Harris Brooker
The Evenings are Getting Busier!
The Speyside Wildlife Evening Hide in the Cairngorms keeps getting busier with both people and mammals and continues to throw surprises...
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Harris Brooker
The Nights are Getting Lighter
With the lighter evenings after the clocks have changed, our groups are meeting later at our Evening Mammal Hide in the Cairngorms, as we...
Starry Nights
As the nights are beginning to draw in the forest floor has become carpeted with fallen curled orange leaves. The clan are beginning to...
Precarious Pine Martens
At the Speyside Wildlife Hide, we have been enjoying the glorious summer evenings, a welcome respite from the harsh cold of winter. The...
Close Encounters at the Wildlife Hide
We have been starting the hide earlier now that we are in the darkest month. With the first low-level snow, the wildlife sightings are...
Special Guest at the Wildlife Hide
The Autumn storms have passed over and the nights are drawing darker at the wildlife hide. Since opening in July we have watched the...
Hide and Seek at the Wildlife Hide
Dark nights are upon us and as the Autumn turns to Winter the feeding and movement of the mammals will begin to change. The wildlife hide...
Change in Season at the Wildlife Hide
We are heading into the Autumn months now at the wildlife hide. Nights are cooling and the outside lighting is becoming essential as we...
Grooming and Fights at the Wildlife Hide
The past few weeks have enjoyed welcoming so many visitors to our new wildlife hide facility. The summer holidays are over, but the...
Birds, Bats and Badger fun at the Wildlife Hide
We have been keeping an eye on the action at our new wildlife evening hide, to give you fortnightly updates since we cannot welcome any...
Wildlife Hide – Moving in
The nights are getting lighter, giving us more opportunities to watch and update you all on the action at our new wildlife hide. The...
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...
Coping with the cold at the Wildlife Hide
With November quickly coming to an end the mammal’s activity levels are more noticeable and so are the temperatures. The week started...
Wildlife Hide Antics
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...
Autumn at the Wildlife Hide
Autumn is in full swing, and the mammals at the wildlife hide have been very active. Autumn is a key time for all mammals to get as much...
Impatient Pine Marten at the Hide
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...
Mice for Dinner at the Wildlife Hide
The nights are rapidly drawing in, the colours on the trees are turning and we have had some very mixed weather. The Wildlife Hide has...
Leaping Pine Martens at the Wildlife Hide
The evening wildlife hide has been very busy with animals, including the usual Wood Mice, Bats and Owls flying by. Summer is coming to an...
Brave Pine Martens at the Wildlife Hide
With summer holiday’s continuing, the wildlife hide has been busy, with a noticeable difference to the daylight getting shorter. Even...
Continued Watching at our Wildlife Hide…
After the news about our wildlife hide, we were determined not to let this affect the wildlife. Baiting has been continued and we have...