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nature and animal wildlife of ireland [full wildlife documentary]
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for sixty thousand years a great way to ice
scoured face land that would be island
it was a new beginning little love wanted lived here before would keep a
hold
natural history was being revised the slate
wiped clean
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the
the
I'm when the ice melted
gone with the woolly mammoths the lines the spotted hyenas that had lived here
such animals and now the true legends in this land full of fairy tales
but there is much to tell 'em those who did inherit
is ice and water sculpted landscape
the
but what was soon to be Island was then still joined
to the nearby continent and drifting walking and running across the last
bridges on land
in a slow living invasion into this new found land
briefed life mainland Europe
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the pine martens
dipper like the radius the mansion Hannah
the host a flowering plants and other animals were to become
family Irish but no snake
got here before the Irish Sea close the door on nearly all
but the birds for
for eight-and-a-half thousand years
wild Island custodian isolation
a jewel an island that glitters with living reaches
the land to with a hand man
has perhaps produced more change than happened under the he love the ice
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the first people who ever fished from the Shaws Republic the very first people
in Highland they may have walked here across that same land bridge that once
held Ireland and Britain
in a natural embrace there was much to attract them
and the Stone Age hunters skills to be put to good use
the boo
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the
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home
the
close first seashore hunters would have numbered dolphins sharks and
otters among their prey
they went to see in the forerunners of the boats known as the car
it's a crafted seems a
even greater antiquity and these ancient piles of shells
monuments that other refuse a five thousand-year-old seaside kitchens
the seafood cocktail calendar links
past and present
for Paul at the local
a close to step
alarm system yeah
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for the dead the don't love the HS the little not %eh
like you know but
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the modern color is still a rather fragile
handmade construction but have top canvas and
would in lots once it would have been a animal hides
stretched over hazel rods and back used by those very fast fishermen
round like a comical
today we can only guess what Ireland look like to those primeval wonders
they moved through a landscape whose every feature would in time
bear the name of a passion indeed the creature
would be min in legend or in truth the rock
the Fox horses the the rigid the cuckoo
the Oak Grove the wild boars
leap up the wall names that
echo the abundance of animals then
the mad people's Glen the mountains of the women
and law that formed when
Finn mccools taught us hard from the earth to fling at the Scottish king
please
once they were golden eagles and see who's here
but now the peregrine falcons the most majestic
Highland several birds of prey
on clay this one has a chicks in a nest Peregrine's
usually lay their eggs on a bandage the nest was already here
build and abandoned by Raven being
all
is
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island was once largely covered in Woodland
birch hazlett first Scots pine flourished for a time on some soils
then as the climate became warmer wetter
they grew holders Elms and groves have
ok known in Irish as Dara on daddy
today those vast forests are gone
only remnants remain like the Kalani woods
the largest urban surviving
just enter these woods and you not only slip back in time
but they're a real surprise is waiting rich
cloaks mosses liverworts and Hines hide the fabric would rock
plant on plant epiphytes her child to catch the dappled light
down on the rocks
sit tiny club mosses some 300 million years ago the and sisters grew
artist tall now they match these common occurrence in size
and
among the wood sorrel and the mosses quite unexpectedly
it appears a slug otherwise found only in Portugal or Spain
called here the Caddy spotted slog
it offers acquired challenge to explain its presence
did it returned in the wake up the retreating glasses
or is it as many believe a survivor from a previous warmer
age which somehow found refuge from the deadly ice
and now lingers on in the soft climate southwest Ireland
up to from Spain and Portugal
is the greater battle work it doesn't grow naturally in britain or
anywhere else in Ireland it's just one of several plants and animals described
as
lucite anion because they're more usually associated with Spain and
Portugal
the old Roman provinces Lucy tenure it's beautiful
and deadly it catches and digest insects on its two key leads
those detained in connection is maintained
further up the western coast in what is the most extraordinary
Irish landscapes all it's known
as the bottom which in Irish means the stem the place
it's a moonscape that belies the living surprises
tapped into its limestone bomb
layer upon layer limestone the uplifted beds have $300 million year old C's
stack one upon the other and then laid bare by the massive closet those last
great classes
tennis by water wind the bottom steps
ponderous be down to the Atlantic Jewel
*** bites at the limestone and tunnels under to roll
secret caves
above it scalps a jigsaw
whose the campus either chins rocks into fantastical
the cool
like to see the rain calms the rock the bill y'all banishes quickly to hidden
caverns below
and neither can however shows itself for any time movies
vast expanse limestone pavement its ran out the snow to cap the flag blocks
