
Springwatch (2005)
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Gordon Buchanan as Self - Presenter
Episodes 29
Episode 10
Bill Oddie, Kate Humble and Simon King return with live updates on the final week of the wildlife event. Kate continues her celebration of the UK's amazing marine life and shows us what each of us can do to help protect it. Plus Gordon Buchanan continues his road trip to meet Springwatch viewers with amazing animal stories to tell.
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Wildlife cameraman Gordon Buchanan takes a personal journey to find his wildlife roots and celebrates the passionate human heroes of Springwatch. Old and young, city slickers and country dwellers, these wildlife watchers share their local wildlife secrets with the nation.
Meet two veteran conker champions that have been bonkers for conkers for over 65 years, a talented teenager with a love of badgers, and dedicated communities that transform their local patches into Breathing Places, that are good for wildlife and people.
Beautiful wildlife, stunning places and real characters are all part of Gordon's personal journey to uncover what led him to a life working with wildlife.
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Simon King, Kate Humble and Chris Packham are joined by Gordon Buchanan and Martin Hughes-Games to follow the daily fortunes of a brand new cast of unforgettable wildlife characters.
Kate, Chris and Martin report from their base in Norfolk. Simon is on a new mission in the wilds of Wales, home to polecats, goshawks, red kites and more. Gordon is getting close to a large family of badgers in suburban Essex.
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Catch live updates from the Springwatch animal stars, including kestrels, plovers, skylarks, swallows, finches, barn owls and many more, as their family dramas unfold.
Chris Packham and Kate Humble provide the latest from Norfolk. Simon King continues his search for the elusive polecat in Wales and observes the nest of a goshawk, a spectacular aerial predator, while Gordon Buchanan reports on his Essex badgers.
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The Springwatch team report live, keeping you up to date on all the animal stories as they happen, and looking at other stories from around the country.
Martin Hughes-Games encourages us to get some wildlife watching into our summer holidays. Chris Packham and Kate Humble look at the plight of the cuckoo and ask the audience to join the search for these icons of spring, while Simon King continues his wild mission in Wales.
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The marathon live wildlife event continues with up-to-the-minute reports on your favourite animal stars. Has Simon King managed to find the elusive polecat? How are Chris Packham and Kate Humble's animal families doing at their base in Norfolk? And what about Gordon Buchanan's badger family in Essex? The team also provides tips on how to attract a whole host of wildlife to your own back garden.
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The Springwatch team catch up on all the weekend's action. Chris Packham and Kate Humble are reporting from Norfolk on their animal families and Simon King is in red kite country in the heart of Wales, reflecting on his wilderness weekend. Gordon Buchanan is in Essex with an update on his badgers.
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Chris Packham, Kate Humble and Simon King bring us live updates from our Springwatch animal stars, from bluetits to goshawks, as their dramas unfold. See the best of the wild animal antics that Springwatch viewers have filmed themselves.
Martin Hughes-Games takes us on another Springwatch Holiday and Gordon Buchanan furthers his mission to unveil the mysterious world of the badger.
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Chris Packham, Kate Humble, Simon King, Gordon Buchanan and Martin Hughes-Games bring us live updates on all the animal dramas and report on stories from around the UK. Find out about the Springwatch Dirty Weekend with BBC Breathing Places. There is a whole raft of events happening across the country - a chance for a great day out while helping wildlife where you live.
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The marathon live wildlife event continues with up to the minute reports on all the animal stars. Have any of Kate Humble and Chris Packham's chicks flown the nest? How are Gordon Buchanan's badgers? Simon says farewell to the Welsh lakes and hills, and looks forward to a coastal spectacular. There are more details on how to help your local wildlife by joining in the Springwatch Dirty Weekend with BBC Breathing Places.
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Chris Packham, Kate Humble and Simon King return for the final week of the wildlife event of the year, with live updates on all the animal characters. Simon presents Wales' most spectacular seabird colony and provides an update on the goshawk family. Also, Gordon Buchanan reveals the latest on his Essex badgers and Martin Hughes-Games takes another Springwatch Holiday.
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The latest live updates from the Springwatch animal stars, including polecats, kestrels, swallows and many more, as their real-life dramas unfold daily. Simon King reveals Wales is a stronghold for the rarest member of the crow family - the red-billed chough. Gordon Buchanan continues his journey into the world of the badger with another live report from the Essex sett.
Read MoreEpisode 11
Chris Packham, Kate Humble and Simon King are live with the latest on the Springwatch animal dramas and reporting on other stories from around the country. In Wales, Simon has a seabird murder mystery to solve, while Gordon Buchanan is hoping all is well with his badger family, and Martin Hughes-Games is back on his motorbike to reveal the wild side of another British holiday.
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The marathon live wildlife event reaches its climax - what will have happened to the UK's favourite animal stars? Find out with the final live updates. In Wales, Simon King says farewell to his goshawk family and Gordon Buchanan's journey into the world of the badger comes to an end. Plus, there's a look back at the events of the last three weeks.
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Springwatch cameraman Gordon Buchanan presents a celebration of home-grown wildlife film-making, and shares some of his golden rules of field craft and camera technique.
