Overview

• Chris Packham praises a decades-long on-screen partnership with Michaela Strachan founded on mutual respect and complementary strengths.
• The new Springwatch Street segment uncovers foxes, swifts and other city dwellers on a Sheffield road.
• From Belfast, Iolo Williams debuts a new beard as he guides viewers through Northern Ireland’s wildlife hotspots.
• Megan McCubbin returns to expose the illegal egg-stealing trade and its threat to birds of prey.
• Packham plans to reinstate his signature hidden musical nods and has cautioned that the UK is one of the world’s most nature-depleted countries.