a fantastic eco-park at using just the juice carton? Where can you get
exclusive, behind-the-scenes Springwatch?
Wow! Look at that! I didn't know we had a helicopter shot. That's
amazing. How are you? You are watching Blue Peter. We are live
from RSPB Minsmere. It's amazing, the view is incredible. If you look
just over there, you can see the Springwatch team warming up for the
show tonight. You've probably noticed someone is missing today.
Radzi isn't here. He's filming something really cool, we will have
to wait and see what it that is about next week. Being here in the
wildlife got us thinking. We want to know what has been your best
wildlife spot ever. I was in Costa Rica a few years ago and I took this
photograph. It is an ant on a leaf. An insight into this
photograph. It is an ant on a leaf. An creature's world. When I went to
Borneo, I got to see a pygmy elephant, about 20 of them in the
wild, spraying each other with water. The people in the distance
are the same size as ants, they are just far away. What have you seen,
where was it and why did you like it? We will try and read out as many
of your comments later in the show. Come down the hill with us. We've
had a bit of a spring in our step, it has been all about the Green
badge. Over 2000 of you have got in touch and sent us in some great
green post. This is Amy from Surrey's booklet. It tells us what
she has been up to. A lovely underwater scene with lots of fish.
This is from mere, from Hertfordshire. She's sent in an
apron dress thing. I'm going to wear it. It's made out of recycled
plastic bags. We love it when you get in touch, please keep your stuff
coming in. When you get your badge, that gets you into one of over 200
attractions across the UK for free. Loads of your post has been about
recycling. We should probably show you how to make a recycled
eco-pocket. Here to join me today Rosie, Astor, Willie and grace. You
go to an eco-School, what is it? We make all sorts of things. We get to
climb trees. It looks a bit like this when you
are finished. Simply unscrew the lead and you can get into it. You
can keep anything you want in there. What are we going to need, Rosie? We
are going to need an empty juice carton. It's really important that
your juice carton looks like this, it's got to be square and it's got
to have a screw top. We need some scissors. A template from the Blue
Peter website. A compass and a ruler to score the lines on the carton.
All of the details are on the website. Make sure you get your
template from there and check out all the details later. For now,
setbacks, relax and watch us make this eco-pocket. You need to wash it
out because you don't want orange juice in your eco-pocket. It would
be a cup! Make sure you wash it out thoroughly. I can smell the orange
juice. Tear it apart and then simply rip it open. It is super easy. Then
carefully get your scissors and down the back is where you need to cut a
straight line. Once you've done that, it should
look something like this one. We've need and that other bits along the
top, and nice, straight line. And there is a whole, because we've
popped out the lid. We will save that for later. It's very
important. It's quite difficult to get out so you may have to get an
adult to help you. Once you've done that, head onto the website and get
your template. You can see that the templates come into pieces. Make
sure you stick your template together. I will swap with you,
Billy. Once you've stuck your templates together, you need to lay
it down on your card. I will do that carefully, making sure I lined the
holes up. This whole is lined up with this whole. Then we are going
to get our pen and carefully draw... Hold on, it's windy! I'm
going to draw around the template. As you go round, mark on everywhere
where you will fold later, to make it nice and clear. Once you've gone
all the way round, it should look something like that one. All these
lines are where you are going to fold, so to make it easier to fold I
will grab the compass and ruler. If I score along there, it makes it so
much easier to do. How did it go when you had a go at school? I did
it in the end. We didn't do a whole. Thanks for reminding me. As you fold
it over, warehouse that Pentagon? You need to mark on the whole. Is
that what you forgot to do? Yes. It's very important you do that
because later you are going to cut that out. At the end it should look
something like this one. Rosie, you've got finished pieces there for
me. It folds open like a little fan. You need to put that through. I'm
not sure it would keep you cool like a fan, though! Put the lid on,
really good for keeping your money in, maybe stickers if you play
really good for keeping your money in, maybe swap sees.
I'm not storing money in mind. Something much more valuable. A
lovely picture of my most favourite pet. Isn't she lovely? This is a
classic example of taking something old and turning it to something new.
