A stone placed at an otter spraint site (to encourage the otters to pause in front of the camera trap) has proved useful as an anvil for...

Tawny owls have some fascinating design features that allow them to fly relatively silently and with great maneuverability. Both...

Green woodpeckers (also known as "yaffles" due to their raucous laughing call) specialise in eating ants. They can be seen feeding on...

Looking like someone has left their cigarette to smoulder away without having smoked it, these “poos” can be found in short grassland....

Thirty two years ago I installed a barn owl box in each of two of my gable ends. Sadly, I have had very few visits from the intended...

Lorraine attended one of my hedgehog talks (see https://www.stephenpowles.co.uk/presentations). In the subsequent correspondence I made...

For the last few nights, the deep roar of a rutting red deer stag has echoed through the valley in which I live. So far, I have only...

Tawny owls will fiercely defend an active nest site. Only when absolutely necessary should one get close to such a site, and only then...

Now is the perfect time to listen out for tawny owls. With the youngsters dispersing to find a territory of their own, resident “tawnies”...

By putting out a "refuge" in a suitable location you may be lucky enough to see an otherwise elusive reptile. In this timelapse video...

Knowing what a hazel nut looks like after a hazel dormouse has eaten it is a great start to finding out if there are dormouse about and...

Some wildlife can be illusive but knowing the signs that they leave behind (in this case their faeces/scat/droppings etc) will give one a...

A colony of bats (probably Pipistrelles) vacated a maternity roost in my house during the heatwave of July 2022. Within 72hrs, with...

Queen hornets emerge from hibernation in the spring and soon make a start searching for a suitable nest site. By July the embryonic...

Tidcombe Fen is a little known and hidden wildlife jewel in Mid Devon soon to be surrounded by an ever-expanding Tiverton. The present...

The pair of tawny chicks that fledged at the end of April (see previous posts) are nearing four months from when they hatched. They have...

On the eveing of Wednesday 5th July I am giving one of two talks at Quince Honey Farm. My talk will be "Hedgehogs in Need of Your Help"...

Twin tawny owl chicks fledged from a "barn owl" box in my roof space (see below), one on the evening of 28th April, the other soon after...

Having nested for each of the three last years in a barn owl box placed in a tree, this year the resident tawny pair swopped barn owl...

A camera trap deployed at an otter spraint site one end of a 60m short cut across a field has, over the last 8 weeks (early March to the...