Bill Oddie visits Cornwall in search of its hidden creatures. He sees sharks seals, butterflies, badgers and investigates some rock pools.
Bill Oddie takes a trip to the Lake District in late autumn. He finds out how red squirrels are getting their own back on the greys; looks at leeches and crayfish; forages for fungi and detects bats.
Bill Oddie goes to the Scottish Highlands in Spring, to find reindeer, mountain hares, ptarmigan, pine martens, wood ants and capercaillie.
Bill Oddie visits Liverpool, fishes for Korean Sea Squirt, watches Ravens and has a close encounter with a fox.
Bill Oddie visits Dorset in search of the "Big Six" British reptiles, and also sees red squirrels, dragonflies, nightjars and carnivorous plants.
Bill Oddie takes a trip to Northumberland, looks at wild flowers, water voles and toads. Also visits Farne Islands, home to terns, puffins and seals.
The first of a new series in which Bill Oddie goes in search of the very best of Britain's wildlife. Bill's journey begins in one of his favourite places, the beautiful Isles of Scilly where the climate feels more like the Mediterranean than Britain. Bill discovers tropical flowers thriving in the wild, takes to the water to swim with seals, and finds a bizarre creature that glows in the dark. The islands are famed for exotic birds which turn up here lost - blown in on strong Atlantic winds. Scilly is often the first land-fall they find, and Bill is not disappointed! He also gets to grips with stick insects in the wild and has a close encounter with a very special shrew.
This week Bill visits Dartmoor, one of England?s last truly wild places and home of Tarka the otter. In his quest to glimpse an illusive otter, Bill encounters soaring buzzards, psychedelically coloured insects, a bat highway and even gets munched by a giant cricket! He discovers fossils proving that Beasts really did roam Dartmoor once, but will he see an otter?
The birdwatching comedian looks at wildlife around Britain. He heads for the Outer Hebrides off the west coast of Scotland in search of the corncrake, a rare and elusive bird. Along the way, he enjoys wild flowers, close-up views of breeding birds, an otter and spectacular scenery.
At first glance most villages don't appear to be wildlife havens but with a little patience and some detective work Bill Oddie reveals some wild characters in the Wiltshire village of Urchfont.
Bill Oddie enjoys a wild day out with a difference: on a bike. He gets in the saddle to explore the highways and byways of north Norfolk, from a dawn start to hear the song of the nightingale, to dusk at his favourite birding hotspot, the RSPB reserve at Titchwell. Along the way he wanders through a bluebell wood, takes a boat trip to see seals, and has an unexpected encounter with a barn owl.
This week Bill explores the New Forest in Hampshire, a piece of ancient England and home to badgers and deer. There are two things to know about the New Forest: it is not new and is not a forest! But is is rather splended in October and is full of amazing wildlife.
This edition comes from Wicken Fen, Britain's oldest nature reserve, where Bill goes hunting for beetles, a stingless nettle, moths, dragonflies and rare orchids.
Bill Oddie goes in search of some extraordinary wildlife in London. Not the best place you might think, but he reveals some real surprises, including a herd of red deer five miles from Westminster, water voles living in a fantastic wetland in the heart of the capital, a prehistoric forest and one of Britain's best wild spectacles - the sight of thousands of wild Asian parrots flying in to roost in south London.
In the first of a new series, Bill Oddie visits Somerset in spring, a time when the thoughts of all wild creatures turn to love. Birds are singing, flowers are blooming, and Bill is in seventh heaven, as he watches badgers by twilight, little owls by day, and enjoys the 'after-dawn chorus', as the birds continue to sing all day! He also ventures into the woodland canopy to come face to face with a baby heron, or, as he dubs him, "Little Erne".
Bill visits the land of the Geordies and Newcastle Brown, to find some surprising wildlife, including red squirrels in a local park, otters in an urban nature reserve, and even kittiwakes, an ocean-going seabird, nesting on the Tyne Bridge. Up the River Tyne itself he goes searching for a fish that has now returned to this once polluted river, the Atlantic Salmon.
Bill Oddie takes a summer break to one of the most popular holiday hotspots in Britain, the Norfolk Broads. He manages to get away from the crowds to search for the rare Norfolk hawker dragonfly, marsh harriers and the magnificent swallowtail – Britain's largest butterfly. He also comes face to face with a kingfisher and a barn owl - two of his favourite birds.
Kent may be a crowded county, but there is lots of wildlife too. Bill Oddie attracts marsh frogs by imitating them, meets one of Britain's most beautiful butterflies - the Adonis blue - and goes on an "orchid twitch", totting up more than a dozen species. Finally he heads deep into a secret forest, for a close encounter with one of Britain's newest arrivals, the wild boar.
Bill Oddie takes a trip across the water to the Emerald Isle, going to the edge of Europe in search of the Irish hare, choughs, bats, wonderful scenery and even the local fairies! Bill also takes a boat trip out into the Atlantic to visit an abandoned monastery on the Skellig Isles, now home to thousands of seabirds, including gannets and puffins.
Bill Oddie goes on a quest to the remotest, wildest and weirdest place in Britain, the island group of St Kilda. Fighting seasickness and the weather he eventually makes landfall, to find an abandoned village, a million seabirds, an unusual mouse and a unique breed of sheep.
Bill Oddie takes to the air over one of Britain's best known inland waters - Loch Lomond. From Lowlands to Highlands, he travels to see the spectacular seasonal fungus displays and Atlantic salmon leaping up waterfalls on their way to breed. But, his real quest is to see some of Scotland's most charismatic creatures - red deer, and the majestic golden eagle.