Gordon Yates
Wildlife Photographer

At last Long Tailed Tits have turned up in the garden with eleven feeding together on the seventeenth at dusk. Still no Fieldfare but on the sixteenth three parties of

One night this week the young Tawny Owl was giving some very hungry calls from the trees in the garden and it may well be that the adults have now

On the third October the first of six Redwings of Autumn were feeding on the Hawthorn berries along the canal – four days later than last year’s early record. A

What a spectacular week of Autumn weather with sunshine, no wind and no rain! Last weekend we had our Ruby wedding and a funeral to attend and covered more than

Rain, rain and more rain can this Summer get any worse? A week of dry weather has been most welcome although sunlight has been at a premium A Speckled Wood

Rain, rain and more rain can this Summer get any worse? Much better weather this week and the first Goldcrest of the Autumn was in a pine tree in our

Rain, rain and more rain can this Summer get any worse? Over our road one wet day there were forty plus House Martins desperately trying to catch any airborne insects.

With no recorded sunshine in the last seven days, this month has to be one of the dullest and wettest ever recorded. Over a dozen Greenfinches are now feeding in

This weeks photo is of the last Barn Owl to fledge from the five that have flown locally. The tiny black specks down the flank of the young indicate that