When we headed to the River Lossie, alongside Elgin, I had not expected to photograph an otter in the  environment I did. I have been...

As part of my guiding role with the Shetland Wildlife Tour, I take a range of Bushnell trail cameras and set them and to show the clients...

The rest of the wildlife at Yew View this week has been somewhat eclipsed by arrival of the Tawny owlets! After many hours of going...

We are now heading towards the end of incubation in our tawny box, with the eggs due to hatch towards the end of next week. It is very...

We are now half way through incubation in the Yew View Tawny nest box and it has been a challenging week for my pair… in more ways than...

This week has been an exciting one for footage as the visits by the resident otters has increased greatly. We usually get one or two...

I decided to head up to Hillockhead, with Wren, to see out 2018… the open spaces, coast and the prospect of lots of trail cam footage is...

I have just processed some Bushnell footage that Tim sent me a few weeks ago. Locating some more potential otter sites, the Bushnells...

You will have seen my recent blog posts from Shetland, as I guide with Shetland Wildlife as part of a special ‘Ultimate Shetland’ tour....

It was about time, I finally got some of our latest footage from YewView online! After a very wet winter and Spring, I finally got our...

Last week, I finally set up the wired camera down by the river, to see if our otters were still visiting. With such a long Autumn, winter...

With winter on the way and natural food levels beginning to drop, I start thinking about our population of harvest mice around the...

Over the last two weeks, we have captured some wonderful footage of our resident otters! We have a female and two grown-up cubs visiting...

I couldn’t wait to get to Yew View this week as it meant I could look at the footage of our owlets! Although I can access a low...

You may remember that, back in July, I built a floating platform for our HD otter cam. It is always a risk putting an expensive kit  near...

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...

The first cameras I check each week at Yew View are the badger sett and the otter holt. Seeing if there has been any action there during...

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...

As you may remember, some weeks ago now, a sudden dramatic rise in the River Severn overnight meant we lost a wired HD camera and a...

We have been getting some great Bushnell footage from the otter holt at Yew View. After the last flood that meant we lost two trail cams...