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With November quickly coming to an end the mammal’s activity levels are more noticeable and so are the temperatures. The week started...

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...

The winter season has begun, with the clocks going back and dark evening ahead. Our evening wildlife hide continues to have visitors 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...

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...

September saw a huge difference in weather patterns, with storms over America, in the Cairngorms we got a combination of warm days before...

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...

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...

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...

With summer holiday’s continuing, the wildlife hide has been busy, with a noticeable difference to the daylight getting shorter. Even...

This month has been filled with warmth, mixed weather and lots of insect action in our wildflower meadows. July is typically a warm month...

We are now in the height of the summer holidays and the wildlife hide has been full of interesting behaviours and some stormy nights....

Snow flurries still occurred throughout May, much to the wildlife’s surprise. Migrant bird such as Cuckoo and Flycatchers were...

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....

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...

There is no doubt that people visit Scotland for it’s wildlife. It is no African safari, but Scotland has its own unique ‘Big 5’ wildlife...

The warm weather lasted until the end of February, where the mammals behaviour changed as the females start to look ahead to giving birth...

With freezing temperatures at the beginning and temperatures of seventeen degrees by the end, February has felt like a jump into Spring....