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Message: <blockquote data-quote="JTweedie" data-source="post: 1603591" data-attributes="member: 8075">I've thought of this before when talking about these programmes, but how would a programme about wildlife around the British Isles done on the scale of say Planet Earth go down?  By that I mean filming in HD, lots of money thrown at them, going out on primetime?  We may not have major predators like lions, wolves, bears etc, but even a three part series on birds, mammals, sealife would be great.We've surely got enough birdlife to support such a programme, for example, look at all the raptors that could provide excellent hunting footage - Golden and White-tailed Eagles, Ospreys, Goshawks, Peregrines and the rest; massive influxes of geese in the winter, the Starling flocks, our masses of seabirds around the coast, the human interaction with birds, be it garden feeding, or crows and gulls coming in to city centres and landfill sites.Some of our mammals could provide some good footage - Pine Martin, Red Squirrel, Fox.  At sea they could look at Basking Sharks, Killer Whales, Common and Bottle-nose Dolphins, Grey and Common Seals.I think there's a lot of potential there for a high quality series.  I love Springwatch and I've enjoyed a lot of the British nature programmes, but I don't think they've ever really put a lot of money into them like they do with overseas based programmes.  I would still love to see them continue to produce the overseas programmes that they make just now, but I just felt a programme centred on the British Isles with all those resources thrown at them is overdue.</blockquote>

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