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Springwatch Episode 6

Springwatch 2017

Chris Packham, Michaela Strachan and Gillian Burke are live in the Gloucestershire countryside with the latest from the cameras spread all over the Sherborne Estate.

Chris Packham, Michaela Strachan and Gillian Burke are live in the Gloucestershire countryside with the latest from the cameras spread all over the Sherborne Estate.

We catch up on the latest with the young robins, who began to fledge during Monday night's show and have all since left the nest, and we also see how the bullfinches are doing in the wet weather.

There are also some new characters in the barn, where six wren chicks are growing fast, and we see what the badgers have been up to over the last few nights - including an unusual confrontation with a muntjac deer.

Meanwhile the pine marten family are growing fast in Scotland, there is rare footage from inside a kingfisher's nest and Martin Hughes-Games celebrates one of our rarest, and loudest amphibians.

Iolo Williams also reports on the increase in humpback whales around the UK's waters, and Gillian and Michaela discuss the wider implications of that increase, before reviewing how marine mammals are doing in general around the country.

1 hour

Last on

Tue 6 Jun 2017 20:00
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Music Played

Timings (where shown) are from the start of the programme in hours and minutes

  • 00:08

    Ed Sheeran

    One

  • 00:10

    Biffy Clyro

    As Dust Dances

  • 00:13

    Coldplay

    Always In My Head

  • 00:37

    Flying Lotus

    All In

  • 00:39

    Guillemots

    Don't Look Down

Credits

Presenter Chris Packham
Presenter Michaela Strachan
Presenter Gillian Burke
Series Producer Chris Howard
Series Editor Rosemary Edwards
Production Manager Victoria Ribeck

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