The Fall Guys ; We Watched the Birds and the Bees in Springwatch but Now the Leaves Are Falling and Bill Oddie's Team Are Back with Autumnwatch, Spying On Creatures Great and Small From Red Deer to Moths. Julian Champkin Finds Out How You Can Join in Too

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Bill Oddie is in a suitably seasonal melancholic mood: 'People tend to think of spring as pretty and autumn as sad. But, beyond a doubt, autumn is my favourite season.' It is autumn now with mists and mellow fruitfulness, leaves changing colour through every shade of red, orange and yellow, and berries and fruit that have gone to ripe fulfilment.

Bill - along with presenters Kate Humble and Simon King - is back on our television screens with Autumnwatch, successor to Springwatch, the wildly popular nature programme that was the first to directly involve its viewers, and which was broadcast live, every evening, for two weeks, on BBC1.

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The Fall Guys ; We Watched the Birds and the Bees in Springwatch but Now the Leaves Are Falling and Bill Oddie's Team Are Back with Autumnwatch, Spying On Creatures Great and Small From Red Deer to Moths. Julian Champkin Finds Out How You Can Join in Too

Bill and his colleagues built a devoted following with Springwatch, but have not done autumn before. 'There is so much going on in autumn,' says Bill. 'We have done three Springwatch series, but autumn is just as good as spring - if not better.

'If Springwatch is about little birds in boxes, Autumnwatch is about big animals doing dramatic things. It is true that the birds are not nesting and there are no fledglings around, but everything else is happening. There is more wildlife around in autumn fo...

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