Gordon Yates
Wildlife Photographer

One of our commonest and most colourful winter visitors is the Brambling. In some years they arrive from Scandinavia in their thousands but this winter they have been very illusive.

On any visit to Wales the target birds include Kites and Crossbills. Last weeks rain did not help the search but despite this we came across four Kites at Bala

Last week we spent an extremely wet five days in the Dee valley at Rivercatcher. Six inches of rain fell in three days making it the wettest place in Britain.

This weeks photos are of a small group of Waxwings in Burnley a month ago.We were told that this winter was going to be a big waxwing Winter but while

February is the month when our earliest breeding bird, the Heron, starts to refurbish its nest. Any sort of twig will do and the Herons will cover some distance in

There are not many birds that look better in their winter plumage compared to their summer plumage but the drake Long Tailed Duck is one. Unfortunately you have to go

While high in the Cairngorm mountains last week I was able to film a flock of up to fifty Snow Buntings that were feeding in the snow.No small bird breeds

When you are keyed in to wildlife you never know when a photo opportunity will arise. Last week I was sat in my car outside a Corn Mill in Accrington

It is easy to see why, looking at this weeks blog photo, the Jack Snipe is the most illusive Winter v visitor to the Pennines. Without frost and snow they

At long last we have had some classic winter weather with frost and snow to bring the wildlife into the garden. As a result Badger and Fox come daily together