#SIBCLive with Luke Massey & Lindsey Chapman – Episode 35

[Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] you you [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] you the candles you can see behind us that's what we called them on the horse chestnut tree are just about to reach their teats these are the flowers but emerging spring which of course pollinated in the autumn turn to the all-important conquers those beautiful third fruits which are good for slowing up misbehaving poodles in the garden things like that but at this point in time quite faint this morning there was a bee buzz around the tree because obviously these cables are flowers and they're producing huge amounts of nectar a very pleasant place to be today you've been looking at a live cam of a great horned owl great horned owl the largest species of owl in North America tell you a bit more about that in a moment things coming up today I have to say Lindsey Chapman is gonna be here answering your questions and Luke Massey is waiting for us over in Spain where he's been living on a farm and setting some camera traps he's got some fantastic species on those I've got to tell you so this week we have been bringing you Lucy Lapwing or Lucy Hodgson's and to tell you a little bit about the common bird visitors that you might find in your garden so that you can learn their songs better and be able to better identify them one stays her last one and she's coming without a to us the fantastic species so Lucy how that's all about this one hello everyone and happy Friday welcome to your final mini bird song of the day listen now I hope you've enjoyed this week and we've covered some really familiar garden faces that hopefully you can now pick them out just by their voice so the black bird the robin the wren the chaff Inge and we've got one more for you today and today's songster is again a really really familiar garden visitor if you've got feeders you'll know this bird and so we'll say hello to the great tip and that gorgeous black carp yellow Ches black striped down brilliant bird lover great tip and now the great tip song is one that you can hopefully pick up really easily when he's behaving and I say when he's behaving because great it's a notorious for making all sorts of noises and there's a rule in in the world of birth somewhere if you hear a complete mystery weird bizarre noise it's gonna be this guy being a pain in the book but when he's performing and when he's behaving it's really quite an easy one to grasp I'm one of the first that you can pick up sir and I've even got a little extra speech bubble pop today because he sounds like you say in a very specific word and this is it teach your teacher so we'll jump in and press play so teacher teacher teacher it also sounds like you could be saying great tip quick tip great tip quick tip and or another images is blown a perm squeaky air bed you're going camping so those are three little ways to remember the great tips that won't even bounce that bounciness really really quite distinct and easy to pick out so there you go umm I hope I hope you've enjoyed listening to bird song of the day um it's a brilliant hobby and I can only recommend that you take it further add those bird songs one at a time build the amount that you've got in your head and it's an amazing hobby to delve into and it is super rewarding because it's like being part of a magic secret Club and I you know I can be looking at you guys and hear a bird over there and I know it's there and nobody else does it's brilliant so and have a go at it build them up take your time enjoy it and hopefully this is opened up a whole new world to you so thanks again for watching and back to you guys in the new forest great - its classic great to be humble in our fat Gardens absolute something but varied cause yeah that's that's one that they always use and you can hear it all the time but they are tricky little things greatest they come up they use their imagination me constantly if I catch you out when you listen out for those and of course as we said support Lucy's done a brilliant job there of giving us some top tips this week on those aspects of song which we can pick up on and remember it's the best way to exercise this weekend and you do have a pair of binoculars take them with you and try and find those singing birds and she is continuing this over on her Instagram so do go and follow her at Lucy's last wing so she'll be doing lots of these songs and lots more and so on to our skull of date now I have to apologize I really do I feel like we've been really really mean we have a difficult one it was a UK mammal yeah it's it's really tricky have a look at the teeth you can see the canines at frontier and the molars at the back as well you can see that it's quite narrow it's got quite a wide face here and I thought I mean I just want to say to me wow it's really tough it's really tough but this will separate the naturalist from the osteo logistics without any doubt native species as a clue they're making a real pest of themselves across mainland Europe they're making a real pest of themselves across mainland Europe intelligent very smart animal please let's go back to that live cam this is a live cam on a great horned owl nest it's actually a face Rogers place must be the face unemployed Roger in Montana and this cameras bought notice by Explorer dot feel and you can fly climb you can find all of those explores live cameras and there were a host of them and they're pretty good if you go to youtube and put in Explorer birds bats beans explore birds back things and you'll find a whole host of cameras this one's good because it's very active there are three paths grown youngsters in there and they're active both day and night I happiest leave Montana is the two hours behind us complete your eye on this one as I mentioned before great horned owls largest elves in North America not in terms