Autumnwatch with Bill Oddie

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Autumnwatch with Bill Oddie was a live BBC TV nature programme, presented by Bill Oddie, Kate Humble and Simon King, first broadcast in 2006. It was a follow-up to the successful Springwatch series which in turn followed on from other nature shows in previous years with the same presenters.

As with Springwatch, Oddie and Humble were stationed "in comfort" at Martin Mere in Lancashire while King was sent out "on location": this time on Rùm to study red deer. In addition A "Grey Seal Diary" was presented nightly by Gordon Buchanan from the seal breeding colonies on the Monach Islands.

The series was notable for its interactive element. People in the UK were able to report on the BBC website the date and location of their sightings of natural autumn events, such as the first blackberries. This enabled an online map of the arrival of autumn by time and geography, correlated with temperature. Springwatch had a similar feature.

The 2006 series ran on BBC Two for 8 episodes of 1 hour each, Monday to Thursday, from 2 October 2006 until 12 October 2006.