And they called it puffin love
THERE’S something quite dreamy about watching nature unfold on speed – a flower blooming or clouds whizzing across the sky on a time lapse camera.
This series investigates iconic regions of the British countryside, with days, weeks and months compressed into just a few seconds.
The result is like that famous Notting Hill movie sequence, as the seasons change, people come and go and nothing
looks the same.
In this first instalment, cameras are watching the coast of Pembrokeshire in the southwest of Wales, where life is defined by the Atlantic Ocean.
There are some surprising visitors – not least, a colony of puffins.
Around 24,000 puffins have travelled hundreds of miles across the North Atlantic to a tiny Welsh island because it is the perfect place to breed and rear chicks. As one puffin awaits her mate, there is bill tapping – which looks like frantic kissing – as they are united.
Meanwhile, on Ramsay Island, there resides a flock of sheep, which keep the grass just the right length for 11 pairs of chough.
Watch out for one amusing moment when the sheep must be herded to another spot off the island – which means piling them all on to a boat.
“After a few leaps of protest, they soon find their sea legs,” says narrator Toby Jones.
As autumn arrives, cameras capture some grey seals which come ashore on a Ramsay Island beach to give birth.
And by New Year, hundreds of people brave the icy waters for a fancy dress swim in the ocean.