Video Documentaries

It is the last show of this year's Springwatch, and the team looks back at another fantastic series on the Sherborne Park Estate - the last that will come from the Cotswold countryside. Gillian Burke is back from her travels and joins Michaela Strachan and Chris Packham in Gloucestershire to round up the last three weeks. And even now the drama keeps coming, with four of the five great tits fledging, and the fifth, named plucky, coming within seconds of being snatched by a jay as it tried to get out too.   The team take one last look at the live nests, including the robins, chaffinches, blackcaps and of course, the little owl which is still in the purist of the last blackbird chick in the barn. Patrick Aryee tags along on an exciting conservation project, getting involved with a hazel dormouse release in Warwickshire; and there are films from the west coast of Scotland on seals and basking sharks, a look at three remarkable spider species and a peek at a swift conservation project ...

Live from the heart of the Cotswolds Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty, Chris Packham and Michaela Strachan share the news from the wildlife cameras over the past 24 hours, checking in on the robin, blackcap, chaffinch and reed bunting nests, as well as seeing how the sickly great tit chick is faring. Patrick Aryee gets involved with a brand new piece of science from the RSPB, who are trying to work out why starlings are in such steep decline, and Lucy Cooke tries to follow the feeding routes used by the lesser horseshoe bats. Gillian Burke is in Glasgow to meet an unlikely urban resident - water voles that are living miles from the nearest water source, right in the heart of the city. There is a two-part film following the fate of a family of eider ducks on the Isle of May, and a report on the health of Major Oak - the tree that Robin Hood allegedly used as a hideaway - and that is in poor health due to the tourists that flock to see it. There is an update on the long-eared owls in W...

Chris Packham and Michaela Strachan are live again from the Gloucestershire countryside, where once again the little owls have been causing a ruckus. After destroying the first blackbird nest, they have now found another in an adjacent barn and have started to attack that too. But despite that there are also plenty of new nests to report on, including a beautiful blackcap and a stunning natural robin nest, while the empty hole that the mandarin duck used has some new potential tenants, including a barn owl and a greater spotter woodpecker. There is an update on the goshawk chick in Wales, who is growing healthily on a diet of grey squirrels and small birds, and the team looks back at a year's worth of data from the collared badgers on the estate. Gillian Burke is on the cliffs of Cornwall, most recently made famous by Poldark, searching for two conservation success stories, the chough and the peregrine. Luck Cooke is looking for Sherborne's water voles, and Patrick Aryee explai...

It is the final week of Springwatch and Michaela Strachan and Chris Packham are back to update on another busy weekend. The goldcrests fledged early on Friday morning, followed by four of the 11 blue tit chicks, with the remaining seven leaving the nest in the early hours of Saturday. There is more dramatic news from the blackbirds, where one of the chicks returned to the danger zone over the weekend and fell prey to the little owl after a protracted battle between the parents. In the farmland there are also new nests, with a second yellowhammer clutch and a reed bunting in the field margins, while the yellow wagtails also fledged over the weekend. A recent study is also brought to light, discussing how we define the value of a species might change the way we think about conserving them. Also at Sherborne is new guest presenter Patrick Aryee, who takes us through some new camera kit that anyone can build at home with a few simple elements. Lucy Cooke is also back and on the trail of Sh...

It is the end of the second week of Springwatch and the team looks back at another hectic week on the Sherborne Park Estate, full of fledging, predation and non-stop action. Chris and Michaela are joined at Sherborne by guests Iolo Williams and Lucy Cooke and investigate the latest news from the bird nests, see how the local amphibians are doing after the tough winter and delve into the macro world of solitary bees, with an exclusive new camera. There is an update on the long-eared owls and goshawk nests from Wales and the latest data on the plight of the UK's cuckoos, where the English population is faring badly, but the Scottish birds seem to be doing better. Gillian Burke joins an expert from the National Botanic Garden of Wales to look into the arms race that happens between plants and their pollinators, and Michaela visits a famous Avon gorge in the final installment of her trip through Bristol's rivers, looking into the plastic problem. Richard Taylor-Jones films an aston...

