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Nature programmes on the TV

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,784 ✭✭✭Bsal


    I can't wait for the second part next Sunday to see the Starling murmuration, and Springwatch this week :D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,359 ✭✭✭emo72


    started a thread about this in the television forum. its beautifully filmed. BUT, the main question for me is, if they went to so much effort to film it with the latest hi def cameras, then why show it on RTE1 when we have RTE2HD? its like take something wonderful and then downgrade it to standard definition tv? it makes no sense at all.

    i loved the show.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    I know I'll be in the minority here but...I thought it had nothing new. The slow mo shots are reminiscent of Attenborough programmes going back a decade or more. There was really nothing new in it. The music was distracting too. Nice programme but not earth shattering. I will admit to a bias against the presenter as I never enjoyed any of his earlier work and find his voice annoying. Anyway, great to see RTE getting back to nature shows and we'll see what the next episode brings.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 13,992 ✭✭✭✭recedite


    Mothman "Wicklow's Disadvantage" acquitted himself well on Bioblitz; if only he had shaved and cleaned himself up beforehand he might have been better received by the presenter :D
    I found the lonesome corncrake scene on the Shannon program a bit cringeworthy, with the violins going in the background, but some nice filming elsewhere.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 6,498 ✭✭✭Mothman


    recedite wrote: »
    Mothman "Wicklow's Disadvantage" acquitted himself well on Bioblitz; if only he had shaved and cleaned himself up beforehand he might have been better received by the presenter :D
    One advantage with all the facial hair, is that I didn't need much make-up :)


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,067 ✭✭✭✭fryup


    The Burrowers: Animals Underground
    on bbc2 @ 9.00pm fridays

    its facinating


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,784 ✭✭✭Bsal


    Autumn watch starts at 8pm on Tuesday BBC2 until Friday.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,878 ✭✭✭whyulittle


    New series of Living the Wildlife starting tonight on RTE1 at 7.

    http://www.rte.ie/tv/livingthewildlife/


    I didn't see it myself, but TV3 started a 4-part series on Killarney National Park on Sunday.

    http://www.tv3.ie/3player/show/584/77421/1/The+Park


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,848 ✭✭✭Birdnuts


    whyulittle wrote: »

    I didn't see it myself, but TV3 started a 4-part series on Killarney National Park on Sunday.

    http://www.tv3.ie/3player/show/584/77421/1/The+Park


    This was suprisingly good. Some excellent camera work capturing the beauty of the park.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 504 ✭✭✭terryduff12


    Just a question in regards the park on tv3 the eagle that fell out of the nest would it not have been better to leave it alone till it was flying that kidnapping him out of the tree attaching there gadgets while I know its probably the norm still the nest had lasted for over 7 weeks if they built it that badly I imagine it would have failed before that


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  • Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 3,074 Mod ✭✭✭✭OpenYourEyes


    Just a question in regards the park on tv3 the eagle that fell out of the nest would it not have been better to leave it alone till it was flying that kidnapping him out of the tree attaching there gadgets while I know its probably the norm still the nest had lasted for over 7 weeks if they built it that badly I imagine it would have failed before that

    No way of knowing 100%, but in this particular case I'd be inclined to think that their visit had little or no impact on the nest. The guys involved would be well used to raptor/eagle nests and wouldn't have been taken any luxuries in terms of walking around on the nest or doing anything that might damage it.

    And once the chick is flying you can't put tags etc. on them - very hard to catch, so all of that has to be done at least a week before the chick can fly.

    So I think it probably was bad timing in terms of a slightly dodgy nest and bad weather hitting before the chick had actually fledged unfortunately. Hopefully that pair have better luck this year.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,643 ✭✭✭Woodville56


    whyulittle wrote: »
    New series of Living the Wildlife starting tonight on RTE1 at 7.

    http://www.rte.ie/tv/livingthewildlife/

    Didn't see The Park but totally enjoyed "Living The Wildlife" earlier - thanks for the heads up on it whyulittle !! Haven't managed to see a Goosander in the real yet but it's on my list !


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,077 ✭✭✭Capercaille


    Didn't see The Park but totally enjoyed "Living The Wildlife" earlier - thanks for the heads up on it whyulittle !! Haven't managed to see a Goosander in the real yet but it's on my list !
    Go to upper lake in Glendalough at around dawn and you will likely see them. As the place fills up with people you are less likely to see them, they are shy birds.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,878 ✭✭✭whyulittle


    John Lusby of BWI talking Barn Owl conservation on The Zoo this week, Thursday at 7 PM on RTE 1.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,878 ✭✭✭whyulittle


    Living The Wildlife spent this week's episode in a wildlife garden - a fellow Boardsie's one no less, if I'm not mistaken.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,324 ✭✭✭Cork boy 55


    whyulittle wrote: »
    Living The Wildlife spent this week's episode in a wildlife garden - a fellow Boardsie's one no less, if I'm not mistaken.