clean says they called the deep cleft between the name is greiz
it was the glasses that opened the Grimes
scoured the soil from the clintons and within those moving rivers and solid ice
drink boulders were born along until the ice vanished
they were left like an abandoned windswept army
waiting here to march again 10,000 years
life finds a foothold in the trenches
keep your head down now to the wind has been the rule
the gripes captured and held a fine soil
weathering on the rocks and suitable to feed these miniature woodlands
some say the barn was once covered with the woman
and certainly there are Bali's lively with quick growing hazel
but continually threatens to spread such
hazel scrub provide some cover for cuckoo's Rennes
occasional media's and for the secretive pine marten
for pine marten is
probably Islands rarest mammals and as you'd expect it strictly protected
just like the hollows worn by the sea and the sea urchins
the cavities in the limestone dissolved out by rain
these
solution hollow strap the dried remains a al game from the puddles
windblown seeds become trapped in the accumulating mulch
and each hollow suddenly blooms
like a carefully tended window box its May
the pace at the bottom clashes with color violence
*** rock roses yellows a
profiles and the pink hosts a free
and this time for the burn it marks to feed from
and made on
but the blooming at the bottom is no ordinary event
though it requires a closer look to realize that like the candy slug in the
John
battler there are strangers here plants that if you stop and think
a quite out of place these are the flowers a
dry *** mountain evens it's a plan to the Arctic
there in the brief northern summer
its white flowers follow the Sun round in the sky focusing the warm rays on the
center the blossom
warming the in six then into greater activity
and yet unity is much further south because it's and sisters were brought
here
by the glasses are the last ice age
the exquisite spring gentian to is a relic to that age
but it's an Alpine flower that the sum unfathomable reason
thrives down here close to sea level and close to flowers from the south
like this bloody crimes bill and
a rich variety of orchids these flowers and others have that loose it any in
connection
made their way back here when the climate warms on me
to lime 18 plants like has state side by side with nine others
like dry *** few realities of the soil chemistry
play such tricks the Arctic Alpine
thrive in the bright lights that's thrown back from the bear limestone
and the sea and warmed by the Gulf Stream
it's the CD that generates the benign climate that favors those southern plans
like gigantic storage heaters
the White Hills hold their warmth the cattle were taken up to the terraces in
winter
the reverse of what you'd expect
its federal grants that the holding the Hazel scrap in check
there are people who kidnapped these goats
their skins fetch a good price it seemed and
there are others who favor fertilizing the bottom to reap quick
agricultural profit at the expensive back unique floral capital
natural and human history have only briefly gone hand in hand in Ireland
and both have made their mark
the
them
side by side this stone columns you sense the presence
the successive invaders asylum want %um
wall who
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nearly three thousand years ago artificial islands or
Crown Oaks were fortified homes for farmers went black any
common goals and herons nest the day into family to whom kitchen tools and
Bronze and Iron
with the latest innovation
laws years later Christianity triumphantly merged with the
by been established kiltie heritage and
until the Vikings came the monasteries flourished with art and music
the monks till their fields
this holes were said to enter into the Irish
hands so the tradition grew in many parts of Thailand
these quite individual mountain here's should never be killed
the Viking invasions or the monsters and feels abandoned
Christianity retreated to the far southwestern corner a violent
them
warned
there's been a monastery on the larger of the two skelly
Islands since the century after sympatric arrived although it's under is
unknown
a community of monks live here in isolation
until they too were raided by Vikings the habit
candid of it's been
largely deserted now for nearly nine hundred years but never silent
the Pathans have like the has been dubbed the reincarnated spirits
monks
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well
for more than three hundred years
little skelly be famous for its colony gangs
some 20,000 pairs I'm room to give
and breed if the second largest economy in the world
and it's hard to believe that about a hundred years ago when they were hunted
for food
they were just 30 pairs left
some are still too young to breed
this party plumage fix them out the adults are busy gathering we did
Bloxham but there's cement with 10 into a huge mound
lined with banners they'll a1a the patches in six weeks or so
young bird will be ready to fly three months later
acceptable early winter when they move out into the Atlantic
all year began its me Chris Kelly to capitol like
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le bus love Dublin never ceases
the Vikings founded today more than a quarter of the population lives there
in a few big towns the driving those they are
takes energy and some of that energy was found
locked in my heart wild Highland
power stations like this produce a quarter Highlands electricity supply
and it's not burning kung fu the Turner feet
cops from the great blog Lanza central highland
process that's effecting one of the most profound and contentious changes
to the Irish landscape in this island's history already
over eighteen million tons a peak have been capped appeal
there are over 200 million tonnes to wear
which is why some people in Ireland are surprised when others are concerned
about conserving programs for the future
it seems to be more than enough amid
