Gordon Yates

This years visit to Islay marks fifty years of my continuous study of Islays Hen Harriers by way of close_up filming from my hides. It has been a remarkable privilege to have been licensed by the Government to spend over a thousand hours watching one of the United Kingdoms most threatened birds. It is now up to me to summarise all those observations in a report that h...

A visit to Islay is never complete without filming the Corncrake. Some years they never show themselves but last weeks corncrake was close to a caravan park and showed no fear of human activity. Sadly, the once flower rich meadows that supported over a hundred calling Corncrakes have now largely been replaced by crops of Barley for the distilleries resulting in less than twen...

There are not many times when you get the chance to photograph a Sparrowhawk on a hot-tub!
This male failed to catch so he perched, momentarily, on next doors hot-tub roof. There was no one using it at the time!