Springwatch Unsprung and two new shows on Red Button
| 10:49 UK time, Thursday, 13 May 2010
Unsprung is back!
Now with its own slot on BBC2, for half an hour every Friday night during Springwatch, Martin will host the weekly edition of our audience-led show. He'll be discussing the week's biggest events and talking points, tackling your questions, following your debates, and of course, keeping us on our toes with special guests and mystery items.
As ever we're relying on you to be our eyes and ears where the cameras can't reach: across your cities, towns and villages, and in your parks, gardens and local nature reserves. So ask us about your wildlife mysteries by commenting below, add your photos to the Springwatch Flickr group, upload your movies and keep us up-to-date with spring around the country by following us and tweeting @bbc_springwatch on Twitter.
Springwatch arrives on Red Button!
This year we'll be bringing you a brand new Springwatch experience on red button. Get ready at 9pm to press that button on Tuesday nights for the "Springwatch Pub Quiz" and Wednesday nights for the "Springwatch Photo Club".
And don't worry if you miss it, we'll be posting it here on the Springwatch website for you to catch up!
Find out what else the team are up to: Springwatch 2010 starts here...
Update 31 May 2010:
The first two Unsprungs have now moved to Thursdays 9pm on BBC2, right after the main show.
Comments
Wow! How many Springwatch programs this year? This is great, I can't keep up with all the programs!
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For several years countrywide we have witnessed a welcome increase in the
Buzzard population and in my job as a driver travelling around
Gloucestershire, Worcestershire, Warwickshire and Wiltshire areas, I would
see lots and lots of them every day hovering over roadside fields and
perched on fence posts etc. However since the early part of this year they
have almost disapeared, and I saw one last weekend 9/05 and even he looked
rather bedraggled and not healthy. Can you tell me if there is a problem
with the raptors because as I write this I realise that I have not seen
many Kestrels either?
Kind Regards
Stuart Dabbs
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Hi Team
I was wondering when the message board would be open? I for one love the interesting posts & banter that the SW message boards enable every year.
Any information would be fantastic
Thanks Angela (ciderpuss)
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@ciderpuss messageboard is opening very soon. Sorry can't be more specific at the moment but we will keep you posted right here.
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thanks guys for replying, thats great news... I best get some work done now then!! ;0)
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I'm slightly disappointed that there is only going to be one Unsprung a week. It really has become an integral part of the show, and it HAS to be live. Or else ;-)
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Can't wait for Springwatch and I love that the format keeps expanding. But I do agree with billy_hitchcock that it is disappointing that Unsprung will no longer be a nightly feature. I have found this part of the program the most interesting, informative and entertaining part of the show. I hope you will consider reinstating it on a nightly basis.
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Hi Tim, After last nights programme, there was no refrence made to any extra SW programmes on the red button! Could these extra programmes if possible be made clear during tonights programme? I am for one sad that there is no SW Unsprung (this some shared by fello views on the SW message board). Which I found to be fun and light-hearted finish to the evenings SW programme.
Andy W.
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Please could you put last nights photo club up on the site because my signal on the red button was rubbish.
Great show though guys
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Hi, please please please settle an argument between myself and my husband. He works in a large secondary school which has a quadrant within the school grounds. My husband keeps finding the bodies of dead birds with their heads missing. He keeps saying we must have a sparrowhawk in the school grounds but I argue that birds of prey do not kill and leave the carcass. I thought birds of prey will only kill to feed? Who is right? There are no humans could get in the quadrant because it is the school holidays at the moment. Thanks Denise
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We have a birdcam box in the garden but still managed to miss our six baby blue tits leaving the nest. However, when we switched on the birdcam TV the following day four of the six were back in the box and the parents continued to feed them for three more days...!
Is this common - I've never heard of it before. The box was empty - honest...!
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The article on the tray comes from the ear of a whale
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Hi
We have a camera in our nest box and were delighted to see the blue tits arrive and build a nest. The eggs hatched and all seemed to be going well, the young were growing and being fed regularly. However, one evening an adult bird came into the box and built the nest up around the youngsters, and then left.
The chicks are dead and no adult has returned.
Has anybody got any idea why this happened?
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Hello everyone loving the Show,i also miss Unsprung (on only on once a week),
I' witnessed some bizarre Magpie Behaviour last week, i noticed a pair of Magpies start to make a nest at the bottom of my garden, the nest site is in my large Lelandeii Hedge that last year i halfed in size leaving a easy opening at the top, this day a Female Blackbird was in another tree approx 20 feet from the nest site and one of the Magpies knocked it out of the tree, it came from above like a Perigrin and battered it really hard, it fell on to my lawn about 20 feet drop, i thought it had killed it but a few minutres later it shook its head and flew away, the Magpies appear to have abandoned the nest site so has this Blackbird been Attacked for nothing?.
