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Goldcrest, frogs, rat and wood mice for supper….
We are now heading for the half way point in our tawny owl’s incubation and she’s still sitting strong, thank goodness. Other than a few...
Mar 25, 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 18, 2017


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...
Mar 12, 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...
Mar 6, 2017


Tawny action, fox visits, polecat dens & reed buntings
I have a couple of weeks of action to catch up with at Yew View! It has been pretty grey and cold on site, but Spring has sprung in terms...
Feb 11, 2017


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...
Jan 28, 2017


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...
Jan 21, 2017


Polecat and Buzzard snack
Quite quiet on the wildlife front at Yew View this last week. The badgers are less active, but still visiting the feeding station with...
Jan 12, 2017


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...
Jan 7, 2017


Tawnies, Muntjac and Polecat appearances
The tawnies are beginning to prospect a little more and, in the last week or so, we have had several visits to the nest box. These clips...
Dec 8, 2016


Otters on rising waters with Stoat, polecat & badger action!
I posted last week about the rising water levels at Yew View this week. When I arrived, I was astounded at the levels as, in just a few...
Nov 27, 2016


Heavy rain tests our floating otter cam platform….
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...
Nov 21, 2016


November Tawny Box Action at Yew View
It is usually December and January that we start to get interest in our Tawny box at Yew View. For the last two years, this pair have...
Nov 18, 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...
Nov 17, 2016


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...
Nov 6, 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...
Oct 15, 2016


Stoats, Grey Wagtail & 2 Badgers in our Sett!
In between working on the tawny box at Yew View this week, I checked all the cameras to see if anything exciting had happened this week....
Oct 9, 2016


Tawny stump starts to take shape…
With Autumn definitely taking hold, I am keen to get the Tawny stump completed and up as soon as possible. Last week my carpenter...
Oct 9, 2016


Squirrels, Badgers, Otters and preparing for Tawnies!
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...
Oct 2, 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 25, 2016
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