Gordon Yates
Wildlife Photographer

  The warm and sunny summer has been the bonus that our butterflies have been waiting a long time for. Our garden sunflower has recently attracted Red Admirals with the

  It never ceases to amaze me how, when you go out with your camera to photograph something, another subject appears that might give you a better picture. That’s exactly

For the second successive year our local Barn Owls have reared five young. It’s a long process and has involved the male catching hundreds of prey items over the last

An encounter with three grown-up Fox cubs playing on top of bales of hay has been one of the highlights of late summer. I waited several nights for them to

With the exceptional Summer that we have had it’s been an absolute pleasure to spend time in the company of hunting male Long Eared Owls. So as they return to

After a highly successful breeding season all the Sand Martins at my local nest-site have now moved south. Some have reared two broods so with fifty pairs present hundreds of

Now is the time that two species of birds of the Pennine streams have their second broods. Both Kingfishers and Dippers managed to rear their first young without a drop

Having spent all summer filming the hunting male Long Eared Owls it was good to catch up with the fledged juveniles. They would normally be hard to find in the

With all this summers superb weather I have spent many hours watching Long Eared Owls as they hunt, hoping for one to capture prey when I was within photographic distance.

With wildlife filming it is always the unexpected event that gives you most satisfaction and none more so than last week when I was filming my local Sand Martins I