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00:00Sous-titrage Société Radio-Canada
00:30C'est parti !
01:00So, because you said you liked large raptors so much, I thought we ought to come here, to the home
01:06of the Red Kite.
01:12Isn't this extraordinary?
01:16I've got a green side seat.
01:20Oh, look, here they go.
01:23How are they going?
01:42Some seagulls are pretending to be kites.
01:45They're very, very close.
01:48It's almost frightening.
01:50Yeah, I mean, Hitchcock would have a field day, wouldn't they?
01:52Yeah.
01:59And they've been gathering for half an hour, like a queue outside a canteen.
02:04This is the last place they survived in Britain.
02:06They survived here because people couldn't get to them.
02:08They shot them in England and in Scotland, mostly on ancestral estates.
02:14How many pairs were there then when they started this programme?
02:17I mean, a handful, I think.
02:19And in 1903, I think it was, they started this scheme to protect them.
02:24And that scheme is still going.
02:27And it's now the longest-running continuous wildlife protection scheme in the world.
02:31Right.
02:32We imported some from Sweden and from Spain.
02:36Oh, really?
02:36In the 90s.
02:37And they were released, especially around the Chilterns and here.
02:41If you go to Reading or High Wycombe, you know, there'll be one hovering over your cash point.
02:50Their silhouette is so extraordinary.
02:53And that forked tail is completely diagnostic.
02:56It couldn't be anything else.
03:06That high whistling call is apparently how they got their name.
03:11Kite is some version of that.
03:14Right.
03:14I did a bit of reading about them.
03:16Tell me about them.
03:17They were the sort of dustbin men of the Middle Ages.
03:22They were sort of clean up round town, any kind of dead or decaying meat.
03:26Perfect.
03:28Oh, it's nice on my neck.
03:30I mean, they couldn't have believed that they would ever see this in 1903.
03:39It's quite a lot of small children here.
03:41You think they're going to be carried away?
03:44Pooches.
03:46Now, this is one of the myths that exists about red kites.
03:49They're scavengers.
03:50Yeah, the carrion, which is things that have been killed by someone else.
03:54Things that have been killed.
03:55But, yeah, they will hunt for small mammals like voles and shrews and other birds.
04:02What does the word rapt actually mean?
04:04It's the same thing as bird of prey.
04:09I think that's a male.
04:12Can you see this, Willie?
04:13No.
04:14I can't.
04:16It just looks smaller.
04:18Where do they hide their bits?
04:20Most birds don't have penises.
04:22How do they mate, then?
04:24It's very quick.
04:26They have a gap called a cloaca.
04:29Cloaca?
04:29Yeah, and they hold it against the female's gap, and they sort of vibrate and eject sperm.
04:38But perching birds, little birds, are incredibly promiscuous.
04:42I suppose that's a kind of...
04:44It's a survival mechanism.
04:45Yeah, they've got to reproduce, haven't they?
04:49I know we've come a long way, but we've got further to go before we hit our accommodation,
04:53so shall we make a move?
04:54Rightio.
04:56Most of the small children have gone too.
04:58They haven't been eaten.
05:07So that was pretty spectacular, wasn't it?
05:10Yes.
05:11Did you notice that a lot of the birds that were coming down onto the meat weren't immediately
05:17eating it?
05:17They were carrying it away.
05:19Or taking it back out and pack lunch?
05:20I think it's to feed chicks.
05:22Yeah.
05:23I mean, at this time of year, absolutely everything is centred on bringing up baby.
05:30It's a great time of year to be birding, because there's just so much going on.
05:37So as ever, we're looking for different sorts of habitat that will produce different sorts of birds.
05:45salt marsh, where we might see proper big birds of prey, and some lovely woods, where we should see some
05:52wonderful small birds too.
05:53Right.
06:04It's a nice place to get lost if we do get lost.
06:07Would someone come looking for you?
06:11Um, I hope so.
06:13How many days do you think it would be?
06:14I don't know.
06:15Maybe it would be...
06:15When you were lost before someone came looking for you?
06:17Maybe three or four.
06:19Once my children ran out of crisps, they might come looking.
06:22LAUGHTER
06:24LAUGHTER
06:29Well, well, well, slow down, will you?
06:30Pull over.
06:31There we are.
06:32This is perfect.
06:35I brought you up here because a while ago you mentioned that there was one particular song that you wanted
06:42to hear live.
