Gordon Yates
Wildlife Photographer

Once again we have in the garden a male Sparrowhawk with deep orange eyes. He has visited us for the last few Winters and if his breast feathers were more

It is five years this weekend since we commenced this blog and I hope that during this time readers will have gleaned some information relating to the trials and tribulations

Apart from last week’s Kingfisher disaster the period June to late August has been the busiest I have ever had with the camera. The fact that this has fallen during

I suppose it had to happen in the wettest Summer for a century that my regular pair of Kingfishers would fail to rear any young this year. They started in

After more than forty years in the waiting last week I was able to watch three recently fledged Hobbies at a secret locality in the Pennines. Feeds occurred in mid

Whilst I am showing my films over the Winter period people readily tell me of some of the nests that they have found during the breeding season.Some promise faithfully to

With sunny and warm weather I took the opportunity to visit my Adder site during the week and was well rewarded. Three Adders were enjoying the warmth, together with a

This is the only fledged Long Eared Owl I have seen this year . I spent a magical hour with this bird and eventually it was so used to me

The photo this week is of a Roe Deer with her fawns filmed on Islay during our recent visit. During a busy week back home I have now checked all

As mentioned in the previous post here is the photo of a rather wet male Little Owl. We have just returned from six days on Islay and as usual it