@@ozzy8286 Me too. I was born in 1969 and I can't believe the amount of people who don't know the basics. I see people correcting other people on it a lot so thought it only right to do the opposite.
That has become a most common fantasy in recent times. The perfect means to save mankind from the Eugenics Demon that infests those frightened predators in their gilded cages.
Yes it is now much more 'real' and educational - sadly Oddies' excentricity and idiosyncratic mood swings(due to his depression) often affected his narrative and presentation - the culmination and the end of his 'career' was punctuated by his very rude treatment of Bill Turnbill on BBC Breakfast coupled with his mad commentary in his garden wildflife program - saying that the RATS around the base of his(massively over the top) bird feeders were ALL part of the garden fauna - this utter *ollocks sealed his fate - the unpredictability(of his moods) and his bonkers commentary. It was a shame because all said and done I liked him - but thankfully he is now replaced with an extremly clever and knowledgable Chris Packham who is totally switched on to the massive corruption our current government is involved in, ie; Privatized water authories being allowed to dump raw sewage everywhere, saving them billions in treatment etc. Chris will show these crooks up and assists the many ressure groups all around the country from all political persuasions - well done Chris !
When i worked for British waterways, i took him out on our boat. What a gentleman he was. He didn't even mind when i bought up the " kitten and the G.P.O. Tower" Total class. Total funky Gibbon. ❤
I like this fella, he's the type of guy you could have a good long honest chat to & know he would help you if you were struggling, I used to watch the Goodies in the 70s & their humour was very innocent, like slapstick I thought.
Innocent slapstick? Yes, lots of that, but perhaps you were too young to realise the provocative political elements based on news stories of the day. Do you remember where they were hired to promote the image of the South African police force, and the South African policeman had a piano where all the white notes were at one end of the piano and the black notes at the other end? They were publicly criticised in some quarters for being too harsh on the South African government.
The saddest thing about all that he said in this clip is that it was 11 years ago and he's still right...'we're not there yet'... We'll only get there when everyone realises that these wonderful birds deserve a legally equal footing to Humans. With equal rights comes equal protection. How can we give all these Human rights to ourselves but nothing to all the other living things. How did we ever get so full of our own importance?
Especially when they !!keep telling us about do called ?? Global warming, and saving the planet. And then chopping all the trees down in england. That's why animals are loosing there natural habitats . And the animals where here long before us
No. Monkeys have them down under, but for blacks it remains Apartheid but saying that they're humans. Birds are a type of food for us so are *_more_* important than human rights, and they rely on eating insects, but almost all of the flies are absent from our windscreens and bones, and that's where the equaliser of nature points us to our collective problem.
Honest and down to earth as always Bill Oddie. Greed of man is why the world is gone into bad health, but we who want to save our natural world must shout the loudest, get the word out there and let politicians the media and other people who can't see what's happening, a little education goes a long way!
I have had the honour of meeting Bill twice. Once at Minsmere where the poor chap was hounded, and I thought he is not going to get a quiet day birding with 300 people following him. The second time was at Paddington station when he was going to Devon for Springwatch / Autumnwatch. I was quiet shy and did not want to tell him how big a fan of his I am. I loved him in The Goodies and feel the world is made a better place for him being in it. But I could only manage "Good morning, Mr Oddie". I have been an ornithologist for nearly 60 years. Well done Mr Oddie for making the world a happier and a better place.
Thanks. My favourite episode was Lighthouse Keeping Loonies. Especially the scene where Tim and his row of rubber ducks on the shelf slide back and forth. Saturday Night Grease where Tim fits into a tight pair of trousers his face gets redder and redder, and he can only talk in his normal voice with his flies undone. Eckythump. Twinkle the giant kitten. Grrrr ! Gunfight at the OK Tea Rooms. All good stuff.
Reminds me of when aged 16 I heard my boyhood hero Glenn Hoddle was in curries ,I went in there pretending to look at washing machines getting closer and closer to him and all I could manage was a "hello Mr Hoddle " ,he looked at me strangely and said "alright " .I used to wear my top untucked playing football to be like him
Look at the demise of David Bellamy, because he told the truth and could not be bought like the likes of Attenborough. D Bellamy was silenced and forgotten.
And the street lights are more powerful...its like daylight outside my flat all night. If birds don't get enough sleep it shortens their life.. Sparrows used to wake me up outside my flat at 4am..now..nothing..the big tree and bush is still their..there are a few starlings but because the lights are strong they are still singing at 12pm..its very sad..
And everyone has concreted over their front gardens, so they can park their cars. This means water can't drain back into the soil, but instead, runs down the hills and floods the houses at the bottom. All of which means urban wild life, especially birds have nowhere to feed.
