- Title: Birdscape
- Date: 30th May 1991
- Summary: IN THIS FILM BRUCE PEARSON GOES TO DORSET TO LOOK AT HEATHLAND MANAGEMENT AND HA BITAT IN RELATION TO BIRDLIFE. HE VISITS THE HEATH IN SUMMER, PAINTING THE LANDS CAPE AND OBSERVING BIRDS LIKE THE NIGHT JAR, THE DARTFORD WARBLER AND THE HOBBY ILLUSTRATING THEIR BEHAVIOUR WITH SKETCHES BY DAY AND BY NIGHT. BRUCE SHOWS US THE THREATS TO HEATHLAND FROM BIKERS, JOGGERS, HORSE-RIDERS AND DEVELOPMENT, FROM HOUSING ENCROACHMENT AND ROAD SCHEMES. HE TALKS TO STEVE LYMAN-DIXON THE WARDEN OF CANFORD HEATH AND TO MARTIN AUL FROM THE RSPB ABOUT THEIR CONSERVATION WORK. THE FILM LOOKS AT THE CHANGES TO HEATHLAND OVER HUNDREDS OF YEARS AND BRUCE STRESSES THAT HEATHLAND IS NOT THE WASTELAND THAT IT IS OFTEN CONSIDERED TO BE - IT IS AN IMPORTANT DIMINISHING LANDSCAPE THAT MUST BE CONTINUALLY PROTECTED.
- Description:Series with leading wildlife artist bruce pearson as he searches for and paints birds in their landscape - often a threatened environment - such as merlins,henharriers and black-throated divers in the disappearing bogs of the flow country
- Broadcaster:Channel 4
- Collection: Channel 4
- Genre:Documentary and Factual
- Producer:AVIE LITTLER ASSOCIATES LTD
- Programme Episode:Episode 5
- Transmission Date:30/05/1991
- Rights:On Request
- Decade: 1990s