Badgers visit Gwyllt Hollow!
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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...
Nov 4, 2020
Yew View Badger Sett Action
We have been a while without any badgers in the Yew View artificial sett that I built a couple of years ago. It has two chambers and has...
Jan 24, 2020
A Great Start to 2020 at Yew View – Tawny Owls & Interesting Feeding Station Meetings!
We had a great year at Yew View last year, with lots of great wildlife and some amazing insights into the lives of our local wildlife,...
Nov 15, 2019
Tawny footage, foxes , badgers and a lot of rain!
As we all know, it has been extremely wet of late. Yew View backs onto the River Severn, and this has been extremely high for several...
Nov 9, 2019
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...
Oct 13, 2019
My Badger Skull Project….
When I found a dead badger, partly decomposed, my first thought was on how and why it had died. That was followed very quickly by the...
Sep 15, 2019
The First Yew View Otter Holt Camera goes in as the Badgers move in again….
There has been quite a lot of camera maintenance to do over the last few weeks at Yew View. With so much cabling and technology, it all...
Jul 16, 2019
Badger Family Bonding
I have been monitoring a badger sett near to me recently and trying out some new trail cams. This sett has produced some good video clips...
Jun 7, 2019
Fox and Badger Cubs… My Latest Bushnell Captures
Local knowledge is always the best and when I was sent a trailcam clip of a vixen with, what looked like 11 cubs, and told about a den...
Apr 4, 2019
Badger duo, Otters, Jay and Roe deer…
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...
May 25, 2018
Yew View Otters Still Visiting!
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...
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...
Mar 11, 2018
Snowy Wildlife and Tawny Excitement!
A combination of a trip to Scotland and such snowy conditions, I had not caught up with the cams at Yew Vire for about 3 weeks. That is a...
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...
Feb 2, 2018
Tawnies and Badgers & a scardi-cat Fox!…. a Yew View update!
We have had lots of issues with the tawny cameras at YewView, as our wireless connection kept losing connection. After much fiddling and...
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 23, 2017
Badger Bonanza!
It has been a busy badger week at Yew View. We have activity all year around, but things have been changing over the last few weeks and...
Oct 13, 2017
New neighbours move in….
A couple of weeks ago, I noticed some serious new excavations in a hedgerow quite close to my house. I have been keeping an eye on the...
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