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Nature programmes on the TV

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,878 ✭✭✭whyulittle


    Autumnwatch on BBC for just one week from Tuesday October 30th.

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/natureuk/2012/10/all-new-autumnwatch-2012---liv.shtml


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,878 ✭✭✭whyulittle


    Just a reminder that Autumnwatch runs from tonight until Friday.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 334 ✭✭F.R.


    Attenborough's Ark: Natural World Special
    Friday 21:00 BBC 2

    David Attenborough picks 10 animals he would save from extinction.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,878 ✭✭✭whyulittle


    Boy we're really getting through the seasons!

    Winterwatch running from Monday 14th to Thursday 17th January on BBC2.

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/natureuk/posts/Coming-up-on-Winterwatch-2013


    Africa, which started on Wednesday was pretty good. 5 more episodes to come.

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p010jc6p


    There were also a few mad things on a new series of Nature's Weirdest Events aired during the week.

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01pqmqq


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,850 ✭✭✭Birdnuts


    Have to say the Attenboroughs latest offering is simply breath-taking. Great to know there are still a few places left where you can experience the type of wildife our earliest ancestors would have known:cool:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,051 ✭✭✭trebor28


    Saw some of Africa the other night but not all of it. Looked good thought.

    Thought natures weirdest events by Chris packham was very good. Some very interesting occurrences that you wouldn't normally see.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,878 ✭✭✭whyulittle


    The first episode of Africa is on repeat on BBC1 today at 17:35.


  • Administrators, Computer Games Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 32,635 Admin ✭✭✭✭✭Mickeroo


    I watched it this morning on the iPlayer, was great. Although it seems to be laying the old anthropomorphism on a bit thicker than other recent series (though the bit with the black Rhino in the starlight was great). It seems to be a bit more lighthearted too what with the tone of the music in some scenes. Definitely pulling its punches a bit regards showing the harsher realities, having the birds show up just in time to save their chicks seemed a bit too good to be true to me.

    Good start to the series though, the Giraffe fight was brutal.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,878 ✭✭✭whyulittle


    Wolfland
    RTE 1, Monday January 7th @ 19:30.
    In this documentary series, Dr. Éamonn Ó Ciardha looks at our complex relationship with the Wolf, taking us on a hair raising journey into Ireland's past, exploring the background to what many of us experience as an instinctive fear of the Wolf or Mac Tíre - son of the land. A land that was in increasing turmoil at the turn of the 16th century as plantation settlers began to arrive. For them, the wolf became a fearsome symbol of this wild and dangerous land.

    Large-scale farming and deforestation saw the wolf rapidly losing its hunting and breeding grounds. But war, rebellion and fighting between settlers and a growing number of Irish rebels provided rich pickings for wolves - preying on livestock and scavenging on the fallen. The terrified settlers called their new home "Wolfland".

    The first programme in the series looks at the traces and tracks the wolf has left with us in Ireland, within the landscape and place names, the language, the literature and the mythology. Roaming the land for some 20,000 years the wolf was certainly feared, but also revered in Ireland. It was a creature that symbolised strength and courage to the native Irish, but to the arriving settlers from the 16th century onwards the wolf was a dark and savage creature representing all that needed tamed in Ireland.

    http://www.rte.ie/tv/programmes/wolfland.html


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,878 ✭✭✭whyulittle


    The Polar Bear Family & Me
    BBC2, Monday January 7th @ 21:30.
    First episode of three.
    Wildlife cameraman Gordon Buchanan follows a wild polar bear family over three seasons in Svalbard.

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01pyql5


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,878 ✭✭✭whyulittle


    Spotted an interesting post on the Facebook page of Gillian Marsh TV, who make 'Living the Wildlife'.
    "In Good Hands", almost finished and ready for broadcast in May of 2013 and Living the wildlife in the edit and will be on air RTÉ One Tuesday 26th Febuary to kick start "RTE goes wild season". It's been a busy year but we have 2 great series to show for it!

    https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=489814951051416&id=184916341541280


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,878 ✭✭✭whyulittle


    Ainmhithe na hÉireann
    TG4, Tuesday January 8th @ 20:00
    Episode 1 of 6.

    David Attenborough's Galapagos
    Sky1, Tuesday January 8th @ 21:00
    Episode 2 of 3.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,878 ✭✭✭whyulittle


    Just a reminder that Winterwatch starts tonight at 20:30 on BBC2.

    Also, concluding part of Wolfland on RTE1 at 19:30.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,220 ✭✭✭cameramonkey


    Programme on Irish wolves RTE1 now.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 334 ✭✭F.R.


    RTE 1 Nationwide friday 18 @ 19:00

    Covering the Killiney red squirrel augmentation, from capture in Wexford to removal of the radio tracking collars this week.


  • Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 3,074 Mod ✭✭✭✭OpenYourEyes


    http://www.channel4.com/programmes/wild-things

    New programme on Channel 4 starting next Monday - 'Wild Things'


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,203 ✭✭✭dodderangler


    Programme on Irish wolves RTE1 now.
    Program on now called wolf land bbc2


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,220 ✭✭✭cameramonkey


    Ainmhithe na hÉireann (R) Tue 20:00

    Following young salmon smolt on their journey to the sea as they face a constant threat from herons and kingfishers, plus how larger fish battle their way to spawning beds upstream. Éamon de Buitlear presents.


  • Administrators, Computer Games Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 32,635 Admin ✭✭✭✭✭Mickeroo


    Brian Cox's new show, Wonders of Life is on tonight on BBC 2 at 9pm. He usually does astronomy/physics stuff but this series focuses on the origins of life and that kind of stuff. The first episode was last week and I enjoyed it quite a bit, its a good bit more science (and even philosophacilly) orientated than the likes of Attenborough but even so there was some really great wildlife footage in it. Well worth a look.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,878 ✭✭✭whyulittle


    New series of Living the Wildlife starts on Tuesday March 5th at 7pm.

    https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=526242674086431&set=a.182486455128723.45499.181578698552832&type=1


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 944 ✭✭✭swifts need our help!


    Hen Harrier Persecution - tonight BBC1 7.30pm
    Inside Out: North East & Cumbria.

    Chris Jackson asks if we need a super-mayor to speak up for the North.
    As Hen Harriers disappear from northern hills, might Scotland have found a way to stop persecution?

    Sky channel 755

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01qzftc


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 944 ✭✭✭swifts need our help!


    sorry I gave a wrong channel number should have been 955


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,784 ✭✭✭Bsal




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,878 ✭✭✭whyulittle


    Bsal wrote: »

    Beat that Winterwatch!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,878 ✭✭✭whyulittle


    Don't forget, tonight @ 7 on RTE1.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 13,992 ✭✭✭✭recedite


    That guy had a really lovely cottage garden. Funny that he was the artist who designed the pine marten stamps, years ago. Those wooden sculptures he had on the desk were brilliant too.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 521 ✭✭✭Prowetod


    Great episode. I had never seen a pine martin before.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,203 ✭✭✭dodderangler


    Shocking the way she released them grey squirrels
    Trying to get rid of them
    Pine Martin footage was good


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,850 ✭✭✭Birdnuts


    Shocking the way she released them grey squirrels
    Trying to get rid of them

    Yes - very odd, was she tagging them or something:confused:


    PS: Anyone watching Wild Arabia ATM?? - some great footage of species like striped hyena's, Arabian wolves, leapards, oryx etc. species you rarely see on the tele.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 13,992 ✭✭✭✭recedite


    Shocking the way she released them grey squirrels
    She was studying them. Most people would like to see more reds, but we don't all share your hatred of the dreaded greys. IMO both types are here to stay, and a balance will be found.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,784 ✭✭✭Bsal


    Another great episode of Wild Arabia tonight on BBC2, really enjoyed the series.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,784 ✭✭✭Bsal


    The poor Kestrel chicks on living the wild life last night was very sad, I wonder what happened to them, they think it might have been a fox. I would have loved to see if the little fella was going to survive.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,067 ✭✭✭✭fryup


    Great Bear Stakeout all about Grizzlys in Alaska ...the 2nd episode is on tonight and its excellent

    bbc1 @ 9.00


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 37,314 ✭✭✭✭the_syco


    recedite wrote: »
    She was studying them. Most people would like to see more reds, but we don't all share your hatred of the dreaded greys. IMO both types are here to stay, and a balance will be found.
    I doubt a balance will be found, as the grays have a better ability to store fat for winter, and have a better chance of finding any food stores that it has hidden (the grays spatial memory is better). Also, I think the grays can eat acorns but the reds can't.

    =-=

    Also, has anyone saw "Birders The Central Park Effect"? Saw some of it recently, and thought it's nice to watch.



    =-=

    Finally, saw a bear documentary last night "Great Bear Stakeout" which follows the life of bears in Alska. And as they're not hunted up there, they don't fear humans, and thus go a lot closer to humans without getting aggressive.



    The Telegraph did a review of last nights program.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,523 ✭✭✭✭Alun


    the_syco wrote: »
    Finally, saw a bear documentary last night "Great Bear Stakeout" which follows the life of bears in Alska. And as they're not hunted up there, they don't fear humans, and thus go a lot closer to humans without getting aggressive.
    Watched the second episode last night ... so glad little Pushki survived :)


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 13,992 ✭✭✭✭recedite


    the_syco wrote: »
    grays can eat acorns but the reds can't.
    Reds do better where pine cones are the main food source, and are better at evading pine martens, so it will probably depend on the type of habitat available, as to which species predominates in an area.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,878 ✭✭✭whyulittle


    16,000 years ago, Ireland was a land covered in ice, uninhabitable to both humans and animals. So how did Ireland go from being a frozen country to the green and pleasant land of today? In this new series, Derek Mooney pieces together the clues to uncover the Secrets Of The Irish Landscape...
    Secrets Of The Irish Landscape starts on Sunday, May 5th at 18:30 on RTÉ One

    http://www.rte.ie/radio1/mooney/programmes/2013/0429/387453-monday-april-29th-2013/?clipid=1069335


    .....followed by.....