Instead of just throwing it away. old and turning it to something new.
This year, Keep Britain Tidy is 70 years old. I headed to a local park.
Say hello to my team of litter pickers. Are you ready to pick up
other people's rubbish? Are you all excited? What is the opposite of no?
Yes! More than 2 million pieces of litter dropped across the UK every
single day. Take a stick. So, properly equipped, my team is set to
work because litter can also be a problem in parks. Let's ask a
serious question, what do you guys think when you go to a park and see
litter on the floor? It makes you feel you don't want to come here
again if there's loads of litter. You've got to put it in the bin
because it really affects the environment with litter on the
floor. Which is why we are here today doing a brilliant job. Keep it
up. What have we got in here? Tin cans. Crisp packets, sweet packets.
Do you put litter in the bin? Yellow guests. We've cleaned up, but not
everyone does. Rubbish isn't just in our parks, you see it on the
streets, too. Towns spend millions trying to keep their streets clean
of litter every year. This town has a secret weapon. Say hello to Gary.
Check out his wheels! Gary has been keeping the town centre clean for
nine years. How much do you collect? Yellow personally, I collect half
the time a week in this. That's just me. If we didn't clean litter up
there would be thousands of rats everywhere. I'd like to do my bit,
I've got my yellow coat on. It just so happens I like driving. I like
getting behind the wheel of a vehicle. Would you like to go? Tess
please, I thought you'd never ask! I will put you in sweep mode. Off you
go. See you later. It is like driving a giant vacuum
cleaner. The brushes on the front suck up the rubbish and it's stored
in a big, grey tank at the back. All these people are just walking past,
so much litter on the street! 99% of streets in town centres have rubbish
on them. According to the RSPCA, 7000 animals are injured by litter
every year. This isn't surprising when you hear that 30 million tonnes
of litter dropped every year in the UK, which is equal to Gary is equal
to Gary filling up his modest sweeper a staggering 60 million
times. But what happens to everything we throw away? I went to
a recycling centre to meet manager, Andy, to find out more. Andy, I did
my last dash back it last week in collecting litter from the streets,
but I guess there's a lot more than what I collected. Can we see it?
This is a weak's work of rubbish. It's incredible how much there is in
just a week. That's the same weight as 40 family cars. What happens to
it now? We will recycle as much as possible. But that still leaves a
pile of rubbish that will end up in landfill, and some of it doesn't
need to. There are things I'm noticing that shouldn't be in these
bins, plastic bottles, cardboard boxes, people still put them in the
same bin as every thing else. They do. Right stuff in the right bin and
start recycling more. But with so many types of rubbish, recycling can
be confusing. So I've come to the school for a bit of help. I brought
my bag of rubbish and we are going to find out how much of this can be
recycled. Hello. Come and stand round the table. This is our
recycling table. Let's start to create these two piles. Things that
can be recycled, things that can't overhear. These guys seem to know
exact and what they are doing. We've got two definite piles, lots of
cardboard here, lots of plastic. You can recycle tins and plastic
bottles. Cardboard sometimes goes in green bins. We've also got
foodstuffs like old carrots and vegetables, what can you do with
those? You can make your own compost. That just leaves us with
the rubbish that can't be recycled so it ends up here in landfill,
where I met the manager. It's an enormous landfill site, how big is
this place? Approximately 66 football pitches in size. At the
moment it is being filled. You would think it would take hundreds of
years before this place is full but it's a lot less than that. A 20 year
life span. Waste that comes you can take a long time to decompose. Two
years for a banana skin, up to 20 years for a carrier bag or around
450 years for a plastic bottle, and it's all stacking up. I have no idea
about what goes into managing the waste we throw away, but now we know
more about recycling and more about the small things we do that
more about recycling and more about big difference. Not just to wildlife
more about recycling and more about but to us, too. We live here, so why
more about recycling and more about place to be?
more about recycling and more about you want to get involved in a tidy
up, just go to the website you want to get involved in a tidy
grown-up and find an area near you where you can find out what to do to
help. The Springwatch team have their show on BBC Two tonight and we
thought they wouldn't mind if we popped in to say hello. Of course
not! Here we are at your new location, the RSPB Minsmere. It's a
perfect place for us. One of the highlights has been the Bitcoins,
the shy, secretive birds that are produced extraordinary sounds. --
the bitterns. The bitterns are fleeing over the
horizon! We've got exotic, exciting things
here. We have an ant lion. If it was a six feet long, it would be scary!
