THE nights are drawing in and there’s a crisp autumnal chill in the air, which can mean only one thing for the Beeb – it’s time to start dishing out the seasonal wildlife documentaries.
In what must be a first, Chris Packham is nowhere to be seen in The Great British Year. We are sure Autumnwatch 2013 will be lurking just around the corner, but for now we are being left in the capable hands of narrator Joseph Fiennes and this new offering following British wildlife through the seasons.
The first episode focuses on New Year's Day, with the landscape in the grip of winter.
Cameras follow red squirrels as they resort to subterfuge and kites track a farmer’s plough to get at the worms beneath the frost.
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