David Attenborough's Wild Isles show to feature Norfolk locations

Wild Isles, which airs next month, will be narrated by the legendary broadcaster and celebrate Britain's native wildlife.

The series will feature knot birds at RSPB Snettisham and the seals at Blakeney Point.

Wild Isles is a five-part series which aims to shine a light on the variety and challenges affecting nature in Britain.

The season will feature the Norfolk locations of Blakeney Point and Snettisham (Image: BBC One)

Attenborough said: "If there is one thing I regret, and to be honest there isn’t a lot, it would be that I spent so much time doing overseas natural history.”

One section will feature spectacular scenes of peregrine falcons diving on wading birds called knots.

Filmed at RSPB Snettisham, the knots migrate there in their tens and thousands, using this for protection from predators.

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The sheer amount of knots means falcons are unable to identify a single knot as a target meaning they are less able to pick one of the birds out as prey.

Attenborough's upcoming series will have an introductory episode explaining why Britain and Ireland are globally important for nature.

David Attenborough on the final Winterwatch filmed at Old Ken Hill in Norfolk last month (Image: BBC pictures)

The remaining four hour-long episodes will celebrate the isles’ four key habitats – woodlands, grasslands, freshwater and marine.

The series will also focus heavily on how climate change is affecting nature and biodiversity in Britain's countryside. 

Attenborough noted that he feels there has been a change in how society is recognising these issues, saying: “I won’t try and diagnose what the dynamic is but it is absolutely fundamentally different to the 1950s.”

He added: “Children now don’t write to me about the Wind In The Willows. They write about the real things."

Wild Isles will be on BBC One and iPlayer in early spring.