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The first of the Naturalist's Diary series was produced in 2010. Paul Wetton has spent many hours out filming in the British countryside and here shares the experience in the form of a DVD. The story begins on a cold January morning watching a vagrant Black-throated Thrush in the North Yorkshire village of Newholm. It continues through the year, showing the viewer various aspects of British wildlife that include winter birds, spring reptiles plus summer insects and flowers. As autumn sets in and nature begins to slow down, a final trip was made to find a Pied-billed Grebe from across the Atlantic that had found its way to Hollingworth Lake Country Park in Lancashire.
The footage shows approximately 65 minutes of high-quality uncompressed digital video with complete menu accessed using your DVD player's remote. For an itemised list of all the wildlife shown on this DVD, see the table of contents below.
Introduction
Newholm, North Yorkshire - 17th January
Black-throated Thrush
Gigrin Farm, Mid Wales - 24th and 30th January
Grey Heron, Raven, Buzzard, Red Kite and Black Kite.
North Norfolk - 13th February
Shore Lark, Turnstone, Snow Bunting and Barn Owl
Langold Country Park, Nottinghamshire - 7th and 14th March
Great-crested Grebe and Red-necked Grebe
Hatfield Moors, Humberhead Peatlands - 14th March and 10th April
Viviparous Lizard, Common Adder, Peacock Butterfly, Comma Butterfly, Green Tiger Beetle and Grass Snake
Top Barn Farm, Grimley, Worcestershire - 21st March
Slavonian Grebe
The Lodge RSPB, Sandy - Bedfordshire - 11th April
Treecreeper, Grey Squirrel, Blue Tit, Great Tit, Wren, Chaffinch, Green Woodpecker, Stoat and Crossbill
Minsmere RSPB, Suffolk - 18th April
Bittern, Black-headed Gull, Shoveler, Black-tailed Godwit, Pintail, Teal, Shelduck, Barnacle Goose, Avocet, Grey Heron, Rabbit, Red Deer and Muntjac
Ketton Quarry, East Rutland - 24th April
Green Hairstreak Butterfly, Dingy Skipper Butterfly, Bee Fly and Willow Warbler
Straw's Bridge Nature Reserve, Derbyshire - 14th May
Great Reed Warbler
Ketton Quarry, East Rutland - 15th May
Grizzled Skipper Butterfly and Green Tiger Beetle
Salcey Forest, Northamptonshire - 5th June
Wood White Butterfly, Glow Worm Larva and Broad-bodied Chaser Dragonfly
Collard Hill, Somerset - 12th June
Large Blue Butterfly, Common Spotted Orchid, Pyramidal Orchid and Greater Butterfly Orchid
Arnside Knott, Cumbria - 19th June
Dark Green Fritillary Butterfly, Northern Brown Argus Butterfly and Roe Deer
Strumpshaw Fen, Norfolk Broads - 25th June
Swallowtail Butterfly, Privet Hawk Moth, Poplar Hawk Moth, Black-tailed Skimmer Dragonfly, Hairy Dragonfly, Broad-bodied Chaser Dragonfly, Norfolk Hawker Dragonfly and Viviparous Lizard
Kelling Heath and Wiveton Down, Norfolk - 25th June
Silver-studded Blue Butterfly, Stonechat, Yellowhammer and Sand Wasp
Linn Dean, Scottish Borders - 27th and 28th June
Northern Brown Argus Butterfly, Dark Green Fritillary Butterfly, Monkey Flower and Sericomyia lappona Hoverfly
Bernwood Forest, Oxfordshire - 6th July
Marbled White Butterfly, Purple Hairstreak Butterfly, Purple Emperor Butterfly, Nursery Web Spider and Bee Swarm
Arnside Knott, Cumbria - 8th July
High Brown Fritillary Butterfly and Southern Hawker Dragonfly
Alners Gorse, Dorset - 2nd August
Butterflies: Brimstone, Small Tortoiseshell, Red Admiral, Peacock, Painted Lady, Purple Hairstreak, White-letter Hairstreak and Brown Hairstreak plus Long-winged Conehead Bush Cricket
Lydlinch Common, Dorset - 2nd August
Common Blue Butterfly, Small Copper Butterfly and Alophera hemiptera Parasitic Fly
Southbourne, Sussex - 8th August
Kestrel
Mill Hill, Sussex - 14th August
Adonis Blue Butterfly, Volucella zonaria Hoverfly and Carline Thistle
Ballard Down, Dorset - 28th August
Adonis Blue Butterfly, Wasp Spider and Sycamore Moth Caterpillar
Durlston Country Park, Dorset - 28th August
Sea Aster, Adonis Blue Butterfly, Stonechat, Spotted Flycatcher, Northern Wheatear, Stripe-winged Grasshopper, Common Green Grasshopper and Long-winged Conehead Bush Cricket
Frampton Marsh, Lincolnshire - 4th September
Teasel, Chicory, Green-veined White Butterfly, Small Copper Butterfly, Common Darter Dragonfly, Goldfinch, Yellowhammer and Helophilus pendulus Hoverfly
Gibraltar Point Nature Reserve, Lincolnshire - 4th September
Short-winged Conehead Bush Cricket
Mill Hill, Sussex - 5th September
Adonis Blue Butterfly, Holly Blue Butterfly and Autumn Lady's Tresses Orchid
Hope Gap and Friston Forest, Sussex - 18th September
Small Copper Butterfly, Clouded Yellow Butterfly, Hoverflies: Volucella zonaria, Rhingia rostratum, Xylota sylvarum and Xylota segnis plus Dark Bush Cricket
Hollingworth Lake Country Park, Lancashire - 14th November
Pied-billed Grebe