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It's an exciting time for us here at Midlands Today as we finalise filming and link-up our technology to bring you our best ever Springwatch coverage. Even as we speak I've been told pictures have just started to arrive in the building from one of our cameras in a peregrine falcon nest. Follow on Twitter for the very latest.

This year we'll also be spending some time looking at the plight of the British bee. It's all part of a new campaign from the ´óÏó´«Ã½ and we'll have more about that closer to the time. Including details of how you can get involved.

In the meantime we've put a bee hotel up in Springwatch producer Karen's garden. It arrived stocked with red mason bees. They were pretty sleepy having been kept in the fridge. But as soon as the hotel was fixed in place in the bees warmed up and they soon began to emerge.

And they all promptly flew off never to be seen again. Hopefully we'll have some more promising updates over the next few weeks. If you have better luck with wildlife near you please send pictures and video to the usual email;

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