We were on a guided "Rock and Roll Tour of London" in 2018 and the driver stopped near a television studio. He said "Go get that chap's autograph, he looks like somebody". Apparently he was. Being Canadian, I did not know who Bill Oddie was, so the driver gave me a brief explanation. I do not remember the name of the tour company, but the driver and guide that day was the semi-retired owner. My wife, my son and I were the only ones booked for the tour so we got the custom tour with everything we needed to see as Bowie and Marc Bolan fans. If you get a tour with this gentleman, and he has Mr Bill Oddie's autograph, he will be the best tour guide you will meet in London.
Used to live in Heath Hurst Road many years ago and used to see Bill with his bins around his neck. The heath was great and the view from Parliament Hill was fantastic!
Dear Bill, I wish you would come back. Why do people have to be so rude about him? (and YES the media inc. the MAIL IS clap trap.) All about MONEY!!!! My brave Late Mother campaigned against Fox Hunting at the hunt in London and she was very clever using her class! Bill is a jolly Veteran with funny banter unlike the rubbish idiots on telly today. I wanted to send him a Get Well Card (I suffer with mental illness) and I learn the REASON WHY HE DIDN'T GO BACK TO SPRINGWATCH is not because of depression but because the BBC dropped him (r.e an "incident" that they wouldn't tell him about and THAT caused his depression.) HE USED TO CHEER ME UP AND MY DEPRESSION!!!! Just as well I do not have a t.v. now,
@@cstew8355 Thank you so much for that lovely message. I needed that!!!! I have been through a lot of trauma in the last six years since that comment and I have been heavily targeted and tortured myself. I was only talking about Bill Oddie yesterday and how he was targeted. I miss him on SpringWatch
The biggest help would be to guide people to written literature on the subjects, especially books or in these days pod casts and TH-cam which can run for much longer than TV, Radio or newspapers and equally be as useful if you can sort the wheat from the chaff.
2 and a half minutes to say his point~ and took 2 minutes to get to the start of his point, no wonder he is not on mainstream nature ~narrating/presenting etc. But I did enjoy him when he was coherent. (meaning it light heartedly)😇
Getting to the point is a bit of an art. It's something that you need to practice on people. I find that you notice these things when you are meeting lots of different people, and who may have limited time to listen to you.
Education of the natural world (NW) needs to take place in schools at a very early age, to enable the children to always think of the NW before anything else. I’ve noticed a lot of primary school play areas, if they have a grassed areas in the first place, are devoid of much else other than just grass. It takes half an hour to get children involved in nature…..we used to have nature walks around our field as a kid. (The villages have countryside, the towns and city’s have parks, all good starting places and teachers should know enough to keep the children’s interest peaked). I loved it and I went on to learn more about nature etc, and worked (s/e) outside for a huge amount of my younger days, as well as now being part of many groups involved in ecology, conservation etc, after self funding a qualification, and still learning. This helps me to help others today, as a volunteer and make a difference. The couch is a comfy place, but it won’t help us….
None. If they were they'd be covered in blood and bird guts and feathers. Try and learn to think for yourself. The Daily Mail lies just as the Guardian does.
Bill oddie, miss your wildlife presentations on old summer watch, what they have done and not allowing you to voice your opinions and bird watching and wildlife programs is tottally disgusting, you are a great presenter and protector of uk wildlife, we need you back on the BBC With new wildlife programs ,miss you bill , you are so well liked and loved by millions, BBC DISNEY HOLLYWOOD ALL GONE WOKENESS MAD, LOOK HOW BBC DISNEY HAVE KILLED DOCTOR WHO NOW, WOULD MUCH PREFER YOUR WORK AS A WILDLIFE PRESENTER AND YOUR KNOWLEDGE OF THE WILDLIFE SO MUCH MORE .* hope a wildlife program becomes avaliable to view from you, and you presenting them
He's right that no one thing is responsible for the situation we are in. But some things that need dealing with are overpopulation; deforestation; overuse of herbicides, pesticides, artificial fertilisers, hormone treatments and antibiotics; fossil fuels the use of harmful elements like lithium for batteries and littering. The change starts with YOU, take care of your own patch first and then encourage others to do the same. Massive change often starts small!
That's really interesting, so when your environmental whishes come true, unless iv,e got a battery car, will birdwatching be a middle/ Upper middle class hobby, seems so?
Except that if we do all of that in the time frame the globalist are pushing for. Many people will perish. I am not saying I disagree with you entirely. We could and should do way better. But who lives and who dies? I will answer that for you. The people that will live are those that have benefited the most from the very things you mention. It will take many generations to fairly implement what is being proposed. Be careful what you wish for.
