A badger cub & painted lady in pollinator paradise!
Yew View looked simply stunning in the sunshine this week. Everything is bursting into flower and it is, quite literally, a pollinator’s...
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- Apr 30, 2017
Yew View badger updates….
The badgers at Yew View are active at the moment and we are lucky enough to be capturing on the cameras in daylight now, as they often...
- Apr 9, 2017
Badger Pamper Session in the Yew View sett!
The badgers at Yew View are gradually spending more and more time in the camera sett. We are capturing some really lovely footage inside...
- Mar 18, 2017
Yew View Tawny Hunting Successes
Our Yew View tawny seems to have settled well into incubation in the box, snoozing most of the day, not worried by the sounds of barking...
- Mar 6, 2017
Amazing Tawny Action and Badger Bonanza!
Arriving at Yew View this week, the sun was actually shining; a rare occurrence in what seems to have been a long winter of grey and...
- Feb 25, 2017
Badger Sett Snoozes & Tawny Owl Visits
The conditions at Yew View were far from ideal this week. With gale force winds battering the area, I was glad to arrive safely after a...
- Nov 17, 2016
Autumnal Action at Yew View
This is a bit of a mega update from Yew View, with me spending 3 days on site over the last week and a half, including a couple of...
- Oct 23, 2016
Exciting Sleepover in our Sett!
Almost a year ago now, we built our badger sett and we are really starting to see some serious action in there! I had predicted it would...
- Oct 15, 2016
An extended YewView Stay and night-time PTZ cam fun!
This week, I spent two nights at YewView, house-sitting their 4 collies and brought my two along too! The great thing about actually...
- Sep 25, 2016
Otter Spraints, fox battles and last of the Summer Butterflies
We managed to squeeze another lovely warm September day in at Yew View and, with the Autumn Equinox upon us, I know that warm sunny days...
- Sep 9, 2016
A Special Glimpse of a Snoozing Badger
We are slowly getting closer to our dream of getting badgers to take up residence in our artificial sett at Yew View. It is almost a year...
- Aug 12, 2016
More August Yew View beauties!
The Sparrowhawk footage I uploaded yesterday was not the only footage I captured from another summer week at Yew View. The kingfishers...
- Aug 7, 2016
Badgers take a snooze in our sett!
Over the last month or so, the badgers have been showing more interest in our artificial sett and last week, we had the first significant...
- Jul 31, 2016
Wood ducks, Tawny owl, Stoat and Buzzard-eating Badger!
Another week of great clips from Yew View! With us heading towards August, more fledglings hit the skies above the site, as our swallows...
- Jul 16, 2016
Swallow chicks growing fast!
It amazes me how quickly swallow chicks grow. From their heads just popping above the nest last week, I was greeted with a frenzy of...
- Jun 8, 2016
#30DaysWild – Day 8 Wildlife Footage overload at Yew View!
Since, I was in Ireland last week, I had two weeks of footage from some 25 cameras to catch up with this week! Yew View is always full of...
- May 25, 2016
Yew View May Update… otter, kingfisher, harvest mice & daylight badgers…
With lots of great footage from Yew View, it is taking me longer to process and edit it all. This week’s update includes highlights from...
- Apr 25, 2016
An Insect Haven planted with Wildflower Turf
Yew View is a fantastic site for wildlife… but that has not just happened on its own… the owners have worked hard to create a range of...
- Apr 11, 2016
Kingfishers, Newts, Owls & Worms ….
Having so many cameras at Yew View means that we often capture really interesting behaviour… behaviour that is probably rarely seen, let...
- Mar 22, 2016
A Mandarin makes a visit….
Not quite the Spring day I had hoped for at Yew View this week, with the low, grey cloud persisting just about all day and obscuring any...