Kingfishers on the River Frome with Nadeem Perera

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4.6 • 732 Ratings

🗓️ 18 April 2024

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

Nadeem Perera is not your conventional image of a birdwatcher. In fact growing up in inner city London he was not raised as or encouraged to be a 'nature boy'. But dropping out of school as a troubled teen he had a revelation. One day he was sitting in woodland and saw a green spotted woodpecker in front of him and his passion for birds was born. Now he can be seen on BBC 1 on the One Show talking about birds and has moved to Bristol to further his career in wildlife presenting. He takes Clare for a walk along the River Frome starting in Eastville Park. It's a grey Winter's day but they are overjoyed to be accompanied along the river by kingfishers lighting up the landscape. Along the way he talks about the project he runs called Flock Together and about his passion for combining young people of colour with the outdoors and nature. They walk from Eastville Park to Snuff Mills and the Stoke Park Estate

Producer: Maggie Ayre

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0:04.7	Hi, my name's Tommy Dixon, and I make podcasts for the BBC.
0:08.4	I'm a big fan of stories, always loved a good book.
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0:38.1	Sounds BBC Sounds music radio podcasts for today's walk I have binoculars over my shoulder I've come to
0:53.6	the north side of Bristol and the reason I brought binoculars over my shoulder. I've come to the north side of Bristol and the reason
0:56.0	I brought binoculars is I am meeting Nadine Pereira who is a famed bird watcher and set up a group.
1:04.0	I have to say, full credit for the name for this. I think it's one of the best names of a group I've ever heard.
1:09.0	It's called flock together and it
1:11.3	encourages people to come together as a group to go bird watching so the north side
1:16.0	of Bristol there's this enormous park Eastville Park and there's a lake that I'm
1:21.3	walking down steps towards it's a classic Victorian park on a grey winter's day. It's quite chilly and damp and Nadine will
1:30.8	be here to meet me. Gosh look there's a photographer there with a massive long lens.
1:38.4	Hello, hello. Hi there. I'm Claire. Hi. I was admiring the lens on that camera.
1:44.7	Yeah, yeah.
1:46.4	What are you looking for?
1:48.2	There's a robin here at the moment.
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