So what we can do about it is raise enough awareness that we can collectively make a coordinated effort to effectively pressure institutions, lobbyists and the corporate sector to act within safer boundaries. Because they're not going to do enough about it if we sit back and watch. So, as opposed to only doing hands on volunteering, we need to voluntarily get involved in information, organisation, wisdom and paperwork. And to get that right, collectively, requires accountability among the leaders of such collective actions, which is achieved through a wisdom tradition among the volunteers.
Destroying gardens as a lot seem to do ripping out hedges, chopping trees , plastic grass and flowers , to name hardly any thing , mass building schemes, nobody care s a toss and its sickens and saddens me , children seem not to be educated on wild life and the importance . 😢 thank you Bill , now you need to get on bbc and broadcast it ..
@StigFerrari, provide suitable food, water and cover and they will eventually come and they will return again and again.I moved into my house quite a few years ago.I often complained to my family ‘where are the birds’? There were no birds, maybe a few flying over now and again.I started putting bird food out during a very cold winter a few years ago and as I learned more I continued to do so throughout the year.I never vary my routine or disappoint the birds by skipping days or ‘forgetting’.My suburban garden is now a tiny nature reserve and it’s flocking with birds! I counted 8 species in about 5 minutes a few days ago.Also,a fox visits regularly and often spends the day sleeping in the garden! Sometimes 2 sleeping foxes,siblings from last years litter.Once, last autumn I had 3 juvenile foxes fast asleep on a warm day.I have baby robins and baby blue tits feeding outside my kitchen window as I write this.They are feasting on mini mealworms.You can give nature a helping hand and you will be rewarded ten fold.Be consistent and provide the right kind of quality food and clean water.Feed the smaller birds in a quieter part of the garden, they are often a bit scared of the larger birds.Also, remember that most species will happily feed from bird feeders and bird tables.Others are ground feeders and never feed from a height.So provide for their specific needs.Edit: I have dozens of sparrows too!
Hardly surprising he never got his point across on a 3 minute TV slot when he spends 2 minutes here rambling on before getting to his point on a 3 minute video.
Did anybody know he said this In October 2014, on the BBC's Sunday Morning Live, he stated that he wanted a limit on the number of children that British families can have, saying that he was "very often ashamed" to be British, calling them "a terrible race" I know he suffered from bipolar, but I don't think I can see him in the same light anymore. Which is a shame, because I was brought up on the Goodies and loved Bill for that, and still do.
I have paintings of the local countryside done by a local artist and I have gone out to find the places he sat whilst painting these 60 to 90 years ago and the huge difference is that farmers have grubbed up the hedgerows and totally destroyed the habitat in that way and with chemicals to destroy insect bird food. There really was no excuse for this as these farms all round here have been owned by the same families for generations so they had no mortgages to pay. They did this, destroyed the countryside, out of sheer greed.
Not really. It was government policies (from both sides) after World War II that caused the changes in agriculture, specifically the 1947 Agriculture Act. It's ironic that many ancient hedgerows were planted as part of the gradual inclosure acts of past centuries which caused such outrage amongst common people at the time. Food security was the big motivator, so it's a curious idea that in the name of eco-policies farmers are being encouraged to take land out of production (never mind that lost to godawful housing estates and 'green energy generation') thereby making the UK potentially more dependant on imported food when the world is growing less safe.
I'll forever see him as a goodie and after saying he never gets enough time to say what he wants to say i expected the video to end after he read out the question 😂
Hes very good thank you to you for posting he right we are a few steps away from messing things up nature needs our help nature doesn't respond well to river pollution ( my commitment probably be taken off)
Very true. Most people and businesses will get away with whatever they can until they are forced to stop. Not everyone but enough to make it a problem for everyone.
Bill, long form is here, take all the time you want /need, will watch, take it onboard, legacy media is always about to die / cut to something else, well most of us also gave up with that! Lots of love bud!
Habitat loss is widely accepted as a huge part of the problem. It's not entirely clear how we reverse that given the pressures of population increase (at least in some of the European countries and especially the UK) and land usage demands for solar & wind energy.
Absolutely spot on Bill 👍🏿 The pressure and the spotlight has always been put on the general public to do something, but we can only go so far. Big business and government can make the biggest and fastest change to this situation if they wanted to, (if it's profitable). But making money and positive environmental changes are uncomfortable bedfellows, and unfortunately even if our skies are empty and the our rivers and seas are devoid of fish! those in control will still hesitate to do anything about it and will try to point the finger firmly at us. But we must try anyway 🙏🏿
They tell you that you have 3 minutes and you spend two and a half minutes telling us that isn't long enough. Then you say nothing in the remaining 30 seconds.
