The Yorkshire Dales and the Lakes: Season by Season

Channel 4

2:45 AM to 3:40 AM

Wednesday 24 September

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Springtime is a time of new life - it's a time where the Dales and the Lakes flourish. In Grasmere, sheep farmers Peter and Robert Bland are marking up their new lambs, before setting them and their mothers free on the open fell. On the Castle Bolton Estate in the Dales, head gamekeeper Ian Sleightholm and his children offer a hand to licenced bird ringer David Baines, as they capture and ring chicks no longer so common across the country. Because of Ian's management of the moor, species such as the lapwing, curlew and merlin have found a haven. In Wensleydale, a private woodland has become a sanctuary for another rare British breed - the red squirrel