Springwatch 2023 is back!
As keen wildlife enthusiasts (you may have noticed from our designs!) the team here at Stripey Cats are excited for the start of the new season of Springwatch (Monday, 29 May, BBC2 at 7.30). Sadly due to health issues Iolo won’t be joining Chris, Michaela and Gillian this time, but Megan will be helping out with presenting, and with over 30 live cameras in locations in and around RSPB in Arne, Dorset, we can expect some brilliant images and fascinating stories.
Our team will be particularly interested in a film from our native Cumbria where *BTO president and news correspondent Frank Gardner will be on the county’s upland fells to try and spot a Hen Harrier, one of our rarest and most persecuted birds.
And one of the lovely silent Mindful Moments slots will feature another Cumbrian native and everybody’s favourite, the fantastic Red Squirrel. Looking forward also to seeing the woodland bluebell carpet, always a special sight, and the UK’s only aquatic songbird, the Dipper.
There will also be visits to Bat roosts, to sea cliff locations to explore the seabirds – the wonderful gannets, Puffins and guillemots (did you see Jim Moir’s birdwatching/art programme when he executed the most brilliant watercolour of a gannet. So talented – funny and arty!)
Megan will be despatched to learn about tree-dwelling bats – there was more TV gold when the brilliant Detectorists played by Mackenzie Crook and Toby Jones, used bat protection rules to save a tree and keep the earthmovers off their dig-site in the last of the series; loved it!)
We’ll also be interested to learn about a rare Bee species and why Woodpeckers don’t get headaches (how do they know that?!) And there’ll also be stuff about Jellyfish and Otters, Sand Lizards and Snakes during the series….We can’t wait!
So happy wildlife watching everyone…..and card sending!!! Your purchases will help preserve the extremely rare Stripey Cats card company and keep us off the endangered list! Thank you!