I was lucky enough to have been brought up in a house with a great garden in the leafy suburbs, and to have later inherited this house. I can say that the decimation of birds is most obvious. When I was young through the 1960s and 1970s our garden was alive with so many different types of birds. Huge flocks of sparrows used to perch on the bushes and trees, now you see hardly one. I used to watch the starlings murmurating in the evenings, but I haven't seen a single starling for years. All I see is the odd bird now and again and from a limited number of types, pigeons of course, a few black birds, surprisingly frequent robins and tits, which seemed less common in the past. Overall though it is extremely sparse compared to how it was forty or fifty years ago.
Sadly I missed it but I believe there was an episode of Country File years ago where they compared our landscape today to aerial photos taken at the beginning of WW2. It showed how much hedgerow and open uncultivated land that has been lost. Quite poignant
Bill Oddie is too good a guy to be involved with the BBC
The awful truth❤
The bbc is a network for pedophiles and degenerates and propagandists to hang out and get paid
@@ozzy8286 Kudos for your correct usage of too and to.
@@GeoPz. Thank you. That's probably because I had a decent education in the 1980s. It's a whole lot different now. 🙂
@@ozzy8286 Me too. I was born in 1969 and I can't believe the amount of people who don't know the basics. I see people correcting other people on it a lot so thought it only right to do the opposite.
They cancelled the great David Bellamy
What became of David Bellamy? He WAS then he WASN'T. I always wondered.
@mikeneill6813
They cancelled him because he said climate change was natural and we need carbon to live
yes far too much Truth there, little wonder they cancelled him !@@paulie-Gualtieri.
@@paulie-Gualtieri. Thankyou. Is he still alive?
@@mikeneill6813
No he's gone
If I was the invisible man ,I would make the greedy corporate monsters and politicians life’s utterly torturous and unbearable .
If I were invisible...I'd join in, with glee.
@johncastle8254 what a great film that would make
That has become a most common fantasy in recent times. The perfect means to save mankind from the Eugenics Demon that infests those frightened predators in their gilded cages.
You are a poet ,a dreamer of beautiful dreams.
Bill,I love your Little Black Bird Book 😂 It really sums up birding for me and many people 👍 Thanks Bill
Spring watch has never been the same since Bill left
I agree. Too much Packam pushing his political views
That was not long after another presenter joined the prog.
Agreed, it's better without him . . . he's a buffoon
@@formicapple2What political are those?
Yes it is now much more 'real' and educational - sadly Oddies' excentricity and idiosyncratic mood swings(due to his depression) often affected his narrative and presentation - the culmination and the end of his 'career' was punctuated by his very rude treatment of Bill Turnbill on BBC Breakfast coupled with his mad commentary in his garden wildflife program - saying that the RATS around the base of his(massively over the top) bird feeders were ALL part of the garden fauna - this utter *ollocks sealed his fate - the unpredictability(of his moods) and his bonkers commentary. It was a shame because all said and done I liked him - but thankfully he is now replaced with an extremly clever and knowledgable Chris Packham who is totally switched on to the massive corruption our current government is involved in, ie; Privatized water authories being allowed to dump raw sewage everywhere, saving them billions in treatment etc. Chris will show these crooks up and assists the many ressure groups all around the country from all political persuasions - well done Chris !
I still have fond memories of watching The Goodies growing up. Bill ,Tim Brook Taylor and Graeme Garden will always be legends. 👊
They even made a veiled reference to Rolf Harris - ragingly popular at the time - as being a kid fiddler !! It's in "Star Safari Park."
They were The Goodies.....Goody goody yum yum....
"Icky thump"!
@@leewright7623 Ecky.
@@leewright7623 Ecky.
Well done Bill, still doing your bit. Top man!
Well said Bill! ❤
The criminals don't like good people or the truth.
There speaks a true conspiracy theorist!
That’s why Sa-Vile was the favourite of this Bad Company
When i worked for British waterways, i took him out on our boat. What a gentleman he was. He didn't even mind when i bought up the " kitten and the G.P.O. Tower" Total class. Total funky Gibbon. ❤
I like this fella, he's the type of guy you could have a good long honest chat to & know he would help you if you were struggling, I used to watch the Goodies in the 70s & their humour was very innocent, like slapstick I thought.
@terryhorne2582.
That's what you would like to think. Don't go by what you see on the surface.
@@redblade8160 ….They all come through the same two uni’s …like politicians
Innocent slapstick? Yes, lots of that, but perhaps you were too young to realise the provocative political elements based on news stories of the day. Do you remember where they were hired to promote the image of the South African police force, and the South African policeman had a piano where all the white notes were at one end of the piano and the black notes at the other end? They were publicly criticised in some quarters for being too harsh on the South African government.
@@herseem
So, even the apartheid system was used on piano keys! It would take a great person to learn the piano with the keys in that order!
