(28 Apr 2024)
UK BLUEBELLS
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ASSOCIATED PRESS
Thorpe Wood, Peterborough, UK – 22 April 2024
1. Wide of bluebells in woods
2. Close of bluebell flowers
3. Mid of bluebells
4. Tracking shot down woodland path to bluebells
5. Various setup shots of Alexandre Audige-Soutter, The Wildlife Trust, walking bluebell carpet and photographing it
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Alexandre Audige-Soutter, The Wildlife Trust:
"I think it speaks for itself. The woodland looks incredible this time of year, especially with some of our areas are absolutely carpeted in bluebells, and it gives kind of that fairytale kind of magical feel, I think, which is why so many people come at this time of year."
7. Mid of bluebells
8. Wide pan right of bluebells growing near fallen tree
9. Close of Wildlife Trust sign warning visitors to stick to paths and not to pick bluebells
10. Zoom of damaged bluebells caused by visitors trampling on woodland
11. SOUNDBITE (English) Alexandre Audige-Soutter, reserve officer, The Wildlife Trust:
"Bluebells are extremely susceptible to being trampled. In fact, just a continuous amount of people trampling a similar area in a couple of days can mean that those bluebells that have been trampled don’t come for 10 to 12 years, come back till then, and in some cases, they may not come back at all."
12. Wide pan right of woodland clearing with coppiced hazel trees to encourage growth on forest floor
13. Wide pan right of cleared woodland
14. Zoom out of bluebells
15. SOUNDBITE (English) Alexandre Audige-Soutter, The Wildlife Trust:
"Definitely the Instagram kind of lying in the bluebells, sitting having a picnic in the bluebells has… it’s definitely increased with the increase in Instagram, Facebook usage, things like that. I definitely noticed that and yeah, it can be hard when you manage, and you love the woodlands that you manage, and then you see the public maybe using the woodland in a way that isn’t ideal and kind of impacts on what you’ve been trying to do here."
16. Close of sign warning visitors not to enter, tilt up to bluebells
17. Low shot of bluebells
18. Pull focus of bluebells
19. SOUNDBITE (English) Alexandre Audige-Soutter, The Wildlife Trust:
"Personally, for me, bluebells tend to herald the good weather times, maybe not this year as such, but generally, yeah, it kind of starts spring off for me. It makes me feel like this is spring now the birds are out, the bluebells are out, my woodlands are looking their best, the most beautiful, and it makes me want to be out more. I just absolutely love it."
20. Wide of wild garlic and bluebells
21. Close of wild garlic
22. Close tilt up of bluebell
23. Wide of bluebell woodland
24. Mid of bluebells
STORYLINE:
LEADIN:
Woodlands across the UK have been transformed into fairytale forests with the arrival of bluebells.
Vast carpets of wild blue flowers signal Spring has arrived.
STORYLINE:
Here in Thorpe Wood, near Peterborough, these bluebells not only look spectacular, but provide an early food source for pollinators and are a vital part of a woodland’s biodiversity.
The bulbs lie dormant for most of the year but arrive in early/mid-April for their annual show.
For woodland manager Alexandre Audige-Soutter, a reserve officer at The Wildlife Trust for Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire, and Northamptonshire, this is the most magical time in his wood.
Bluebells are an important flower in British folklore and are associated with fairies.
AP Video by Tom Rayner.
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