Wouldn't it be brilliant if there was an episode of Springwatch where it all went wrong !? Let's face it folks, when WE go out in search of birds, butterflies, bees, foxes ,whatever turns you on, it doesn't always work out the way we want it to. No ....many a time we'll get back home and realise we've seen almost nowt. But do we think .. " Stuff this for a game of soldiers?" No ... next day, off we go, ever hopeful. And when you come to think about it, programs like Springwatch will give the eager viewers a totally false idea about what birders actually experience. Because we get an artificially exaggerated "engineered" scenario. Ospreys, badgers, wrongly identified seabirds, Treecreeper nests ... it is nothing more than a merry-go-round of crackers. So ... I demand an episode in which they turn to the "presenter in a ditch" but he/she hasn't seen or filmed anything, so they skip across to Skegness for gannets and porpoises which haven't turned up so there's no films to show the eager viewers, so they promptly nip over to The New Forest and yet another dungareed and manic "nature lover" with nothing to show us and nothing to report who has to witter on for the required " 7½ minute slot" about, er, nothing. That would be fun. And it would be "real." Just the once would do. And there's some birds in this too ..
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