The saddest thing about all that he said in this clip is that it was 11 years ago and he's still right...'we're not there yet'... We'll only get there when everyone realises that these wonderful birds deserve a legally equal footing to Humans. With equal rights comes equal protection. How can we give all these Human rights to ourselves but nothing to all the other living things. How did we ever get so full of our own importance?
Especially when they !!keep telling us about do called ?? Global warming, and saving the planet.
And then chopping all the trees down in england.
That's why animals are loosing there natural habitats .
And the animals where here long before us
Very well put, that is the proper way to view our world, but the powers that be seem to care only about their careers and money.
No. Monkeys have them down under, but for blacks it remains Apartheid but saying that they're humans.
Birds are a type of food for us so are *_more_* important than human rights, and they rely on eating insects, but almost all of the flies are absent from our windscreens and bones, and that's where the equaliser of nature points us to our collective problem.
I don't think we'll ever get there! 😂😂😂
Honest and down to earth as always Bill Oddie.
Greed of man is why the world is gone into bad health, but we who want to save our natural world must shout the loudest, get the word out there and let politicians the media and other people who can't see what's happening, a little education goes a long way!
I don't always agree with Bills opinions , but I'll call a legend a legend while he's alive enough to read it
Yup , bill is an awesome guitarist also .
Absolutely spot On Bill
Grew up watching this chap. Nice to see he's remained normal. Very rare.
I have had the honour of meeting Bill twice. Once at Minsmere where the poor chap was hounded, and I thought he is not going to get a quiet day birding with 300 people following him. The second time was at Paddington station when he was going to Devon for Springwatch / Autumnwatch. I was quiet shy and did not want to tell him how big a fan of his I am. I loved him in The Goodies and feel the world is made a better place for him being in it. But I could only manage "Good morning, Mr Oddie". I have been an ornithologist for nearly 60 years. Well done Mr Oddie for making the world a happier and a better place.
Good on you ,I'm also a huge fan of the goodies back in the day, I liked all three guys , what a great show
Thanks. My favourite episode was Lighthouse Keeping Loonies. Especially the scene where Tim and his row of rubber ducks on the shelf slide back and forth.
Saturday Night Grease where Tim fits into a tight pair of trousers his face gets redder and redder, and he can only talk in his normal voice with his flies undone.
Eckythump.
Twinkle the giant kitten. Grrrr !
Gunfight at the OK Tea Rooms.
All good stuff.
I grew up with the goodies in the 70s love am I wish them days would return and my chopper bike as now I am in my middle 60s.
@@jean2740
Absolutely,I liked watching him on spring watch , but packham took it over and ruined it, his damn PYE charts.🫣🫣😖😣😬😁
Reminds me of when aged 16 I heard my boyhood hero Glenn Hoddle was in curries ,I went in there pretending to look at washing machines getting closer and closer to him and all I could manage was a "hello Mr Hoddle " ,he looked at me strangely and said "alright " .I used to wear my top untucked playing football to be like him
Bill Oddie made people aware of nature back in the day
I noticed it before Bill pointed it out.
Look at the demise of David Bellamy, because he told the truth and could not be bought like the likes of Attenborough. D Bellamy was silenced and forgotten.
all the hedgerows have been removed.
And the street lights are more powerful...its like daylight outside my flat all night.
If birds don't get enough sleep it shortens their life..
Sparrows used to wake me up outside my flat at 4am..now..nothing..the big tree and bush is still their..there are a few starlings but because the lights are strong they are still singing at 12pm..its very sad..
And everyone has concreted over their front gardens, so they can park their cars. This means water can't drain back into the soil, but instead, runs down the hills and floods the houses at the bottom. All of which means urban wild life, especially birds have nowhere to feed.
@@tricia4900so terrible 💔
And millions of cats don't help either amazing how birds like the goldfinch made a comeback at all
@@bonysminiatures3123 If cat owners put bells on their cat's collars, the birds would at least stand a chance.
We were on a guided "Rock and Roll Tour of London" in 2018 and the driver stopped near a television studio. He said "Go get that chap's autograph, he looks like somebody". Apparently he was. Being Canadian, I did not know who Bill Oddie was, so the driver gave me a brief explanation.
I do not remember the name of the tour company, but the driver and guide that day was the semi-retired owner. My wife, my son and I were the only ones booked for the tour so we got the custom tour with everything we needed to see as Bowie and Marc Bolan fans. If you get a tour with this gentleman, and he has Mr Bill Oddie's autograph, he will be the best tour guide you will meet in London.
I like your taste in music :)
@@matoko123 - Thank you
Used to live in Heath Hurst Road many years ago and used to see Bill with his bins around his neck. The heath was great and the view from Parliament Hill was fantastic!
