Wild Britain S01E06 Peak District

The glorious Peak District

0/10 didn't build a canoe.

Ewan McColl makes reference to the white hare in his song "Manchester Rambler", written after "The Great Trespass" in 1938.

Appalling quality @ 360p. Unwatchable.

Thanks for posting this!! +Shawn Nac

Thanks for the upload - Ray is the best.

The last fellow talking about the cadis larvae being like the canaries in the cages is expecting history teaching to be much better than it really is today - so for context the miners used to take canaries in cages down into the coal pit and if there was a build up of toxic gas the Canary fell off its perch before the gas could suffocate or blow up the miners and they knew to get out of the pit until the gas had dissipated. So as the Canary told the miners the air was polluted the health of the cadis fly population tells you if there is pollution in the water.

Strange he went up Wynnats Pass to Stannage Edge when it's in the opposite direction hahaha. Great program 👍

The animal. Life on the moorland the Peak District great to view and savour love the heather moorland when it blooms..great tour today thanks for your show today Ray.Most informative as usual thanks.Ann Deakin Warwick.

I'm sad to see Ray defending burning, its so damaging and artificial. Gamekeepers are destroying the land, not managing it.

What about the human history of the Peak District, never mind the sheep etc

'Such an inoffensive animal. They just want to get on with their lives.' I'm pretty sure all animals want to get on with their lives. I don't really hear of any cows, pigs or chickens interfering with our lives or being offensive.

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What a contradiction : I'm less than 2 minutes into this video, where he's going on about the amazing uplands habitat we have here....but he's driving right over the heathland in a great big Range Rover!

It’s astonishing, after watching seasons and seasons of TimeTeam archeology show and know just how much physical land gets swooped up and stamped “National Heritage” , (in some cases devastating human lives), yet no organization jumps in to do the same on natural resources that ultimately AFFECT US ALL GLOBALLY. Unlike Roman mosaic floors. WTF people!?!? WTF!?!?

You know what I don’t understand.... after watching endless episodes of the TimeTeam archeology show, how is it English Heritage can swoop in stamping some poor farmers land “an English heritage site”, sometimes devastating the owners human lives to protect Roman mosaics that won’t ever be seen!!!!!YET!?!??? There is no organization equally as powerful that can make such decisions THAT ULTIMATELY AFFECT ALL OF US “GLOBALLY”!?!

I think if Ray were an animal he would be a Badger.

Ring Ouzels are lovely

Thanks for uploading this.

Why is this man not Knighted yet.

Get out ya car m8,stretch ya legs don't be a dick wtf ray

If its their home their nursery why you driving about in it lol

I thought more of you Ray than driving about my gosh lol

As I start my journey to the Eastern parts in my jeep lol

Yeah get into the the mind of the animal by driving in your car,your not like this Ray why this time 😒

Ahh the old we burn swathes of heather so we can charge nobbers to kill the grouse. What a piss-poor excuse. Then there's the snares to 'control' the foxes, and poisoning the birds of prey to protect the grouse to be shot.
Funny thing is nature does a fine job of balance without intervention.

If what you say is true about heather, then it is one hell of a lot rarer than rainforest by a factor of many thousands to one. The Amazon rain forset is still so large it can be clearly seen from space, and this is not the only rainforest in the world. Is the Peak District clearly visible from space? I suggest not? Stop playing the GCC game, we need truth not evermore mindlessly self-interested scaremongering directed mainly at young and innocent minds

He possibly went over mam tor and round that way not sure why he would but perhaps it wasn't filmed in order

Ray....enough said...

Some interesting mushrooms in the Peak District

I'm a big fan of Ray Mears...the dislike was for the 360 resolution.

presenting great, landscape bleak to me,

The upland Peak landscape is not biodiverse or wild, it's managed by Gamekeepers and sheep grazing in a very detremental way for the environment. Ray seems to ignore this while driving past fencelines on the moorland and valleys which would natually be forested.

Ditto the previous comment. This video is your typically British cobblers. Its fences and paved roads all over the place, hardly a tree for miles upon miles. There would be forests for miles as far as the eye could see if it even remotely native ecosystem, and which was what it was before the imperial barons and their indentured peasantry clear-felled it all. They even to this day run sheep and goats and sometimes strategically introduce deer to keep it free of trees, just to maintain the " quaint " aspect. .

lived there for 17 years

Did Ray mears give us the first ever yeboiiii and we didn’t even realise it

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You'll see a lot more if you leave the car behind Ray! ;) A good deal of camera trickery going on there I'd say :D

Hopefully next time I'm up there I won't get run over or have to breath the fumes not to mention the noise. Maybe get some of his mates up there with their 'off roaders'.

excellent, thank you for this episode

Are there any wallabys left in the roaches and up on hens cloud?

did you drive over their nests ?

Can't believe he's 60 now, still the daddy 🤣🇬🇧👍