Autumnwatch arrives at Caerlaverock
The BBC’s Autumnwatch team has arrived at WWT Caerlaverock Wetland Centre. The centre is now full of broadcast cables, lights and cameras. The presenters are busy rehearsing – Michaela Strachan has already promised to learn the name of every whooper swan before the programme goes on air on Monday night.
Co-starring alongside the BBC presenters will be the thousands of barnacle geese from Svalbard, now numbering more than 40,000 – one of the great conservation successes that WWT has been a part of at Caerlaverock. Chris, Michaela and Martin and the team will also be watching the badgers outside the farmhouse, and have cameras in the Caerlaverock ponds watching whooper swans and underwater wildlife.
Everyone at WWT is part of everything that Autumnwatch is doing. Both ours and the BBC’s social media teams will be posting content from first thing on Monday morning. Other wetland centres are joining their sister centre in Scotland in inviting people along to see the local wetland wildlife where they are. Check out our WWT Autumnwatch blog where we are sharing the latest goings on at centres.
The main Autumnwatch programme is on BBC2 every evening from Monday 2 November to Thursday 5 November. They’ll also be broadcasting on the red button throughout the day, including their post-transmission “Unsprung” – where you'll get to see behind some the week's wildlife stories from Caerlaverock.
