Every year, around the end of June, I meet up with Rob up at Silvertrees Holiday Park, on the edge of cannock Chase, to set up some...

Following the success of our badger sett build at Yew View some years ago now, I have been keen to build something to try to attract the...

For the last few years, we have had regular kingfisher visitor to the wildlife pond at Yew View. This winter, however, they stopped...

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

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...

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,...

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...

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;...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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

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...

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....

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...

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

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...