the first side was probably capped by 1p
early settlers to fuel the home fires but there were few people them
and a great deal Pete
the cutting knew this shallow bomb today laid bare the underlying layer
mom suitable for nesting send margins
the industry the margins matches that of the *** with his baram
donkey the cutter
feeling is John and the catcher
stacking the which sounds too dry
Martin's nest to in the dry cut wallop the bomb
invitation to an agile Irish state can't local their home
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the State wins and they'll be the nest to raid
it's a renewable resource knots over the turf cutter
it takes ten thousand years to make a bomb
just a few days to drain and destroy one
high in the western hills where the shallow peep
blanketing the land has been capped ancient pie and you'll end oak forests
have been exposed
stumps preserved for five thousand years by the blanket bog mosses the grew on
the beach
waterlogged soil the first farmers induced having clear the woods for their
crops
them
the deeper moms in the Central Lowlands were formed in the melt water lakes
held in silt and clay deposited by the glasses
plants grew in and around the lakes
died and partially decayed the surface
closed overly changes and glasses which
intern died out and a new plants magnum of
invaded its growth over the next seven thousand years
raised the box into the slightly domed shape profile today
and
such a bob is not justice also fuel of future farmland
the rich living system and importantly because
other countries have destroyed their as a unique heritage in Western Europe
step on the spring you like and moss-covered surface
and it's quite likely that the first plan you'll notice is the Sun byu
offering sticky welcome to in sick visitors
it needs and because there's not much goodness in the water remarks it sits on
the insects come seeking flowers even
this one the Sun do itself and some flowers
turn the ball into a garden these a blog
ashford Els
on such an acidic site heather's growth fairly well
and the young shoots a sufficiently nutritious to attract the Irish red
grouse
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its camouflage makes it hard to spot in the nest on the ground
okay every year there's
a heavy immigration can use it to island some
just passing through in spring and autumn a few
a resident but much of the bond land on which they messed has already been
drained
and cut planted with conifers
for birds like the curly use for the Golden Plover
the bombs and wetlands a violent not only breeding grounds but essential
staging posts on migration
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modern ornithologists know that Islands waterways and
flood plains marshes and estuaries are important wintering grounds for birds
that nest in Greenland
or siberia birds that are not Irish but international
but everyday
such wetlands with an essential food for travelers undrained as worthless unless
built on
or harm all
well
home the and
lotta Highlands resident birds
the long-tailed *** builds a French island secret master lichen
calm winds and some 2000 heather's
to achieve maximum comfort that reports eggs will hatch
its tree at the edge Obama may well have been cleared away
be
invention of harming some 10,000 years ago
provided means to exert great changes on any left Island lost most industries
should stone-age farmers
but there are still places where he later changes between leisurely
with the speed to the side still allows the comb gray
time to dodge to other cover
the Connemara farmer
hand freshies ok but only for the hens but then
in parts of the West Island farming isn't an intensive process
anymore than is the fishing winkle picking
and if you take your call with machinery
the straw was no use for fashion anyway all
by tell what we attended
for Tony had apprehended old enough to know
was EE don't be a *** following the overthrow of the Iranian you're not
alone
over
haha the spirit the hunt together
lives on but the pastoralists got the real grip on the lam
as artists became farmland and men followed the plow
so wildlife injury to their table
in a landscape with very few trees a bird must look for the next best thing
Ireland
is landed convenient castles Obama
benefits from the Norman Conquest though the kestrels upstairs and not the
quietest I've made list
around the castle's the ghosts seem to linger
by 1700 all but the wettest in steepest part of the country who cultivated
and parts for the landscape changed again the women's oblique English landed
gentry will let loose on the greatest States
but the Irish Sea had kept from the shores now floating
with the landscape gardener and an exotic England
lowered on Irish soil
weird
yeah
the formality of the Rose Garden
to live in bed was not enough a wildly Susie Essman
new treaties new animals cause the welcome replanting
woodlands but more like those are Italy in which left
past Ste
Ste in to
came the Japanese seek India in 1860
they end up Aaron London the first to be seen in the British Isles
Layla WinMo Viscount Powerscourt as he was then
the sea can make good outside the gates as well
dear
had long been the play things at the landowners Norman barons and ship the
fallow over to brighten up their hunting
in a fallow deer that large now to swatched be called the queen of trees
the beach was brought to island the King trees the ok
was already here skip along the avenues have limes from England
and horse chestnuts from Eastern Europe and from South America came the fuchsia
and instant hit with Irish bees
remarkably the rhododendron had been here once before
but was swept away by the Ice Age now it was carried back
and as with all introductions to a country there's always the danger escape
from the back garden no
ornamental shrubbery certainly the fuchsia made of into the Carrie
countryside
and the rhododendron plunge back into the native ok words
and threatens to choke them
paradoxically it was the death and introduced plant