of that from size the great gray owl is bigger but it's just a ball of fluff so these are the heaviest owl and they feed typically on hares rabbits rats and mice about 80% of their diet is mammal they'll also take birds as well and amphibians and reptiles are generalist predator philemon sort of would eat well a whole range of habitats actually they're very successful species mainly forested areas and wooded areas all the way from Canada right the way down and of course as far as the km2 like the equivalent of the European Eagle au which exists on continental Europe big bulky nocturnal predator and and the call which of course is very characteristic very much part and part of American both history and folklore rather like our told me I was quick to who is in this country they feel the same way about the great these live cameras are a great way of engaging with other wildlife around the world scene this week we looked at sea eagles we visited white-tailed eagles we've looked at the Bermudan pepper one of the rarest birds in the world looking inside its nest and shown that Purdue if you have some time of the weekend have a fantastic weekend viewing for you anyway so throughout the last coming on to tell us about your images about your paintings or poems everything else we've been sending in isolation you've been bringing in she's joining us again hi Lindsey morning I'll do my best to get my words out but and I've actually got two sparrows who were having a bit of an epic fight in the bush next to me just say sorry you can't see it it's great and but yeah morning many people saying good morning to each other once again this Friday I'm getting a bit of a suntan here in Manchester and wonder who is in Holland says it hasn't rained again today so beautiful and sunny there Patricia is in Philadelphia USA so hi the u.s. and Vanessa Vanessa this morning her 9 a.m. meeting was canceled so she sneaked on to watch till half past 9:00 yes Vanessa good stuff and lots of guesses are coming in on the live computer here for skull of the day my favorite is from Michelle Sutton who says I've absolutely no idea but it looks pretty fighty or not but it looks pretty bitey I want to talk to you this morning though and about unusual or beautiful sightings I thought hey it's Friday let's look at some weird and wonderful stuff so good news from Manchester I've seen my first swallow in fact I saw four have you guys seen one down there good stuff well hopefully it will be very soon Steve Truluck has seen a hedgehog on the beach now I thought that was quite unusual but get get this Catherine Shield has seen a wallaby just outside of Manchester and I just wondered if you could tell her why she might have seen that because this does happen in the UK redneck Wallabies for a long time living as feral animals I either escaped from captivity but they were breeding in in the world they naturalized in a couple of sites one of which was in Derbyshire and they were very common at that time I forget what the numbers got up to so this would have been through the seventies and eighties but they frequently fell victim to traffic accidents and people did unfortunately shoot them and and harassed them and as far as I'm aware that Derbyshire colony of RedNet Wallabies has died out but what it proved was that these animals can deal with our environment so they are capable of surviving out there but an isolated animal like this is obviously an animal which is escape from the captive collection either as a pet or former from a zoo it will be okay so long as it doesn't get run over of course it would be unlikely to find a mate so it might just live out a happy life of isolation and hopefully people won't harass it there you go hopefully it's following the rules thank you also we had this picture in from mr. Julien six now he just wondered if he knew what this was it's on a piece of slate and he says it looks like a leaf miner but it's bigger and it's on stone if you've got any idea what that is yeah that is essentially betrayal from a snail which has been on that piece of slate and has been feeding on that algae there it has something called a radula which has got these tiny miniscule teeth which are called denticles and that's used for scraping off all this algae which then it can digest so yeah you can see that quite often you see the zig zag as well if you look really carefully on that image of where that snails gone around consuming all that there you go it's a snail thank you very much thank you very much indeed and I do just on this Friday want to show you some fantastic photographs that we've had coming in to the self isolating bird club both on Facebook and on Twitter so this first one is from Andy never at and it's a blue tick on a peanut mission that is a fantastic picture just taken in his garden I really like that and Thord win saw a red-tailed hawk this one's in California again just a stunning picture there the detail on that short eared owl hunting now this one is from Jeffrey Harris and again I just thought you know these are the moments that people are seeing in this time and it is brilliant that you're sharing those on the platform and finally Dave Bennion this is a Bank vole sharing some bird and Chris and makes a put baton because it's cute and I like cute stuff Zico we love I think the the cutest thing I've ever seen was a baby porcupine there they are born with their spines they're like mini versions of an adult I like porcupines anyway any road that can turn itself into an animal much a porcupine it's really working hard in evolutionary terms to me so I've great admiration for that so I did actually get to see a baby porcupine that's this big once and I swooned it's worth saying that those quills don't come out of the female all hard they are very very soft like fingernails when we're born made its keratin it's not going to harm you in any way but they are born with their eyes open - lucassi move massive man I've known for some time he was tremendously supportive of some of our initiatives and came out and helped us film those he's a great cameraman check out his photographs on Instagram they're pretty good as well I've got to say sometimes I look at them very enviously it's got a great eye for a still photograph been making films about nightingales migrating birds all sorts of things he's currently ensconced on a farm that he bought a little while ago in Spain the buildings I've seen them were in need of renovation so it's not down I hope he's got his paintbrush and screwdriver he hasn't had out all the time because you've been out in the woods exploring that area I'm setting up some camera traps here's what he's been up to I'm down here in the forests mainly to set up a camera trap so what I'm looking for is animal trails there's actually I know if an iPhone camera can pick it up but it's not gonna do it now I think I can see him a fire crest calling just above up here somewhere and you know distractions I'm setting up camera traps and where I am here is a nice little animal trail I try and walk a little bit further along you can see where this fallen branch is then it kind of comes down probably wild boar and Radia but if everything we used to that fire crest is really going for it I'm going to try and get a bit of footage it's a bit hard and holding the camera trying to set up camera traps and it's raining a little bit so shooting up against this kind of white sky is pretty tricky too but yes so the secret to cam traps is finding a trail and putting it somewhere where it's not gonna get triggered by the wind so you want it on a sturdy tree which there's plenty of around here but there is stuff like this as well which will blow in front of your camera trap possibly if you position it behind it and then all trigger it loads I'm talking from experience as you probably can tell lots and lots of beautiful shots of this happening that's one camera trap setup I've had a few set up over the past few weeks I'm gonna set up two more and I think come back to them in a few days time to see what they've captured this is an ancient old crayons amazingly that side but this side dry stone wall when people would have moved between the villages through these forests few trees are falling down now and no one really uses a la carte from me in the wildlife a natural obstacle course as well so where I'm heading now is down to the water this little stream which rises and falls with the rain I've got a little be a little bit careful with the camera trap I'm gonna set up there it's probably easiest but basically when I'm moving through the forest see when I'm filming like this and nothing that quiet but I use the animal trails and the waterways just following these little runoff streams yeah I haven't done any camera traps by the river so anything we get there will be completely new for me lots of wild garlic good food for a boar and I just noticed yesterday this is quite a good little trail one for a camera trap another day I've come down to the stream which just behind me and there's this ancient water mill and there's a few different amphibians there's I think I'll make news knocking about the water down here but on the wall I've just found well for me the piece de resistance it's not an adult and it's really wriggling so I'm gonna try and do this as quickly as possible it's a fire salamander and their epic looking creatures so they get a lot bigger than this one obviously and they're one of the few they give birth to live young so I'm gonna put him back as loads of bits and there is there is river cam set up beautiful little spot no idea what could be down here saw a couple of my laughs that was about yet river cam hasn't produced too much so far fingers crossed for more action on that camera just this fox crossing the stream but it's quite nice see a badger almost in daylight 20 to 8 is about sunrise here at the minutes this batch is probably heading back to the set up a night out foraging and then this roe deer was probably I assume looking up at me walking through the field just above the forest walking the dogs in the morning and that's the beauty of camera traps that you never know what they're gonna get species like this as well a pine marten in daylight that's quite surprised this was a quarter past 3:00 in the afternoon so I think I'm gonna have to a stakeout in the forest to see if I can get some footage actual footage not just camera trap footage of them but the real real surprise well maybe not surprise I was secretly hoping for is this a Genet no one really knows how they came to be in southern Europe there's a few different stories of their origin but kind of the most plausible one I guess is that the Moors brought them over as rat catchers and now they're very much spread across southern Europe but great to have such a stunning creature here on the farm we're very pleased that we can join Luke Massey's eyes from his farm in Spain now morning Lu how are you good morning oh good they stopped raining you guys are showing off with the good weather they call Asturias Green Spain it's pretty green we get quite a lot of rainfall but it's warm but yeah almost like a rain forest this morning I mean that's a really good capture they're very difficult to see very shy yeah I've got the camera traps out I think I've got four out of the minute and I've had them out for a while and that's that should be only recording I've got so far which is quite interesting considering I kind of had them spread out across the forest and across the farm behind me here by is looking and I think males have free kilometer territory there's lots of like nooks and crannies for them to hide in and work their way through and they're strictly nocturnal that's the thing I mean I I was spending time in France I time their species I never found one dead one actually they died