Baby Squirrels, Leucistic Pheasants and the return of the Swallows!
Everything is bursting into life at Yew View and it is almost a full-time job to attempt to get through a week’s worth of footage every...
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Apr 9, 2016
Yew View Otter Dream Bushnell Clips….
Just before Easter, the river levels had dropped back to ‘normal’ levels after an Autumn and Winter of floods on site. During the Spring...
Mar 22, 2016
A Mandarin makes a visit….
Not quite the Spring day I had hoped for at Yew View this week, with the low, grey cloud persisting just about all day and obscuring any...
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...
Feb 28, 2016
2 new boxes up at Yew View ….
Two new boxes were set up this week at Yew View. …. you can never have enough nest boxes up, especially when you have 7 acres to fill!!...
Feb 18, 2016
Our first Badger Chamber footage… & more!
It was very exciting this week to be able to upload the first badger footage from our Yew View camera badger sett! I had seen that an...
Feb 14, 2016
Yew View Floods & near losses with Bushnells
After several weeks under water, the floods had finally receded when I was last on site, but with all the rain we had last week, the...
Feb 6, 2016
Tawny visits, Redpoll & Harvest Mouse Parties!
There is SO much going on at Yew View, it can be a challenge, in 1 day, to collect all the footage, set up Bushnells for the following...
Feb 5, 2016
Our First Bird Ringing at Yew View
One of the many things I love about YewView is the number of birds that visit! There are a huge number of individuals and a fantastic...
Jan 30, 2016
Bulrush + Bushnell + patience = Kingfisher!
About a month ago, I decided to set a new perch for the Kingfishers at YewView. I had got some super Bushnell trail cam footage from a...
Jan 28, 2016
HD Harvest Mouse Cam gets results!
You may remember that, after the success of the Bushnell footage on the little Harvest mouse feeding platform I had put up at YewView, I...
Jan 22, 2016
A new Harvest Mouse Cam for YewView
I could not wait to get to YewView this week to see how the harvest mouse feeding platform had fared this week with the Bushnell. I had...
Jan 15, 2016
Harvest Mice, Bank Voles & Field Voles…. and Tawnies
A busy day at Yew View this week, with my first priority to see if the harvest mice were still visiting! Checking the recorded footage...
Dec 26, 2015
Latest Yew View Kingfisher captures…
I have been experimenting with some new perches for our Yew View kingfisher and they took pretty readily to this new one. The weather has...
Dec 23, 2015
Christmas Wagtail, Sparrowhawk & Redpoll
Today was my last day at Yew View this year, yet we are already thinking forward to all the exciting things we are going to do in 2016!...
Dec 18, 2015
December Delights at Yew View
I arrived at Yew View today to drizzle, mud, grey skies and a flooded river….. what I would do for a lovely frosty crisp morning… it...
Nov 19, 2015
Great Wildlife Clips from this week at Yew View
It is easy to get complacent about the wildlife clips we are now regularly capturing at Yew View! The last 16 months of setting up...
Oct 19, 2015
Building the Yew View Artificial Badger Sett
For several years now, I have been keen to expand my camera knowledge gained in my patch, by taking on a bigger camera project. Working...
Sep 5, 2015
Another great visitor to the YewView Kingfisher post!
Our Kingfisher post at Yew View has been attracting lots of visitors. The kingfisher visits just about every day, sometimes several...
May 29, 2015
Filming at Yew View with Midlands Today
As part of Midlands Today’s Springwatch series, I often film a piece with them to correspond with my appearance on the show. This year,...
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