Summer in the Meadow
1h 12m
Stephen de Vere has travelled the world photographing wildlife for the BBC, but what he loves most is making films about nature in England.
Some of the species featured:
Carrion crow
Roe deer and fawn
Badger
Barn owl
Meadow ant
Vetch aphid
Red-tailed mason bee (or Thatching bee)
Ashy mining bee
Caterpillar of the Tortoiseshell butterfly
Fox
Green woodpecker
Corncrake
Short-eared owl
Key Moments:
00:00 Intro
01:49 Clever corvids (crows and jackdaws)
04:24 Roe deer 'in velvet'
10:55 Roe deer wars
21:15 Badgers at dusk
24:50 Barn owl
26:12 Ants and aphids
31:26 Bee on a broomstick
36:26 Ashy mining bee
41:51 Annual mowing
45:29 Foxes
51:36 Woodpeckers
53:28 Roe deer rut
1:00:14 Corncrakes
1:03:53 Machair (The Hebrides)
1:06:10 A new era of farming?
1:08:42 Short-eared owl