Badger Cub Joy..... to Badger Cub Sorrow
In 2015, I built an artificial badger sett at Yew View, with the help of Jason from Wildlife Windows. It was an amazing project and I...
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Nov 28, 2020
Scratching and Stretching..... Sett Life of Peggy
Peggy, our Yew View badger has spent most of her days in the sett this week. She is appearing regularly at the feeding station and must...
Apr 12, 2018
Yew View Badger Updates….
With all the excitement of the tawny owlets, the badgers took second place in terms of checking their antics for the week. When I did...
Apr 1, 2018
Active badgers, Rats & Tawnies and a stunning Buzzard!
It has been quite busy on the badger front this week! There are up to 4 badgers in our artificial sett on site, some coming over to the...
Feb 11, 2018
Chilled Badgers, Encounters with Cats and Tawny Updates and Nest Box Build-up!
It’s been another busy week of footage at Yew View. As we get into February, my mind moves towards the breeding season and checking all...
Nov 10, 2017
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...
Oct 26, 2017
Yew View features on BBC Autumnwatch 2017
This week, many of you will have settled down in front of the TV at 8pm, on BBC 2 to watch this year’s series of Autumnwatch. This...
May 27, 2017
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...
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...
Apr 1, 2017
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...
Mar 25, 2017
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 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 12, 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 5, 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...
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...
Sep 24, 2016
More Yew View Badger Sett Footage!
With Autumn ‘officially’ now here, we are hoping that the badgers will be thinking that the camera badger sett at Yew View is a good...
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 24, 2016
Are the Badgers thinking of moving in?
Last November, we built a rather special badger sett on site at Yew View. You can read more about it HERE. With HD cameras, INSIDE the...
Mar 18, 2016
Harvest Mouse Trio, Raptor Platform and Wired for Sound!
This week, it was a rather ‘techy’ day on site at Yew View, as Huw from ICatcher spent a day with me, checking, upgrading and generally...
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