Diary of a Wildlife Hide – 2019
To conclude this year’s Wildlife Watching Hide, let’s look back at 2019. If you have been following our weekly blogs, you will know all...
Including our Evening Mammal Hide reports, seasonal updates and holiday trip reports.
To conclude this year’s Wildlife Watching Hide, let’s look back at 2019. If you have been following our weekly blogs, you will know all...
Northern Tanzania is exceptional – filled with Nature Reserves and National Parks it is simply one of the best wildlife viewing areas in...
View towards Cairngorm Mountain from Loch Morlich (Kate M) The last of the leaves have fallen after a hard frost, snow has made an...
The Cairngorms is getting colder and at the wildlife hide the first of the snow arrived last week. The change in weather also means a...
Frosty Autumn morning (Kate M) October has been a month of change. From the change in the seasonal weather, to the behaviours and...
The last official week of the summer season, with the wildlife hide still being visited as the schools go on holiday. Quite a few windy...
Pod of Orcas (Julian Sykes) We set out into Johnstone Straight with high hopes that we might see Orca. The captain seemed pretty...
September saw a huge difference in weather patterns, with storms over America, in the Cairngorms we got a combination of warm days before...
The leaves are beginning to fall from the tees and bushes, making it easier to see any animals approaching the hide. This past week the...
My long-awaited trip to Botswana provided me with a myriad of experiences which I had only dreamt of. This is not a diary or day by day...
Yellowhammer (Chris Piper) This was our first venture into Yorkshire in the summer and it did not disappoint! Our trip was packed with...
Snow flurries still occurred throughout May, much to the wildlife’s surprise. Migrant bird such as Cuckoo and Flycatchers were...
After the news about our wildlife hide, we were determined not to let this affect the wildlife. Baiting has been continued and we have...
Starting with the Cairngorms National Park on the NE250 Ptarmigan This was an inaugural (and not our last) tour of the ‘NE250’, a road...
Surprises! Ferruginous Duck (Michael Pearcey) My tour-leading year often starts, first of all, with Extremadura in spring and you might...
Spring has fully sprung, with nights getting much lighter and milder, wildlife being active and plenty of action at our Wildlife Hide....
Wow, what a scorcher! This week has seen temperatures approach mid-twenties in what has been a glorious Easter in the Cairngorms. With...
With only a few days of snow flurries, March into April has been reasonably mild in the Cairngorms, with daffodils making an early...
Is it Winter or Spring? The weather has indeed been changeable in the past few weeks, with what’s called the ‘lambing snow’ hitting the...
How many people know just what incredible wildlife there is in Yorkshire? More to the point, how have the folk of Yorkshire kept it under...