06:45A little bit of bread and no cheese?
06:47A little bit of bread and no cheese.
06:48Yeah.
06:48And it's a lovely mnemonic for the song, which really does sound like a little bit of bread and no
06:52cheese.
06:52But the little bit of bread is sort of, teepee, teepee, teepee, teepee, teepee, teepee, teepee.
06:55And then the no cheese is, tee, tee, tee, which is the song of a yellow hammer, which is a
07:01bird of farmland.
07:03And...
07:04It's yellow and looks like a hammer.
07:06It doesn't look like a hammer.
07:08It's got...
07:08Its name is actually...
07:09Does it hammer onto a tree?
07:10No, it doesn't do any of those things.
07:12It's not to do with hammering.
07:12Is it a carpenter?
07:13No, none of that.
07:15It's no...
07:15It's the old German word for bunting.
07:18Hammer.
07:20So it's a yellow bunting.
07:25What's that?
07:25That's a blackbird.
07:27Why don't we head down there and see if we can get you a yellow hammer?
07:32It's got a bit chillier, hasn't it?
07:33Yeah.
07:39Tree pivot just over that gorse up there.
07:43That's a really good Welsh bird in Scotland.
07:46Tree pipit.
07:47Tree pipit.
07:48So that's my first one for a few years.
07:50That's a good start.
07:51Very good start.
07:52I didn't see it, but...
07:53No.
07:53Well, we'll find it on the way back.
07:55Yeah.
07:56And you don't count it unless you've seen it, of course.
07:57I don't count.
07:58I believe it exists.
08:01Let's see if we can find a yellow hammer.
08:13Let's see if we can find a yellow hammer.
08:15Is it bright yellow?
08:16The males are quite bright yellow, yeah.
08:18Oh.
08:26Willow warbler.
08:27Very good.
08:28I have to say, I can now do three birds.
08:33I think very confidently.
08:35And it does feel very different.
08:37It does, doesn't it?
08:38The world feels very different.
08:38It's lovely.
08:39That's nice to know.
08:40Yeah.
08:41Yeah, and you can't see them, and you know they're there.
08:42Because I've always listened to birds, and they're all so...
08:44Whatever.
08:45Yeah.
08:46Oh, look, hello.
08:48Just in front of us.
08:49There's a female pheasant.
08:51Oh, yeah.
08:53Afternoon, madam.
08:55Well, he looks very finely dressed, like it's wearing chiffon.
09:00Beautiful description.
09:03She's standing so...
09:05Absolutely beautiful.
09:06Like a model.
09:07Introduced from China.
09:10Hundreds of years ago.
09:12Yeah.
09:13Mostly because I'm afraid they're quite stupid and easy to shoot.
09:17Right.
09:20Oh, and she's on.
09:21And she's gone.
09:23Oh, look.
09:25Oh, look.
09:26Little pheasant feathers.
09:29Are you a pheasant fucker?
09:31No, where did I put my quill?
09:34You need to write a very, very small novel.
09:36You need to write a very small, angry letter to the newspaper.
09:47Oh, there's one.
09:50Maybe just where we come from.
09:53Annoyingly.
09:55He's having a laugh.
09:56He's having a laugh.
09:59It's really close.
10:00Let's go up.
10:01I heard it.
10:04That's it.
10:05Yeah.
10:05There you are.
10:12Are you on it?
10:15It's very close.
10:22Yes.
10:23Just there.
10:25Halfway up.
10:26Look.
10:28Oh, yeah, yeah, yes, yes, yes.
10:34Yes.
10:40Do you know, I really thought we weren't going to get it.
10:43That is amazing, isn't it?
10:45It's a handsome bird.
10:47Oh, it's lovely.
10:49Is that a man or a woman?
10:51That's a man.
10:52Isn't it?
10:52Yeah.
10:54Does a woman look much the same?
10:56No, they're browner, less strikingly yellow, and they don't sing.
11:00Oh, the wind's giving me a bit of a...
11:02Yeah, it's being buffeted.
11:05Whoa.
11:06Hang on, mate.
11:09Wow, that's brilliant.
11:11There you are.
11:12I think, is that the first time we've been on a hunt for something and actually found it?
11:16It might be.
11:18It might be.
11:19There it is.
11:20Oh, look at you.
11:23Handsome bagger.
