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Matt Baker is up at the crack of dawn to witness a stunning spectacle along the north Norfolk coast. He meets RSPB head ranger Jim Scott to watch the morning flight of the pink footed geese and it turns out that the RSPB’s reserve at Snettisham is one of the best places in the world to witness it. There are currently 22,000 ‘Pinkies’ at Snettisham and Matt is going to try and help ranger Jim to count them all!

The biggest problem facing our feathered friends at the moment is Avian Influenza. Bird Flu, as it is more commonly known, has been found in wild birds and commercial flocks across the country, since the outbreak first started in the UK in December last year. Tom Heap is in Lincolnshire where it has been found in both wild birds and on farms to find out how serious this outbreak is. Tom also catches up with UK’s chief Vet, the man responsible for containing this virus and hears about the threat to the free range industry.

Helen Skelton is up in the beautiful Scottish borders to meet pheasant feather artist Clare Brownlow. This area is a diverse and wild landscape busting with nature and birds aplenty. So Clare is spoilt for choice when it comes to wildlife to paint. Clare walks Helen through the countryside on her doorstep and explains her inspiration. Back in the studio Helen is given a crash course in painting with feather quills. It’s tricky to master but the effects are impressive, but can Helen match Clare's skills?

Matt Baker visits a Norfolk village school just inland from the Wash and meets the ‘birders’ of the future; the 4 and 5 year olds taking part in their first RSPB Big Schools Birdwatch with RSPB volunteer and forest school teacher, Judy Simmonds. Matt watches the children learning to identify garden birds and then gets hands-on making a range of feeders to be hung up in the forest school at the end of the day, but will the feeders tempt in the birds?

This week actor and musician David Essex travels back to East Sussex, where he spent long childhood summers hop picking with his family. Like many of the women and children of East London in the fifties, David spent his holidays exploring the countryside creating life-long memories in both Kent and Sussex. We join him as he takes a trip down memory lane to where he first experienced the sights and smells of the great outdoors.

Adam farms many different breeds of livestock and is particularly keen on traditional and rare ones, especially the tough ones that can get by with little input. Most of his cattle, for example, can survive outside all winter. But he's always looking to improve his flock of Romney ewes and since his visit to New Zealand he’s implementing some farming methods that will hopefully improve the hardiness of his sheep.  

Helen is visiting one of the best places in the North of England to see arguably the greatest of all bird spectacles, starling murmurations. Back on home turf, Helen is in Cumbria at Watchtree Nature Reserve, meeting reserve chairman Frank Mawby to find out why this site attracts such a variety of bird life. Helen then catches up with ranger Ryan Dobson who tells her about accessibility at Watchtree. She has a go on one of the range of bikes that cater for both able and disabled people and quickly disappears off in search in search of those magical murmurations…