Gordon Yates
Wildlife Photographer

  After forty three years of filming birds this week I was able to film only my seventh pair of Green Woodpeckers with young. It was in fact twenty five

Since returning from Islay all week has been spent checking nest sites and searching for new nests. It has become apparent that the Whinchat has now disappeared from many of

Our third week on Islay and no visit to the Hebrides is complete without filming some of its seabirds. During the week I checked out some of the regular sites

In the last seven days Islay has been the sunniest place in Britain on two days and we have had well over one hundred hours of sunshine. During this visit

How great it is to be back on Islay which is still catching up on a late Spring. The bluebell woods are better than ever with outstanding carpets of bluebells

  I have just spent most days this week filming my regular pair of Kingfishers who have now about ten days before this years first brood of young fledge. Last

This week’s photo is of a Dipper I filmed last month that has fledged its first brood of young and is now incubating a second clutch of eggs. It appears

The top of Pendle Hill is about as close to Heaven as you can get in the Pennines.To be stood there at 6.30am in full sunshine, white frost and no

With warmer weather and the disappearance of the East wind Spring has finally arrived. On the 30th April I visited Marshside, Southport for the first time in years. I have

Boxing Hares were not what I was expecting to encounter on Islay in late April but with the extreme weather of late no boxing had taken place so far this