another animal dragged out yes I mean when you speak to local people around here they've all had encounters with them because they seem to take a fancy to people chickens but our chickens have been quite lucky so far but yeah I don't know many people have seen them apart from crossing the road in front of them I did also I found a dead one in Andalusia a few years ago have been killed by an Iberian lynx and that's obviously in the UK but their widespread of course Europe yeah well in Spain they're kind of geographically so I'm a bit confused actually got told yesterday that we could also have beach Martin up here I think that is a pine marten on the camera a modern if there's any Martin specialist out there that can tell the difference between the two but we do have both here but yeah here they're kind of everywhere it seems every camera trap I put up I had them actually crossing that River cam this week as well so through there through the forest and then in the open areas as well I guess they're kind of just the perfect if there's food they'll survive here now we're doing skull to die I know you've got a skull to make us all envious yeah it's one as you saw on wednesday's film we get quite a lot of these guys around you see that actually this is name-dropping again it's a Griffon vulture but I found that skull in a soft release enclosure of an Iberian lynx in Extremadura Coldplay turned up and did an impromptu concert well then it was ruins yeah Griffon vulture I don't think the ivory elites killed it it was pretty Sun bleached and very old but yeah my my favorite skull in my collection I got got a few cool things I got a bat wing that was Riga ated by peregrine falcon in Chicago we all like to keep you've got some orchids there as well as I think that a tie and show us because they're quite exotic I'll slowly move I I should still have signal this is kind of the only place I get good internet signal let me unplug the battery so we've got I'm definitely not a botanist by any means but I've been learning the past few weeks about them as they turn up so first off we've got this one which actually found last night it is somewhere here yeah we got it yes there it is yes you like this one Chris is a Woodcock orchid my thought was there be orchid but it looks a bit like a B orchid on the on the face of things but can you just I don't know if it's focusing on the top it looks a bit like a Woodcock's head I mean I think it looks more like a mallard but and then over here this is like our most common little kid on the farm these guys these guys are tong all kids I kind of got to move the clover out the way have you got those yeah and then finishing off on this one so this is pretty crazy three orchid species within 7-foot where I'm standing lucky one lockdown because I'm laid in the middle of the footpath if anyone came around the corner this one yes is a man orchid I don't know if you can see on there they they called men or man orchids because they let that little stick men withheld mixing their flower that's be looking like a bee the man the frog orchid of course the military or soldier or kid the lady orchid all of these are named after the flower lady or Kings look like they come for knit and a big dress on the military orchid looks allegedly like a soldier with with buttons and medals on its chest so yeah it's a familiar way of naming them look thanks ever so much for joining us we've really enjoyed your incredible name-dropping and skull bragging hope the weather clears up and you get a bit more migration happening because you should have some good things coming through this weekend if that's the case hopefully it first cukoo yesterday but we're still waiting on red-backed Shrike and actually common red start which like two of those common species on the farm but them turned up yet look actually somebody just sent in a question for you saying are you seeing birds on their way back to the UK yes yeah I guess so because we we've been having Swift's coming through recently quite a big few flocks way up high so I guess they're just passing straight through swallows have been coming through for about three four weeks and ones that actually resident on the farm have only been hanging around the last week so I guess they were probably going though and then actually in autumn it's quite interesting we don't get nightingale here on the farm but in autumn you get them passing through on migration so they don't breed anywhere around here so again I assume they're French and British birds passing up there which the BTO when they've kind of put their telemetry devices on have actually seen that that's the kind of route they take along the kind of west coast of France and follow it round to where we are in Spain and then straight down to the Gambia and beyond Thanks oh absolutely top like putting it that this great filmmakers ooh check out his Instagram site so here's photographs but just going to show you very quickly a couple of ours because we've been using a little bit of extra time that we've got to take some photos and yesterday I was out in the garden using this camera now it looks like a conventional camera but I've had it adapted so it's a digital SLR camera sent it away and it's been transformed into an infrared camera so it's sensitive to the infrared part of the spectrum which means you can only shoot it in black and white but it's a challenge that I'm not raising - it's a little bit experiment so I've been photographing lots of the woodland flowers and garden flowers and yesterday I found this little spider it's a species called misdemeanor and it's white and it typically hides on white or the yellow versions on yellow flowers okay so the type of crab spider it sits with its legs open wide and when any pollinator comes to the flower it clasp those legs together and obviously predates it it's very small about the leg span was about a centimeter I spent an hour