Dear Bill, I wish you would come back. Why do people have to be so rude about him? (and YES the media inc. the MAIL IS clap trap.) All about MONEY!!!! My brave Late Mother campaigned against Fox Hunting at the hunt in London and she was very clever using her class! Bill is a jolly Veteran with funny banter unlike the rubbish idiots on telly today. I wanted to send him a Get Well Card (I suffer with mental illness) and I learn the REASON WHY HE DIDN'T GO BACK TO SPRINGWATCH is not because of depression but because the BBC dropped him (r.e an "incident" that they wouldn't tell him about and THAT caused his depression.) HE USED TO CHEER ME UP AND MY DEPRESSION!!!! Just as well I do not have a t.v. now,
Respect to your lovely mum ❤️… the world needs more decent people who care. Cheers for the message there. Warms my heart
@@cstew8355 Thank you so much for that lovely message. I needed that!!!! I have been through a lot of trauma in the last six years since that comment and I have been heavily targeted and tortured myself. I was only talking about Bill Oddie yesterday and how he was targeted. I miss him on SpringWatch
An 11 year old video where Bill explains that one third of our British bird species are extinct ! Where are we today then, one half !!!
Ironically, this entire video is less than three minutes. Liked and subscribed. 👍
Very good :)
Ironic, this video is less that 3 minutes, and Oddie makes the point in one minute.
Yet he still managed to waffle on for most of it
Lol
Bills a good bloke
Didn't he say that white people should be stopped from breading.
I have to say, I HAVE difficulty getting to the point and I think Bill is very interesting x
They should have bill on springwatch,he is so knowledgeable and honest
Better than Packham
What you said is exactly why they do not want you on TV you tell the truth. Thank you.
Goody goody yum yum !
I miss the old days
Thank you Bill
For all the laughs ❤
Ecky Thump.
The biggest help would be to guide people to written literature on the subjects, especially books or in these days pod casts and TH-cam which can run for much longer than TV, Radio or newspapers and equally be as useful if you can sort the wheat from the chaff.
2 and a half minutes to say his point~ and took 2 minutes to get to the start of his point, no wonder he is not on mainstream nature ~narrating/presenting etc. But I did enjoy him when he was coherent. (meaning it light heartedly)😇
Getting to the point is a bit of an art. It's something that you need to practice on people. I find that you notice these things when you are meeting lots of different people, and who may have limited time to listen to you.
Education of the natural world (NW) needs to take place in schools at a very early age, to enable the children to always think of the NW before anything else. I’ve noticed a lot of primary school play areas, if they have a grassed areas in the first place, are devoid of much else other than just grass. It takes half an hour to get children involved in nature…..we used to have nature walks around our field as a kid. (The villages have countryside, the towns and city’s have parks, all good starting places and teachers should know enough to keep the children’s interest peaked). I loved it and I went on to learn more about nature etc, and worked (s/e) outside for a huge amount of my younger days, as well as now being part of many groups involved in ecology, conservation etc, after self funding a qualification, and still learning. This helps me to help others today, as a volunteer and make a difference. The couch is a comfy place, but it won’t help us….
LOVE YOU BILL👍 TAUGHT ME SO MUCH!!!! 🐣🐥🐦
We love the GOODIE`S, its classic lunacy.
Well said Bill
Spot on!
I saw some foreigners killing wild ducks in our local park.
not just ducks you know what i mean!!
They kill us and one another as well.
Saw two gay Poles looking after someone's kids on a footpath. Their noses pointed right up in the air.
And swans !
invaders
Well said Bill.
How many birds and bats are killed by wind farms every year in the UK ?
None. If they were they'd be covered in blood and bird guts and feathers. Try and learn to think for yourself. The Daily Mail lies just as the Guardian does.
Bill oddie, miss your wildlife presentations on old summer watch, what they have done and not allowing you to voice your opinions and bird watching and wildlife programs is tottally disgusting, you are a great presenter and protector of uk wildlife, we need you back on the BBC With new wildlife programs ,miss you bill , you are so well liked and loved by millions, BBC DISNEY HOLLYWOOD ALL GONE WOKENESS MAD, LOOK HOW BBC DISNEY HAVE KILLED DOCTOR WHO NOW, WOULD MUCH PREFER YOUR WORK AS A WILDLIFE PRESENTER AND YOUR KNOWLEDGE OF THE WILDLIFE SO MUCH MORE .* hope a wildlife program becomes avaliable to view from you, and you presenting them
He's right that no one thing is responsible for the situation we are in. But some things that need dealing with are overpopulation; deforestation; overuse of herbicides, pesticides, artificial fertilisers, hormone treatments and antibiotics; fossil fuels the use of harmful elements like lithium for batteries and littering. The change starts with YOU, take care of your own patch first and then encourage others to do the same. Massive change often starts small!
