Bill Oddie's How to Watch Wildlife - Season 2

Bill Oddie's How to Watch Wildlife - Season 2

Season 2

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Episodes8
DatesJan 17, 2006 - Mar 7, 2006
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Episodes

Scottish Highlands
Season 2Episode 130 min

Scottish Highlands

Bill braves the Cairngorm Mountains in winter to track down the best of our Highland wildlife. With the peaks glistening under a fresh fall of snow, Bill searches for a flock of pure white ptarmigan. He witnesses the drama of a Golden Eagle hunting red deer on the mountainside and sees his first pine marten.
Jan 17, 2006
Brecklands
Season 2Episode 230 min

Brecklands

Bill explores the grasslands of East Anglia known as the Brecklands. It is high summer and Bill watches a stoat as it hunts rabbits, attempts a spot of hare whispering and jumps into a bog in the search for our largest spider – the great raft spider.
Jan 24, 2006
Kielder Forest
Season 2Episode 330 min

Kielder Forest

This week Bill visits Kielder Forest in Northumberland, the biggest forest in Britain. Demonstrating all his woodland field-craft he shows us how to creep up on roe deer, drinks tea with red squirrels, gets bitten by wood ants and finds our largest ladybird.
Jan 31, 2006
Homes and Gardens
Season 2Episode 430 min

Homes and Gardens

Early spring can be a great time to enjoy wildlife and you do not even have to leave the comfort of your own home and garden. In this episode Bill heads to the gardens of Devon to spy on fallow deer, search for bats in the loft and witness the amazing poppadom eating badger.
Feb 7, 2006
Orkney Islands
Season 2Episode 530 min

Orkney Islands

Bill Oddie makes his first ever visit to the Orkney Islands, just off the north coast of Scotland, in search of our best coastal wildlife. Bill gets a close up view of seal pups, revels in the flight of the British equivalent of an albatross and is overwhelmed by the sight and sound of 50,000 sea birds on the precipitous cliffs at Marwick Head.
Feb 14, 2006
Hampstead Heath
Season 2Episode 630 min

Hampstead Heath

Every wildlife watcher should have a local patch, and Bill Oddie would like to show you his. And so starts this episode with Bill staying close to home, extolling the virtues of his local patch - Hampstead Heath in London. Kestrels, squirrels and kingfishers are just some of the delights Bill enjoys when he spends a day's wildlife watching on the Heath, returning there for each of the four seasons.
Feb 21, 2006
A Dorset River
Season 2Episode 730 min

A Dorset River

Bill explores the delights of Dorset's River Frome in autumn and uncovers what could be the real inspiration for Ratty in Wind in the Willows, one of his favourite books. He also reveals the enigma of the mute swan and grapples with native crayfish before ending his journey with avocets and little egrets at the river's mouth in Poole.
Feb 28, 2006
Bill's Favourite Moments
Season 2Episode 830 min

Bill's Favourite Moments

Bill Oddie takes a trip down memory lane to re-visit some of his very best wildlife watching moments of the last ten years, including swimming with seals, hand-feeding badgers and witnessing a flock of half a million starlings.
Mar 7, 2006

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