There it is. It's just monstrous. It grabs ants, thrusts up. I'd only
seen them in Africa. We should put horror music overlapped! I reckon
lots of insects like that will have inspired horror movies. It is only
found here just down the road in Norfolk in the whole of the UK. And
it never defecates. It doesn't poo for a long time, does it? It's got
no bottom and then it eventually does one big poo. It does a great
big poo as an adult. Michaela, what can we be excited about for
tonight's show? We're featuring one of the nation's best loved mammals,
which is the hedgehog. It was voted in a magazine as Britain's best
loved mammal. We're looking at our characters. I think a lot of your
viewers would love our tawny owl chick. When it eats slugs, you just
want to get a wet wipe and sort it out! We have been speaking to our
viewers about their favourite wildlife slots. Things they seem in
the wildlife, what they saw. You must have seen so many things over
the years. Do you have a favourite? Last year, we had a water bird which
was very shy and secretive. At one stage, we were looking at the female
sitting on the eggs, waiting for them to hatch, and she fell asleep
and she was nodding off. You could see her dreaming. This is a bird
streaming. I wondered what she was dreaming about, catching a fish?
Absolutely amazing. That was a real treat. That's what Springwatch is
all about. What about you, Michaela? What has been your swing watch
highlight? Worldwide? I'm a big fan of sharks. -- Springwatch highlight.
I don't like sharks! You won't like this, then. Great white sharks. For
various other programmes, I've been in a cage with great white sharks.
When you see them on the boat... I know a lot of people are scared of
sharks but when you see them in their natural habitat they're just
awesome. Do you want to know a good fact? More people are bitten by
people in New York and are bitten by sharks! That's a great fat. It isn't
just diving underwater but diving in the sky. This is incredible. This is
my favourite. We wanted to find out how fast a peregrine Falk and could
swoop through the air. We jumped off a hot air balloon carrying a
speedometer and our presenter fell 158 mph. Could the peregrine Falk
and catch up? Yes, it did. -- peregrine falcon. It can go faster
than 158 miles an hour. I hope I remember the speed right. 180 mph.
It's a challenge they're giving you for one of the programmes!
As long as it is great white sharks!
Make sure you watch Springwatch tonight at 8pm, live on BBC Two and
it is our next week, Monday to Thursday, as well. Remember to head
to the website because we've got a live camera there and if you go to
the website, you can check out what's going on. There are loads of
different ones you might get. It could be goldfinches, I will. --
owls. Make sure you watch Springwatch later. We are just
minutes from the coast here and while they're the whole team here at
looking after wildlife, there is a whole team out at sea looking after
people. Meet Josh, he's 17 and lives in
Swansea. He lives a pretty normal life. He goes to sixth form
college, enjoys walking his dog Billy and playing rugby with his
mates. But there's one thing that makes him different to other
teenagers. In his spare time, Josh is a hero! Josh saves lives.
Josh, good to meet you. Nice to meet you. You are volunteer for the RNLI.
Yes, our boat is here. Do you want to come and have a look? Absolutely.
The Royal National Lifeboat Institution is a charity that saves
lives at sea. Their lifeboat stations all over the UK and year,
the RNLI rescued over 8000 people. This is the crew area, where you
drive the boat from. This is like a spaceship. Who sits here? This is
the boss. He's got a heck of a view here. You have the little joysticks
to steer and to go. I was expecting a steering wheel. It's all done on
computers. When emergencies come in, the RNLI need to get to see as
quickly as possible. To do this, they need some serious power. We're
in the engine room. We have two engines. That's like having a Lewis
Hamilton Formula One engine, but two of them. What does being a volunteer
actually involve? Each volunteer carries around these pages and they
go off whenever anybody needs help at sea. It could go off any time,.
