Gordon Yates
Wildlife Photographer

One family of birds that you are bound to see on Islay in summer are the Chats. The commonest one is the Stonechat and these are present all year round

I always find that one of the most delightful birds to photograph on Islay are the Black Guillemots. A couple of early mornings at a breeding site had birds courting,

It was good last week to be back on Islay filming Britain’s most threatened raptor ,the Hen Harrier. In June the only time you would see the female Harrier is

Todays blog photo is of a Roe Deer eating the fresh leaves of a sapling Oak.It was taken on my local Golf Course and is good news for the management

Now is the time when Goldfinches bring to the garden their first broods of young. This week we have had one pair with four juveniles and another pair with one

On a perfect morning I could not resist another visit to Yorkshire to film the Black Necked Grebes. I was hoping to see some young Grebes but after two hours

More than twenty years ago Lapwings started to nest on the roofs of Industrial units. At the time it was a bit of a novelty and was quickly followed ten

  While I have found the nest of Short Eared Owls in Scotland I have never found one in my local Pennines. All that changed last week when I watched

In the last ten years I have spent some wonderful moments filming a pair of Little Owls in a ruined building in the high Pennines. This weeks photos were taken

Within an hours drive from my hometown of Rochdale breeds one of Britains rarest and most spectacular birds -The Black Necked Grebe.Its in Yorkshire so armed with my passport(Or should