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Discover the stories behind the paintings, see the wildlife films, learn more about the wild characters on the live nest cams and explore fascinating wildlife facts all in Robert E Fuller’s fascinating blog.

  • An adorable rescue weasel named Twiz

    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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  • Top 5 wildlife video playlists in 2023

    Top 5 wildlife video playlists in 2023

    Top 5 videos 1. Wild Tawny Owls Adopt 7.5m 2. Kestrel Dad Raises Chicks Alone 5.3m 3. Kingfisher Chicks Hatch & Dad Eager to Feed 4.2m 4. Barn Owl So...

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  • Six Generations of Garden Stoats

    Tales from a Stoat DynastyFor the last five years I have followed the daily lives of six generations of a single stoat family in my garden via cameras hidden in...

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  • Badgers get a head start

    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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  • Swallows at Fotherdale

    Swallows at Fotherdale

    Happy Easter everyone! I've seen the first swallow just up the road from my gallery. I know it's a lot later up here on the rather cooler Yorkshire Wolds than...

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  • Still boxing

    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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  • Tawny's modelling career is over!

    Tawny's modelling career is over!

    A blow to the eye has brought an end to the modelling career of one of my favourite subjects. It took me three-and-a-half years to get this wild tawny owl...

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  • Putting up Signs!

    Putting up Signs!

    The gallery is quite isolated so I have been busy putting up signs on all the surrounding roads to direct traffic to the exhibition. Hopefully they will also attract anyone...

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  • Success!

    Success!

    So far the exhibition has been a great success. I have sold seven out of the eight new original pictures that I painted especially for the exhibition and every day...

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  • Sparrowhawk Attack

    Sparrowhawk Attack

    It's always interesting at an exhibition to see which original painting causes the biggest stir. I was surprised to see that it was this one of a Sparrowhawk and Woodpecker....

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  • Raising funds to help birds on the Wolds

    Raising funds to help birds on the Wolds

    This year I used my exhibition to raise funds for a new conservation project that I'm planning. Nest Boxes on the Wolds will involve building and putting up nesting boxes...

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  • Basic Instincts

    Basic Instincts

    Our natural instincts tend to be utterly reliable. But every so often they can drive us to do astonishing things.Take the kestrel I watched feed its greatest rival the other...

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  • Badgers in Colour

    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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  • Swans- a-swimming

    Swans- a-swimming

    I've just finished these two in time for the Christmas Exhibition. Don't know how they'll go down, they're a little different to my usual painting style.

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  • Badgers in Colour

    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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  • BBC Radio York interview

    Thought you might like to hear my interview on Radio York click here to hear it

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  • Badgers vs. the world

    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

    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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  • Sneak Preview of Exhibition

    Sneak Preview of Exhibition

    My Christmas Exhibition opens on Saturday and these are the new original paintings that will be hanging on the gallery walls. If you would like any more information on any...

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  • Putting down the paintbrushes

    Putting down the paintbrushes

    I've only just finished my last painting of a blue tit and can put my paintbrushes down at last - just in time for my Christmas exhibition which opens tomorrow...

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  • Badger Delight

    Badger Delight

    Badgers have captivated me since I was 14 and from the comments from my exhibition so far it seems that people are fond of the old brock too. It has...

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  • Special Visitors to the Exhibition

    Special Visitors to the Exhibition

    Some bullfinches have begun to devour the honeysuckle berries outside my studio window. Isn't this one stunning? If you missed my live interview with Helen Philpot for BBC Radio Humberside...

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  • Barn Owl is Back

    Barn Owl is Back

    Barn Owl on Fencepost, oil painting The wild barn owl that I feed from my garden bird table is back at last. He disappeared over the summer after the tawny...

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  • Swan-tastic!

    Swan-tastic!

    I've sold all three of my new swan paintings. This is great news as they were a departure from my usual style and I wasn't sure how they would go...

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  • Special Deliveries

    Special Deliveries

    My Christmas exhibition is now over and as with the end of every exhibition it leaves me feeling both sad and happy at the same time. There was a really...

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  • Pick of the Best

    Pick of the Best

    This week the gallery has been filled with pictures produced by children for our Big Draw competition. The special exhibition follows a series of workshops in October in which the...

