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Springwatch 2018

Springwatch is back broadcasting live from the Sherborne Park Estate in the Cotswolds. Gillian Burke is in the Shetlands, where she hopes to see killer whales.

It's May Bank Holiday and Springwatch is back for a special 90-minute opening show - broadcasting live from the Sherborne Park Estate in the Cotswolds. Chris Packham and Michaela Strachan host, with a plethora of live cameras trained on brand new nests across the Gloucestershire countryside, with blue tits, marsh tits, treecreepers and a gorgeous little owl.

They are joined by Steve Backshall, the first in a series of special guests, who is investigating the Sherborne Brook and some of the small but vitally important creatures that live here.

Gillian Burke, who will spend the next three weeks travelling the length of the UK, is starting at its northern tip in the Shetlands, where she hopes to see killer whales and looks at the vitally important seabird colonies on these islands.

With films about a stunning butterfly conservation success story, ravens setting up home on the Gower peninsula in south Wales, and the wildlife to be found in Richmond Park in London, it's an action-packed 90 minutes.

1 hour, 30 minutes

Last on

Mon 28 May 2018 20:00
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Music Played

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

  • 00:22

    Agnes Obel

    Aventine

  • 00:33

    Birdy

    Never Let You Go

  • 01:02

    Aphex Twin

    Jynweythek

Credits

Presenter Chris Packham
Presenter Michaela Strachan
Presenter Gillian Burke
Presenter Steve Backshall
Executive Producer Rosemary Edwards
Series Producer Chris Howard
Producer Jake Senior
Director Tony Grech-Smith

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