Last night's show offered an especially edifying vignette from nature. The Springwatch cameras have been trained round the clock on a bitterns' nest, where three chicks were successfully hatched - but alas, early yesterday morning one of the chicks was dead in the nest. Mother bittern tenderly took her late offspring in her beak, tilted her head back and painstakingly swallowed it. This was not easy - it was a well-grown chick - but mother bittern persevered until she had swallowed it entirely. But that was not an end of it: next mealtime, there she was again, regurgitating the semi-digested chick as food for her remaining brood, who tackled their sibling with gusto, but did not get very far with it. So the mother scooped up the remains and subjected them to further digestion. A second regurgitation proved successful and popular, and very little remained of the unfortunate chick.
Nature, eh - don't you just love it...
Isn't Nature Disgusting?
ReplyDeleteInteresting the adjective you use about Chris Packham. What apparatus do we have to discern the lineaments of others' souls than our own guesses and perceptions? How else do humans judge each other than through our senses and hunches - call it gut feeling? How stranger, perhaps, that we are so often right. Personally, I had a lot more time for Michaela's predecessor, Kate Humble. It may not have been her credentials as a naturalist I was principally taken up with, though. A bonny lass!
ReplyDeleteYes, Kate and the increasingly loopy Bill Oddie were the dream team I think...
ReplyDeleteI quite enjoy Packham's game of sneaking the titles of songs by a particular band into the show. Most impressive was somehow getting 'Killing an Arab' in when it was The Cure's turn. I have no idea who he's doing this time round though.
ReplyDeleteBrit, the cricket in the rain banner has disappeared from Think of England and been replaced by a gloomy grey stop sign. I thought it quite sad.
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