- Title: Birdscape
- Date: 2nd May 1991
- Summary: IN THIS FIRST PROGRAMME WILDLIFE ARTIST AND PRESENTER BRUCE PEARSON TAKES A PERSONAL LOOK AT THE LANDSCAPE AND BIRDS OF THE OUSE WASHES IN THE FENLANDS OF EAST ANGLIA. BP TAKES US THROUGH THE FILM BY PAINTING AND DRWING HIS SURROUNDINGS. HE EXPLAINS THAT THE OUSE WASHES ATTRACT HUGE NUMBERS OF WILDFOWL FROM ICELAND AND SIBERIA EACH WINTER INCLUDING WIDGEON, PINTAIL AND POCHARD DUCKS. BEWICK AND WHOOPER SWANS ALSO OVERWINTER HERE IN THEIR THOUSANDS. THE FILM OUTLINES THE HISTORY OF THE FENS AND THE LIVING ONCE GAINED FROM FISHING, EEL CATCHING, PEAT DIGGING AND WILDFOWLING. THIS AREA IS A SITE OF INTERNATIONAL IMPORTANCE FOR WILDFOWL IN WINTER AND CONSERVATIONISTS ARE CONSTANTLY ALERT AGAINST THE DANGERS OF DEVELOPMENT. THE FILM ENDS WITH A MONTAGE OF PAINTING, LANDSCAPE AND SWANS AT SUNSET WITH BP EXPRESSING THE HOPE THAT HE HAS CONVEYED TO THE VIEWER JUST WHY THIS HABITAT IS SO SPECIAL AND SO WORTH PRESERVING.
- 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 1
- Transmission Date:02/05/1991
- Rights:On Request
- Decade: 1990s