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A big welcome from your 2010 Autumnwatch Unsprung production crew. We have 'Organised' Laura (on the left), 'Sassy' Anna (on the right), me - and of course the inimitable 'Level-headed' Joe (who left for Madagascar at lunch today - more on this later).

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There will be tidal bores on UK rivers later this week. The Severn Bore is the best known, especially as a challenge for surfers and kayakers. For Nature UK, guest blogger Ian Garman set out to get a different perspective on the phenomenon.

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There really is so much going on up in the skies and in our seas and rivers during this season of change. Fortunately many of you have been out capturing magical moments of migration. To show the team's appreciation here's our favourites.

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The weather this week has been very changeable. The strong west and south-westerly winds during the early part of the week more or less brought passerine (song bird) migration to a halt. The comment from the on September 20th says it all: "A bit of a dead loss today with, for example, not a single new bird caught and ringed at the Obs. The merest handful of migrants on the land included nothing at all unexpected."

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Autumn is one of the most dramatic, spectacular, beautiful - and unpredictable - times of year. I'm sure you've already sensed that autumn is in the air, with that gorgeous September light picking out the reds of rose hips and firethorn berries and the flash of red admiral butterflies on the last of the summer flowers. My daughter even had her first kick-through-fallen-leaves on the way to school this morning.

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Guest blogger: Paul Deane Senior Producer from bbc.co.uk/nature ponders.

Tonight's Lost Land of the Tiger (Ö÷²¥´óÐã1) treats us to the discovery of a previously unknown population of tigers at high altitudes in Bhutan, but why don't we have any lions or tigers in the UK? The answer is we did, until really very recently.

Cave lions died out in the UK around 12 to 14,000 years ago, a relative blink of the eye in evolutionary terms and their extinction coincides with the point humans were getting into farming as the ice retreated from northern hemispheres. 

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We've been keeping you updated with all the latest bird migration news from the UK but there are many species that migrate and many struggles that they face as these clips from our achive show.

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Fungi are fasinating icons of the time in autumn when the ground dampens with the wet weather and rot creeps in. It's made the team feel very seasonal watching your fungal photos arriving in the . So here are some of our favourites from your fungal photos so far...

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As predicted, migration on the land was much slower this week as the winds turned westerly and increased in strength. These strong winds meant that some of the migrants from last week are still here, grounded until the wind drops.

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Autumn is a time when leaves change colour and start to fall, trees and plants spread their seeds, and fungi and fruits really flourish. Animals stock up on fat reserves for the winter and the longer nights, or leave the country altogether for warmer climes; and other migrants pass through or arrive in the UK from the North. And let's not forget the arrival of Autumnwatch on our screens early next month!

The is back and already filling up with your fabulous photos of autumnal wildlife. Here's a selection of our favourites from this week...

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With the wind continuously from the east over the last week, migration from Scandinavia and the continent stepped up a gear. Red-backed shrikes turned up right on cue, with birds being found in 14 different counties from Shetland to Scilly. One even made it to County Cork in Ireland.

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Decay isn't exactly the cheeriest concept around. But as these clips from the Ö÷²¥´óÐã archive show, it plays an integral part in the circle of life.

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The word harvest comes from the Anglo-Saxon word haerfest meaning autumn and early autumn really is a time of wild fruits aplenty. So what's in season now and who's eating?

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September is upon us and although the sun may still be shining, there are definitely autumnal changes afoot. Next week we'll be looking at these early indicators. So if you've seen any please let us know.

To get you started here are some clips from the Ö÷²¥´óÐã archive.

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Over the next couple of months an estimated 50 billion birds across the globe will be on the move. And we'll be following the highlights here on the Nature UK blog each week.

Whilst we focus on the 60 million birds that leave the UK, we could see visitors from as far afield as eastern Siberia or Canada.

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If you've enjoyed the bug films on The One Show this week you'll love this week's Flickr favourites. Although bugs can be any invertebrate from butterflies to spiders, we're focusing on true bugs (hemiptera) and beetles.

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You may remember Martin Hughes-Games inviting the nation to join the UK Ladybird Survey, on Springwatch back in June. Here's an update on what people saw, photographed and reported.

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