You will have seen my recent blog posts from Shetland, as I guide with Shetland Wildlife as part of a special ‘Ultimate Shetland’ tour....

My flight back from Shetland on Monday was amazing, as there was no cloud at all for the whole journey from Inverness to Manchester. I...

With our week on Shetland rapidly coming to an end, we headed back down through Unst, to head back to the mainland. We had seen lots of...

Heading North to Unst for a few days, we stopped at Toft Ferry point and all got out to have a scan around whilst we waited to board the...

What better way to start the day, than an alert telling us orca had been spotted just north of us?! Scrambling everyone together into the...

Shetland has a wonderful social media network and this means that whenever something of interest appears on its shores or islands, there...

With a break in the winds that looked like they were going to be present throughout our week here on Shetland, our first day trip with...

Last year, when I came to Shetland, I visited Skeld Primary School and spent a lovely morning visiting the pupils and building a bug...

Anyone who follows me on Twitter will see that yesterday, I headed back up to Shetland, for the third year guiding with Shetland Wildlife...

It was about time, I finally got some of our latest footage from YewView online! After a very wet winter and Spring, I finally got our...

With BBC Springwatch starting on Monday, I set about  doing a revamp in this mammal box set-up, which has also appeared a few years ago...

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...

The blue tit family on my live cameras are doing really well. 8 out of the 9 eggs hatched and they are growing fast, as lots of juicy...

With the evenings getting longer and the light not going until gone 9pm, I have been treated to daylight views of my dog fox, Bracken, on...

A few shots of some of the plants currently flowering in the garden…. so many bees around in the sunshine! Lots of activity in the bee...

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...

My garden always starts to explode with foliage around this time of the year and I love it! I can’t believe how much it has changed in...

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...

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...

Lots of activity in my garden and, with all the nesting activity, I thought it would be good to set up some experiments with nesting...

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...

Spring has finally arrived and what a stunning few days it’s been! So lovely to be outside in warm sunshine watching how the garden...

My Mammal Maze Challenge is working really well and the rats and wood mice have been using it every night. Have set a couple of...

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...