The Final Farewell to our Owlets as they branch into the trees….
I arrived at Yew View this week to an empty owl box. It is always sad to see that space barren after such a wonderful few months of...
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May 3, 2018
Tawny Dramas at Yew View
It has been a bit of a stressful week at ‘Tawny Central’ at Yew View this week… more so for DJ, as I was not on site until Wednesday! All...
Apr 27, 2018
More Tawny Joy at Yew View!
It’s been a great week for tawny footage at Yew View. With the owlets nearly 3 weeks old, they are very demanding and very addictive...
Apr 21, 2018
The Yew View Tawnies owlets are growing fast
I could not wait to see how the owlets had been getting on in the last week. I can have a low resolution feed onto my PC at home and I...
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 23, 2018
Tawny Delights at Yew View
We are now half way through the tawny incubation and the male is working hard to feed the female, bringing between 1 -4 prey items every...
Mar 17, 2018
Owls, Badgers and Nocturnal Filming for Channel 5
It has been a busy week! I have spent the last 4 nights filming with Adrian Cale, Rob and the team with Pioneer Productions for a Channel...
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...
Jan 13, 2018
Birds of Prey and Badger Antics
Despite it being January, there is still plenty going on at YewView. With the cold weather and the wildlife pond freezing over regularly,...
Dec 31, 2017
The End of 2017 at Yew View… Barn Owl Appearance and Frisky Badgers!
It has been a pretty incredible year at Yew View, with the major highlights being our breeding tawny owls and the badgers using our...
Dec 14, 2017
A snowy Yew View with great new bird visitors…
I have not been at Yew View for a couple of weeks due to the heavy snow so I was keen to look through the camera footage over the last...
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 11, 2017
My YewView Kingfisher Challenge and a Tussock moth beauty
It was a beautiful Autumnal day at YewView and, with all the leaves changing and the sun lower in the sky, the colours were gorgeous…...
Sep 29, 2017
‘Otterly’ Brill Yew View Otters & Autumnwatch Filming!!
Over the last two weeks, we have captured some wonderful footage of our resident otters! We have a female and two grown-up cubs visiting...
Sep 24, 2017
Build your own Hibernaculum!
What is a ‘Hibernaculum’, you may ask? The word ‘hibernaculum’ has Latin roots, meaning “winter quarter”, with hibernus being Latin for...
Sep 17, 2017
Relaxed badgers chill out in our sett
This week at YewView revealed that at least two badgers are still using our camera sett, spending increasing amounts of time in the...
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