BBC - Wild Isles
Sir David Attenborough narrating my drone work on this blue-chip BBC documentary showcasing UK wildlife. From RSPB Minsmere and RSPB Snettisham
My working ambition was to get my footage narrated by Sir David Attenborough at some point during my career and I was lucky enough to achieve it. I got asked by a producer to film two different stories for the show both being local to me.
Firstly RSPB Snettisham and the Red Knot spectacular, where 100,000+ birds get forced into a lagoon during spring high tides in Norfolk. As the tide rises, the mudflats become submerged meaning the knot has to move further and further up the bank until finally the mudflats are no more and they have to retreat to a lagoon and wait for the tide to drop. This behaviour had never been filmed by drone before due to potential disturbance. With a team of RSPB watchers and the crew, we spent many days filming the spectacle over a couple of years.
Secondly RSPB Minsmere for reedbeds and red deers. The initial story was going to be bitterns hunting in the reedbed paths of the red deer but ended up being a sequence just outlining the red deer's paths across the vast redbeds of the Suffolk reserve.