Gordon Yates
Wildlife Photographer

When you have been involved with wildlife all your life there are days that stand out when everything comes good and one of those days occurred this week. With sunshine,

No two years are ever the same in the species that winter in Britain. This winter has seen virtually no Waxwings, a few Fieldfares and hardly any migrant Owls. The

Last weeks severe winter weather had a dramatic effect on the number of birds feeding in the garden and we had a record fourteen Long Tailed Tits and six Reed

Whilst most visitors to Islay come to see raptors and the Geese the other attraction is Scotlands largest population of Chough. Unfortunately the fortunes of the rarest member of the

  Last week on Islay was highlighted with a mid-air conflict between a Buzzard and an adult Sea Eagle. The Eagle had strayed into the breeding territory of the Buzzard

A dramatic week on Islay with heavy snow, gales, rain and one sunny day! It is winter of course and both we and the wildlife have to put up with

On a superb sunny day I visited my local Heronry to find six birds were present and had already re-occupied their two pine trees. Although there was much vocalisation no

This weeks photo is of a first winter Glaucous Gull trying to eat a black piece of plastic. It is a bird of the Arctic but was filmed at Hollingworth

Not a subspecies of the Redpoll but a small party of Common Redpolls found feeding last week in Wales. We have just returned from a snowy week in the Berwyn

There are few birds more colourful than a Parrot Crossbill. This winter several small flocks of Parrot Crossbills are in Britain and one of these is to be found deep