01: Spring – Season of Extremes | Highlands – Scotland’s Wild Heart

Rewilding | Highlands - Scotland's Wild Heart

Rewilding and reintroducing species to Scotland is controversial and while there are benefits, it is the people of Scotland who...

02: Summer - The Greatest Race | Highlands - Scotland's Wild Heart

Ewan McGregor narrates a series about the wildlife of the Scottish Highlands. In summer, animals race to r...

03: Autumn and Winter - Against All Odds | Highlands - Scotland's Wild Heart

Ewan McGregor narrates a series about the wildlife of the Scottish Highlands. How animals must e...

04: Highlanders | Highlands - Scotland's Wild Heart

Ewan McGregor narrates a series about the wildlife of the Scottish Highlands. A look at how humans are now endeavouring t...

13: Scottish Highlands | Nature's Microworlds

Steve Backshall shows how the two contrasting landscapes of open moor and Caledonian forest are both crucially important to the...

Atlantic salmon | Highlands - Scotland's Wild Heart

After their 2000-mile journey, Atlantic salmon return to lay eggs at their spawning ground high up in the Highlands.

Baby dippers escape nest | Highlands - Scotland's Wild Heart

Due to extreme rainfall, the baby dippers have to vacate their nest as they venture in their first outing across...

Black grouse | Highlands - Scotland's Wild Heart

As the snow clears, male black grouse with wheezing calls and plumped up feathers battle to gain the best ground for courtship.

Bottlenose dolphins | Highlands - Scotland's Wild Heart

Bottlenose dolphins search for spawning grounds to catch Atlantic salmon to eat, although there is a difficulty swall...

Bullying guillemots | Highlands - Scotland's Wild Heart

Larger birds take advantage of the guillemots fishing skills and bully them in the air so they drop their catch and t...

Capercaillie | Highlands - Scotland's Wild Heart

There are only 1000 wild capercaillie in Scotland and competition to mate is fraught.

Caring for reindeer | Highlands - Scotland's Wild Heart

Highlanders help maintain the reindeer population, who are very docile, bringing in tourism to the local area through...

Conserving ospreys | Highlands - Scotland's Wild Heart

Due to egg collectors, the osprey was on the brink extinction until the 1950's when conservation began and they reappe...

Dippers | Highlands - Scotland's Wild Heart

Britain's only aquatic songbird, dippers are adept at finding larvae in the water and returning to their hidden cave near a water...

Eaglet fight | Highlands - Scotland's Wild Heart

Hunger drives eaglet siblings to fight each other, with the first born always being stronger and having the advantage.

Golden eaglets | Highlands - Scotland's Wild Heart

Golden eaglets need a lot of food to grow, with the parents catching up to three full-size hares a day.

Golden-eyed ducklings | Highlands - Scotland's Wild Heart

With the addition of breeding boxes, golden-eyed ducks have been able to spawn ducklings. However once hatched, the...

Grey seals | Highlands - Scotland's Wild Heart

Grey seal clans are controlled by one male who is in charge of a harem of females when settled on the beach, and none of the y...

Guillemot attack | Highlands - Scotland's Wild Heart

Other seabirds get territorial over the cliffs leaving one guillemot chick to jump poorly and hit the rocks beneath yet ...

Guillemot chicks | Highlands - Scotland's Wild Heart

On the precipitous ledge, hunting for food is tricky job with the chicks needing at least 3 sand eels a day to grow full...