#winterwatch — Public Fediverse posts

So the BBC is dumping #Winterwatch

https://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/2026/naturewatch-new-video-podcast

BBC Winterwatch has been cancelled!

Sneaking the announcement out in near the end of a press release about a podcast, the BBC said "As part of the BBC’s evolving commissioning strategy, Winterwatch will not be continuing."

I thought this was on the cards when they reduced it from 2 weeks to 1 week. If you want to express your disappointment, the comments page is here: https://www.bbc.co.uk/contact/comments

#nature #bbc #winterwatch #springwatch

BBC Winterwatch has been cancelled

https://piefed.world/c/unitedkingdom/p/1232276/bbc-winterwatch-has-been-cancelled

BBC Winterwatch has been cancelled

https://piefed.world/c/nature/p/1232273/bbc-winterwatch-has-been-cancelled

#NaturalGardening
#OrganicGardening

Inspired by Chris Peckham's and Iolo Williams' bird-off in this year's #WinterWatch, my wife and I used breakfast to count species we could see through the lounge window:
blackbird
bluetit
carrion crow
goldcrest
great tit
greenfinch
grey heron
hawfinch
sparrow hawk
(+ beak of a starling 🙄 )
woodpigeon
wren

Yesterday also:
bullfinch
chaffinch
cormorant
great spotted woodpecker
? gull
magpie
sparrow (tree/house)
starling (January!)

#gardening #BirdWatching

BBC Winterwatch's Chris Packham says 'it's been disastrous' as he opens up on tragic loss

https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.mirror.co.uk/3am/celebrity-news/bbc-winterwatchs-chris-packham-says-36589347

Winterwatch klaxon! Starting now on BBC 2
#Winterwatch

Winter Watch is back on telly tomorrow. Yay! ☃️🦅🐦‍⬛🦔🦡
#WinterWatch #Nature

Saturday night before Christmas.
The wind’s rattling the panes, the dogs are fed, and the Lighthouse is glowing steady against the dark.
Servers are quiet. Backups are done.
Chaos paused… briefly.
If you’re out there scrolling instead of sleeping — you’re among friends.
We’ll keep the light on. 🎄🕯️
#LighthouseLore #HauntedLighthouse #Fediverse #WinterWatch #SelfHosting

The way kingfishers keep their head still while fishing is incredible!
#Winterwatch
BBC Earth #birds #kingfisher #BBC

Ah, I'd seen this on #WinterWatch the other day. Incredible stuff. #kayaking #nature https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0klf079

Vanavond de laatste aflevering van #Winterwatch en dan vannacht om 1uur begint het #schaatsen in Canada. De andere twee dagen is het wel in de avond... Opvallende keuze.

#Winterwatch now

Crested Tit

Catching the winter sunshine, in a pine woodland, in the Scottish Highlands.

#crestedtit #scotland #winterwatch #winter #workshop #bird #birdphotography

What I love about winter is the heady scent of the loquat blossom wafting in the garden when everything else is sleeping. #Winterwatch

🔴 LIVE wildlife cameras 🩵 21 January 🦅 BBC Winterwatch 2025

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hpcNemvkDNM

Winterwatch ist zurück und sendet live aus ganz Großbritannien. Chris Packham, Michaela Strachan und Iolo Williams sind im RSPB Arne in Dorset, wo unsere Kameras die täglichen Dramen der besten britischen Tierwelt einfangen.

#BBC #ChrisPackham #Dorset #Fernsehen #MichaelaStrachanUndIoloWilliams #Natur #Tiere #Winterwatch

Chris Packham given bodyguard on Winterwatch set after 'specific threats' | Ents & Arts News | Sky News
https://news.sky.com/story/amp/chris-packham-given-bodyguard-on-winterwatch-set-after-specific-threats-13049947?dicbo=v2-qVDkhfW

#Packham
#WinterWatch
#Bodyguard

My new #painting is "Badgers beneath". I hope you like it.

#Badgers don't hibernate, but they do go into a kind of sleepy lethargy enabling them to sleep for days through the worst of the winter weather. Sensible! Here are four badgers, curled up together, safely embraced by the roots of an #oak.

#watercolour & sepia ink on 600gsm paper, size 275 x 270mm.

https://janetomlinson.com/products/badgers-beneath

#melesmeles #Winterwatch #badger #AYearForArt #CreativeToots

Incidentally, fern gametophytes are easy to grow. They will be found in most warm, damp greenhouses. If you've got ferns growing, they started as a gametophyte.

I've a potted Polypodium aureus (sporophyte) which is either the original, a clone of, or the offspring of a plant which grew by accident in a pot of bracken. (So it's nearly 40 years old.)

It produces a lot of spores, and from them grow gametophytes - and thence sporophytes.

#ferns #botany #WinterWatch

I'm watching #WinterWatch. Which generall] I love.

But Chris Packham's discussion of fern lifecycles was rubbish. Gametophytes are pretty common - you don't need to go to temperature rainforest. There are loads in my garden (which has a sheltered damp spot). In Edinburgh, they're easy to spot along the Water of Leith between Stockbridge and the Dean Bridge.

Ok, I'm not the target audience - I grew Pteridium gametophytes and sporophytes too when I was doing my PhD, but still.

#botany #ferns

Luther Cat cannot get enough of #Winterwatch. Furry things and feathered things - this is cat TV at its finest!

#CatsOfMastodon

Yellowhammer - such a vibrant coloured bird, especially lit up by winter sunshine, when looking for food in the snow.

#yellowhammer #birdphotography #naturephotography #wildlife #winterwatch

#Winterwatch makes for such wonderful viewing. https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p012msk2