Iolo: A Wild Life

Iolo Williams delves into the archives to see some fantastic wildlife that he's filmed in Wales during the past twenty-five years. He also explores the changes he's seen in Welsh wildlife in that time. In this episode, Iolo goes river dipping in the shortest of shorts in the Severn near Newtown, encounters slippery frogs in a freezing stream, and a family of otters on Stackpole ponds, Pembrokeshire. He recalls filming short-eared owls hunting on waste ground in Kinmel near Rhyl, and a stunning kingfisher on a pond created on reclaimed coalmine land in Dare Valley Country Park. Iolo also despairs over the species that have disappeared over the years including the high brown fritillary in Powys, lapwings in the south Wales valleys, and the extinction of the corn bunting in Wales.