Over 50 years in the wild

Gordon Yates
Wildlife Photographer

Documenting wildlife through photography and film since 1972, from Scotland to some of the world’s most remote landscapes.

It is now time to show my favourite photos from last year which turned out to be a pretty good year photographically – so good that instead of the top

A happy new year to all our readers with this weeks blog photo of one of my hides in a neighbours garden last month.This is what a proper hide should

Last weeks sub zero temperatures and sunshine were perfect conditions for filming Fieldfares – if you could find any! A Hawthorne bush in a neighbours garden was full of large

There is no doubt that the most illusive winter visitor to the Pennines is the Jack Snipe. Most people will never see one but I like the ultimate challenge. In

I took this weeks landscape photo early one morning this last summer as I sat waiting for a Long Eared Owl to hunt.It seemed to me to illustrate what is

Once again it looks like its going to be another winter with very few berries and even less Redwings. At dawn on Monday I found four Redwings, along the canal,

For three months last summer I spent time in the hills filming three different hunting male Long Eared Owls. They were memorable nights and I took hundreds of photos so

The exciting thing about wildlife photography is that you never know what subject will present itself to you. One morning last week I set out before sunrise to try and

Following on from last weeks blog on moorland reservoirs this week we highlight one of its success stories. The Little Ringed Plover is one of our rarest breeding birds and

This weeks photo is of Watergrove reservoir which is typical of the dozens of reservoirs that I have filmed at over the last fifty years. In the early years you

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