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

Yellowhammer (Chris Piper) This was our first venture into Yorkshire in the summer and it did not disappoint! Our trip was packed with...

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...

Since our last blog, the temporary wildlife hide has been busy! It is now the height of Summer (although the weather doesn’t seem to...

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...

We are saddened to report, that in the early hours of Saturday morning (11 May) our Evening Mammal Hide, based on Rothiemurchus burned...

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....

Day One’s Magic Moment! “It was day one and we were rushing for a boat, with some way still to go, when Roger said, “that was a sloth!”...

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...

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...

It was a wet and windy week at the Wildlife Hide, with brief sightings including footage from our night vision cameras. As we head into...

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

Catalunya, Cataluñia or Catalonia? That’s the question! Can you place it on a map? It’s the north-east corner of Spain, or the Iberian...

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