11:24Yeah.
11:26Do you think it's hungry?
11:28Yeah.
11:29Because I am.
11:30Come on, then.
11:31Bye.
11:32Bye.
11:35That's very good, isn't it?
11:37Yeah.
11:37It was a good one.
11:39You're a hammer and a peasant.
11:48Very pleasant little stream.
11:50Isn't it beautiful?
12:05The robin?
12:07Oh, mate.
12:10We've never had highland cows on all creatures great and small.
12:20These bumpy roads play havoc with the bladder.
12:33The right amount of sheep tastefully arranged.
12:39A lot of birds singing.
12:41Yeah, you've got a chaffinch in the garden.
12:42Nice.
12:43Quite right.
12:48Kitchen.
12:50Oh.
12:51Supplies.
12:51Huge amount of Welsh cakes.
12:53Lovely.
12:54I hate to ask, but might you be cooking this evening?
12:57Of course I am.
12:58This is the way it divides, isn't it?
13:00Oh, you have all the knowledge about the birds.
13:02I cook for my...
13:03I cook for my supper.
13:05I have to say, it's got a bit chillier.
13:08It has.
13:08And when I bought the ingredients, it was stinking hot and I thought we were in for a balmy Mediterranean
13:14evening.
13:14So I'm making a salad niçoise.
13:17I love a niçoise.
13:18That's good.
13:18But it now feels like shooting shepherds pie.
13:25Has anyone seen his salt or pepper?
13:27A salt with a deadly pepper.
13:30Oh, here we are.
13:31Oh, yes.
13:31Hang on.
13:34Pheasant.
13:35Pheasant?
13:35Female pheasant.
13:37She looks like she was off to a kind of 1920s ball.
13:40That's a really good description.
13:43Aha.
13:44Red kite.
13:46How many did we see today?
13:47200?
13:48Well, I looked at a thing on the way out and it said it's anywhere between 100 and 250
13:54generally there.
13:55So I'd say 200 might be a good guess.
13:58Something about seeing 200 red kites in a place where only 100 and something years ago
14:06there had been 30 pairs in the whole of Wales.
14:10That was quite special.
14:12Stopping shooting things is a kind of...
14:14Stopping shooting things.
14:15I mean, you know, being shot is a sort of insurmountable obstacle in a red kite's welfare.
14:19It's like Preservation 101, isn't it, really?
14:21It's first...
14:21Stop shooting them.
14:23Stop shooting your birds.
14:25Shall we eat outside?
14:26Why not?
14:35Oh, yeah.
14:36Nice out there.
14:44Oh, God, this is good.
14:47When we did the dawn chorus the other day, I was struck by the fact that it isn't a thing
14:55of beauty, it's a thing of terror.
14:58Hmm.
14:59It's quite a shift when you're listening to them all and you're thinking they're all just
15:03sort of trying to survive.
15:06That's about, please choose me and then we can carry on.
15:10I've got so little time.
15:11Yeah.
15:12Yeah.
15:15They can be very vicious animals, can't they?
15:17Hmm.
15:18I was once attacked by a monkey.
15:22Were you?
15:22Yeah.
15:23Where was that?
15:23Um, in Thailand.
15:25A few years ago, I was doing, um, Young Indiana Jones.
15:28You were in that?
15:29Yeah.
15:30Cool.
15:31It was a TV series.
15:31Yeah, I remember.
15:33And I was a German, obviously.
15:35Playing a Nazi.
15:36Yes, you do.
15:37And good that you don't play all the Nazis.
15:38You've got to leave some of them for me.
15:39Yeah.
15:41I had him under my gun and, uh, and they had a trained monkey who was going to come
15:47and, uh, swiped the gun away from me.
15:50You said the script.
15:51Yeah.
15:53But, uh, it went for me.
15:55No.
15:56Yeah.
15:57Shit.
15:58That was my, my fight for survival.
16:03They don't mess about, do they?
16:05No, they're a vicious little bastard as well.
16:13Are you getting bitten to death?
16:15Yeah, absolutely bugger it.
16:16I'm just going to put it inside.
16:17It's a great idea.
16:19All, all very well.
16:21These midges are nearly as vicious as that monkey.
16:27Oh, midges.
16:33That's better.
16:36What are we up to tomorrow?
16:38There's another flagship raptor.
16:41Which I'm not going to tell you about.