That's really interesting, so when your environmental whishes come true, unless iv,e got a battery car, will birdwatching be a middle/ Upper middle class hobby, seems so?
Or you could walk? @@soot.2146
@@soot.2146
Why bring Class Warfare into this subject?
Bizarre!
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Except that if we do all of that in the time frame the globalist are pushing for. Many people will perish. I am not saying I disagree with you entirely. We could and should do way better. But who lives and who dies? I will answer that for you. The people that will live are those that have benefited the most from the very things you mention. It will take many generations to fairly implement what is being proposed. Be careful what you wish for.
About Jimmy sav Bill said that he wasn't human True words Bill ☄️
What a Great bloke bill is , really nice guy and well said 👍
Loved this man since I was a kid I could tell he’s a genuine good guy unlike his counterparts at the bbc
Love ❤Bill Thanks 😊
Bill Oddie hell! Top man!😊
So what we can do about it is raise enough awareness that we can collectively make a coordinated effort to effectively pressure institutions, lobbyists and the corporate sector to act within safer boundaries. Because they're not going to do enough about it if we sit back and watch.
So, as opposed to only doing hands on volunteering, we need to voluntarily get involved in information, organisation, wisdom and paperwork.
And to get that right, collectively, requires accountability among the leaders of such collective actions, which is achieved through a wisdom tradition among the volunteers.
lovely to see you again bill, looking great and fighting the fight.....good on you mate
Destroying gardens as a lot seem to do ripping out hedges, chopping trees , plastic grass and flowers , to name hardly any thing , mass building schemes, nobody care s a toss and its sickens and saddens me , children seem not to be educated on wild life and the importance . 😢 thank you Bill , now you need to get on bbc and broadcast it ..
I only just noticed, where did all the sparrows go ?
Was it the telecoms masts ?
@StigFerrari, provide suitable food, water and cover and they will eventually come and they will return again and again.I moved into my house quite a few years ago.I often complained to my family ‘where are the birds’? There were no birds, maybe a few flying over now and again.I started putting bird food out during a very cold winter a few years ago and as I learned more I continued to do so throughout the year.I never vary my routine or disappoint the birds by skipping days or ‘forgetting’.My suburban garden is now a tiny nature reserve and it’s flocking with birds! I counted 8 species in about 5 minutes a few days ago.Also,a fox visits regularly and often spends the day sleeping in the garden! Sometimes 2 sleeping foxes,siblings from last years litter.Once, last autumn I had 3 juvenile foxes fast asleep on a warm day.I have baby robins and baby blue tits feeding outside my kitchen window as I write this.They are feasting on mini mealworms.You can give nature a helping hand and you will be rewarded ten fold.Be consistent and provide the right kind of quality food and clean water.Feed the smaller birds in a quieter part of the garden, they are often a bit scared of the larger birds.Also, remember that most species will happily feed from bird feeders and bird tables.Others are ground feeders and never feed from a height.So provide for their specific needs.Edit: I have dozens of sparrows too!
@@northernlights6459 I get a garden full of birds, but all carrion birds now, mostly magpies and crows
And all the starling's
Five Gee. .
People built walls in back gardens in place of hedge rows.
Hardly surprising he never got his point across on a 3 minute TV slot when he spends 2 minutes here rambling on before getting to his point on a 3 minute video.
The Goodies were my favourite TV show as a kid. Amongst others of course.
Well said bill.
Did anybody know he said this In October 2014, on the BBC's Sunday Morning Live, he stated that he wanted a limit on the number of children that British families can have, saying that he was "very often ashamed" to be British, calling them "a terrible race"
I know he suffered from bipolar, but I don't think I can see him in the same light anymore. Which is a shame, because I was brought up on the Goodies and loved Bill for that, and still do.
Hampstead ponds, ..... Beautiful place,
I have paintings of the local countryside done by a local artist and I have gone out to find the places he sat whilst painting these 60 to 90 years ago and the huge difference is that farmers have grubbed up the hedgerows and totally destroyed the habitat in that way and with chemicals to destroy insect bird food. There really was no excuse for this as these farms all round here have been owned by the same families for generations so they had no mortgages to pay. They did this, destroyed the countryside, out of sheer greed.
Not really. It was government policies (from both sides) after World War II that caused the changes in agriculture, specifically the 1947 Agriculture Act. It's ironic that many ancient hedgerows were planted as part of the gradual inclosure acts of past centuries which caused such outrage amongst common people at the time. Food security was the big motivator, so it's a curious idea that in the name of eco-policies farmers are being encouraged to take land out of production (never mind that lost to godawful housing estates and 'green energy generation') thereby making the UK potentially more dependant on imported food when the world is growing less safe.
