Gordon Yates
Wildlife Photographer

  Whenever you film local Dippers you risk your photos being ruined by human activities such as fly-tipping. This was the case last week when the Dippers that I was

Of all the plants in the garden the Teasel is one of the best to grow from a bird-lovers point of view. Its seeds are loved by Goldfinches and if

My favourite filming in Spring is filming Long Tailed Tits as they return to their nests with feathers. It normally happens in March but this year we are several weeks

One of the commonest birds that we encountered in Wales the other week was the Siskin. Wherever there were woodlands flocks of Siskins could be heard and seen amongst the

  This weeks blog photo shows a remote Welsh valley with the centre piece a decaying old Rowan tree. Further down the valley are some vibrant pine forests and these

We have just returned from a short break at Rivercatcher on the River Dee in Wales. The undoubted highlight of our visit was watching, for thirty minutes, an Otter as

How many times have I set off to film a certain species of bird and ended up with something else that was totally unexpected? This happened last week when I

After all the recent gales it was good to spend a few hours with my local Herons.On all but two nests the Herons were already incubating eggs. However, in an

Despite enduring three storms last week on Islay one thing did not suffer – the Snowdrops at Bridgend were as good, or even better, than ever as shown in this

We have just returned from eight days on Islay during which there were three named storms! While on some days no film was taken there is always a bonus from