16:42No, you need to keep that a secret.
16:44Why not?
16:45A velociraptor.
16:46There's a velociraptor.
16:47Yes, it's a bit nice knowing you.
17:07My sweetheart, come along, won't you hear the fond song?
17:13The sweet notes of the nightingale flow.
17:19Won't you hear the fond tale of the sweet nightingale?
17:26Oh, she sings in the valley below.
17:31Oh, she sings in the valley below.
17:37Lots of chaffinches around us.
17:40So this is probably my favourite bit of birding.
17:43Getting out first thing on a spring morning.
17:47As early as possible.
17:49And just listening to what's about.
17:52Yeah, the chaffinches song is memorably described as being a bowler's run-up.
18:01Yeah, there's a sort of pause and then it goes over.
18:05It's as good a mnemonic as any, I think.
18:12Repeated check, check, check, check, check is the call of the garden warbler, Sylvia Boren,
18:17which you don't hear by Ethan.
18:31Now the owner of our cottage told me there's a woodpecker nest up here on the right.
18:50There's a hole at the top.
18:51I wonder whether that's it.
18:54There it is.
18:57Great spotted woodpecker with food in its bill.
19:00You can see it's got some sort of grubs or mealworms.
19:08So we've seen where the nest is.
19:10I think Adrienne will love this.
19:12I'm going to go and get him.
19:14No more is she afraid
19:16For to sit in the shade
19:19As she sings in the valley
19:39Little birds sing you along.
19:41Hello.
19:41Good morning.
19:42I've heard a couple of things that I think might interest you.
19:45I might have found a woodpecker nest.
19:47Is he in it?
19:48No, he's outside it.
19:50But if we're very careful, we might be able to see some action.
19:54Oh.
19:57You're filthy.
19:59Some bird action.
20:00Woodpecker action.
20:05Birds will abandon a nest if they think it's being disturbed too much.
20:09So that's absolutely what we want to avoid.
20:17But it's just in that tree there.
20:21If we go along here and then look from the side.
20:31There it is.
20:32Can you see it up on the high tree?
20:35It's a male.
20:36You can see the red on the back of the neck.
20:38Beaks full of lovely worms.
20:40Lovely protein-y snack.
20:43We shouldn't get any closer there.
20:50These midges are really annoying.
20:53We've got another appointment.
20:54Oh, have we?
20:55Hooray.
20:56Somewhere away from these.
20:58We're going up the estuary.
20:59I'm taking you up the estuary.
21:01Carry on up the estuary.
21:02I don't want to hit.
21:03That's the film it didn't make, isn't it?
21:06You know you said all these birds from sub-Saharan Africa come here for the insects.
21:12I sort of poo-pooed the idea.
21:14I came around to think that you were right.
21:16Yes.
21:18Wow.
21:32So now we're headed to the Dovey estuary.
21:36Dovey being a river.
21:37Dovey being a river.
21:38And the estuary being a beautiful protected area with lots and lots of different habitats.
21:44But if I was a bird.
21:46Yeah.
21:47And I wanted to go somewhere really private to raise my chicks.
21:50Yeah.
21:51I wouldn't go to a reserve because there's too many people in there looking at you.
21:55Well, it's always a toss-up, isn't it?
21:57I mean, the best thing we can do for nature is put a big fence around it and leave it
22:01alone.
22:02Yeah.
22:03But at the same time, we want people to feel that being out, enjoying them, interacting with
22:09them, learning about them is something that is for the likes of them.
22:12And so it's a bit of a paradox.
22:25So we're walking towards the water, which might give you a clue what we're going to see.
22:30Well, there was a clue on the gate on the way in here.
22:36I'm not keeping this secret very well, am I?
22:38No.
22:39It's the Dovey osprey project.
22:42Yes.
22:53They're pretty rare.
22:55Yeah.
22:55This place helped bring breeding osprey back to Wales for the first time in 400 years.
23:00If we're lucky, we might see some evidence of them breeding.
23:05But along the way, we should get to hear and maybe see some smaller birds.
23:10All right.
23:11Warblers, I hope.
23:14That's the reed bunting.
23:21There are two warbler songs that we're going to meet today.
23:25We'll definitely see one.
23:27Really?
23:28Yeah.
23:28Well, this is a good, it sounds like a very good habitat.
23:31Yes.
23:36Jetty's warbler.
