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I like the plovers more.

The kestrel chicks and the bad weather prompts a question that I've always wanted Springwatch (or any other nature programme for that matter) to answer: where, how, with what and when do birds roost at night? There's bags of day-time stuff with them all running around like crazy, but how do they keep warm at night, stay dry and find suitable protection.
With all the high tech. gadgetry now available to the team, it should not be too difficult to keep track of them and show them in snooze mode. Or is it?

Herons at university. Limerick University Ireland has a heronary in huge pine trees very close to one of the buildings and the river Shannon. As a student there I spent many hours studying (herons). The baby chicks make a noise like a bale elevator. One fell out of the nest but i didn't see it climbing back up the tree. Apparently this heronary has been in existance for over a century, well before the university was built. This is a very busy area with students, graduates and visitors passing beneath the heronary every day, lawn mowers and tractors are frequently used too. There was nine nests in three trees in 2003. I counted over 15 chicks but dont know how many survived.In 2006 only three nests were observed. I try to visit UL around the nesting season, but have not been back yet this year. Thanks for a brilliant programme

I particularly like the kingfisher diary, I've only ever seen a kingfisher once when I was a teenager (a LOT of years ago) - they are such beautiful birds.

Here's a geeky question for Chris or Simon. My daughter asked me the other night during SW - you can get mammals born blind or deaf, can you also get birds who hatch with similar situations, and would they be able to fledge, let alone survive?
She also asked - can basking sharks actually close their mouths or are they permanently wide open? (Wikipedia says no, but a couple of other web pages say yes!)
thanks SW :)

Loved Hugh Miles work with fish, he's right, I don't believe they get enough of a public profile either, i'd love to be doing that sort of work, really getting to know the british fish in their element, and photographing them. The beauty and behaviour of them is so seldom captured. Just seeing a flotilla of perch really got my creative juices going.

I have seen these webs? on the bushes on the road from Romsey Hamshire to Stockbridge, also at Hedge End Southampton, those were full of stiped caterpillers,and also clusters of the caterpillars were on the stems of the bush. the bushes looked as though they were dying.

Love your programme.
audreyhazell