Nature's Voice - Sleeping wild in your garden and Springwatch at Minsmere

Sleeping wild in your garden and Springwatch at Minsmere

05/22/14 • 12 min

For the Big Wild Sleepout this year why not host a sleepover in your garden? The idea is to get up close to nature, and raise money to protect it, by spending a night outdoors between June 16th and 22nd. Jane Markham talks to Richard Bashford about how to get the most out of your sleepout. Plus the RSPB's Minsmere reserve in Suffolk is the new home for the BBC's Springwatch programmes. Will they film a bittern 'booming' and perhaps, more excitingly, will these rare and secretive herons breed in the reedbeds?

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