Autumnwatch
With the autumn season well under way, join the BBC Autumnwatch team, as they take a closer look at the nature around us.
Kate Humble, Chris Packham, Simon King and Gordon Buchanan travel around Britain in a new look programme spanning eight weeks on BBC2.
View Gordon’s high seas video diary, as he goes to film in [...]
The Great Nut Hunt
The third Great Nut Hunt, recording Dormice in the British Isles, is to be launched by The People’s Trust for Endangered Species and Natural England.
Hazel nuts are a favourite food of the dormouse and can be found growing in our old hedgerows and woodland.
As a Dormouse gnaws through into the green hazel nuts, they leave [...]
Great Seabird Mystery
This year for Springwatch I’m investigating the great seabird mystery: why are some colonies doing fine while others are in crisis?
With some of the world’s biggest and best colonies found on our coastlines, Britain is internationally important for seabirds. 90% of the world’s Manx shearwaters, 68% of the world’s northern gannets, and 60% of the [...]
Kirkby Stephen Parrots
If anyone had said that parrots, or are they macaws, could be seen flying over a north of England town they most people would have said they were ‘off their tree!’
To the townsfolk of Kirkby Stephen in the Upper Eden valley having these brightly coloured birds sitting in the dark English tree canopy is now a common [...]