    Lovely garden alright did they say who big it was?

    Also

    Last week I think they featured wood ants I think they where called big ants that made huge nest's in Ireland and they where in a forest in the galtee mountains which forest was that?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,077 ✭✭✭Capercaille


    whyulittle wrote: »
    Living The Wildlife spent this week's episode in a wildlife garden - a fellow Boardsie's one no less, if I'm not mistaken.

    Mothman?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,878 ✭✭✭whyulittle


    Lovely garden alright did they say who big it was?

    I missed the very start, so they may have mentioned it then. I didn't hear it through the show.
    Mothman?

    Correct - talking moths Dragon & Damselflies.

    I know a few members here mention their own ponds / wildlife gardens, but descriptions and even photos can only show you so much. It was great to see it on film.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,523 ✭✭✭✭Alun


    It was Mothman's garden all right ... I had the privilege of visiting it a couple of years ago to photograph some dragon- and damsel flies. A fantastic place altogether!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,784 ✭✭✭Bsal


    BBC Springwatch returns on Monday 26th - 12th June

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/natureuk/posts/Springwatch-returns-on-26th-May-2014


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,067 ✭✭✭✭fryup


    anyone watching the latest installment of springwatch on bbc2??

    those poor kit rabbits:( savaged by the crows

    amazing to see the other rabbits coming to last ones rescue, never knew they had such close bonds


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,324 ✭✭✭Cork boy 55


    fryup wrote: »
    anyone watching the latest installment of springwatch on bbc2??

    those poor kit rabbits:( savaged by the crows

    amazing to see the other rabbits coming to last ones rescue, never knew they had such close bonds

    Hard to watch
    I knew magpies are opportunist killers and the other bigger crows
    I never knew the smaller Jackdaw was thou. for some reason always thought they where more classy lol
    I have seen hooded crows chase rats and raid nests

    Did you see the Cuckoo chick throwing the other eggs out the nest , amazing
    work of evolution. Cannot believe they have that instinct so young.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 589 ✭✭✭axe2grind


    Living the Wildlife is back, repeat of series earlier in year.

    thurs 7pm

    Episode 1 last week.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,127 ✭✭✭✭kerry4sam


    Anyone else watch the Great Bear Stake-out on RTE? Still on the player if you haven't - a must see imo :)

    Oh! & The Zoo also.

    A Wonderful Piece,
    kerry4sam


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 13,992 ✭✭✭✭recedite


    axe2grind wrote: »
    Living the Wildlife is back, repeat of series earlier in year.

    thurs 7pm

    Episode 1 last week.
    Saw it. F***ing Mothman again. Will he not get off the TV screen. Nice pond though.


  • Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 3,074 Mod ✭✭✭✭OpenYourEyes


    I think Recedite's post was tongue in cheek - the man featured on the programme tonight is an ex-boardsie and Nature and Birdwatching forum regular!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,878 ✭✭✭whyulittle


    Out filming for the new series last week, WTSEs on the way (hopefully)!

    https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.772915982766317.1073741878.144404808950774&type=1


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,784 ✭✭✭Bsal


    Its that time of year again and the BBC's Autumnwatch starts 28th October BBC2 at 8pm.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,067 ✭✭✭✭fryup


    Dick Warner's our island on wednesday nights on TV3

    bit late for a nature programme don't you think??


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,523 ✭✭✭✭Alun


    fryup wrote: »
    Dick Warner's our island on wednesday nights on TV3

    bit late for a nature programme don't you think??
    His voice always sends me to sleep whatever time of the day he's on :)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,878 ✭✭✭whyulittle


    New children's wildlife & photography series - SHUTTERBUGS - starts Monday 20th Oct on RTÉ Two at 9:20am and on RTÉJr on Monday 27th Oct at 5:10pm

    https://www.facebook.com/10150120434115613/photos/a.10150144786715613.400832.10150120434115613/10154740603675613/?type=1


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,324 ✭✭✭Cork boy 55


    Anyone see "living the wildlife" tonight
    The forest in tipp with the woodland ant nests in it wheres that, anyone?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,878 ✭✭✭whyulittle


    Nevermind kids, this just sounds good! Pity it's on at such a stupid time though, even kids won't be able to see it at 9:20 in the morning.
    Shutterbugs is a new ten part series for RTÉjr combining wildlife, wild places, photography and adventure!

