Don’t miss: Hamza – Strictly Birds of Prey.

Hamza Yassin travels around Britain, taking footage of birds of prey – such as marsh harriers, white-tailed eagles, peregrine falcons

The programme is on BBC1 on Sunday, 24 September at 7pm – nearly a year after Hamza Yassin won Strictly Come Dancing.

Now, he’s back in the natural world, meeting old friends, dedicated conservationists and film-makers, beginning on the Ardnamurchan Peninsula in West Scotland.  Here he films many different birds of prey and eagles, his first love!

And he’s in Ealing to track down the peregrine falcon, the fastest animal on the planet.  These falcons are defending their nest and chasing predators off. 

There are hen harriers in the Caingorms National Park, known for their sky dancing courtship display.  Some landowners in the park are restoring the natural environment to help wildlife.

There are buzzards, too, in the woodland behind Hamza’s house, and then it’s off to the shores of Loch Garten situated in the Scottish Highlands.  Hamza finds out what it takes to bring a species back from extinction on an RSPB reserve. 

We see the marsh harrier in Somerset and why the landscape in the Somerset Levels are a beacon for conservationists.  In Sussex, you can be inspired by naturalists and wildlife photographer David Plummer who has transformed his garden into a wildlife haven.

Finally, it’s back to the Cairngorms to see some golden eagle chicks, and the programme ends at Hamza’s very first bird hide which he build in Ardnamurchan.  Here, Hamza reflects on what he has seen and what people are doing to help and protect birds of prey

Fly off to the BBC's website to find out more about the programme here. 

By the way, if you know of someone who would love a birds of prey experience, gift experience company BuyaGift has 36 Birds of Prey experience days. 

As a visitor from this website,  you can enjoy 15% off until 31 December 2023 with our exclusive code AHW2023.   It’s valid site wide, although some products are excluded from this offer.  Fly off to see the birds of prey experiences available with BuyaGift here.

If you love giving the birds and wildlife in your garden a gift, take a look at Garden Wildlife Direct. 

They’ve got everything you need for the birds and wildlife in your garden, be it bird food, bird baths, nesting boxes,  bird feeding stations and a huge range of feeders, wildlife houses, hedgehog food, suet food, plus garden ornaments.   They have window stick alerts, too, so the birds know there’s a window and don’t try to fly through it. 

They’ve also got quite a range of books and gifts for wildlife and bird lovers, and they also have bird feeding starter kits for anyone who wants to give feeding the birds a go for the first time.

Fly off to Garden Wildlife Direct here and treat them to something special!

Emma Bridgewater has a gorgeous new collection, Fruit - and in it, there are lots of goodies in a Blackberry theme!

Late summer/Autumn (and it's not far off!) is blackberry time - a lovely time to get out there with the kids or without them and get into the world of nature and go blackberry picking.  Come home and have them with ice-cream, yummy, or makeblackberry jam, or have them with natural yoghurt for breakfast - a very healthy way to start the day.

The Blackberry French Bowl: pile it high with blackberries!

This is the Blackberry Medium Jam Jar With Lid



This is the Blackberry 8 1/2 Inch Plate

There are other goodies in the range, too:  a tea-pot, a half pint mug, a small cake stand, a medium old bowl, and a small old bowl.

There are other fruits in the collection, such as Raspberries, Brambles and Quince.

Head off to the Emma Bridgewater Fruit Collection here.

The weather is certainly getting hotter where we are and it's important to keep up your fluid intake.   

If you're one of those people who don't think you drink enough water and want to do more, this Personalised Hydration Tracker Water Bottle may help you.  

It's a plastic BPA free bottle with an hourly time tracker on the side - so that you can keep track of how much water you're drinking.  It holds 750ml, and it's got a screw cap. 

This Personalised Hydration Tracker Water Bottles
is available from Find Me a Gift for £14.99

Not only that, but you can personalise it with a name of up to 12 characters long!  You can also choose between pink or black. 

TIME TO TOP UP is part of the design - a handy reminder! 

Go to Find Me a Gift to find out more and to buy this gift.

Please don't forget your furry friends too!  They need access to fresh, clean water as much as we do.