Inside the 'stunning' beauty spot where BBC Winterwatch is filmed

Presenters Michaela Strachan and Chris Packham instrumentality to big Winterwatch

The much-loved BBC bid Winterwatch is acceptable to grace our screens erstwhile again this week with a big of peculiar episodes.

Winterwatch, which has been airing connected BBC Two since 2012, forms portion of the BBC's 'Watches' wildlife programming trio, alongside Springwatch and formerly Autumnwatch.

The caller series, hosted by Michaela Strachan and Chris Packham, volition beryllium broadcast connected BBC Two for 4 consecutive nights astatine 8pm, starting from Tuesday (January 21) done to Friday (January 24).

Wales Online reports Winterwatch volition beryllium going unrecorded from the RSPB Arne reserve adjacent Wareham successful Dorset. Nestled wrong Poole Harbour and the Dorset Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty, this 5.6 quadrate kilometre tract is portion of the UK's archetypal Super National Nature Reserve.

The breathtaking tract boasts unfastened heathland and past oak woodland, and is 1 of the fewer places successful the UK wherever each six autochthonal reptiles tin beryllium spotted.

RSPB Arne welcomes visitors daily, offering galore trails to explore, on with a cafe and store located wrong the quality reserve.

Reviews connected Tripadvisor picture the tract arsenic boasting "Amazing views and a beauteous walk" and "beautiful wildlife".

One visitant said: "A beauteous spot to locomotion with tons of antithetic habitats nevertheless each birds a cardinal miles away, which is what we expected. Nice cafe with beauteous cake."

Another said: "Visited connected the spot of seeing the reserve connected tv programmes and being successful the area.

"Thought the £5 per idiosyncratic entranceway interest was reasonable, erstwhile you comparison it to different attractions / NT sites.

"The volunteers astatine the commencement were precise welcoming and highly knowledgeable. We followed the purple way which was approx. 1hr, excluding the halt astatine the hide. The fell was ample and looked beauteous new.

"Lovely serene presumption implicit the estuary (?) and a peaceful and calm spot to chill for a while. I was really amazed astatine the deficiency of birds!

"Being a non-birder, this didn't fuss me, but I was delighted to spot respective deer. It's inactive a bully spot to walk, whether you're into birds oregon not.".

The BBC programme volition spotlight the area's stunning heathland, wetlands, and woodlands, arsenic good arsenic the melodramatic challenges and intriguing behaviours of UK wildlife during the wintertime season.

Audiences tin look guardant to captivating tales of resilient creatures, ranging from elusive birds of prey to the mysterious nocturnal activities of cervid and foxes.

Live cameras volition beryllium installed crossed the tract to seizure each the action, including the section white-tailed oversea eagle who regularisation the skies.

Chris Packham has heaped praise connected RSPB Arne, describing the tract arsenic a hotspot of earthy diversity: "It's a large spot due to the fact that of the diverseness of habitats.

"It's got everything: it's got broadleaf woodland, conifer woodland, heathland, and grassland, and then, of course, it's got Poole Harbour, with its brackish marsh and mud and everything else, Brownsea land and its lagoon.

"It's an incredibly divers scope of habitats with a large scope of species. The task of the Super National Nature Reserve continues."

He further explained their efforts to bolster the section situation by saying, "They're continuing to benignant of grow and consolidate and instigate resilience successful that environment, which is truly important. So that's thing we've been precise keen to support."

In addition, the bid is acceptable to present seasonal narratives from crossed Britain deliberation encounters with bluish fin tuna on the Devon coastline, the fashionable Big Garden Bird Watch initiative, and a travel done Walthamstow Wetlands, Londons municipality oasis.

After a two-year stint, Winterwatch mightiness beryllium bidding farewell to RSPB Arne, arsenic the declaration the BBC inked with RSPB volition travel to an end.

As for Springwatch 2025, its broadcasting determination remains nether wraps, but the BBC assures that details volition beryllium announced person to its airing.