23:37Dark brown above and lighter brown below.
23:39But they're very secretive.
23:41Most warblers are either green or brown because they hide in leaves or reeds.
23:45Yeah.
23:45Well, they're all camouflaged.
23:47What was that yellow hammer doing?
23:50The opposite.
23:50What an idiot.
23:51Yeah, no.
23:52Yeah.
23:52Hi.
23:53Hi.
23:53Come and get me.
24:00So I can hear the sage warbler.
24:05There it is.
24:07I can see it.
24:08Being blown about quite a lot.
24:15Oh, it's a lovely little bird.
24:18So prominent eye stripe.
24:20Yep.
24:21Lovely little orange inside of the mouth.
24:25That's right.
24:25When it's singing.
24:26Which it is fit to bust at the moment.
24:30Let me see if we can get a picture.
24:35The way the wind blows.
24:37Yeah.
24:37Three of them, it's clinging on.
24:39Look at that.
24:42Oh, yeah.
24:43You can see the eye stripe.
24:45Yeah.
24:47This is a sage warbler, another African visitor.
24:51Yeah, when you say mask of Zora, there he is.
24:53He's on that perch.
24:53He's on the same twig again.
24:55Yeah, they are very handsome.
24:57I'm rather pleased with this sage warbler.
24:59Sedge warbler song is very easy to confuse with reed warbler song.
25:04I think I'll just go by how it looks for now.
25:08If that's all right with you.
25:09Yes, perfectly all right with you.
25:11Let's go and see what we can see from the hide.
25:15I don't get to see ospreys very often.
25:17I don't think anyone does, do they?
25:19Ha, ha, ha.
25:47Oh, look.
25:49Look, see the nest.
25:50Yeah.
25:51Is it feeding?
25:52I don't know, osprey.
25:53I don't know whether it's, is it feeding chicks?
25:56Oh, she's off.
25:57She's off.
25:58Oh, he's off.
26:00She doesn't get noses a load of cameras.
26:04That's the kind of version of the Truman Show, isn't it?
26:06That's extraordinary, yes.
26:08As I was looking through our binoculars, and this is an even better view.
26:12This is the view from the camera.
26:13Yes, this is a stunning view, isn't it?
26:14So there are three chicks in there at the moment?
26:17Yeah, there are three chicks safely nestled underneath her.
26:20She's always alert for any predators or anything that might disturb her and her chicks.
26:24If there's anything ever coming, we've got footage of it being attacked.
26:27So often you see magpies lure around.
26:29Oh, really?
26:30Yeah, there's one on the edge.
26:32What are they looking to do?
26:34If they had a chance, they would try and take a chick.
26:36Would they?
26:37They would.
26:37If there was a lapse of concentration from these birds, even just a few seconds, they could fall victim to
26:42it.
26:42That's harsh, isn't it?
26:43It's never happened here.
26:45We did have a crow in the nest one year that tried to take an egg, but thankfully he didn't
26:49get hold of it.
26:50And both birds were there at the time.
26:51They were just looking in the wrong direction.
26:53So they have to be very vigilant.
27:03Are they endangered, I imagine?
27:06They really were.
27:08There's a famous place in Scotland called Loch Garton.
27:11Loch Garton had what's thought to be the last breeding pair of ospreys in Britain.
27:16Yeah.
27:17So they went down to one pair.
27:19There might be 400 pairs in Britain now.
27:23Wow.
27:25Basically because they set up this decades-long campaign against egg collectors.
27:30Yeah.
27:31who just would steal the eggs year after year.
27:35You still have to be on your guard.
27:37I mean, it's completely illegal.
27:39Pull up a chair.
27:43Ooh.
27:44It's nice to sit down.
27:46Isn't it?
27:47Do you think that's what they think?
27:49They must have, mustn't they, Irene?
27:51Yeah.
27:52They must have the same kind of cares and worries that we have about comfort and...
27:59Yes, and we don't have to fly back to Africa.
28:01Afterwards.
28:02Is that where ospreys get?
28:04Yeah.
28:04So they basically go back to sub-Saharan West Africa.
28:08And then come back here to breed, often to the same place.
28:11Seems crazy, this amount of migration, doesn't it?
28:14It seems like a lot of energy.
28:16Yeah, it is.
28:17I mean, what are they...
28:18They're eating...
28:19Fish.
