Gordon Yates
Wildlife Photographer

With the first frosts of Winter this week the local Hedgehogs are now finding places to hibernate. Piles of logs are one of their favourites. On Hopwood a good view

On the sixth of October I saw my first Redwing of Autumn, making it six days later than last year which is late in view of the mild Autumnal weather

Not much to report this week as everything has evolved around my eldest son’s wedding on October 3rd. Once my wife and ten month old grandson had been rescued by

The number of Autumn Crocus in flower at Hopwood is the best for some years but their stalks are so fragile they only stop upright for a few days. In

With the exceptionally calm weather a visit to Pennington Flash produced some wonderful film of Lapwings with mirror reflections in the flat calm water. Even in Autumn they have some

At long last five beautiful, calm, warm days to bring Summer to a close. In the garden there are now Peacock, Red Admiral, Small Tortoiseshell and Speckled Wood butterflies flitting

It is a good job there hasn’t been much to film this month because the weather has been awful. Islay has had eight inches of rain during August so I

Once again the Swallows at the Golf Club have had a successful season with more than fifty young fledged from five/six pairs. This year with only one room available for

After two weeks in the Arctic Ice it is difficult to return to the local scene against the backdrop of thundering traffic on the M62. A visit to Pennington Flash

I couldn’t resist a further two photos from Spitsbergen. One the female Polar Bear enjoys a bit of back scratching. The other is of one of Spitsbergen’s most stunning flowers,