Where can you photograph pine martens?

Where can you photograph pine martens? Frugaldom in southwest Scotland, that's where. We have a feeding station that is in view of the yard so you can park with a direct view of the platform. We can accommodate vehicles up to 7.5m in length and if you are fully self-sufficient, you can stay overnight or even make the Frugaldom campervan site your longer term base. It costs £15 for 1 night, £25 for 2 nights, £75 for a full week. No campervan? No problem! You can park your car or bike and hire a hut for £50 overnight.

At this time of year, we are photographing and filming at least 5 individual pine martens coming to visit the feeding platform, where we leave them fresh eggs and peanuts. If you are coming to visit, we can recommend fresh eggs, peanuts, monkey nuts and crunchy peanut butter of the 100% peanuts, unsweetened varieties. (Aldi does a reasonably priced one.)

We restock the peanut box regularly - this one is a standard squirrel feeding box and seems to work well, once the pineys worked out how to open it. This year's babies still sometimes forget and bite the lid but they soon work out the top opening hatch. We still aren't sure if there were 2 or 3 kits born here this year, it is difficult to distinguish who is who when they seldom face the camera.

This is 'Comma'. He has been coming to the feeders for quite some time. We often caught him on camera at the feeder, in the yard and on the hut deckings throughout 2024. A definite male who has been seen with one of the females.

We can identify him as 'Comma' by his bib markings - this was him about to run up the tree last night, where we have a small den box.

This is one of the kits born earlier this year. We don't know which are males and which are females yet but there appears to be at least 3 youngsters 2 are very alike but their bib markings are on opposite sides - almost mirror images of one another.

Two of the three youngsters we have identified - regular visitors to the feeding platform in the tree. The one nearest the peanut box is simply named 'Splodge' because if the big brown splodge on his bib.

Our visiting campervanners and motorhomes love parking up and watching the pine martens and badgers from their vehicles. If you don't have a camper, fear not... We have overnight parking space for cars and bikes, plus cosy huts where you can hunker down for a camp-out overnight to enjoy wildlife watching.

Frugaldom is run voluntarily as a social enterprise so all income contributes towards the project, it's animal residents (ponies, goats and barn cats) and the wildlife.