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Chris Packham Conservationist of the Year 2014 in the Birders Choice Awards, Honourary Doctor of Science from Southampton Uni (he graduated from there) and a CBE for services to wildlife, and nature conservation. No quite just Autumnwatch, is it?

Chris Packham is very unsentimental especially as he is on the spectrum. The New Forest is teeming with badgers which haven’t affected nesting birds. Hedgehog numbers have been decimated by removal of hedgerows and concreting urban gardens

Just to add when things get back to normal, the British Wildlife Centre near East Grinstead, is the place to go. Badgers, red squirrels, foxes, pine martins, deer etc. It’s less than an hour’s drive away.

I’ve just watched last night’s AutumnWatch on IPlayer which might cheer you up. It highlighted the reintroduction programme which has been happening over the last 30 years. Red kites, ospreys, pine Martin’s, beavers, even storks last year.

Grey squirrels are a nuisance but go to the Isle of Wight. Brownsea Island near Poole, the Lake District or Scotland to see the proper British red squirrel

Partially true but DEFRA developed a different vaccine which didn’t interfere with the skin test. “The only significant obstacle to a cattle TB vaccine is EU law, which forbids vaccination against BTB because it may interfere with the (woefully inaccurate) skin test. For this reason DEFRA has...