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Evening Wildlife Watching Hide Update July 2025
July is a time when a lot of animals are beginning to appear earlier in the night, especially in the latter part of the month. There has been plenty of sightings of Badgers, Pine Martens, Scottish Wildcat, Wood Mice, Bank Voles, Roe Deer, Red Deer and even Red Squirrels. We have heard Grasshopper Warbler and Tawny Owl with Barn Owl sometimes being seen in the fields below.
Harris Brooker
Jul 283 min read
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Evening Wildlife Watching Hide Update June 2025
As summer approaches, the nights get lighter and it doesn’t get darker until much later. The animals are still coming to the hide,...
Harris Brooker
Jun 303 min read
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April 2025 Evening Wildlife Watching Hide Update
Spring is now here, and all the animals at our Evening Wildlife Watching Hide are becoming more active.
Harris Brooker
Apr 283 min read
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Lagomorphs – Rabbits and Hares in Speyside
During your visit to the Cairngorms, some of the common species you will see include rabbits and hares.
Harris Brooker
Oct 21, 20244 min read
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A Walk Along the River Spey
At home in Speyside and Cairngorms, It’s an odd time of year for birding. The adults are hiding away, growing new feathers and taking....

Ailie Brown
Aug 7, 20244 min read
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Deciduous Trees of Speyside
Sessile Oak (Quercus Petraea) One of the largest deciduous trees in Speyside, growing to between twenty and forty metres in height and...

Harris Brooker
Apr 8, 20244 min read
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Monthly Hide Report
Here is our monthly update from our Evening Mammal Hide in the Cairngorms, near Aviemore. Badgers - The Badgers have continued to amuse...

Harris Brooker
Sep 11, 20231 min read
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Raptor Blog
Common Buzzard (Buteo Buteo) - One of our commonest raptors and often mistaken for the Golden Eagle, it has been dubbed the ‘Tourist’s...

Harris Brooker
Aug 28, 20235 min read
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Evening Wildlife Watching Hide Update
Our Local Badger Clan - There are at least nine Badgers in our group, one of which is a cub from this year which took almost a month to...

Harris Brooker
Aug 14, 20231 min read
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Botany in Speyside (Part 2)
Hello everyone, it’s Harris here and we are back with part two of ‘Botany in Speyside’. Last time we looked at some of the rarest plants...

Harris Brooker
Jul 31, 20234 min read
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Midsummer is Here
At our Evening Mammal Hide near Aviemore, the Badgers are still coming regularly to feed and delight our visitors at every turn. There’s...

Harris Brooker
Jul 17, 20232 min read
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Botany in Speyside (Part 1)
Hi Everyone. For this post I’m going to talk about botany. The Cairngorms is well known for its birds and mammals. But equally as rare...

Harris Brooker
Jul 3, 20234 min read
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A Lunch with a View in the Cairngorms
As any good guide knows, when planning a day out, you don’t only think of the species you hope to see and where you think they might be....

Ailie Brown
Jun 28, 20232 min read
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June Is Here
The action has kept going at our Evening Wildlife Watching Hide and the Badgers have been coming every night. No sign of the cubs yet but...

Harris Brooker
Jun 19, 20231 min read
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Summer Visitors to the Cairngorms National Park
In this post I’ll be sharing with you our star attractions that appear seasonally in Speyside and the surrounding areas. Some you might...

Harris Brooker
Jun 5, 20234 min read
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Badger Blog
Scottish Badger Week this year is 6-14 May and so we thought this was an ideal time to focus on the other species that people hope to see...

Harris Brooker
May 8, 20234 min read
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Spring is Here
At our Evening Wildlife Watching Hide, the Badgers have continued to entertain visitors. They feed peacefully most of the time but now...

Harris Brooker
Apr 24, 20231 min read
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Pine Martens in the Scottish Highlands
One of our most elusive mammals in Britain, the Pine Marten captures human imagination. It is a member of the weasel family Mustelidae,...

Harris Brooker
Apr 10, 20234 min read
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The Last Days of Summer
The action has kept going at our Evening Wildlife Watching Hide this summer and there have been some exciting changes made to our hide...

Harris Brooker
Aug 22, 20221 min read
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Why Scottish Alpine Botany is the Best
Speyside Wildlife prides itself in showing our clients the best wildlife Scotland has to offer. So I thought I could give our readers an...

Harris Brooker
Aug 19, 20226 min read
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