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My garden is regularly visited by a badger and apart from digging up plants and grass to find food he also uses it as his toilet! I like badgers, but I adore hedgehogs and am disappointed that we rarely see them in the garden. However, one did appear recently and we were shocked and devastated to find his dead body in the front garden. All that was left of him was his skin/prickles, feet and head. His insides had been completely removed. I don't believe a fox, dog or cat would be able to do this to him so can only assume it was the badger who, with his strong claws, could force him open when he curled into a ball. Is this possible? Is it common for badgers to eat hedgehogs?
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Can anyone tell me whether any research has been done into the speed swifts fly at? I'm particularly interested in their approach speed to the nest hole (one of which we are lucky enough to have in our house) which is so small, yet they always make it in. We love our swifts!
The St.John's, Rushden.
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Loving Spring Watch this year! Sadly I missed a few episodes when I went away to a wedding this week, it was great as I was able to catch up on BBC iPlayer - However only the first Unsprung was available to watch again! :(
Please BBC can you put the pub quiz and photo club episodes online to watch or on the springwatch website somwehere? I can't seem to find them anywhere. I know that obviously I won't be able to press the red buttons and stuff for the pub quiz but I would like to see the questions and answers and banter from the presenters as well! It does say on the original blog post here that the unsprung episodes would be available on the website if you miss them.
Thank you and keep up the good work! I might even be able to get some of my uni friends (who normally only pay attention to computer games) interested in wildlife through springwatch this year!
Emmy, St Andrews
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Sorry to double post - I found the photo club episode, you can view it by clicking first the link to "shows" and then "springwatch specials" on this website, although no sign of the pub quiz episode and neither are on iPlayer. But looking forward to the photo club episode, I'm going to watch it now with my mum!
Cheers, Emmy, St Andrews
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Is it possable to send pics to unsprung as I have a question about some spiders living close to my home in west cornwall that buid a web in the shape of a funnel? I want to know if they are realated to funnel webs found in the torpics.
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Hello guys,
Fantastic work to Martin with the Peregrine's buddy! that was so interesting..
Hey, I just wanted to ask one thing... can we have more bird sounds to download on the site... its fantastic to learn and identify our birds, and I've now identified a few around where I live.
Also, can I ask.. is there much of a difference between the Eagle, SparrowHawk, Kestrel & Peregrine or are they all pretty similar sounding..
THANK YOU and keep up the good work guys! I look forward to Spring AND Autumnwatch each year!
Kev, Crosby
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Tonight's quiz. I reckon...
a) the skull of a turtle
b) snake egg (I'd guess a grass snake)
c) now that's weird. bits of squid????
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Thank you for just showing my basking shark video. I think that the answer to the tray quiz is:
A) no idea
B) hatched adder egg
C) squid beak and chitin rings from squid tentacles
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Hi, I live in Spain on the 7th floor of an apartment bock. My apt is very big and the bedroom is quite a way from the living room, however we have a swift that insists on useing our apt as a flight path. He comes in thru the bedroom window , goes thru the hallway , thru the lounge and crashes at the balcony windows where I have to pick him up and release him over the balcony. Is this unusual because it has happened quite a few times.?
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my mum, sister and me where in the kitchen and we saw two draggenflys and they where mating on my window sill. i foud out lotts about draggonflys and i found out that once the draggonfly mates and lays the eggs in water they go back to where they mated and die.
can u tell me what would happen if they lade there eggs in my swimming pool?
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Hi Team,
I don't know if this is the place to put messages for Unsprung?? Anyway, I really do hope you read this out as I’ve been meaning to say it for months! But I’m a student nurse; ergo I have very little personal time! Sorry.
Message/Question for Chris please.
In Autumnwatch 2009, Chris went out with a Chough expert named Bob Haycock. In the report they discussed the fact that the bird should be called a 'Chow', because that’s the sound it makes, as opposed to ‘Chuff’.
I wonder if we are just pronouncing its name wrong, and perhaps instead of ‘Chough’ as in ‘Rough’, we should be saying ‘Chough’ as in ‘Plough’?
P.S. I’ve been wondering for ages where Chris got his t-shirts from, very impressed that he designed them.
Brilliant series again, can't wait for Autumnwatch 2010!
Gerry x
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can anyone tell me how protected are Lapwings?
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Drake mystery!! Can someone explain to us why we have a mallard drake that appears to have changed sex? I have been taking photos of it and it started out the usual drake colours and has now almost completely changed int duck colours. Is this normal?
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