Read MoreHigh Seas with Gordon Buchanan
Join Gordon Buchanan on his adventurous journey on the UK's high seas, where he discovers the world's top ocean predator and a whole lot more. From seabirds to seals and sand-eels to basking sharks, discover the creatures that make this alien environment their own.
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For three weeks, Chris Packham, Kate Humble and Simon King are joined by Martin Hughes-Games to follow daily the real-life fortunes of a cast of unforgettable wildlife characters, with Chris, Kate and Martin reporting live from their base in Norfolk.
Simon is on a mission in the wilds of Dorset, one of England's most diverse counties for wildlife and home to all the UK's reptile species, birds of prey such as the peregrine falcon and the hobby, and beneath the waves, cuttlefish and seahorses.
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Chris Packham and Kate Humble are in Norfolk with live updates from the Springwatch animal stars - kestrels, plovers, skylarks, swallows, finches, barn owls and more - as their real-life family dramas unfold. Chris also meets one of his wildlife heroes, a man who's given his life to studying a jet fighter of an aerial predator - the sparrowhawk.
Simon King gets to grips with Dorset's rich reptilian population, from venomous adders to green lizards.
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The Springwatch team report live on all the daily animal dramas as they happen, plus other stories from around the country.
Kate Humble has part one of her guide to Britain's birds of prey and there is news of some Wild Days Out that everyone can get involved with.
Simon King continues his journey into Dorset's wild side - top of the bill is the nightjar, a nocturnal bird with an appetite for moths.
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The marathon live wildlife event continues with up-to-the-minute reports on the animal stars. Simon King introduces the Dartford Warbler - a heathland bird that nests in almost impenetrable gorse bushes.
In Norfolk, Chris Packham and Kate Humble are watching over their animal families, Martin Hughes-Games shows how to get involved in bird ringing and there is more news on the Wild Days Out happening across the country this weekend.
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The Springwatch team return for week two of the wildlife event of the year, catching up on all the weekend's action.
Chris Packham and Kate Humble report from Norfolk on their animal families. Underwater cameraman Hugh Miles introduces us to some of the amazing fish life in our rivers and Simon King is in Dorset on the trail of the legendary 'black fox'.
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Chris Packham, Kate Humble, Martin Hughes-Games and Simon King return for the final week of the wildlife event of the year, with live updates on all of the animal characters. Simon begins his exploration of Dorset's wild coast. Chris and Martin are in a race across London to see who can spot the most birds in a 12 hour 'twitch off'.
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Live updates from the Springwatch animal stars - kestrels, swallows, sparrowhawks and many more - as their real-life dramas unfold daily. Simon King is on the trail of the world's fastest bird - the peregrine falcon.
Chris Packham and Martin Hughes-Games continue their urban bird race, turning up more than one or two surprises including a tawny owl in Kensington.
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Chris Packham, Kate Humble and Simon King have the latest on the Springwatch animal dramas and report on other stories from around the country as they happen. In Dorset, Simon heads beneath the waves for a live dive, revealing a world of pipefish, corals and triggerfish. In London, time is running out for Chris and Martin Hughes-Games as they continue their quest to see as many of the city's birds as they can in just 12 hours.
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The marathon live wildlife event reaches its climax. What will have happened to the UK's favourite animal stars?
Simon King says farewell to Dorset and all of its wild inhabitants, and in London it is a race to the finish for Chris Packham and Martin Hughes-Games in the final part of their marathon bird watch; who will have spotted more birds?
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Springwatch returns for a second live week of wildlife stories from across the country. Tonight, the team explore the power of nature on mental health. Chris Packham shares an extraordinary story of how a love of birds united British POWs and German officers during World War II. The team follow the fortunes of a pair of choughs in west Wales, and wildlife presenter and cameraman Gordon Buchanan focuses on Scottish ospreys in Loch Lomond National Park.
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Live from their respective home patches in the New Forest, Cornwall, Wales and Scotland, Chris Packham, Gillian Burke, Iolo Williams and Gordon Buchanan share more seasonal stories from spring 2020.
Gillian reveals the extraordinary camouflage tactics of some rock-pool inhabitants, Chris reveals how snails can use their shells to help them remember, and naturalist Brett Westwood celebrates the diversity of insects in his back garden, including an egg-shooting fly.
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The team are back for another hour of wildlife stories from across the British Isles. Filmed before the current restrictions, there is a chance to meet hedgehog champion Beryl Casey as she starts training a young apprentice to help her with the 30 hogs in her care. There is a trip down memory lane with Michaela as she celebrates Spineless Si the stickleback, and Iolo looks at white-tailed eagles as many more are now being sighted up and down the country.
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Chris Packham, Iolo Williams and Gillian Burke are live from their home patches for another hour-long celebration of British wildlife. They are joined by presenter and natural history cameraman Gordon Buchanan, who looks back on his epic wildlife week in Scotland.
Tonight, the team reveal a unique story of habitat rewilding taking place on the Knepp Estate in West Sussex, where white storks are breeding in the wild, and Chris is on a mission to explain why we should all love wasps.
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