Gordon Yates
Wildlife Photographer

This week’s photo, taken through the video camera, is of a Water Rail on the ice at Elton reservoir – a fitting climax to my best ever season in thirty

On the nineteenth of December I had the best local day ever for two species of wader with four Jack Snipe together in the Thornham fields and an amazing ten

Another year comes to a close and what a year its been. In 40 years of filming wildlife I have never had a better year.It started off with a classic

Not much to report this week following on from the wettest ever November with more than ten inches of rain recorded on Hopwood Golf Course rain gauge. The first Jack

After many months of editing my DVD ‘Polar Bears and other Wildlife of Spitsbergen’ it is now available for sale. Spitsbergen is the most accessible part of the high Arctic

Last weekend was spent at Banchory in Aberdeenshire attending Mike Madders memorial service on the Monday. A beautiful part of the country but not much seen in the way of

Not quite as spectacular as this photo of a Great Northern Diver in Summer plumage but it was good to see one at Hollingworth Lake this week. It has been

Last weeks note about the Sparrowhawk was somewhat premature as he returned twice during the week and on one occasion he caught a Goldfinch on the rockery at the back

There can be no finer Beech woods in East Lancashire than Tandle Hill Country Park at Royton. This year there has been a good crop of fruit and as a

I have spent most of this week working on the Spitsbergen DVD so I have not had much time for ‘birding’ On Hopwood on two separate days I had flocks