Beavers from Perthshire have been captured on film for the BBC One documentary series starring Sir David Attenborough - in perhaps his last major stint at presenting.
On Sunday, the Ramsay family, who have created Bamff Wildland and Ecotourism at their 1300-acre estate near Alyth, will be excitedly watching the latest episode of Wild Isles, entitled ‘Freshwater’ (7pm).
In Summer 2021 a crew from Silverback Films came to Bamff to spend 10 days filming the three families of European beavers that have become quite an attraction at the rewilded riverside land.
Bamff Estate has had beavers about since 2002 and the colony has been observed to be consistently reproducing since 2007.
Now about 20 of the mammals are active in the water and can be spotted early morning. The film crew asked that the shoot for the BBC should be kept under wraps until the programme was ready for air and that moment is now here.
Managing partner of the rural East Perthshire enterprise, Louise Ramsay, said: “We really enjoyed hosting the film crew. They chose to come here because they needed footage of young kits and we were pretty confident we would give them that opportunity here at Bamff.
“Luckily the Bamff beavers duly showed their young and everyone was happy. We will be really excited to see the programme and to think that Perthshire wildlife has been captured on film for such a remarkable UK-wide series.”