yesterday pointing my infrared camera at it and then we went out in the evening indeed we went to the bluebells just around the corner from the house and they're beautiful when the Sun Goes Down they become backlit and get that gorgeous kind of golden light and then you get really low down in the ground so you can shoot through the blue vows and I took this bouquet not hundreds didn't happy with that I'm quite picky odd you know I've grown up with yous and I'm very very critical of no nose and I'm not going to have him go out again today if I can move it better and but I mean I believe as medicine Pathak favorite aren't they there we have half the number of rebelled in the new place you know they take a long time damn it take five or seven years don't arise these big population to Bluebell interesting thing is that in the UK they're very much of woodland species but where they occur on the continent the same species of plant they're always on coastal flip-flops they're not in Borden's at all we don't seem to Lindsey I think she's Lindsey how are you going on any more good questions coming in any more content of so much content Cris and a lot of chat on the stream about jealousy in regards to Luke and what he's seeing out there make me laugh this morning also quick shout out to Ruth newbie who's 50 today so eating toast in bed whilst watching you guys that's very decadent this morning where she is I'm loads of questions and I would like to whip through a few of them the first one is from Megan who's nine years old and Meghan what's know why butterflies have different colors and they're a couple of reasons flying in the sunlight you get closer look you can see these reds these oranges blues greens stunning colors as Lindy said there are the things like the monarch butterfly they feed on something called milkweed which contains a toxin those we believe that the demonic butterfly and similar species that feed on toxic plants developed seeds kind of bright red and orange colors to act as a warning signal for predators because when predators come and they eat these monic butterflies they feel rather sick and they end up vomiting and they won't often caused fatalities but they will makes me feel very very ill so these colors serve as a warning purpose of predators saying stay away from me I'm brightly colored I'm therefore I'm tasty I'm not tasty for you I'm not good stay away and so then butterflies started evolving more and more so that they would limit these parts of monic butterflies mimic the reds mimic the orange colors that they would deter more predators away but it's also of course used to attract mates and also used in camouflage as well so lots of different reasons to have bright colors there in fact as we said before they're not actually colored at all it's obviously the spectral color and which is about how the light comes down from the Sun and it bounces off these air cavities in the wearing of which gives us the illusion of these bright colors it doesn't actually exist there you go good answer for Megan age 9 nice question as well I'm gonna play you some Swift as I taught you through the next question these are Swift's from Beijing and I did just want to show you some Beauty this Friday morning so let's have a watch of that well I ask you both a question from Lindsay Lauder he's just put in touch to say she's splitting on 10 eggs but and I think there was a bit of sound in the background but I just keep going and but she's also got the same blue tick in a different box or possibly a different blue tick and it seems to go between two places is that normal we're getting us this quite a lot so to be clear there are two boxes one of which has turn eggs in one we don't know what's got in but the blue tick is coming out of one box and going into the other box yes so it's occasionally used in the other box maybe to sleep or it could be not the same bird she's trying to work out I thought it was very clear that no one was to be using their second homes during this period transgressing all of government advice to be quite honest with you I don't know is this is the answer to that I can imagine obviously blue tips are constantly exploring those cavities earlier in the season to see where they're going to put their next maybe it's discovered most boxes it's chosen one but now it's having second thoughts we've all done that you know we've moved into houses which there you go it's a good question and just keeping a close eye good public health warning as well thanks Chris and Kieran Hyde has said and I love this question and we get asked it all the time do individual birds in the same species have different singing voices because like humans have accents they do seem to sound different yes they do they do there were regional accents in birds most notably they've been studied in chat inches in the UK was a study that was conducted long time ago now but they look that looked at the development of dialect and they found that the birds learn their dialect whilst they're still in the nest so some of these species will be learning how they will sing their song before they can actually sing and this is one of the reasons why we think that male songbirds continue to sing even when they've got an active nest so in if you like they've attracted a female and they've got a family on the go but they're teaching their young to sing other birds don't learn to sing until they've migrated away from the UK and then sometimes they listen to other bird songs in Africa say and they mimic those so sometimes Britain's Marsh Warblers will come back to the UK and produce you know African bird song as part of their mimicry set so yes they do so that dialect individual voices very definitely very definitely and we know this because if you have a territory and a male bird is singing in it it gets used to the voices of the other male birds that are singing around it and it knows where they