    A new 10-part series with Colin Stafford-Johnson, Nature on One starts on Sunday May 5th at 7pm on RTE Radio 1.

    http://www.tcd.ie/tcbr/news/articles/2013/tcbr-rte.php


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,878 ✭✭✭whyulittle


    Looks like the Late Late Show is taking part in the RTE Goes Wild season tonight. The two-part Shannon series mentioned is to start on Sunday May 26th.

    Also saw somewhere online that some members of Kildare Wildlife Unit will be on it.
    Tune into the Late Late Show tonight to see THE SECRET LIFE OF THE SHANNON presenter Colin Stafford-Johnson talking about the new series and the other programmes coming up in the RTÉ Goes Wild Season.
    https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=591372857554057&set=a.591372854220724.1073741829.586127991411877&type=1


    Plus, RTE providing live coverage from Bioblitz on Friday May 24th @ 7pm with a highlights package on the Sunday.

    http://bioblitz.biodiversityireland.ie/live-broadcast-of-irelands-bioblitz/


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,784 ✭✭✭Bsal


    BBC2's Springwatch is back on Monday 27th of May. Looking forward to it :)


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 6,498 ✭✭✭Mothman


    whyulittle wrote: »

    Plus, RTE providing live coverage from Bioblitz on Friday May 24th @ 7pm with a highlights package on the Sunday.

    http://bioblitz.biodiversityireland.ie/live-broadcast-of-irelands-bioblitz/
    Yours truly (nerves permitting!!:eek:)will be part of the live broadcast. About a 2 minute segment...should be able to bluff my way through that :pac:


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,784 ✭✭✭Bsal


    A short clip from The Secret Life Of The Shannon which aires on Sunday at 6.30pm RTE ONE

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rIj5eAcdjB4


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 13,992 ✭✭✭✭recedite


    Bsal wrote: »
    The Secret Life Of The Shannon which aires on Sunday at 6.30pm RTE ONE
    Apparently the first Irish wildlife documentary filmed with a super high speed high definition camera, á la David Attenborough, it would be great to see it on RTE2 HD some time.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,067 ✭✭✭✭fryup


    whyulittle wrote: »

    RTE providing live coverage from Bioblitz on Friday May 24th @ 7pm with a highlights package on the Sunday.

    RTE's answer to springwatch, but to be fair they did a very good job Well Done RTE....esp liked the tribute to Eamon de Butlair


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,832 ✭✭✭littlebug


    Mothman wrote: »
    Yours truly (nerves permitting!!:eek:)will be part of the live broadcast. About a 2 minute segment...should be able to bluff my way through that :pac:

    Well done on your television debut MM :)
    fryup wrote: »
    RTE's answer to springwatch, but to be fair they did a very good job Well Done RTE....esp liked the tribute to Eamon de Butlair

    agreed. Pity there's not more regular coverage through the weekend/ today.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,067 ✭✭✭✭fryup


    don't forget folks..life on the shannon this evening @ 6.30 rte1 and following that the bioblitz results @ 7.30


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 146 ✭✭Prof Nincom Poop Ph.D


    fryup wrote: »
    don't forget folks..life on the shannon this evening @ 6.30 rte1 and following that the bioblitz results @ 7.30
    was just looking for somewhere to post this, I liked it. Slow motion bits, with kingfisher/bats especially were very good.

    And the poor corncrake calling for a mate and no mate around, terrible.

    Hated the music though, it's something that should add to the program and you shouldn't really notice but I had to turn it down several times.

    Well worth a watch anyway.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 146 ✭✭Prof Nincom Poop Ph.D




  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,832 ✭✭✭littlebug


    I enjoyed "Life on the Shannon", really well done.


    Hated the music though, it's something that should add to the program and you shouldn't really notice but I had to turn it down several times.

    That's funny because I noted how much I liked the music and actually said out loud at one stage how lovely one particular piece was... wondering who it was. Couldnt see the credits properly with the split screen.. will check on player later.

    Good stuff on Bioblitz wrap up too. A nice evenings viewing :)


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 146 ✭✭Prof Nincom Poop Ph.D


    littlebug wrote: »
    I enjoyed "Life on the Shannon", really well done.




    That's funny because I noted how much I liked the music and actually said out loud at one stage how lovely one particular piece was... wondering who it was.
    The bit with the foxes playing?

    I suppose it's just not music I'd like, old irish/country, just not for me.

    Other nature shows go with classical or just a rhythmy tune.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,832 ✭✭✭littlebug


    The bit with the foxes playing?
    no, the song just after 40 minutes... just lovely.
    I suppose it's just not music I'd like, old irish/country, just not for me.
    There you go... tis for me :D and I thought it worked well.

    Funny the credits just list Kíla and Rónan Ó Snódaigh who I wouldn't generally much like... go figure. That song isn't Kíla though (the fox bit is)... I'll have to trawl a bit more.


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