An edition of the Tyne Tees Television rural life programme Up Country, presented by Jessica Holm. In this edition, a report on two men who are recording birdsongs in the Kielder Forest, a report on a new housing estate at Whitburn in which the residents have gotten the local council to build both ponds for birdlife and a observatory that is officially opened by Jessica.

This is followed by a report on Alan Johnson, who catches, records and rings birds around Big Waters Nature Reserve near Wideopen on North Tyneside to learn more about them. Filmed at night Jessica joins Hugh Watson on the search for Great Crested Newts in a pond somewhere in North Northumberland. In the final report, Jessica joins Harry Eales as he collects information on the humble bumblebee in a field somewhere in Northumberland.