28:20Yeah, ospreys are the only eagle that just eat fish.
28:24Fish eagle, basically.
28:26There's a brilliant new book by Robert McFarlane and Jackie Morris, which I'm going to read
28:31you a bit about ospreys from.
28:34Osprey is the black-masked brigand of the yellow eyes.
28:38Osprey is the white-capped highwomen of creek and bay.
28:42Osprey is the finest silver thief on earth.
28:45Silver?
28:45Silver thief.
28:47Because of the fish?
28:48Yeah.
28:52Every day of every year, osprey carries away ingot after ingot, cracks rivers safe, breaks
28:59lakes locks, blasts estuary open in plume of spray, and makes off with a glittering bar
29:05of living ore, gripped vice-tight in talon and cloth.
29:12All the fish knows is a split-second of shadow that shouldn't be there, then its world explodes
29:17into bubbles and knives.
29:25Because it's odd, because we all talk about nature as if it's a balm.
29:31As if it's lovely.
29:32As if it's lovely.
29:34But actually, it's just wild, isn't it?
29:37So the male does most of the fishing.
29:40Could go out to work, love.
29:42Yeah.
29:43Yeah.
29:44But Dad's quite hands-on as well.
29:46Yeah.
29:46Dad's his fair share of nurturing.
29:50Were you a hands-on Dad when your kids were small?
29:54I think I was.
29:59It's hard.
30:00We both worked an awful lot whilst our kids were small.
30:03Yeah, my parents did too.
30:04We both got girls.
30:06I enjoyed having girls.
30:09Yeah.
30:10It's made me a different person, I think.
30:13Yeah, I've got a trickier relationship with my parents.
30:17Whenever I've sort of faced parental difficulty, I've always thought,
30:21what would my dad do?
30:23Because I must do the exact opposite.
30:26if I want my kids to love me, you know.
30:29Yeah.
30:30Yeah.
30:32Canada geese.
30:40So if you're the mullet, that shadow is the last thing you see.
30:44It's a swift end.
30:47I don't know, is it?
30:48I don't know.
30:49Don't they flap about a bit?
30:52Yeah, I suppose they must.
30:55I like your graphic of how wide the wings are.
31:01Look.
31:02Look, there's our little sedge wobble.
31:04Yes.
31:05There's quite a lot more to see, though.
31:06Shall we get on?
31:07Yeah.
31:08That was amazing.
31:09Yeah.
31:11I thought the sedge wobble was pretty good.
31:13Ooh.
31:14Thank you so much.
31:25It's nice to go somewhere that feels wild.
31:30Yes.
31:32We didn't see Pied Flycatcher in Yorkshire
31:35because we were right on the edge of its range.
31:38But here we're in the heart of it.
31:39And Ennis here is very well known for good woodland.
31:58This looks like woodland.
32:01New habitat, new targets.
32:03What lives in a tree?
32:05So the Western Woodland Specialities.
32:08Pied Flycatcher, Redstart, and if we're lucky, Wood Warbler.
32:13Haven't heard of any of those.
32:15No.
32:15Good.
32:16No.
32:16Let's find them.
32:26Sort of prehistoric with all the ferns, isn't it?
32:30We should be looking for pterodactyls.
32:36Can you hear a chief chaff?
32:39There you can.
32:40I mean, since I've learned the voice of the chief chaff,
32:44it's everywhere, isn't it?
32:45It's bloody everywhere.
32:46C'est parti.
33:16I think it went until I turned round and then went away.
33:20So let me show you.
33:21It's like a lot of birds called common.
33:24It's not common.
33:25Is it just the way it behaves?
33:27It's just the way it behaves.
33:29It's got no manners at all.
33:31Very rough accent.
33:32So there you are.
33:33I saw the white forehead, black face, sort of salmon-y pink breast, and a white wing patch.
33:57Are you ready for a little bite to eat?
33:59I certainly am.
34:01I have a picnic of sorts.
34:03Have you?
34:03In honour of the yellow hammer, I've got a little bit of bread and some cheese.
34:17There would be more bread, but someone had quite a lot of bread for breakfast.
34:21I don't know who that was.
34:22I can't tell.
34:25A little bit of bread.
34:27I've got slightly warm.
34:28Jolly good.
34:28Slightly warm cheese and a bit of ham.
34:31Slightly warm.
34:32You're selling it really well.