    In each episode a team of two young people head into the countryside to learn about Irish wildlife as they try and photograph one particular animal.

    The series is presented by wildlife expert and photography enthusiast John Lusby, who will guide the teams along the way.

    The target animals will be shy and evasive and to track them down each team will have to first learn about them – what they eat, where they live and how they spend most of their time.

    The teams will also have to pick up new skills like climbing, snorkeling and the art of camouflage before setting off into the wilderness in search of their elusive subject.

    How can you tell where an animal has been and when they’re likely to return?

    How do you get close enough for a good photograph without disturbing their natural behavior?

    We will follow each team every step of their challenge – meeting John, discovering their task, learning about their target animal and mastering the skills required to capture their photograph.

    Along the way, they will meet scientists who study Irish wildlife and who will point them in the right direction and help them spot clues that will bring them closer to their target.

    The challenges will be set in some of the wildest regions in Ireland and will range from photographing Barn Owls in ancient castles in Kerry to tracing the secretive Badger in oak woodlands in Co. Offaly.

    This format is a very engaging mechanism for exploring Ireland’s wildlife and natural world.

    It will bring the natural word to a young audience and encourage them to explore Ireland’s wild places with their parents or older siblings.


    PROGRAMME 1 – FOXES

    First cousins Ben and Alison from county Kildare will be on the hunt for Foxes.

    The target will be Urban Foxes as the country cousins are much harder to spot.

    Ben and Alison will have to do some detective work to spot fox signs in the city sprawl.


    PROGRAMME 2 – SEALS

    Lana & Caitlin from West Cork are this show’s Shutterbugs setting out from Glengariff Harbour to hopefully get a picture of a Common Seal.

    Their challenge will also see them teaming up with the Seal Rescue Centre in Wexford to release two young seals back into the wild.


  • Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 3,074 Mod ✭✭✭✭OpenYourEyes


    whyulittle wrote: »
    Nevermind kids, this just sounds good! Pity it's on at such a stupid time though, even kids won't be able to see it at 9:20 in the morning.


    Should be on RTE player at least? Hopefully the word spreads about it so kids/adults can catch up on it there!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,074 ✭✭✭nomdeboardie


    "Life Story" (Attenborough, BBC1 now)

    Those poor young Greenland barnacle goslings making their first descent (if lucky) from cliff-top nest to the ground below by flightless freefall, bouncing off crags along the way :eek:

    For the love of God, evolve a parental-piggy-back system or ground-nesting behaviour or alternative diet or...

    This is why I generally avoid watching nature programs :(


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    I was quite disappointed as a lot of this was shown over 30 years ago. The goslings in particular had been on an Attenborough series decades ago.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,051 ✭✭✭trebor28


    The black footed albatrosses vs the tiger sharks was only shown a few years ago also.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,784 ✭✭✭Bsal


    Just a reminder Autumnwatch starts tomorrow at 8pm BBC2 runs till Friday.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,878 ✭✭✭whyulittle


    You can ease yourself into it with a half hour of the more sedate Ray Mears' Wilderness Walks, UTV at 19:30.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,878 ✭✭✭whyulittle


    'Wild Cities' is a new four-part TV series about the urban wildlife of Cork, Dublin, Galway and Belfast. We would love to hear your wildlife stories from these cities – from unusual nesting sites for garden birds to hedgehogs that visit your garden, or perhaps a family of foxes that shares your patch?

    Perhaps you feed the birds in your garden. Do you have a garden pond that becomes home to frogs and newts each year? Does a hedgehog share the petfood you leave outdoors? Perhaps after the school bell rings, your school grounds become the playground of nocturnal visitors such as badgers or foxes? Do you have bats in your attic or swallows nesting in your garage? If so, drop us a line.

    Or you might know of great wild places hidden in the city that act as wildlife oases? Help us track down these urban wildlife havens and highlight these vital green spaces that bring life to our city. It’s not just town parks that become homes to wildlife, but also derelict sites, ghost estates and even graveyards.

    Have you seen strange looking ladybirds or turtle in your local canal? Help us find the newest city invaders.

    This series celebrates the wildlife with which we share the city – the brave, clever and tenacious animals that have managed to find a niche in this ever-changing landscape.

