Subscribe to Our World: Spring is the most unpredictable of all seasons in the Highlands. It's all about timing. Red squirrels, osprey, roe deer and dippers make the most of this fleeting opportunity to raise a family. In the Caledonian pine forest, capercaillie perform a striking display to compete for breeding rights while, on the forest floor, a timberman beetle searches for a mate with antennae four times the length of its body. In the Moray Firth, a pod of bottlenose dolphins gathers to feed on the spring run of salmon; it's a bounty but only if they can swallow it. This film was first broadcast: 11 May 2016 Watch More Documentaries Our Life - Our History - Our World - Our Stories - Explore Our World and watch some of the most successful nature documentary series about the environment and the wonders and dangers nature has to offer. We will be posting some of the longest-running and most successful nature documentary series, revealing the trials and tribulations of life on Earth and often for the first time, the secrets of the natural world in all its wonder. Content distributed by ITV Studios.
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