Sean Bean

Being on stage, you know, performing in a sense, you get a buzz, you know, you do.

You get a thrill and a kick and a buzz and you have your highs and you sometimes have your lows, you know.

But with Birdwatching, it seems to be more constant and there's a gentle kind of feeling of contentment and learning and, I don't know, and peace, you know.

They say that's, you know, they say it's therapeutic values and it's...

For mental health, it's a wonderful thing to be in nature, birdwatching, whatever you do.

You know, being in the countryside, being outdoors, surrounded by trees and wildlife is valued by so many people more than other things in our lives.

About what schools we go to, how much money we earn, where we live, you know.

being in those surroundings and feeling the benefits of the wildness around you is actually, this consensus they did, you know, is actually valued higher than all those kind of priorities, the health benefits.

I'm Sean Bean, and this is Get Birding, in collaboration with Forest Holidays.

In this episode, we're exploring how birding can support mental health and why spending time with nature can make a difference.

You'll hear from ornithologist Dr Maya Rose Craig.

Yeah, you're always looking for another one.

If you see one, you're like, what?

Yeah.

What is it?

Yeah, I do, because I always remember, you know, I was living in Sheffield, I was born and brought up there.

I spent, you know, all my early years up there.

But we were lucky enough to have woods and...

corpses and you know a lot of woodland and allotments around us and um near the church in a place called handsworth in in sheffield which they unfortunately look like they're going to be building a few thousand houses on which is uh we've tried to kind of

protest about it and come up with some arguments against it.