BBC - Hamza's Hidden Wild Isles (2025) / AvaxHome

Wonder is everywhere – if you know where to look. From sunny beaches to rugged moors, craggy munros to city streets, Hamza Yassin reveals amazing wildlife hidden around the UK.

Chapter 1: Spring
Hamza heads to RSPB Minsmere in Suffolk, where he witnesses something very few people ever have the chance to see, let alone film. The bittern is a rare, secretive bird which in full song creates a boom that can be heard over three miles away.

Chapter 2: Summer
His journey takes him from the vast open ocean of the Irish Sea to the heart of Leeds and up to his remote home on the west coast of Scotland, with many other places between. Along the way, he meets old friends and passionate conservationists, who help to reveal the hidden beauty of the British summer. Hamza begins his journey out at sea, 40 miles off the coast of south west Wales.

Chapter 3: Autumn
Hamza heads to the south Devon coast to attempt to spot Atlantic bluefin tuna. These incredible, huge fish have made an impressive comeback in British waters, and every autumn we are inundated with leaping tuna on the hunt for small bait fish. But finding them won't be easy – they can appear at any moment, and Hamza only has a split second to film them as they launch themselves into the air from the rough waves.

Chapter 4: Winter
Hamza begins his quest on the icy plateaus of the vast, ancient Cairngorm mountains in Scotland. Conditions are as close to the Arctic as you can find in the Britain, and the wildlife that lives here needs to be as hard as the hills themselves. He's after a bird that turns pure white in winter to blend in with the snowy peaks around it: the ptarmigan, a small, pigeon-sized grouse that is going to take all his skill to find.

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