Springwatch 2026 episode 7 delivered one of the season’s most dramatic blends of survival, predation and surprising urban wildlife

Springwatch 2026 episode 6 brought Chris Packham and Michaela Strachan back to the storm-touched shores of the Crom National Trust Estate in County Fermanagh, where a single promise opened the night: every animal had survived the previous 24 hours. That mattered. Recent days had been brutal viewing, with Irish stoats and pine martens predating nests across the reserve. Predators arrived, broods shrank, and viewers held their breath. Yet the live cameras showed life settling rather than ending. Buzzards once bullied down from three chicks to two were thriving. A favoured grebe nest endured. The episode balanced loss against survival with

Springwatch 2026 episode 5 opens week two of the flagship live wildlife series with the kind of high-stakes drama that defines British spring. Broadcasting live from the National Trust’s Crom Estate in County Fermanagh, Northern Ireland, presenters Chris Packham and Michaela Strachan reveal a weekend of survival, predation, and rare reintroduction success captured across dozens of live cameras. The headline moment belongs to a white-tailed eagle photographed locally, but Springwatch 2026 episode 5 also delivers harrowing nest predation, a meteor caught on camera at 2.56am, and a science item so strange it sounds invented: moths that eavesdrop on plants. This

Springwatch 2026 episode 4 closed the show’s opening week with a run of wildlife stories that swung from tender to brutal in a matter of minutes.