Thanks for your video. Can l ask, is that a estuary mud flat behind you or River or Lake covered in ice?
He said who needs to do something, but not what needs to be done.
No one ever does say what's needed, only that "we all" need to do something.
I'll forever see him as a goodie and after saying he never gets enough time to say what he wants to say i expected the video to end after he read out the question 😂
he told the truth. he had to be removed
Hes very good thank you to you for posting he right we are a few steps away from messing things up nature needs our help nature doesn't respond well to river pollution
( my commitment probably be taken off)
Timeless. 👍
Bill is a proper Legend and a Little Feat fan.
Very true. Most people and businesses will get away with whatever they can until they are forced to stop. Not everyone but enough to make it a problem for everyone.
Bill, long form is here, take all the time you want /need, will watch, take it onboard, legacy media is always about to die / cut to something else, well most of us also gave up with that! Lots of love bud!
Correct Bill and thanks for all the laughs you gave me 😂
Spot on
Surreal world we live in when the Goodies talk more sense than the politicians....
11 years on I see this clip.😲
Well said Bill, nothing to do the B Gate.
A true man of the people.❤👍
Any chance of doing the goodies again? Please?
Bill Oddie is a Legend 🌟
Habitat loss is widely accepted as a huge part of the problem. It's not entirely clear how we reverse that given the pressures of population increase (at least in some of the European countries and especially the UK) and land usage demands for solar & wind energy.
Absolutely spot on Bill 👍🏿
The pressure and the spotlight has always been put on the general public to do something, but we can only go so far. Big business and government can make the biggest and fastest change to this situation if they wanted to, (if it's profitable).
But making money and positive environmental changes are uncomfortable bedfellows, and unfortunately even if our skies are empty and the our rivers and seas are devoid of fish! those in control will still hesitate to do anything about it and will try to point the finger firmly at us.
But we must try anyway
🙏🏿
Nice individual who speaks his mind.
He was going to tell us, but the video ended too soon.
“Lynn.. can you call Bill Oddie”
B. Oddie?
@@tylerdurden4289 “What’s rude about a body?”
@@nigelcarren P Nesshead
calm down, lynn, it's minor women's whiplash !
Bill is a goodie guy.
The King would lend a more than sympathetic ear. Can't think of a better time to lobby government Bill.
Very true!.
Apparently ghandi said that this world may support man's needs but not his greeds!.
♥️♥️♥️Bill♥️♥️♥️♥️
They tell you that you have 3 minutes and you spend two and a half minutes telling us that isn't long enough. Then you say nothing in the remaining 30 seconds.
So so true, why would we want to lose our relationship with life around us...
I love the fact this clip is itself just under 3 minutes! 😅
We need The Goodies back!
The 1992 Rio earth summit explains all to the, " Cannon Fodder " unfortunately that populates the earth.
Oh how I miss Bill Oddie on Spring Watch why they needed anyone else apart from the delightful Bill was beyond me. He is a real Good un.
I thought bill was a fictional character on Alan partridge til now 😂
Bill’s one of the original Goodies !
"We ain't there yet". 100% Though I hope we are closer than we were 100 years ago? Sometimes it does feel like we're going backwards.
Bill Oddie was Springwatch
I was lucky enough to have been brought up in a house with a great garden in the leafy suburbs, and to have later inherited this house. I can say that the decimation of birds is most obvious. When I was young through the 1960s and 1970s our garden was alive with so many different types of birds. Huge flocks of sparrows used to perch on the bushes and trees, now you see hardly one. I used to watch the starlings murmurating in the evenings, but I haven't seen a single starling for years. All I see is the odd bird now and again and from a limited number of types, pigeons of course, a few black birds, surprisingly frequent robins and tits, which seemed less common in the past. Overall though it is extremely sparse compared to how it was forty or fifty years ago.
Still a hero of mine.
The Goodies apartheid piano was ace.
Love the fact this vid is just under 3 minutes.
Sadly I missed it but I believe there was an episode of Country File years ago where they compared our landscape today to aerial photos taken at the beginning of WW2. It showed how much hedgerow and open uncultivated land that has been lost. Quite poignant
It’s up to every one of us to lead by example and do what we can constructively.
You know this is going to be an issue with Labour's promise to build build build to accommodate an increasing population
Nicely put, Bill. And all in under 3 minutes 😅
You're right Bill you really are. But sadly very few people care. The government won't spend on such important issues.
No media mention about the DEATH of 100,000 British Birds per year due to Wind Turbine Collisions.
Also in the allotted three minutes you are constantly being interrupted by the interviewer
Where are you speaking from?
Makes total sense.