Thursday 24th January 2013
Tomorrow evening (Friday 25th January 2013), at 8.00 p.m., on ITV, in the fourth episode in the current series of Wild Britain, survival expert Ray Mears explores Salisbury Plain.
This part of Wiltshire, rich in archaeology and home to the great stone circle of Stonehenge, is not only the largest area of chalk grassland but is also the habitat for a huge variety of wildlife.Â
Ray watches roe deer, badgers and brown hares, and gets close up with an invertebrate that depends on the ruts and puddles made by military vehicles on manoeuvres for its very survival.
Ray also gets ornith0logical, with the grey partridges, the corn buntings and the yellowhammers that thrive on Salisbury Plain, and takes a look at the bustard, the world’s heaviest flying bird, which has been reintroduced (it became extinct in England 180 years ago).