Always got to be ready. Have you had to rescue anybody yet? Yes, the day
after my birthday. Some people were stuck on the island. A loss of
visual get stuck rubber tide. We got there just in time. -- get stuck on
the tide. That rescue off the coast of mumbles made Josh the youngest
ever lifeboat volunteer in action. The RNLI carry out practice drills
to make sure they are always ready. As we head out to sea, Josh has got
a surprise for me. Today, it is me that will be rescued.
I don't have a motor and I don't have any or is so unless they come
for me, I'm going to be pretty stuck. I hope Josh comes! He is
about 200 metres ahead. Preparing the lifeboat now. In this drill,
Josh is using the smaller boat which is easier to manoeuvre and he can
get as close to me as possible. Straight ahead. Keep going. As Josh
gets to work, I await my fate. They're coming in this direction. If
you look around, the son has just come out, the waves aren't too
choppy and I'm in a boat. Can you imagine how scary it would be if I
was in the water, imagine how scary it would be if I
couldn't see anyone? It's not long before Josh is with me.
I'm glad to see you guys. Can I get in? Yeah, leap across. I'm in. Yes!
Thank you, guys. That is impressive stuff.
Josh, thank you so much for today. Not only was it my very first
experience on a lifeboat but I got to take part in a real-life RNLI
rescue. Does it get any better than that?
Josh? Josh? !
Don't take any notice of that phase. As long as he's got cold water and
sport, Radzi is a happy man. Last week we launched a Blue Peter sport
badge for 2014. To get your very own Blue Peter sport badge, you've got
to inspire a friend or relative to take up a sport you love. If you are
struggling for ideas, maybe this summer's Commonwealth Games could
help. It's a shame there isn't a song that would explain it better.
# The Commonwealth Games # The Commonwealth Games
# This is a song that is all about the Commonwealth Games
# The Commonwealth Games is a regular thing
# It dates back to a time when George V was King
# Although the first official event was held in 1930 but let's stop
there before I get to know the # -- to nerdy so what is the
Commonwealth? # It's basically a family of nations
across all the different continents. Once upon a time they were all part
of the British Empire but we'll have to go that in another song because
it will take too long # Lots of people moved to Britain
from Africa and Australia. Although the different nations have
their own independence they have regular meetings at which they're
all in attendance what's the games bit can you be more specific unit
what games are. Remember the Olympic? Like the
Olympics but only Commonwealth countries? Yeah, it's like the live
export not as big. # There's ten core sports they do
every time # And seven that the host city
decides on # They range from triathlon to
others. There a cycling, shooting, athletics
and hockey, triathlon, rugby sevens, table tennis, weightlifting, lawn
bones up and wrestling # This year the games are being held
by Glasgow # It's the first time they've hosted
but not the first time Scotland has, though
# The last one was held in Delhi what's the Queens but on relay?
The Queen writes a message and put it in a big stick and it's carried
around the world for all the Olympic nations it'll pass through 78
nations in 288 days. # Is coming back to the UK at the
end of May # It's travelled around the Earth
was a great four and a quarter times, or the equivalent.
# The Commonwealth Games # The Commonwealth Games
# That was our new song all about the Commonwealth Games
# So look out for the Commonwealth Games in July #.
That's quite easy to dance to. If you want to see that song all over
again, just go to the website. You've been getting in touch and
telling us what your wildlife spots are. Violet says, "I went to the
Norfolk Broads with school last year and saw some amazing swallowtail
butterflies". Well done. This says, "once I was playing with my friends
and a grey squirrel jumped onto my head". That's really bizarre!
Genius. Maybe it was just comfortable.
Blue squash you is - these names get better - had a Harriman in their
garden with a fish in their garden with admission its mouth. This one
says they went to Canada and spotted a bay on the side of the road eating
berries from a tree. Thank you for getting into it today. That's it for
today's show but next week we are back in Salford. We'll be really
excited about the World Cup in Brazil really soon and we'll be live
from the Blue Peter garden. We'll be talking to Leah from Newsround to
tell us about the World Cup. And we'll be playing this sport,
bobble football. I'll be showing you how to make this
unique Father's Day card. Have a lovely week. See you then.