Winterwatch 2023 will bring viewers two very different live wildlife hubs and stream live cameras across our digital platforms.

In Norfolk with Chris and Michaela, we’ll be deploying our cameras across the estate’s range of habitat. The winter rains have brought life back to the grazing marsh and the waterfowl and waders will provide a seasonal spectacle. The remote thermal camera will be deployed to bring us incredible scenes, allowing us to watch the behaviour of Wild Ken Hill’s cast of nocturnal characters.

We’ll be seeing how the beavers maintain their dam in the winter now the water levels have risen and hope that their pond continues to deliver to be the exceptional raptor-fest it’s been for us so far with goshawks, sparrowhawks and buzzards seen regularly. The bird feeders are sure to be busy throughout too, with an array of garden and farmland birds visiting to see them through the cold. We’ll also run a “mini” carcass camera in the hope we can tempt a hungry weasel or stoat out of hiding.

In Edinburgh we’ll have live cameras trained on a busy wild badger sett in the heart of the zoo. A badger family has been making its home at the zoo for more than a hundred years and we’re hoping to capture footage of these mustelids as they go about their wintery business. We’ll be witness to all the signs that the badgers are active from their latrines to scratching posts, from the areas they use for social interaction and to seeing the holes they make to increase the sett’s circulation.