing you know fred perry polo shirts we're going straight
38:17to help in this tall cross oh is it a seal no where's the seal just notice it is just
38:27in front
38:27of a little seal hello quite a long seal in fact we like you hello matey seal of approval yeah
38:45oh this gravel is so nice on your back i might get a gravel bed have you have you it's
38:51lovely it
38:52gets right in that that's good right places there's plenty of it oh this time next year we could be
38:58millionaires come on rodney you plonker where are we going then we're going to clye east bank which is
39:12a very famous birding destination good place to get some last action at dusk although hang on
39:29oh bloody hell there's a yellow brad warbler just been reported there i'm not going i'm not i'm not
39:40going i can't see it it's not it's just showing well does it yeah come on yeah but this is
39:47important
39:48this is important we're going to see what's here we're not going to switch why aren't we going to see
39:52it
39:52um because we're here
39:57yeah and we should be where we are and look at what we've got yeah
40:07and there's more widget out there than you can shake a stick out you know me i love a widget
40:15i do like it when the sun comes through like that i mean it's a perfect english scene isn't it
40:22you've
40:22got a church poking up over and a marsh harrier look look there's a marsh harrier in the sunset
40:27oh look at that look at that that is amazing
40:35oh you just need an orchestra now yeah where's elgar when you need it
40:45it's going to come back he's coming back into the sun
40:52here he goes
40:53oh hey look at that what a sight
41:04that stirs the soul doesn't it oh this is this is better than looking for a yellow bear
41:26the starlings moving to roost it's not a bad world is it sometimes
41:39while it's light yeah there's something i want to show you but we'll have to crack on
41:44right let's go right
41:49so this is a little monument to something that's quite special to birdies
41:59the parish church of saint margaret of antioch
42:02i know it sounds like something out of monty python yeah
42:06so i rather wanted to show it to you
42:12such a grand church
42:16so in january 2008
42:19in the driveway of one of the houses that we just drove past in clay a really rare american bird
42:25turned
42:25up called a white crowned sparrow
42:28and it was fed by the people who lived there and so it stayed i kind of like it here
42:33yeah why not
42:34i get free food yeah and i was one of a large crowd of people who came to fly to
42:39see it
42:40and the people who lived there passed a bucket around and after seven weeks and about 5 000 people
42:45visiting they'd raised i think over six thousand pounds and they gave it the airfare back home and
42:52they sent it home no no they didn't oh that would have been brilliant
42:58but they did give it to saint margaret's at clye for the restoration of the great west window
43:03right and to commemorate this act of generosity by the twitchers
43:09the sparrows there's the sparrows i see yeah
43:17i think it's life size actually oh isn't that lovely
43:25it's been a good good little trip hasn't it excellent i've learned quite a lot of birds
43:33well it's the first time i've been out since my mum died a week ago and um i'm glad you
43:40did it
43:41i'm so much yeah no i would never i would never have cancelled but i wouldn't have expected it to
43:46be so
43:48freeing and um and she very much believed that the show must go on
43:55i can hear pink feet outside should we see if we can see some geese
44:04oh wow look at that
44:13how amazing like a sign
44:25perfect formation
44:31that was very special
44:34a brilliant end to the day that is a good end isn't it yeah it's a very good end it's
44:39a very good
44:40trip excellent right pub pub yeah
44:49welcome to the somerset levels i think this is the soggiest landscape i've ever driven through
44:54we're trying to look for a bittern it's a sort of heron
44:58oh perfectly sane nothing to see here don't forget about us common birds come on mr robin
45:06there you go there's one more spectacle we can try and find oh bloody hell
45:15if you're interested in learning more about the birds featured and nature reserves near you
45:19go to rspb.org.uk forward slash c5 for more information
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