‘Living the Wildlife’ returns to RTÉ for a seventh season on Tuesday, March 24.
The series is presented and directed by Emmy-award winning natural historian, Colin Stafford-Johnson and produced by Gillian Marsh of GMarsh TV. The DoP on the project is Domenico Pontillio, sound was provided by Olivia Kulander and it was edited by Colm O’ Brien whose assistant editor was Rowan O’ Donovan. The online editor of the series was Alan Sullivan while the colourist was Magdalena Turnier. The sound editor was Oliver Fallen while the dubbing mixer was Jeremy Rynhart.
Post-production took place at EGG Post Production.
Now in its seventh year, this series this year takes the audience to the four corners of Ireland to meet a wealth of fascinating characters as they film some intriguing new species.
On Inishark Island off the Connemara coast, Colin risks the wrath of dive-bombing great skuas as they protect their nest. In Wicklow, he joins a unique badger study that uses all the latest technology to uncover the secrets lives of these oft-maligned creatures. Returning to his old stomping ground in Dublin Bay he comes nose to nose with some very curious seals and films a territorial male grey seal display for the very first time.
Once hunted to extinction, the white-tailed eagle and the red kite are now back breeding in Ireland and Colin meets up with the people who made this happen. In Kerry, he witnesses a mass exodus of natterjack toadlets and in Donegal he tracks down a new species of toad of Ireland.
Finally, this series ends with a look at how a whole host of creatures like kingfishers, pine martens, storm petrels and hen harriers all require very different techniques and approaches to capture them on film.
‘Living the Wildlife’, produced by GMarsh TV for RTÉ One, returns to our screens on Tuesday, March 24th at 7pm.
