Watching wildlife at night
The dark nights of winter have never stopped me getting out and about. In fact, I love walking in the dark. This is a time when my hearing becomes my...
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Film | This Mouse Has No Idea Whose Nest It Just Entered... | Stoat
What this wood mouse didn't know was that Bandita the stoat usually lived in this cosy spot ... Thankfully the stoat wasn't using this nest at the time, otherwise this...
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Film | Secret Cameras Reveal Stoat Kits Suckle Longer Than You Think | Stoats | Robert E Fuller
At 12 weeks old, this kit is already bigger than its mother yet it still depends on her for food. Filmed using hidden cameras inside a stoat nest, this video...
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The red deer rut: one of nature's most intense dramas
The red deer rut The red deer rut is one of nature's most dramatic spectacles, but it's intensity can take its toll in a surprising way. It takes place in...
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Film | Inside a Secret Stoat Nest: Rare Footage Reveals Hidden Life | Discover Wildlife
Discover the secret life of stoat kits inside their nest. This rare footage reveals how a family of stoats behaves behind the scenes — and captures something we never get...
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Yorkshire's top 10 wildlife & where to spot it
Yorkshire spans some of the most varied landscapes in the country; from wolds, dales and moors to a spectacular coastline. And each different habitats supports amazing wildlife species. To celebrate...
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The Secret Lives of Stoats: A Five-Year Study Of The Stoats Living In My Garden
A stoat scampers across the decking outside my studio and pauses at the patio door. She stands on her hind legs to press a delicate five-digit paw against the glass.Our...
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Weasels and Stoats - Mustelids and Me
More is known about the habits of a snow leopard than that of a weasel and there have been more documentaries dedicated to the tiger than the stoat. Wildlife artist...
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Film | How I Film Hares From My Car | My Camera Equipment
I've been given a car mount by Tragopan to trial. Enjoy the footage of brown hares I was able to capture using it. Hares are very wary animals and it...
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A white hare at Easter
The Easter Bunny is a mythical creature said to have its origins in medieval times when people believed young hares hatched out of lapwing eggs. It’s strange to think people...
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A magical evening watching badgers
Wildlife artist and filmmaker Robert E Fuller got to know a group of badgers so well one of them would climb on to his knee for a biscuit. He recalls...
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Animal parenting - studies in art
From protective parent owls to clucky mother ducks, wildlife artist Robert E Fuller explores the way animals interact with their young in this collection of highly-detailed animal paintings
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Animal love: wildlife romance, jealousy and all the feels
I've devoted a lifetime to studying animal behaviour and for Valentine's Day I discuss whether animals experience emotions in the same way humans do, and recount the stories of countless...
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Stoats & weasels in art | A collection inspired by intensive field studies
This collection of 16 paintings of stoats and weasels follows five-years of intensive studies and each is a portrait of an individual stoat or weasel living in my garden. Scroll...
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Film | Favourite Wildlife Moments | Your Nature Fix🐾
It's been an incredible year for watching wildlife. From filming a cuckoo's nest for the first time in 30 years, to watching kingfishers in their nest, discovering baby hares hidden...
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Wildlife in Winter: How the sight of a fox mousing in deep snow inspired a painting
Foxes have such good hearing they can locate prey beneath a deep covering of snow. This is the story that inspired a new painting of a fox mousing in the...
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Film | Red Deer Rut Starts With a Roar | Discover Wildlife
Red stags are at their most magnificent during the annual rutting season, when males compete for females. Their antlers grow larger, their necks widen so that they can roar louder...
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Film | How Sloths Can Hang Upside Down For Hours & Other Amazing Facts
Amazing climbers Sloths are slow, but it’s amazing how fast they can climb a tree compared to humans. Despite having less muscle mass than similar mammals, their grip strength is...
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Film | Sleepy Badgers All-Day Nap: 11 Hours of Cuddles🦡💤 | Discover Wildlife
These badger cubs slept curled up, entwined together for an incredible 11-hour nap! From morning through to night, they cuddled each other until it was time to head out exploring....
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7 Red Squirrel Paintings That Really Show Their Personality
With their tufted ears, russet coats and quick, lively movements, red squirrels are among Britain’s most enchanting woodland creatures. But these animals are more than just beautiful creatures — each...
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Tracking down elusive pine martens for a new painting
Click here to see the limited edition print of this painting Searching for pine martens in Scotland Pine martens were once Britain’s second most common carnivore. But following years of...
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Travel | Watching Sea Lions Hunt in Galapagos
When hunting, sea lions work together like a pack; corralling their fishy prey under the water. British wildlife artist and filmmaker Robert E Fuller witnesses the technique in the clear,...
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Wildlife art inspired by mothers in nature
Wildlife artist Robert E Fuller describes his inspiration behind a collection of highly detailed paintings and drawings of mothers in nature
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Film | The Sound of Frogs Calling at Night | Animal Sounds
Listen to the sounds these frogs make. It's a still night and the low rumbling sound of their croaking emanating from my pond is reverberating throughout the whole garden. Frog...
