Fun mixture of natural history and wartime public information.

A wildlife film with a difference: it has A Message for any humans in the house: "The squirrel in the tree, the fox below, the birds, insects, all know that a time of plenty will not last forever." In other words, wartime viewers, enduring austerity and hardship, can learn a thing or two from animals' economical feeding habits. It's an entertaining hybrid of public information and natural history, made by a wildlife filmmaking 'dream team', including director Mary Field and cinematographers F. Percy Smith and Oliver Pike, all of them associated with the popular film series Secrets of Life.

The feeding and food storage habits of wild animals and birds; the film suggests that humans could eat more healthily and economically.