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Diary entries documenting my wildlife projects, ideas and encounters....

Jul 19, 2019

Big Butterfly Count 2019

Launching today is a great citizen science project, The big butterfly count. This is a nationwide survey aimed at helping us assess the...

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...

Jul 13, 2019

The joys of Solitary Bees!

If I asked you to tell me two things about bees, what would you say? If you are reading my blog, you are probably interested in wildlife,...

Jul 2, 2019

The Bushnell Otter Challenge!

As part of my guiding role with the Shetland Wildlife Tour, I take a range of Bushnell trail cameras and set them and to show the clients...

Jun 30, 2019

‘Ultimate Shetland Tour 2019- What a week of Wildlife!

I’m still buzzing from my recent trip to Shetland! I guide with Shetland Wildlife each year, for one week on an ‘Ultimate Shetland’ tour;...

Jun 13, 2019

There’s Still Tawny Activity at Yew View

With my trip to Maryland, I had not been at Yew View for a few weeks, so was greatly pleased to see that I had a few more tawny clips to...

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...

May 29, 2019

Beavers in Maryland

This morning, Ed and I headed back to a special site that we had visited when I first arrived. A local tree nursery had some beavers on...

May 28, 2019

A Wonderful Week in Maryland USA

If you follow my blog, you may remember that last October, took a trip out to visit Ed Snodgrass in Maryland in the USA. I met Ed at a...

May 21, 2019

Tawny Owlet updates!

This week’s update covers the last two weeks of Tawny owlet footage. As you can imagine, there is a huge amount of footage to look...

May 12, 2019

WildlifeKate NestEnders Updates and a Tearoom for the Birds!

There is lots of nesting action going on in the garden at the moment and most of it is available to watch, live on my website and on the...

May 12, 2019

Gardening for wildlife – My May Garden

May is always my favourite time of the year in the garden. It quite literally bursts into life and nature takes over somewhat…. which is...

May 7, 2019

Tawny Owlet updates….. all grown up and ready to leave!

This week’s update covers the last two weeks of Tawny owlet footage. As you can imagine, there is a huge amount of footage to look...

Apr 26, 2019

WildlifeKate Patch Easter Update

It’s been great to have a few weeks at home for the Easter break, as it has given me time to get out in my garden around my other work....

Apr 21, 2019

Owlet dramas, as we go from three to two….

As you can imagine, there is a tremendous amount of footage to look through each week at Yew View. It is impossible to save everything...

Apr 20, 2019

My Blackbirds Fledge… and I move the camera to a new nest!

I can’t believe how quickly the blackbirds duo have grown and, this week, they left the nest, fledging successfully into the garden. The...

Apr 14, 2019

Our Owlets are growing fast!!

When I turned up at Yew View this week, I was straight up to the office and I simply could not believe how much the owlets had grown in a...

Apr 7, 2019

NestEnders Update – April 7th

It’s all ‘go’ in my garden and, at this time of the year, I spend a silly amount of time watching footage, uploading and processing clips...

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...

Apr 4, 2019

We have owlets!!!!

It has been torture… to watch ‘my’ owlets hatch on a low res feed from Yew View. I was desperate to get on site to take a look at all the...

Mar 31, 2019

Expectant Tawny Parents, Otters and a Buzzard Stare!

Tackling the M42 and M5 on a morning is never a pleasant experience, but the 2 hr commute to Yew View is always worth it, especially when...

Mar 31, 2019

Are the Blue tits going to nest in the Sitting Room???

From that first peep through the entrance into my Sitting Room nest box, I have been keeping my fingers crossed that the blue tits would...

Mar 24, 2019

Getting ready for owlets… and otters in the pond!

We are now heading towards the end of incubation in our tawny box, with the eggs due to hatch towards the end of next week. It is very...

Mar 24, 2019

The NestEnders Season hits the WildlifeKate Website!

This is always a busy time of year for me and lots of the projects that I have planned over the winter months, hopefully, start to come...

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