Winterwatch 2022 (1 Viewer)

[davercox]

Good show last night, maximum wildlife with minimum tweeness.

John

Yes indeed. Very good last night. Even Michaela was on good behaviour.

 

[YuShan]

Poor stoat. Wonderful footage though! Very exciting to observe stuff that previously was (almost) unobservable.

 

[Euan Buchan]

Enjoyed Michaela’s Puffin hat.

 

[aeshna5]

Some great thermal image stuff last night with the Fox chasing the Brown Hare that got away & then the Otter chasing off the Fox.

 

[JTweedie]

The thermal shot of the geese flying over in the dark sky was fantastic. It had quite an ethereal feel to it.

 

[Euan Buchan]

I enjoyed the Geese in the thermal cameras, good show.

 

[Monahawk]

The mysterious but fascinating thermal light image of geese flying at night was a joy to behold. Like a dark tidal sea flow advancing very slowly landwards. Also enjoyed seeing the very elusive and secretive jack snipe a bird I have seen but not too many times, perhaps only half a dozen or so times in over 50 years of birding. All in all a decent show, even pardoning Megan's appalling pronunciations of Irish place names.

Si

 

[d.steeley]

Just thought the whole two weeks were excellent.

Dave

 

[JTweedie]

Don Eagle sounds like a 1970s crooner.

 

[Kits]

Megan’s mispronunciations surprised me somewhat.

 

[JTweedie]

To be fair she mispronounced a few other everyday words that I think were just natural variation in speech. The other presenters do this too. So I would put it down unintended slips rather than her thinking that was how places were pronounced. I'm sure there are names of places we all get wrong.

 

[Kits]

Indeed, but one would think a presenter would check how names of towns in the country she was visiting were pronounced.

 

[Farnboro John]

Indeed, but one would think a presenter would check how names of towns in the country she was visiting were pronounced.

The BBC used to have a pronunciation department but judging from output across the Corporation it is either gone or no longer compulsory to consult it.... However I got the impression from other words that Megan mispronounced that I am fairly sure were familiar to her, that what we have been seeing is largely caused by reading from the autocue. I also saw Chris at one point stumble over a word that he must have known and I reckon that was the cause.

John

 

[Kits]

Autocue! You mean it is all scripted! Lordy lordy! 🤣

I think you may well be right.

 

[SlowLowFlyingTurkey]

A small thing that really annoys me every time is Chris Packham's habit of pronouncing 'Extraordinary' as if it is two words. He seems to do it at least once every episode.

While we're on the subject, the increasing tendency amongst BBC news reporters to pronounce 'Mandatory' as 'Man-DATE-ory' also grates.

I feel much better now I've got those off my chest.

 

[Loud Green Man]

I’m guessing the BBC Wardrobe Department has a cracking relationship with the top outdoor clothing labels.

K

 

[Farnboro John]

A small thing that really annoys me every time is Chris Packham's habit of pronouncing 'Extraordinary' as if it is two words. He seems to do it at least once every episode.

While we're on the subject, the increasing tendency amongst BBC news reporters to pronounce 'Mandatory' as 'Man-DATE-ory' also grates.

I feel much better now I've got those off my chest.

The only bright side is that Chris's pronunciation prevents him from having to emphasise in the British fashion "man-da- TORY" which I think would be complete anathema to him.....

John

 

[Sandra (Taylor)]

To be fair she mispronounced a few other everyday words that I think were just natural variation in speech. The other presenters do this too. So I would put it down unintended slips rather than her thinking that was how places were pronounced. I'm sure there are names of places we all get wrong.

The only bright side is that Chris's pronunciation prevents him from having to emphasise in the British fashion "man-da- TORY" which I think would be complete anathema to him.....

John

My favourite 'don't say it as it's spelt' word was last week when some woman on TV pronounced 'envelope' as the thing you put a letter into instead of meaning 'wrap around'. It was a news reporter I think.

 

[Himalaya]

It was a good 2 weeks and 2 weeks at least it should be.

They twice mentioned hoping to be back at Wild Ken Hill in the spring. It is quite a spectacular location and a lot of wildlife but new places should be tried. They have had 3 visits to East Anglia over the last 15 years.

 

[Farnboro John]

It was a good 2 weeks and 2 weeks at least it should be.

They twice mentioned hoping to be back at Wild Ken Hill in the spring. It is quite a spectacular location and a lot of wildlife but new places should be tried. They have had 3 visits to East Anglia over the last 15 years.

Yes but they report from other locations during every series, and I think they are also keen to run a whole year at each site they use now, which makes a good deal of sense. The main site has to have a wider selection of stuff than most of the fringes of the UK: look at back issues on here and see what people think of Red Deer rut year after year as supposedly a central plank of the programme...

John