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According to the BTO there is only one garden in every one hundred in Britain that have Reed Buntings coming to feed. We are lucky in that we have regularly as many as five feeding, four out of five of which are males. The remarkable fact though is that they have watched the other birds feeding on the fat-ball feeder and now adopt the same method by climbing inside the feeder where they are safe from the Sparrowhawk. Is this the Darwin theory of evolution in our garden?
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Gordon Yates
Updated on
April 7, 2026
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Alongside filmmaking, Gordon has earned recognition in still photography competitions with the BBC, RSPB, Scottish Wildlife, and the Scottish Ornithologists’ Club — using his trusted Pentax equipment. One of his proudest achievements was seeing ten minutes of his work broadcast by Granada Television — a milestone in a lifetime dedicated to wildlife storytelling. Today, he continues capturing the natural world with his Canon EOS 7D and Canon XM2 digital camcorder.