Autumnwatch -Your ideas wanted

[Sealdiver]

If you like grey seals then please let BBC Autumnwatch know what you'd like to see more of here> BBC - Nature UK - Messageboard - Autumnwatch grey seal webcams - Your ideas please...
Thank you for taking the time, much appreciated.
Kind regards,
Ben "Seal diver"

[nightshade]

Seals are nice but there are much more interesting wildlife types about, sorry

[artdemole]

To many times seals have been shown.

[Farplace]

Well I would like to see them again next year, especially if they can include underwater filming as well as the families on the beach. I think they are wonderful and very inteligent animals.

[tameblackbirds]

Great idea just registered and added a message

[Brocakat]

Below is what I would LIKE to see covered in "Autumnwatch" - ( Should be about, IMO )Animals , Birds and Insects dealing with Cold Weather - ivs a vis Hibernation, Migration or "just" native species survival.
I think the programme should concentrate more on the Wildlife that is of easier access to the most people - for me that would be:-
( Mammals) - Badgers, Rabbits, Foxes,Deer and Mice.
( Birds ) Summer vistiors going, Winter visitors coming + the "just" native species survival.
(Insects) - Butterfly survival - Hibernation - (and in what stage of growth for that?) + Migration + Queen Bees & Queen Wasps.

Seals are not 'local' enough for most people - me included. Same with Red Deer. I
wanrt to now about such creatures - but I just don't think they are 'typical' Autumnwatch subjects, that's all.

Let's get back to subjects of nature that a-lot-more-can "Sympathise" with & learn to love.

[JackintheGreen]

I agree with some of the other posters. The regular visits to far flung places in the UK are the least interesting for me. Visiting the seals and the Red Deer rut once is enough. I'd much rather see more time spent on wildlife closer to home (yes, I realise that Shetland is close to home for some people). What's happening in the park, in the hedgerows and in the gardens.

Don't get me wrong, I like to see what's happening in more wild places, but the emphasis is wrong sometimes.

[CharlieCreek]

I have been watching Autumn and Spring Watch less and less, partly lack of time but I think some comments here have nailed the real reason.

I think where Autumn Watch and especially Spring Watch as the forerunner had their strength was that it was aimed at the average person who maybe didn't spend a lot of time outdoors or watching nature programs. As such it dealt with very accessible wildlife to everybody in a way that was very digesable by everybody not just the nature enthusiast.

I also think that moving to a format where the presenters are in Bristol in the Studio being the link people for clips has lost the series something as well.

The unpredictability, the sudden happenings (quick cut to cam outside), the bits that didn't happen, i.e. go to cam whatever 'oh nothngs happening', gave the series a kind of spontaneity notquite edge of your seat stuff but more of a feeling of what is going to happen next.

It easy to criticise I suppose, but I think the series have lost somethng important in their evolution.

[Dogghound]

Why not show a roe deer rut? would be closer to home for most people.

[Wild-Woman]

I'd like to see more aquatic pond life. Insects, spiders, leaf-litter inverts also.
Fish need more cover and sea shore life. More about wild plants like orchids, meadow flowers and mosses. How many people know about water bears too?
Just some ideas.