are and although there might still be territorial friction it's relatively happy if you go through that bird and you play it the sound of a strange mouth and it's never heard before then it goes desert as I think than other males come in so they very definitely identify each other down to individual level by listening to those songs it's just gorgeous isn't it I think it's absolutely wonderful and it did say what some fantastic birds on behind me I hope you can hear it I did say I would give you some Beauty this morning so I'm going to play a bluebells soundscape and I think if you listen carefully I think there's a green woodpecker at the beginning of this so I'm just gonna let this play I think that is gorgeous and I have to say I'm really missing my Bluebell would this year I can't get to it it's an ancient woodland so I like to see other people's pictures and finally I'm gonna leave you with a willow Warbler this is from Catherine Palmer and this is just beautiful Kristen Megan if you had to pick a favorite birdsong question here what would you pick for me it's all flush at the moment because we've been listening to the song slash makes loves green Finch I'm not gonna lie it's because I couldn't identify really long anyway it's a long story but it is a classic black bird in the morning first thing shouting shouting lovely song I'm gonna leave you with the willow Warbler I will see you next week thank you for everything you're sending in we're really enjoying looking through it keep sending your questions or avoir from Manchester beautiful job listening see that was part of the soundtrack of my youth wherever we used to go well even in the suburban area where I grew up any of those little patches of white and you'd hear that descending of widows or blacks now I haven't heard one well here I don't know when I lost my horse years ago few years ago because the willow Warbler has declined in the southeast and apparently increased in the southwest so this is undoubtedly the impact of climate change which has robbed a business in south-central and this particular song now I've got to put an unashamed plug in for a program that's starting on the BBC BBC one 8:15 Sunday night about primates three-part series and extraordinary photography very very beautiful great new science and also a view of the whole primate group is not just about the ranks the village and open gyms it's about tarsiers it's about lemurs it's about marmosets and lots of new science in it and also some pretty full-on conservation in program three so do try to catch the threaten the primates series 815 BBC one on sunday so excited excited beautiful pictures the camera but wait absolutely outstanding absolutely outstanding amazing amazing well on Sundays well you can catch the second episode it's wild world this is coming out from Nina constable she's gonna have so people Val Hannah stipple you've been on and as well as Lucy Lapwing to you I'm giving you a little bit about the wildlife going on right on their doorstep so you can catch that and then later on go to BBC one to watch primate yeah that's on YouTube person that's on YouTube and we will be back next week next week we're going a little bit theme running through a series of broadcast and it will be dealing with nature as a cure yes at this time when people are locked down they're finding respite and solace as you know as subscribers to the South isolation great club what joy simple nature can bring to all our lives the little spider on a flower for an hour yesterday afternoon calls me any amount of photographic frustration but just engaging with that simple animal in the garden actually on this table where we're sitting was just brilliant so we're bringing you some more of that skull of the day now I have to give a very very special mention because even before our clues but I have to say gave it away I think they're pretty much everyone and Matthew got it right before we said anything really so well done Matthew excellent it's really good but of course after we gave some clues lots of people came in with answers so on Facebook Gillian Graham cos Ryan Zoe Twitter Liz Andy Chris Julie's YouTube Alyssia Vivian at Neville Julie Luke and Wonder and course welcome to everybody get got this right it's the skull of raccoons very biting very biting mighty yes Scala broken they have escaped into the UK countryside rocky you might remember rocky 1960 yeah rocky was quite some time ago some of us well tonight Rockies escape I did mention however that they were making a nuisance of themselves on mainland Europe and they certainly are particularly in Germany where they were released between the wars now there are sweet fantastic stories if we had another half an hour I could tell you a story called Hitler's lagoons unfortunately it's not true so I'm not gonna waste your half an hour the idea was that they're being brought in so that their fur could be used to adorn the German generals on their victory parade when they had invaded the nuclide Herman Goering was the man behind this but he was also a keen hunter the reason that were brought into Germany is that they were released so that they could be hunted but they didn't hunt them all and now there were more than a million workers in Germany they spread into France and into Italy as well and you know non-native species just like the grey squirrel here they have become invasive and they're doing any amount of damage to particularly the bird fauna of these so again a great animal in the right place North America unfortunately it's sort of a bad one place mainland Europe yes what works getting the raccoon skull to end with a tricky one this next week we've got a photographic quiz for you could be equally tricky yeah little bits of photos which we're going to snip out again and stay so they say [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] you

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