that revolutionized the landscape in the rainy 18 forties
a fungal blight killed the South American potato
I've been a staple food and a million people starve to death
million fled abroad slowly
Islands green has reached out over the ruins putting life back into the stands
but not quite concealing that appalling human tragedy
is Ste
Ste
just
now
States play know once the laughter of children
echoed the western hills
seem to room with him to miss the ones large and hungry population
some eight million people but even sought to grow potatoes on the streets
east slopes
and now the deserted lazy beds
lie like raves waiting owners who will never return
the fiske use the bid strolls the bent grass and the cops with between them
a green banquet now a wind-blown mom
the
if she dies the hoodies are ready it's really a carrion crow
with the difference seriously this gray way skated sub-species while
camilia 22 the Scots he's almost unknown England or Wales
and likewise the glossy black crow who is still something of a rarity here
yeah bomb
and I'll
in the bleak days a famine people ain't what they could
and that included the native Red Deer but a handful in Killarney were very
strictly protected by wealthy landowners
and it today survive today
home
they're making
newhart's now there's a ready market the softwood timber
in fallen trees in a suit clothes parlance sleep India
lodgepole pine and Sitka spruce from North America
says a new Irish landscape in the making
the target close regiment some conifers the only answer
the promise to say that an important new resource for Highland
which is one of Europe's least forested countries and the development
need not be at the expense of native woodland the courting hen harriers are
and dismayed by the changes around them
there've been more these birds since the planting began 30 years ago
they like the quiet install young plantations mail has been hunting
and you parties catch to his mate in flight
the hen harriers will not be here when the trees have grown to maturity
the New Forest will in time attracted and wildlife
a winter visitor the shorty Italian is on its way to becoming
Irish but it quite like the sword open country the hen harrier thrives in
again the undisturbed young spruced plantations and atmosphere
peace and security that encourages bleeding like comment that is the mail
the sex is unusually similar
and several pairs have produced young
in the west and southwest %uh violent he's listening to their hungry calls
just
when
Viscount Powerscourt invited his Japanese seeking to island
he couldn't resist introducing them at home to some local Radia
are in fact closely related
can interbreed producing fertile offspring today
harming pure seek India like these for me to hides
seems to be a viable idea in this herd
the seeker staggs up your bread pure Red Stag would be much bigger
but so is a hybrid stay the cross between the two deer
from men Powerscourt hybrid stands got out into the week low hills
the great size gave them an advantage over the purebred seeker
and so hybrid dear began to spread the future of
wild purebred seeker and wild native Irish Red Deer
are both in question but it's thought thats a manageable problem
unlike some others that are causing great anxiety
the Irish deeper could find the taking a *** will get more difficult
more and more they face
in fiction is the shallow trout streams they need a transformed into drains
home to plot thought here
is that for the price of a lost tribe stream and the after the machinery
too much needed employment and a generous European Community ground
a little more Island can be replaying from the lakes
I know you're in the water level on said
the land is needed to accommodate house new
intensive ranching is turning parts of the island into a green shaded Texas
and woe betide any who say it should not be so
it
and when summer is over
lots of cattle will need lots of silage
fine edge nikka is one of the most potent pollutants a freshwater
that and runoff from land on which the use of fertilizers has been following
and
upward trend threatened a drastic change to the very hard to the Irish landscape
its wildlife and quite simply those many places which the irish love to relax
into
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with
with such lakes and rivers all island should have to do
is sit and wait ban TV ocean
roles in the dayton accord and what i did. tourists washes into sharing that
well
it's not the whole circles but it would show
a prudent worthy you earlier generations who then Hampton
more closely into while
wild stretches beyond island shores
these barnacle geese know the country only as a win to roost
and Google white-fronted geese too many
describe burns this mild Island is a warm Haven
fiercest Europe swindled come
we know from was Greenland weaning in with the Hooper Swan
back from Iceland's nesting grounds
by
but now it's spring and day these brent geese from across the Atlantic a
restless
back urge to be in north again to return on that journey which ones
only legend explain
in the old times it was the moment for the birds seasonal
Hyderabad because the most puzzling
where did they go and with the same birds come back
one nation after the children with net saw Force Ones as
enchanted children whose fate was banishment to some distant wilderness
to which they might return after 300 years in exile
they did come back in the unchanged beauty of the mandate net
they reverted to human form but we're incredibly old
and quickly died Island
is changing Holland lies in the hands of people
there's no doubt the Irish from movement after all
if there were no place left for the birds to come back to
and to call their own what legends name would be told
the wild Island there once had been
there's a treat in store for me to love is when bbc2 presents Natural History
night
an evening with David Attenborough and friends on Saturday December 28
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