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A WILD IRISH YEAR

A Wild Irish Year Red Squirrel Image Name: A Wild Irish Year Red Squirrel
A Wild Irish Year Red Kite Image Name: A Wild Irish Year Red Kite
A Wild Irish Year Red Deer Early Morning Image Name: A Wild Irish Year Red Deer Early Morning
A Wild Irish Year Hibernating Bat Image Name: A Wild Irish Year Hibernating Bat
A Wild Irish Year Hedgehog Image Name: A Wild Irish Year Hedgehog
A Wild Irish Year Autumn Badger Image Name: A Wild Irish Year Autumn Badger

Starting Sunday 13th May on RTÉ One at 6:30pm, ‘A Wild Irish Year’ is a captivating new four-part series bringing us all across the country from our wild coasts, mountains and woodlands to farms, towns and cities.

Across each episode the presenting team, Tara Shine, Rob Gandola and Eoin Warner, guide us through a single season showcasing some of our most spectacular natural events and meeting along the way a diverse range of people whose lives are still deeply connected to the changing seasons.

Filmed over the course of a year, cutting edge camera technologies allowed the team to capture Ireland’s changing seasons in new and exciting ways. High-speed cameras slow down the frantic movements of Sandmartins and Swallows, tiny migrants that come all the way from Africa, incredible low-light technology reveals the Autumnal activity of a Badger sett, aerial footage offers a bird’s-eye-view of the shifting countryside below and timelapse photography accelerates the gradual changes in the weather and landscape to allow viewers the opportunity to watch as our island transforms through the year.

Episode Three: Autumn
Autumn is a season of change, migration and frantic activity in the natural world. As days shorten, it’s fight or flight time. The animals who travel must prepare for the journey ahead and those that stay must build up food reserves to see them through to the following spring. We visit a woodland to reveal the autumn palette in all its glory. Stunning fungi emerge from rotting vegetation, deciduous trees put on a dazzling display of colour and our native red squirrel scamper through, stockpiling for the months ahead. We meet a family of lively badgers who make the most of the milder Autumn nights to fatten up. We take a look at our night sky and why Autumn is the best time of year to take a closer look at our tiny corner of this universe. As a change sweeps across the landscape our presenters will be right there following the wildlife as they migrate, adapt and prepare to batten down the hatches and ensure their survival.

A Wild Irish Year continues Sunday, 27th May at 6.30pm on RTÉ One.