34:33Slightly warm cheese and a bit of ham.
34:35I've got some fruit because you've got to stay healthy.
34:43No, we haven't seen much, have we?
34:45I mean, woods in mid-afternoon are traditionally quite quiet.
34:51Somebody said the other day that they thought one of the reasons the birds sang in the morning
34:54might be that they'd spent the night not singing, and they were just bursting to let it out.
35:01Like this morning, I was awake about 20 past three.
35:06There was already a robin and a blackbird going.
35:08Why were you awake at 20 past three?
35:10No idea.
35:12I used to not be able to sleep.
35:14I used to have quite bad insomnia.
35:15Yeah.
35:17And now I take a pill.
35:18Right.
35:19And it just sort of quietens my mind.
35:21I just lay there thinking.
35:25I've got to get my mum's memorial over.
35:28That's the main thing at the moment.
35:30I can see how that can be.
35:32It can keep you awake.
35:34Hmm.
35:35A little bit.
35:36It was quite a difficult life to sum up in an hour and 20 minutes.
35:40Yeah.
35:41I want to do it as well as I can.
35:48The memorial is for you.
35:49It's not actually for her.
35:52Do you know what I mean?
35:53Yes, I do.
35:54It's for you and all the people who knew her.
35:57It's to share the sense of her going.
36:00John Cleese is speaking, I hope.
36:03And so is Neil Kinnock.
36:06A good love light?
36:07Yeah.
36:08I want her to be remembered as a friend of progressive causes.
36:10And so does he.
36:11Yeah.
36:11And Cleese wants us to show a bit of Fawlty Towers because he thinks she's a genius comic actress, as
36:18she was.
36:19And then Joe and I will give a eulogy that's about remembering her as a loving, supportive person over all
36:29our lives, really.
36:31Did you call her mum?
36:33Called her mummy for a bit and then ma.
36:36Ma.
36:37Never called her mum.
36:38All my children call me Pooty now.
36:41It's not even your name.
36:43It's not in my name, no.
36:44When my first grandchild was born, whenever he was handed to me, he soiled his nappy.
36:50So I became Poopar.
36:53Of course.
36:54And that sort of transmuted to Pooty.
36:59That's lovely.
37:00My friends I've known for years and years call me Ed or Eddie.
37:05From Edmondson.
37:06You can call me Eddie if you like.
37:08Can I?
37:08But you don't have to.
37:09Oh, that's nice.
37:09I will.
37:10I will.
37:11Thank you.
37:12Oh, that feels very nice.
37:13Thank you.
37:16Pied fly.
37:19Just over here.
37:21I can hear it calling.
37:29There's a nest box here.
37:32What is it?
37:33So this is a pied fly catcher.
37:36Another summer visitor.
37:39And they do like nest boxes.
37:41And old oak forests.
37:44Particularly in the west.
37:45Into Wales and Scotland.
37:46And do they come from below Sahara?
37:48They do.
37:48Yes.
37:49It seems like every bird comes from below Sahara.
37:53Pied just means black and white, does it?
37:54Pied just means black and white, yeah.
37:57Like a magpie.
37:59Got it here.
38:00Do you see that bear branch coming down?
38:03It's just on there.
38:06It's just gone left.
38:09You got it?
38:10No.
38:11On that branch.
38:13Oh, hang on.
38:13It's just...
38:15Yeah, it's just me.
38:17I don't know how far away you're looking.
38:19No, sorry.
38:20It's just flown anyway.
38:22I just keep getting another twig.
38:24It's a blackbird.
38:26Oh, I can see it.
38:28Yes, I can see it.
38:29I can see the bloody thing.
38:31That's a male.
38:32I can actually bloody well see it.
38:35The female is brown and white.
38:37But it's...
38:37This is the male.
38:39So they come here because plenty of insects.
38:44Oh, there, yeah.
38:45I saw him.
38:46I've got it up there.
38:48I've become a fly-watching ninja.
38:54Got it.
38:54I was beginning to think I'd failed then.
38:57Eventually got it.
38:58It's just around the nest box now.
39:00But that was a female.
39:01This is very good.
39:02Two birds in one stone.
39:04This is fantastic.
39:06They're very handsome, I think.
39:08Yeah.
39:09However, we do have one other special rendezvous.
39:14Do we?
39:15Fingers crossed.
