As the latest series of Big Brother, the global divorced-fro-reality-TV phenomonon gets under way I'm into a different reality.

Settle down everyone, this is not a senational revelation about goings on in the BB House, the contestants are not eating each other yet, though we live in hope. In fact I have not yet seen a single contestant from this year’s crop because I am absolutely hooked on BBC2’s nature program Spring Watch.

And its the Owls wot got me into it. Well let’s face it, female presenter Kate Humble is no Catherine Zeta Jones.

Last week I was watching late night footage from the live–action owlcam of the last chick in the brood hatching. Ornithologist and former member of the Goodies comedy team, Bill Oddie was enthusiastically explaining how owls ley eggs over a perios of some weeks so the first hatchlings can but on quite a lot of growth before junior appears. And as we are all being utterly charmed by the bewildered and helpless looking ball of fluff and cuteness, big brother owl jumps up and necks it.

Goodie goodie yum yummm as Bill Oddies and his partners used to sing.

First the baby’s head disappears into elder sibling’s beak, the body is a bit of a struggle and then we are left with a shot of two pathetic little avian feet hanging out of the bigger bird’s mouth and kicking desperately.

It was better than a Tom and Jerry cartoon.

So forget that collection of sad wannabees in the Big Brother house. If you want real reality, it has to be Spring Watch.