Iolo's Street Life 

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Iolo's Street Life: Series 1: Episode 1

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Iolo Williams finds a heron partial to sausage, clever crows, rats, foxes and a tawny owl.

Iolo Williams find rats, foxes and tawny owls living on the street. Also a heron partial to sausages, crows taking an IQ test and the best-fed swans in Wales.

Iolo Williams explores the wild side of towns and finds birds and animals that have adapted to life on the street. They have discovered it's a great place to get food as well as a safe place to raise a family. Some commute daily to town. Birds simply fly above the traffic, while four-legged animals use their own 'rat' routes. For these wildlife townies, the street is a place called home.

In his first wild town tour, Iolo stumbles on tawny owls in residence in an Abertillery chimney. They've been living there for over a year. Rats have their own thriving colony in the centre of Swansea; few humans passing by notice. A fox family is living in an allotment in Cardiff. The vixen has raised three healthy cubs. Little wonder with all the healthy veg and grubs around. In Wrexham, a pair of extraordinary dippers are living in a culvert. They fly underground below shops, offices and flats to get to different parts of town.  

Also in the programme, Iolo finds the best-fed swans in Wales, a heron comes to a Llanberis garden for his daily diet of junk food, and in Deganwy, crows are given an IQ test.

Iolo's Street Life: Series 1

Iolo Williams explores wildlife that has adapted to life on the street.

Iolo Williams explores the wild side of towns and finds birds and animals that have adapted to life on the street.

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