Badgers start visiting Gwyllt hollow!

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...

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...

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,...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

We have had lots of issues with the  tawny cameras at YewView, as our wireless connection kept losing connection. After much fiddling and...

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...

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...

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...