Wild Britain With Ray Mears

Name: Wild Britain With Ray Mears
Released: 2010-10-11T00:00:00.000Z
Cast: Ray Mears

TV Show · Documentary

Wildlife expert Ray Mears presents a celebration of Britain's habitats, wildlife, and heritage while exploring the impact that humans have on the country's ever-changing landscape and the links between the plant, animal, and insect worlds.

2010 · 42m

Starring Ray Mears

EPISODE 1

Deciduous Forest

Ray Mears revisits personal highlights from the show, including an encounter with wild boar in Gloucestershire. He also recalls sighting the rare fen raft spider in Norfolk and Suffolk and spotting short-eared owls in the Peak District.
EPISODE 2

Shingle Shore

North Norfolk's shallow pools are home to the natterjack toad and the shingle spit that attracts hundreds of grey and common seals.
EPISODE 3

Haymeadow

Ray visits the quintessential British habitat - the hay meadow. Since the Second World War, over 90 percent of meadows have disappeared from our landscape.
EPISODE 4

Wetlands

Lowland wetlands of Somerset are feeding grounds for birds; emperor dragonfly has remained unchanged for 250 million years; otters.
EPISODE 5

Breckland

One of the country's least known habitats, the Breckland, in East Anglia; ancient flint mine.
EPISODE 6

Heather Moorlands and Uplands

The Peak District includes the Dark Peak region, which includes short-eared owls, red grouse and mountain hare, and limestone uplands of the White Peak.