In Springwatch episode 6 2018 Chris Packham and Michaela Strachan are live again from the Gloucestershire countryside, where it has been a 'fledge-fest' since Monday night. On Monday, the show ended with high drama as one of the blackbird chicks fledged and was promptly caught and eaten by its neighbour the little owl. So how have the other three chicks fared today? Down near the river the mandarin ducklings decided it was time to make the jump too - a dramatic 3.5m launch from their treetop home, and throughout the day both the marsh tit and willow warbler chicks left home too. Taking a breath from the action, Iolo Williams took a nighttime safari around Sherborne, searching for the three species of owl in they area - the barn, tawny and little owl. He also introduces us to another new camera and yet another Springwatch first - a long-eared owl nest in Wales. Gillian Burke has moved to another reserve in Yorkshire, the RSPB's St Aidan's, where an old piece of mining ma...

It's the second week of Springwatch, and Michaela Strachan and Chris Packham are back to catch up with all the latest news and goings-on from over the weekend. It's been a frantic few days, the wrens have fledged, the mandarin ducks have hatched and a weasel has been causing havoc in a brand new whitethroat nest. This week they are joined in Sherborne by Iolo Williams, who immediately sets out to stake out some of the farmland birds on the estate. He has two exclusive new nests - yellowhammer and yellow wagtail - both specialists of arable land, both in serious decline and both Springwatch 'firsts'. Iolo also joined Michaela in the latest in Springwatch's line of entertainment spoofs - this time pitting a golden eagle against a white-tailed eagle in 'Lord of the Wings'. Expect bad hobbit puns, fancy dress and fascinating facts about these two iconic species. Gillian Burke has moved south after her Shetland adventure, and is just outside Leeds to see how a se...

In Springwatch episode 4 2018 it is the end of the first week of this year's Springwatch, and the team reviews the extraordinary events that have already taken place. Gillian Burke is looking back at her week on Shetland including the orca, otters and gannets she has been following. Michaela Strachan and Chris Packham update on what has been happening on the live cameras, and Steve Backshall is on one last adventure in Gloucestershire.   Springwatch episode 3 2018 In Springwatch episode 3 2018 Chris Packham and Michaela Strachan are live once again from the Gloucestershire countryside, where overnight events have already thrown up plenty of surprises, including yet more activity from the badger sett. This programme documents how British wildlife adapt during the changing of the seasons in the United Kingdom. `Springwatch' broadcasts from locations across the nation, using more than 50 cameras - many hidden and operated remotely - to capture the animals' natural behaviour. P...

Springwatch episode 3 2018 is live from their base in the heart of the Cotswolds Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty, Chris Packham and Michaela Strachan share the latest news from the wildlife cameras over the past 24 hours, joined by this week's guest Steve Backshall.   We have the latest update from the raven family on the Gower, and Gillian Burke has arrived in a new part of Shetland where she is hoping to catch up with a special family of otters.   Springwatch episode 2 2018 In Springwatch episode 2 2018 Chris Packham and Michaela Strachan are live once again from the Gloucestershire countryside, where overnight events have already thrown up plenty of surprises, including yet more activity from the badger sett. This programme documents how British wildlife adapt during the changing of the seasons in the United Kingdom. `Springwatch' broadcasts from locations across the nation, using more than 50 cameras - many hidden and operated remotely - to capture the animals' natur...

In Springwatch episode 2 2018 Chris Packham and Michaela Strachan are live once again from the Gloucestershire countryside, where overnight events have already thrown up plenty of surprises, including yet more activity from the badger sett. The bluetit family has a surprising and rather unwelcome visitor as a great spotted woodpecker drops by to see what is going on, there is an update on our marsh tit nest, and brand new nest which is a first for the show - a mandarin duck nesting high up in a tree. Steve Backshall is down by the river, this time looking at what makes its living on the surface, including local population of grass snakes. Gillian Burke is at Sumburgh Head in Shetland, one of the most important seabird breeding sites in the whole UK. She gets up close and personal with diving gannets, and looks into the problems that both this species, and the local fulmars have with plastic. There is the second film in the series about the ravens on the Gower Peninsula, where Dartford ...

It's May Bank Holiday and Springwatch episode 1 2018 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. [video poster="https://video-clump.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/Springwatch-ep-1-2018-mp4-image.jpg" width="704" height="396" mp4="https://video-clump.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/Springwatch-ep.1-2018.mp4"][/video]   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...