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  • Seal Pups Galore!

    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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  • Red alert for red list birds

    Red alert for red list birds

    The RSPB has warned that the savage wintry weather is the single greatest threat to wildlife this millennium. This week the society launched emergency action to help threatened red list...

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  • Red Kites Come Home to Roost

    Red Kites Come Home to Roost

    I watched 20 to 30 red kites fly in to roost near Nunburnholme the other day. What a magnificent sight! One of the birds had a tag on it so...

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  • Seen anything otter?

    Seen anything otter?

    There are three otters in the enclosure at Slimbridge, where the Wildfowl and Wetland Trust (WWT) are working to safeguard the recent return of the species to our waters, and...

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  • Sparrowhawk Spoil

    Sparrowhawk Spoil

    In preparation for the Big RSPB Garden Bird Watch at the weekend, I moved all my bird feeders - I have several so that I can watch the birds from...

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  • Robin Territorial

    Robin Territorial

    Robins are viciously territorial, but one year a robin in my garden took on a competitor he couldn't compete with - his own reflection in my car window. To read...

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  • Raffle Winner

    Raffle Winner

    Pictured above is Wendy Johnson, the proud winner of the raffle I held during my Christmas exhibition. She won £150 worth of prints and came in to the gallery the...

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  • Spring Fair

    Spring Fair

    I've been exhibiting at Birmingham NEC's Spring Fair this week. It is the biggest retail event of the year and the main one to which retailers from all over the...

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  • Red Stag

    Red Stag

    I've just finished my first painting of 2010. I saw this red stag on a trip to Sleivemore on the Isle of Islay in Scotland and decided to paint him...

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  • Spring Clean

    Spring Clean

    I'm looking forward to the clocks going forward tomorrow as the lighter mornings and evenings mean more time for wildlife watching. In fact spring seems to be in the air...

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  • Barn Owl Beauty

    Barn Owl Beauty

    I've been watching this barn owl in Millington pastures recently and this week captured it just as it came in to land.It's been having a bit of a time of...

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  • Pied Flycatchers

    Pied Flycatchers

    These pied flycatchers have been nesting in an old woodpecker hole.I managed to get a shot of the male displaying to the female as she was collecting nesting material.

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  • Rare fritillary spotted on Wolds

    Rare fritillary spotted on Wolds

    I've had a very busy weekend in the gallery. Lots of people came to the exhibition and there were several wildlife events going on too.One of the trips was to...

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  • Roe Rings

    Roe Rings

    Visitors to the exhibition have enjoyed some lovely sightings of roe doe during our wildlife safaris.Roe deer are not quite as shy as normal at the moment since it is...

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  • Tawny Owl's Visit

    Tawny Owl's Visit

    Tawny owls have been feeding from a bird table outside my kitchen window for four years and this year is the second year they have brought all their chicks along...

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  • Badger Spotted

    Badger Spotted

    On the first owl safari we were also lucky enough to see two badgers. One was at a sett that I regularly watch and the other one was out foraging...

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  • Pick a fight with a penguin?

    Pick a fight with a penguin?

    I'm delighted to hear that this photograph of mine is appearing in the Times, the Sun & the Daily Mail today.It captures the moment when a giant elephant seal met...

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  • Sparrowhawk trap

    Sparrowhawk trap

    This trap on Spurn Point is used by the British Trust of Ornithology to catch and ring birds for migration studies. But a local sparrowhawk had better ideas for its...

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  • Roe Deer at Spurn Point

    Roe Deer at Spurn Point

    Spurn Point really was magnificent. This lighthouse is just near the tip of the point. There was even a healthy population of roe deer on this narrow strip of land....

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  • Talk cancelled due to snow

    Talk cancelled due to snow

    The snow looks very picturesque, but unfortunately it has meant I've had to cancel my talk on the migration in Kenya's Masai Mara tonight. Although the drifts are nothing like...

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  • Tawny Owl Injured

    Tawny Owl Injured

    I photographed this tawny owl roosting in its hole on Millington Pastures. It often sits there - a dusting of snow made the picture.As I drove on I spotted another...

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