Viewers upset by 'Springwatch' innuendo

Sensitive Springwatch viewers are complaining about animal innuendos employed by host Bill Oddie.

Commentary on two mating scenes on Tuesday night's show prompted complaints to the Daily Mail.

"The female is asking for it - and getting it basically," Oddie noted over footage of two sparrows. "She was fluttering her wings and pretending to be a child - that's kind of weird when you think about it. Oh and again.

"She is doing that wing-fluttering thing like that as if to say 'I am a baby, feed me', she is getting quite the opposite basically."

In a later scene featuring stag beetles, Oddie commentated: "He crash lands on top of a likely looking lady, there's a bit of luck. One thing is sure - this boy is horny!"

The presenter, putting on a high-pitched voice to represent the female, added: "Come on big boy, come and get it."

One annoyed viewer called his comments "schoolboy sniggering" while another said: "I am sick to death of the constant innuendo being offered by Bill every time a scene of mating appears."