39:16So maybe we should make a move.
39:17Let's look after our energy.
39:19Some secrets, aren't they?
39:19Yeah.
39:21Oh, it's very good.
39:23Nice one.
39:57So, this is the final challenge.
39:59chapter that I was teasing you with earlier.
40:04We've come out at the very end of the day because the bird we're looking for is crepuscular,
40:08which is one of my favorite words.
40:11It might be mine, but I don't know what it means.
40:13It means active at dawn and dusk.
40:16Yes, that's quite good.
40:17At the bookends of the day or the night.
40:21Crepuscular.
40:22Crepuscular.
40:22From the Latin for dusk, I think.
40:25Yeah.
40:26And what we're waiting for is a barn owl.
40:30And that's its house.
40:32That's its house.
40:33It's a very well-appointed box.
40:35Yes, very nice.
40:36Very modern.
40:37Someone's put up a perch for it.
40:38It's got to be a perch, isn't it?
40:40It might be in there, of course.
40:43Just sort of having dinner.
40:46But we sort of have to hope that it hasn't yet had its dinner.
40:51It's very, very midgy outside, isn't it?
40:53It's quite midgy inside.
40:56How have they got in?
40:57Where are they getting in?
40:58How are they getting in, sir?
41:01They're sort of massing outside the door.
41:03No, I'm not going out there.
41:04Daring us to go out.
41:05I think we can see it from here, don't you?
41:09Do you feel old?
41:14You're approaching 60.
41:16Nearly.
41:17Hmm.
41:18I keep thinking, I should do that when I grow up.
41:21And then I think, oh, I am grown up.
41:25Yeah.
41:27I've stopped jumping over kind of fences and gates.
41:31Good.
41:31Quite a while ago.
41:32I'm feeling rather fitter than I was sort of six months ago.
41:37Well, you've lost a great deal of weight.
41:39I've lost some weight, yeah.
41:40Yeah.
41:41So you think you might start jumping over gates again?
41:44I do.
41:45Yeah.
41:46When you're 20, you hit something and you go, ow.
41:49And when you're 60, you hit it and go, ow.
41:51And then it goes, it goes, ow for the next 10 years.
41:53How long is that before that works again?
41:55Yeah.
41:56Yeah.
41:56Yeah.
41:58The older you get, there's less to prove.
42:00Yes.
42:02That is liberating.
42:05It's been a very good trip.
42:07This is going to sound odd, maybe.
42:11Go on.
42:11Because we saw some extraordinary birds.
42:13We saw the red kites.
42:15And we saw the ospreys.
42:18Yeah.
42:18I think I preferred the endeavour of the yellow hammer and the sedge warbler in the way that
42:25they were clinging onto those tiny little bits of tree in enormous winds.
42:32Yeah.
42:33Pouring their hearts out.
42:35Yeah.
42:36Singing away.
42:37Yeah.
42:37I was trying to think what the equivalent would be if you were a human on it.
42:42It's like sort of big.
42:43The forces would be amazing.
42:45Yeah.
42:45I mean, I think that's probably more remarkable.
42:48Yeah.
42:48Than what the big birds were doing.
42:50There's something about watching a small bird struggle.
42:57Pour its soul into the air just to say, I exist.
43:02Yeah.
43:03It's really powerful stuff.
43:05Yeah.
43:07And we don't fully understand it.
43:27No sign of this air, honestly.
43:29No, none whatsoever.
43:30We'll be getting to steam up in here.
43:33It's half past nine.
43:35Is it?
43:36Yeah.
43:37I think we've had a very good trip.
43:39I don't think we should let the lack of owl get us down.
43:42Not at all.
43:43You have to take the dip occasionally.
43:44So let's go to the pub, eh?
43:45Okay.
43:46All right, Eddie.
43:48Because as soon as we've gone, it'll turn up.
43:52That's the way it goes.
43:54Take the break off that.
43:55That'll help.
44:16We are going to the biggest seabird colony on the Englishman.
44:23Well, that sounds very promising.
44:25Well, that sounds very promising.
44:26In the lovely Yorkshire coast.
44:27Oh, look!
44:33And there's a puffin.
44:35No, where?
44:35I've got one.
44:36Have I?
44:40If you're interested in learning more about the birds featured and nature reserves near you,
44:45go to rspb.org.uk forward slash c5 for more information.
44:52Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha.