Wales on Autumnwatch
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| 10:21 UK time, Wednesday, 17 November 2010
Autumnwatch - Thursday, 18 November at 8.30pm on ³ÉÈËÂÛ̳ Two Wales.
Autumnwatch has a distinctly Welsh flavour tomorrow night as our very own Iolo Williams is out and about searching for the elusive sea trout or sewin as we call them here in Cymru.
Chris Packham and Kate Humble are also in Wales on a mission to track down one of the UK's biggest autumn wildlife spectacles - vast flocks of roosting starlings off the pier in Aberystwyth.
You can also watch this spectacle on ³ÉÈËÂÛ̳ i-player currently in iolo Williams new TV series - Secret Life of Birds.
How about this for a photo?!
Starlings flocking over Newport Wetlands Reserve. Image by Adrian Mizon.
We've also got some great clips on ³ÉÈËÂÛ̳ Wales Nature & Outdoors too. This clip was filmed over Aberystwyth Pier where giant flocks of starling have been seen again this year with up to 10,000 or more birds:
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It's thought that the starlings flock together in this way for safety in numbers - making it harder for predators to pick them off but I like to think it's because they enjoy it.
The crows opposite my house do it too, but in smaller numbers. Surely they don't do it for safety? It seems to be more of a sociable act just before roosting during the summer months.
Find out more about Autumnwatch on the programme website.
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