Bill Oddie's How to Watch Wildlife

All Episodes 2005 - 2006

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  • 2005-01-07T20:30:00Z
  • 30m
  • 8h (16 episodes)
  • United Kingdom
  • English
  • Documentary
Bill Oddie's How to Watch Wildlife is a British BBC 2 TV programme about natural history presented by Bill Oddie and produced by Stephen Moss. A first series of eight episodes were broadcast in early 2005, and a second series of eight episodes in early 2006.

16 episodes

Series Premiere

2005-01-07T20:30:00Z

1x01 March in the Borders

Series Premiere

1x01 March in the Borders

  • 2005-01-07T20:30:00Z30m

In the first of a new series, Bill Oddie discovers how to watch wildlife in Dumfries and Galloway.

2005-01-14T20:30:00Z

1x02 Pembrokeshire

1x02 Pembrokeshire

  • 2005-01-14T20:30:00Z30m

Bill Oddie explores the stunning coastline of Pembrokeshire in April, donning a long blonde wig to feed the birds.

2005-01-21T20:30:00Z

1x03 Yorkshire Dales

1x03 Yorkshire Dales

  • 2005-01-21T20:30:00Z30m

Bill Oddie sets off in mid-summer to explore the wildlife of the Yorkshire Dales.

2005-01-28T20:30:00Z

1x04 Mull

1x04 Mull

  • 2005-01-28T20:30:00Z30m

Travel with Bill Oddie to the island of Mull as he dodges downpours and midges in his search for some truly stunning Scottish wildlife.

2005-02-04T20:30:00Z

1x05 August in Wiltshire

1x05 August in Wiltshire

  • 2005-02-04T20:30:00Z30m

Bill Oddie turns off the M4 motorway to find himself in a wildlife wonderland in the heart of England.

2005-02-11T20:30:00Z

1x06 Kent

1x06 Kent

  • 2005-02-11T20:30:00Z30m

Bill Oddie takes us to some of his childhood haunts in North Kent in September, & looks for dormice.

2005-02-25T20:30:00Z

1x07 November by the Severn

1x07 November by the Severn

  • 2005-02-25T20:30:00Z30m

Bill Oddie braves the November weather to look for wildlife along the River Severn & watches starlings gathering to roost.

2005-03-04T20:30:00Z

1x08 February in Devon

1x08 February in Devon

  • 2005-03-04T20:30:00Z30m

In the last of the current series, Bill Oddie braves the British winter to search for wildlife in Devon.

Season Premiere

2006-01-17T20:30:00Z

2x01 Scottish Highlands

Season Premiere

2x01 Scottish Highlands

  • 2006-01-17T20:30:00Z30m

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.

2006-01-24T20:30:00Z

2x02 Brecklands

2x02 Brecklands

  • 2006-01-24T20:30:00Z30m

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.

2006-01-31T20:30:00Z

2x03 Kielder Forest

2x03 Kielder Forest

  • 2006-01-31T20:30:00Z30m

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.

2006-02-07T20:30:00Z

2x04 Homes and Gardens

2x04 Homes and Gardens

  • 2006-02-07T20:30:00Z30m

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.

2006-02-14T20:30:00Z

2x05 Orkney Islands

2x05 Orkney Islands

  • 2006-02-14T20:30:00Z30m

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.

2006-02-21T20:30:00Z

2x06 Hampstead Heath

2x06 Hampstead Heath

  • 2006-02-21T20:30:00Z30m

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.

2006-02-28T20:30:00Z

2x07 A Dorset River

2x07 A Dorset River

  • 2006-02-28T20:30:00Z30m

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.

2006-03-07T20:30:00Z

2x08 Bill's Favourite Moments

2x08 Bill's Favourite Moments

  • 2006-03-07T20:30:00Z30m

In the last of the current series, Bill Oddie braves the British winter to search for wildlife in Devon.

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