in Liverpool from Mount Etna (via the Oxford Botanical Gardens). When he saw 'evidence' of ravens on one of Liverpool Cathedral's statues, he joked, with a nod to The Fast Show, "This week I be mosely wearin' Raven poo". Due to its location this episode gave the excuse to play the Beatles and the Kinks, rather than the usual soundtrack. Dorset in Late Spring 2 February Species seen: lizards (common, sand, slowworm), nightjar, damselflies, dragonflies (four-spotted chaser), red squirrel, sundew plant, smooth snake, Japanese sika deer What seems to make this series so fresh is that Oddie seems to learning along the way. What he first thinks is a sand lizard, turns out to be a common, but he's not afraid to admit it. This episode's "what daft thing can we get Oddie to do" was waving white tissues at dusk to attract nightjars. "For heavens sake can't they see its just a big fat birdwatcher waving a couple of tissues, but apparently not!". The scene finished with Oddie morris dancing with his nightjar bait. They'd been here before looking nightjars for series 2 of Birding with Bill Oddie, but they found none. This time it worked, and Oddie got to see his nightjar. When Oddie gets to view a red squirrel from the comfort of a house on Brownsea Island he claims "It's a bit easy, isn't it? I must go out and do something really difficult later". He also introduces us to the sundew, a carnivorous plant, with taste for insects. Nectar- tipped barbs are attractive to their prey, but are sticky and hold them fast. Oddie can't resist setting a damselfly free from one though. Northumberland and the Farnes in early Summer 9 February Species seen: flowers (viper's bugloss, birds-foot trefoil, restharrow, hedge woundwort, marsh cinquefoil), toads, sandhoppers, water vole, puffins, Arctic terns, kittiwakes, shags and guillemots. For the last in the series, Oddie visited the "last county before Scotland", which held memories for him as he walks past the house that used to be Monks House Bird Observatory (you can read about his experiences there in Bill Oddie's gone Birding). It was while staying here that Oddie discovered Hauxley Nature Reserve, where the owner of the Observatory showed him a variety of plantlife. Plants such as viper's bugloss, which has been used to cure snake bites, and restharrow, named because of its habit of seizing up