What was the feather on springwatch

Comment posted by U, at 16 Jan U Ooh ooh changed my mind! Long tailed duck surely? Is the feather from a Red Wing? I think it's a long-tailed duck, great show, great TV.

Is it a artic tern? Are the feathers from a Pintail Drak's tail? I believe the feathers Chris showed are from an Arctic Tern??? Comment posted by Liz, at 16 Jan Liz.

I think its a long tailed duck feather. Comment posted by June, at 18 Jan June. Hi im a new user,has anyone had waxwings in Angmering West Sussex around christmas time,we had 2 on our hawthorn tree. Yesterday we saw our 1st black cap female. You can watch these chicks on our cameras until 9pm tonight.

The five blackbird chicks in the nest we've been watching fledged this morning. Ours have flown the nest, so now it's up to you to look for a new family to observe. Blackbirds are one of the most common birds in the UK and the males are one of the best birds to learn to identify, because of their distinctive black colouring, song and bright orange beaks.

Our five-chick nest is close to fledging - we've seen them flapping and preparing to leave soon. Some are standing on the edge and stretching their wings: you can spot their adult coloration, which suggests they're getting more mature.

This nest was our second on Springwatch, and so far it's been much more heartening to see it. We haven't had a fledge yet, but frankly, we've had a great time watching them grow up. Our most scenic nest this year is that of the grey wagtails - nestled in a wall near the boathouse.

At about 9. Then the jay returned at That chick was quite well grown. There are the chicks, all serene; here comes the jay.

Having done a reccie it makes a second visit for the chick. These grey wagtail chicks know there' no escape - they can't fly yet,remember. Wagtails don't really branch. We heard alarm calls from the parents: they can mob it but there's little they can do to deter it.

Jays are opportunistic feeders with great memorises and remembering the location of a nest like this is no problem. The only hope is that the jay finds out food sources. Even weather doesn't make much difference for an open nest with a perch. One chick remains in the nest, and the parents have returned to check on it while the jay was away. Earlier in the week we were asked a good question: Why do wagtails wag their tails?

The short answer is: we don't know. Begs the question, don't they expend a lot of energy constantly dipping and wagging? We can only assume that they must do it a reason and that it's worthwhile. Some of nature's mysteries remain just that. Check out these beautiful reflections of a grey wagtail before it took a mayfly from the water's surface in otter barn that one of our observers spotted last night - Chris Packham's favourite moment of this year's Springwatch so far.

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The estate, which stretches from The Wash north of Snettisham as far inland as Sedgeford, is pioneering an approach where rewilding and reintroducing beavers and native breeds of cattle works alongside regenerative agriculture to restore the landscape. Springwatch presenter Chris Packham said he hoped other farmers would take rewilding and regenerative agriculture on board to help declining wildlife - Credit: Danielle Booden.

He added: "What I hope in the long term is that this farm prospers and other farmers come to see that prosperity and then some of those ideas filter out into the wider landscape because you don't have to go too far from Ken Hill Farm to find farms which are old school and that's where the critical declines are continuing to take place - so I think hats off to the people here for having the bravery to take those steps.

Birds of prey prowl the skies, hares crouch in their forms with leverets spread around them and the woods ring with birdsong. Beavers toil by night to manage the woodlands, while rare bats feast on abundant insect life and barn owls stalk the fields. You've got these hedges, you've got the bits that are left for wildlife, the margins, and it makes such a huge difference. She added she had been thrilled to see hares and marsh harriers but seeing the beavers, which live in a wooded enclosure on the estate, were at the top of her wish-list.

Dominic Buscall, project manager at Wild Ken Hill, said: "Its an opportunity to take our approach to a prime time audience. It includes rewilding, it's also about regenerative farming. And it's also about showing a bigger audience there is hope for nature to recover.

Technicians have spent weeks setting up more than 30 remote cameras. Fibre optic cables stretch out to the chalk downs, into the woods and off to the wetlands. Footage from the barn is beamed straight to the BBC's wildlife unit in Bristol to be edited. Behind the scenes at Springwatch, where remote cameras are monitoring a clutch of birds' nests at Wild Ken Hill - Credit: Danielle Booden.