Rivercatcher Siskins
Gordon Yates | Wildlife Photographer
by Gordon Yates
1w ago
Last week we spent an extremely wet five days in the Dee valley at Rivercatcher. Six inches of rain fell in three days making it the wettest place in Britain. Remarkably instead of being a disaster for filming this extreme weather produced a bonus for Siskins. Normally they feed on seeds in the pine cones but this requires the sun to open the cones and make the seeds accessible. There was no chance of this so a bird feeder outside the cottage attracted over fifty Siskins on a daily basis – making watching them even more enjoyable from a hot-tub! www.facebook.com/gordonyateswildlife The post Ri ..read more
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Stick Time
Gordon Yates | Wildlife Photographer
by Gordon Yates
3w ago
February is the month when our earliest breeding bird, the Heron, starts to refurbish its nest. Any sort of twig will do and the Herons will cover some distance in their visits to and from the nests with their twigs. Unfortunately, the weather has been so wet and dull this February that I only managed one brief session at my local Heronry but thankfully there was a good performance by the Herons.  www.facebook.com/gordonyateswildlife The post Stick Time appeared first on Gordon Yates ..read more
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Arctic Visitors
Gordon Yates | Wildlife Photographer
by Gordon Yates
1M ago
While high in the Cairngorm mountains last week I was able to film a flock of up to fifty Snow Buntings that were feeding in the snow.No small bird breeds closer to the North Pole than the Snow Bunting and we are lucky that in Winter some will migrate south to Britain. They make amazing subjects for the camera. The post Arctic Visitors appeared first on Gordon Yates ..read more
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Road Kill
Gordon Yates | Wildlife Photographer
by Gordon Yates
1M ago
When you are keyed in to wildlife you never know when a photo opportunity will arise. Last week I was sat in my car outside a Corn Mill in Accrington awaiting for an employee to give me a bag of sunflower hearts that I had just paid for.On a spillage of grain by the car was a Wood Pigeon .Suddenly, in a split second, a female Sparrowhawk grabbed the Pigeon and commenced to pluck it. It paid no attention to me so I took some photos with my phone from less than five feet away!! You never have your proper camera when you need it! The post Road Kill appeared first on Gordon Yates ..read more
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Jack Frost
Gordon Yates | Wildlife Photographer
by Gordon Yates
2M ago
It is easy to see why, looking at this weeks blog photo, the Jack Snipe is the most illusive Winter v visitor to the Pennines. Without frost and snow they are almost impossible to find but last weeks conditions were in my favour with snow followed by a min temp. of minus seven.I knew that any Jack Snipe present would be feeding along the edge of my local stream but would they fly off when our eyes met through the frost? In a normal winter, on average, only one Snipe freezes and allows me to film it from as close as ten feet. What happened last week is almost impossible to believe when six Jack ..read more
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Garden Delights
Gordon Yates | Wildlife Photographer
by Gordon Yates
2M ago
At long last we have had some classic winter weather with frost and snow to bring the wildlife into the garden. As a result Badger and Fox come daily together with 6 Bullfinches,10 Blackbirds, 8 Long Tailed Tits, 8 Goldfinches and even a Fieldfare – the first for years. www.facebook.com/gordonyateswildlife The post Garden Delights appeared first on Gordon Yates ..read more
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Splash
Gordon Yates | Wildlife Photographer
by Gordon Yates
2M ago
Once again, following the second hottest year ever recorded, we are reminded that the summer ice in the arctic may disappear within the next few decades due to global warming.It is only eight years ago that I took these unique shots, in Spitsbergen, of a female Polar Bear leading her three young across the pack-ice. If seeing a Polar Bear on the Arctic pack-ice is top of your bucket list then now is the time to go before it is too late.Whether you see one with three cubs is unlikely as the Captain of our ship informed me that in more than twenty years of sailing the Spitsbergen summer pack-ice ..read more
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New Year Top Ten
Gordon Yates | Wildlife Photographer
by Gordon Yates
3M ago
Another year comes to a close and while I lost several months of filming due to hip replacement the rest of the year has produced some good photos – top of the list has to be the night I filmed the male Long Eared Owl passing a vole to his female.It was the only time that she left the nest to receive prey from him and I have yet to see any other photos of a food pass between a pair of Long Eared Owls away from the nest. Months of observations also produced other photos of this very special male Long Eared Owl with deep orange eyes. In May I finally came across two pairs of Black Necked Grebes ..read more
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Yuletide Redwings
Gordon Yates | Wildlife Photographer
by Gordon Yates
3M ago
This Winter has seen very few Redwings and Fieldfares despite a good crop of Holly and Hawthorn berries. All that changed last week when Redwings found a berry laden Holly in a friend’s garden. The weather was awful but I managed one session of filming before all the berries had been devoured – it could not have been more seasonal! www.facebook.com/gordonyateswildlife The post Yuletide Redwings appeared first on Gordon Yates ..read more
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Snowy Badger
Gordon Yates | Wildlife Photographer
by Gordon Yates
3M ago
When the winter snows arrive it is usually time for Badgers to remain underground.It was surprising, therefore, to find that the Badger visiting our garden was still coming when we had our first snowfall a week or so ago. Even the severe frost did not stop his nightly visits, long may it continue! www.facebook.com/gordonyateswildlife The post Snowy Badger appeared first on Gordon Yates ..read more
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