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Diary entries documenting my wildlife projects, ideas and encounters....

Filming Night Visitors in my Patch…..

Recently, I have been capturing some great footage using a camera that Hikvision have lent me. I am looking at how some of their CCTV...

Autumnal Activity builds up in the WildlifeKate Patch

With Autumn well set in, despite generally pretty mild temperatures, the feeders are getting busier in my garden. I am often asked what I...

A Polecat Den for Yew View

After filming the polecat around Yew View, I was keen to try to set something up that would possibly provide somewhere for them to sleep...

Has the Yew View Polecat taken up residency?

The camera footage this week at Yew View suggests that our polecat has chosen this area as its territory as I captured quite a lot of...

More Yew View Polecat Appearances

It was great to be back at Yew View this week and to catch up on the captures from over the Christmas period. One of the first cameras I...

Polecat Excitement!

It is just about a year since we built our badger sett at Yew View and the hard work is now being rewarded. Over the last month or so, we...

Valentine Polecat Visitor!!!

Every now and then, my cameras capture footage of something completely unexpected! Tonight, I was working at my desk, with my cameras up...

Polecat or Polecat Ferret?

Every now and then I capture something surprising on my cameras! Last night, I was working at my desk and I suddenly noticed something...

Is this a polecat?

I was driving toward Stafford this morning when I spotted this killed on the roadside. Since the badger encounter last weekend, I seem to...

A new mammal on my patch captured with the Bushnell Trophy Cam

I had set my Bushnell up on the earth that I had believed was a fox earth. This morning, I returned to collect it and found it had only...