![]() Only the toughest will survive the Highlands’ darkest and most overwhelming season. With the brief summer now passed, the animals of the Highlands are in for the long haul. EPISODE 3: autumn and winter - against all odds As summer draws to an end, the guillemot chicks of Handa Island face a death-defying leap as they tumble to the sea, fledging from 400-foot cliffs. ![]() Golden eagles and Slavonian grebes work together in pairs while otters and pine martens are single mothers, hunting ceaselessly to feed their young. For the animals of the Highlands, it’s a race to raise their families before the nights close in and the autumn storms arrive. EPISODE 2: summer - the greatest raceīy midsummer, the sun rules here for nearly 18 hours a day. In the Moray Firth, a pod of bottlenose dolphins gathers to feed on the spring run of salmon it’s a bounty but only if they can swallow it. In the Caledonian pine forest, capercaillie perform a striking display to compete for breeding rights while, on the forest floor, a timberman beetle searches for a mate. Red squirrels, osprey, roe deer and dippers make the most of this fleeting opportunity to raise a family. Spring is the most unpredictable of all seasons in the Highlands.
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