Iolo's Anglesey - Season 1

Iolo Williams explores the wildlife of Anglesey. Wales's largest island is renowned for its coastal beauty, but it also has fantastic marshland and heathland with spectacular wildlife.

Iolo watches breeding marsh harriers - majestic birds of prey that have only recently started to nest in Wales. He finds stoats, grey seals and lizards. He also visits Puffin Island to find the only breeding site in Wales for eider ducks. On a disused railway line, he finds breeding adders.

Iolo goes by boat to Ynys Badrig, an off-shore island which is the northernmost point of Anglesey and Wales and the potential site of a new gannet colony. He explores a stunning wood at the centre of Anglesey with carpets of spring flowers and native red squirrels. He watches peregrines on the Menai Straits, and on wetlands near RAF Valley he finds nesting sand martins, spots otters and has a rare sighting of a bittern.

Iolo Williams explores the wildlife of Anglesey. Wales' largest island is renowned for its coastal beauty, and on the sand dunes, rocky cliffs and surrounding farmland there's also spectacular wildlife. In this episode, Iolo finds colourful day-flying moths, beautiful orchids, and brown hares. He also heads out to the Skerries Islands, and visits Wales' only Arctic tern colony. He also finds a fox, and a little owl with its chick on an abandoned farm near Holyhead.

Iolo Williams explores the wildlife of Anglesey. Wales' largest island is renowned for its coastal beauty, but it also has stunning fenland and rich surrounding sea full of terrific wildlife. In this episode, Iolo heads out to sea to look for Risso's dolphins. Underwater, an artificial reef has formed from an old shipwreck. He finds roosting bats at an old priory; dragonflies and beautiful rare plants on Anglesey's fens. On the Alaw estuary, he gets a rare sight of a merlin - Britain's smallest bird of prey. Also Brent geese which have flown all the way from Canada to overwinter on Anglesey.