Sam & Ade Go Birding

Name: Sam & Ade Go Birding
Released: 2026-04-14T00:00:00.000Z
Cast: Samuel West, Ade Edmondson

TV Show · Special Interest

Samuel West's been a keen bird watcher for over 20 years, and for his next few trips, he's invited along his mate Adrian Edmondson, a complete birding novice, to introduce him to some of the UK's most beautiful birds and habitats.

2026 · 1h 0m

Starring Samuel West, Ade Edmondson

Director Rob Gill

EPISODE 1

Episode 1

Birdwatcher Samuel West introduces birding novice Adrian Edmondson to our most beautiful birds. Starting in Cornwall, they search for the chough, and hope for exotic wind-blown foreign visitors. Then they go on a 'wild goose chase' in north Norfolk.
EPISODE 2

Episode 2

On the north Norfolk coast, Sam West and Adrian Edmondson set off on a 'wild goose chase' that leads them through pine forests, across sweeping beaches and onto the marshes.
EPISODE 3

Episode 3

Samuel West takes his friend and birdwatching newbie Adrian Edmondson to the flooded Somerset Levels. They're in search of a bittern, Britain's loudest, and possibly most mysterious, bird.
EPISODE 1

Episode 1

In the Yorkshire Dales, Ade picks up Sam for a weekend of birdwatching. Their adventure begins with an after-work pint by the river, watching swallows, swifts and house martins swoop and wheel overhead in a dazzling aerial display.
EPISODE 2

Episode 2

Samuel West and Adrian Edmondson head to West Wales at the height of the breeding season to view magnificent raptors and smaller woodland residents, including red kites, woodpeckers and ospreys.