After sitting for hours in the darkness and amid fears over bird flu, Sir David Attenborough is rewarded with the sight of a Manx shearwater chick taking flight on its 6,000-mile migration to South America.
The moment the chicks leave their burrows on the Welsh island of Skomer is rarely seen by humans as it happens in the pitch black, in the middle of a moonless night.
The incredible sequence, filmed using infra-red technology, is one of the stories in Sir David’s new series Wild Isles, which gives the wildlife of Britain “the Africa treatment”.