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Film | Hare Raises Baby Leveret in My Back Garden | Discover Wildlife
I’ve been studying hares on the Yorkshire Wolds for years and I saw something near my studio that I’ve never seen before. A baby hare, known as a leveret, had...
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Film | Adorable Baby Hares Wait for Mum | Discover Wildlife
I discovered these adorable baby hares quietly waiting for their mother in a secluded spot hidden under long grasses. Brown hares will hide their young away during the day, visiting...
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The secret moment a hare visits her babies
The moment a hare visits its young is one of nature's most intimate secrets. This is the story of the time I was lucky enough to capture it on camera...
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Film | The truth about capybaras
Capybaras are the world’s biggest rodents. Found in forests and wetlands from Panama to Argentina, I travelled to the Brazilian Pantanal thanks to Pantanal Safaris to find out more about them....
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Film | The Art of Painting a Hedgehog | Wildlife Art
Watch the process as I paint a new hedgehog portrait and see how I get from empty canvas to finished painting.
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Film | Thirsty Badger Drinks At Wildlife Pond | Discover Wildlife
After digging a pond for wildlife, it was so rewarding to see this badger enjoy a long drink here. You can watch the wildlife visit this pond on my live...
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Film | Red Foxes Resume Courtship Despite Vixen's Ugly Injury | Discover Wildlife
This red fox vixen has been badly injured. But she's healing well and actively courting despite her broken face. Listen to the sounds made by courting foxes and watch how...
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Hares boxing in snow
As temperatures in the UK plummet, I look back my experience of watching hares courting during Yorkshire's last big freeze - the winter white out of 2010
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Film | I built a wildlife pond, and the animals came | Wildlife Habitats | Robert E Fuller
I built a pond, and the wildlife came. Watch this to see the wildlife that visited during the first year of the pond at Ash Wood. No wildlife habitat is...
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Turning white for winter | charting the transition of a stoat named Bandita
Turning white for winter A handful of animal species have the remarkable ability to turn white in winter in order to match the snows of the season and the transition, which...
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Film | Arctic Fox's Fearless Hunt over Precarious Cliff Edge | 4K | Svalbard
Arctic foxes may be small, but they are fearless and this, along with their cunning intelligence, is the key to their survival in the frozen Arctic Circle. The Arctic fox,...
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Film | Sweet Stoat Discovers My Secret Nest | Stoats & Weasels
This female stoat turned up in my bespoke 'Stoat Trough' nest this week. Watch her explore the new space and listen to the occasional 'whickering' noise she makes - I'd...
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Film | Stoat Falls Asleep Under Silky Spider Web Tent | Discover Wildlife
When a spider builds its web in the new stoats nest, she pulls it across her like a tent, then curls up with it draped over her like a silk...
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Film | The Art of Painting a Hedgehog | Wildlife Art
Follow me on the journey as I create a new hedgehog painting, from blank canvas to finished painting Hedgehog inspiration I've been inspired to paint hedgehogs before, after watching them...
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An adorable rescue weasel named Twiz
For US readers: In this blog a weasel refers to your ‘least weasel’ and stoat is your ‘short-tailed weasel’. Twiz: an adorable wild weasel When I first met Twiz she was...
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Film | Squabbling grey squirrels | Discover wildlife
Watch these grey squirrels tussling in Ash Tree nest. These are both young males but the scrap is not particularly serious, more playful fighting.
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Film | Jaguar's dramatic hunt in Brazil's Pantanal wetlands | Wild travel
Follow a magnificent female jaguar as she hunts along riverbanks in Brazil's Pantanal wetlands. This female has cubs to feed and caiman, capybara and even snakes are on the menu....
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Film | Weasel settles to sleep in a bed of autumn leaves | Discover wildlife
The nights are getting longer. Watch this weasel curl up in a bed made of soft autumn leaves and gently fall to sleep - it looks like it's even snoring...
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Film | Seal battles for survival | Grey seals
From adorable pups to dramatic fights between bulls, grey seals are fascinating to watch. But these animals face continual threats. Join me as I visit a thriving colony in Yorkshire...
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Badgers get a head start
When the sun came out this week, it began to feel, here in Yorkshire at least, like spring had finally arrived. It got me thinking about the badgers I've been...
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Still boxing
I decided to make the most of the good weather on Sunday and was just heading off to tend to my veg patch when I saw a group of hares...
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Badgers in Colour
I've started working on a series of paintings of badgers for my Christmas exhibition, which opens on November 14th and runs until November 29th.Well, actually I've been working on the...
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Badgers in Colour
I've finished the first painting in my new 'badger' series (see above) and have begun the second (see below). I was going to build up the background with layers, but...
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Badgers vs. the world
Well it seems like I've stirred up a bit of a hornet's nest by doing a special focus on badgers. I mean I know Damien Hirst and co are controversial...
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Seals a pupping
I've been so busy getting ready for the Christmas Exhibition this month that I haven't had time to make it over to Donna Nook in Lincolnshire to watch the seals...
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Seal Pups Galore!
I didn't get time to go and see the seals pupping in Lincolnishire this November because my Christmas exhibition was so busy. But last week I decided to drive over...
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