Look out bird nerds, Springwatch is back and this year it's as addictive as ever.
(If you don't live in the UK, Springwatch is a hugely popular and successful BBC TV show. Part of its appeal is the live-to-air excitement of crossing to various hidden cameras trained on the secret habitats of Britain's wildlife. We get an up-close look of chicks hatching, feeding and fledgling inside a coal tit's nestbox, and baby ospreys fighting for survival in Scotland. Seriously, the lives of swallows, blue tits and greenfinches have never been so gripping!)
Of course, I've been deeply sucked into the soap-opera-style narratives of newborn birds hatching, siblings cannabilising, and fathers committing infanticide. Apart from the harsh reminder that nature can be brutal, it's also very beautiful. (New discovery: newborn birds are all blind-eyeballs-and-throaty-beaks on toothpick necks.)
If you have a moment, check out the live webcams on the Springwatch website now.
Want to recreate your own version of Springwatch at home? Get kitted out with the slickest bird box and feeder designs. Here, my top picks from UK online garden specialists, The Urban Garden.
Mounted bird ball, £34, from the Urban Garden.
4 comments:
Ah, I love Springwatch, I saw a baby magpie sitting under a tree yesterday! It's lovely to see wee birdies through the window sitting in your bird feeder, so cute...
That glass bird feeder is so ace! Do you think if I filled it with cat biscuits it would work for my kitten? arghhhhhhh
I've been watching the cbeebies version! Great bird feeder choices - I'm getting one, hard to choose which one though
When I moved out of our London flat and moved to our seaside cottage in south Devon I thought there would be all kinds of birdie action. I bought several funky bird feeders, filled them up and then waited and waited. No birdie action. The seagulls scare them all away! I have a new found love for gulls that I didn't have before!
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