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Here is the book that inspired the novel, Watership Down - The Private Life of the Rabbit: An Account of the Life History and Social Behavior of the Wild Rabbit: Amazon.co.uk: Lockley R. M.: Books@@AMEPARAM@@http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51RvrzVnYzL.@@AMEPARAM@@51RvrzVnYzL
Written by the great naturalist and writer, R.M. Lockley, whom I met on his home turf in Pembrokeshire before he retired at an ancient age to New Zealand (he considered that even remotest West Wales by then had become far too developed and suburban compared with the place he had known many years earlier).
On BBC2 TV tonight - where Lockley saw it all happen -
Britain's Wild Places - 7.40pm
The Rabbits of Skomer
Documentary focusing on the rabbits that happily co-exist with seabirds such as puffins and gulls on the cliffs of the island of Skomer. Located off the west coast of Pembrokeshire in south Wales, the area is transformed each spring by wild flowers to create one of Britain's most beautiful natural spectacles. Narrated by Daniel Evans
Runtime: 10 minutes
Been to the island a few times, staying overnight on it once, in the third week of June. Wrote about the place once, too - its many puffins, the umpteen thousand Manx shearwaters crying unseen in the dark skies as they return to chicks in their burrows after hours of feeding well out to sea, the almost completely tame, countless rabbits hopping about and nibbling the clifftop turf even in the early hours of a midsummer night. Magic.
Written by the great naturalist and writer, R.M. Lockley, whom I met on his home turf in Pembrokeshire before he retired at an ancient age to New Zealand (he considered that even remotest West Wales by then had become far too developed and suburban compared with the place he had known many years earlier).
On BBC2 TV tonight - where Lockley saw it all happen -
Britain's Wild Places - 7.40pm
The Rabbits of Skomer
Documentary focusing on the rabbits that happily co-exist with seabirds such as puffins and gulls on the cliffs of the island of Skomer. Located off the west coast of Pembrokeshire in south Wales, the area is transformed each spring by wild flowers to create one of Britain's most beautiful natural spectacles. Narrated by Daniel Evans
Runtime: 10 minutes
Been to the island a few times, staying overnight on it once, in the third week of June. Wrote about the place once, too - its many puffins, the umpteen thousand Manx shearwaters crying unseen in the dark skies as they return to chicks in their burrows after hours of feeding well out to sea, the almost completely tame, countless rabbits hopping about and nibbling the clifftop turf even in the early hours of a midsummer night. Magic.