Simon Watts WILD Presentations

Getting through a bit of lurgy and keeping it very local first thing this morning - enjoying the new neighbours at Caludon Castle Park #RingneckedParakeets #CoventryCity

Cropped from footage on the last day of the highland cèilidh - anyone for a kung-fu Goldie? This sub adult was enjoying a daliance with a local buzzard :)

A lodge sitting neatly in the heart of the great Caledonian Forest was this years WILD! retreat - and what a treat it was #PineMarten

5am starts are in order now and for the next 10 weeks. Early season delights for the lens are the flora grabbing the last few rays before the canopy is full of the salad fresh leaves now just dominating, celandine and bluebells...

Often it is suggested IQ is judged by the use and manipulation of tools. I wonder at the threshold a nuthatch achieves by its obvious selection of the squishiest rotting acorn used as a plasters float. Smoothing & compressing newly applied wet mud on his nest porchway. Love 'em.

The tenement block, 16th century dry stone wall providing ideal cover for unhappy bedfellows, wood mouse using shear brawn, bank vole full of guile 📷

Great to connect with these little guys again - tawny mining bee's are emerging and almost immediately searching out burrow options and/or your bee-hotel. Don't have one? Mine's an old aftershave tin screwed to a wall and filled with cut bamboo...

Male reed buntings in their finest finery and the first sub-Saharan African migrants - common whitethroats, have started my 'high season' stopwatch first light at @WKWT Brandon Marsh this morning 👌

An Easter weekend with peregrine falcon at the @WKWT linked eyrie in Leamington Spa Town Hall clock tower. I urge people to access the live webcam (link below) Female incubating four brick red eggs, duty bound male waiting patiently warwickshirewildlifetrust.or… Happy Easter all! Si.

You wake up in the Forest of Dean and there's a foot of snow, so you decide to put some seed under the Yew tree...

A stunning bird in every respect, turning heads and more in Braunstone Leicester - follow the link for a full dose of Waxwing love.... youtu.be/PjbTSd0L83s?si=jemj…

7yrs on and the next set of Waxwing footage in the can 👌Braunston, Leicester this morning 😊

Simply the best donation I'll make all year... crowdjustice.com/case/is-the… via @CrowdJustice

Much maligned. Take another intimate look at this truly beautiful bird... youtu.be/y9z8uAItZPA?si=tEID…

Today seemed the appropriate day to celebrate the incredible power of nature in providing well-being to those suffering with poor mental health. Here are my commissions for @WKWT and The Environment and Me. Amazing people, even more amazing stories... youtu.be/73Pr08HsMnw?si=yLzc…

Wonderful hour or so spent with @SallyAnnMushnik as we tried to get the best shots of wildlife on a smart phone at @warmemorialpk for a piece on @BBCCWR @flupton breakfast show...

Superb discovery this week at Ashlawn Cutting, Rugby. Well done to the excellent working volunteers of Warwickshire Wildlife Trusts Dunsmore Living Landscape... @WKWT youtu.be/4G_yRWMX3PE?si=MHfY…

Just when you think a place couldn't get any better... youtu.be/_1Dr5P7Q5iI

Commission time drone filming many miles of the course of the River Blythe produced a nice moment as a skein of Greylags decided to give me a little support. Only 10m altitude but cracking perspective.

For those that weren't aware; Fantastic Foxes - Their Secret Lives, My5