    From the mesmerising aerobatics of a Starling murmuration over a Belfast bridge to the wild flowers in a Cork graveyard to the Salmon gliding unseen past Galway's midnight revellers, Ireland's Wild Cities will go behind the scenes, to the highest rooftops, underground and underwater to reveal an extraordinary world of wildlife activity that goes largely unseen in Ireland's great cities.

    We would love you to send us your stories or if you have any photos of your city’s wildlife or your suburban garden visitors.

    If you live in Cork, Dublin, Belfast and Galway and have a wildlife tale to tell, please post here.

    Twitter: @ctlwildlife
    Link: https://www.facebook.com/irishwildcities

    https://www.facebook.com/irishwildcities/posts/922033554487984


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  • Moderators, Category Moderators, Arts Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 51,376 CMod ✭✭✭✭magicbastarder


    whyulittle wrote: »
    cheers - mentioned this to the wife, and it sounds interesting. we get several foxes in the garden (near DCU) and have seen a couple of sparrowhawk kills too. but as a wildlife garden (i.e. in the sense that we're planning it rather than inheriting it), we're really just starting. may still contact them.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,784 ✭✭✭Bsal


    Winterwatch starts on Monday 19th BBC2


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,784 ✭✭✭Bsal


    Bsal wrote: »
    Winterwatch starts on Monday 19th BBC2

    The underwater footage of the dipper was very nice, plus the eagle owl and the golden eagles :cool: oh and seeing all the different birds visiting the deer carcass was interesting.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,523 ✭✭✭✭Alun


    Yes, I loved the underwater dipper footage, especially the way it walked along the large rock under the ice.

    You can watch it here BTW http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02hfwy8

    Also saw this cute little clip of a squirrel that enjoys having a blow dry :)

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p01qf925


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,878 ✭✭✭whyulittle


    I saw an ad for the new series of Living the Wildlife on RTE the other day. I think it said it was starting on Tuesday March 24th at 7PM. Featured a Red Kite and something that resembled a Corncrake.

    Can't find any details online yet.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 13,992 ✭✭✭✭recedite


    That'll be a follow-up to "the last Shannon corncrake" as he calls fruitlessly through the night for a mate, to the sound of accompanying melancholy violin music.
    Hopefully a female turns up this year, or else somebody shoots him.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,732 ✭✭✭Capercaillie


    recedite wrote: »
    That'll be a follow-up to "the last Shannon corncrake" as he calls fruitlessly through the night for a mate, to the sound of accompanying melancholy violin music.
    Hopefully a female turns up this year, or else somebody shoots him.

    Corncrake generally only live 1-2 years. The Corncrake on the Callow last year sang from the same spot the whole time, they generally relocate if mating successful. Corncrake are site faithful and return to within 1-2km of where they hatched. 3 males calling in 2013. Very unlikely any Corncrake will return to Callows next year. Given the tiny numbers of the last few years the population is functionally extinct.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,732 ✭✭✭Capercaillie


    recedite wrote: »
    That'll be a follow-up to "the last Shannon corncrake" as he calls fruitlessly through the night for a mate, to the sound of accompanying melancholy violin music.
    Hopefully a female turns up this year, or else somebody shoots him.

    Corncrake generally only live 1-2 years. The Corncrake on the Callow last year sang from the same spot the whole time, they generally relocate if mating successful. Corncrake are site faithful and return to within 1-2km of where they hatched. 3 males calling in 2013. Very unlikely any Corncrake will return to Callows next year. Given the tiny numbers of the last few years the population is functionally extinct.

    As regards hunting of Corncrake huge numbers are shot/trapped in Eastern Med every year. Irish birds migrate (probably) via Spain/Morocco where hunting pressure seems less.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,878 ✭✭✭whyulittle


    whyulittle wrote: »
    I saw an ad for the new series of Living the Wildlife on RTE the other day. I think it said it was starting on Tuesday March 24th at 7PM. Featured a Red Kite and something that resembled a Corncrake.

    Can't find any details online yet.

    The new series does start tonight at 7pm on RTE1. Great Skua & Corncrake featured.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,732 ✭✭✭Capercaillie


    whyulittle wrote: »
    The new series does start tonight at 7pm on RTE1. Great Skua & Corncrake featured.

    The Corncrake on Inishshark were sad to see. The tiny nettle patch was all the habitat they had, it's no wonder he got so many views of the bird. The Island was grazed bare by sheep. If the sheep were removed from March-September with that nettle patch they would have plenty of birds. Corncrake need meadows that are at least 20cm+. Unlikely they bred successfully last year there.


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