Tawny Owl Box 2017

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

Badgers still stealing the show at Yew View!

After their cameo appearance on this year’s Autumnwatch, the Yew View badgers are still active on site and I have capture lots of footage...

Kingfisher Delights… plus otters & tawnies

I was keen to get back to check the DSLR camera trap. I had made some minor adjustments to it last week after a fairly successful first...

May ‘NestEnders’ update in my patch

As we near the end of May, we begin to move out of the busiest nesting period in my garden. Most of my cameras are on tit boxes and I...

Our Yew View owlet in the Press!

Our Yew View owlet’s dramatic exit from the nest box was featured today in The Daily Mail online and on Yahoo News! Tomorrow, we will see...

Nest News in my Patch……

I have been somewhat absorbed with the tawnies at YewView and, as processing and uploading footage takes so long, I have not been as...

A mixed diet for our growing owlets!

The Yew View owlets are growing at an amazing pace and it’s not surprising as there is quite a lot of prey coming in from the parents…...

Owlets & Otters!

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...

We have Yew View Tawny Owlets!

It has been an exciting week! After just about a month in the nest box, our YewView Tawny female started to behave differently on Wed...

Spring flowers, Bees,Latest Tawny Meals & Badger Snoozes from Yew View

Yew View was looking stunning in this week’s sunshine. Everything is beginning to burst into leaf and there are plenty of early nectar...

2 Tawny Owl Eggs… the excitement builds….

It has been an exciting and frustrating week, as lots has been happening at Yew View and I can only access the cameras via the iCatcher...