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  • Snow Beginnings

    Snow Beginnings

    I took a break over Christmas to be with my family, but the snowfall made me keen to get back to work and I have spent this week out and...

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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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  • 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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  • 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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  • Stoat's White Winter Coat Now Out of Place

    Stoat's White Winter Coat Now Out of Place

    I photographed this stoat in ermine over Christmas, he was almost completely white except for his face. It's been a long time since I've seen a white stoat in this...

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  • Barn Owl Hope

    Barn Owl Hope

    Pleased to see that the press have picked up on my concerns about barn owls on the Wolds and they are getting the message out there. Today Radio York visited,...

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  • Stop the plan to sell off our forests

    Stop the plan to sell off our forests

    The news this week that the government plans to sell off publicly owned forests is very alarming.Red squirrels are already struggling and so much of our threatened wildlife depends on...

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  • Barn Owls make TV Headlines

    Barn Owls make TV Headlines

    My barn owls were on TV today. Look North (North East and Cumbria) featured the barn owl crisis on its lunch time news.North Yorkshire correspondent Peter Lugg came to the...

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  • RSPB Big Garden Birdwatch

    RSPB Big Garden Birdwatch

    Don't forget to take part in the RSPB big garden birdwatch this weekend. Apparently the RSPB is expecting more unusual 'countryside' birds like this brambling to feature this year because...

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  • BBC Countryfile Visit!

    BBC Countryfile Visit!

    Yesterday I had a visit from a researcher and a director of BBC Countryfile.It seems they are going to be filming in the Yorkshire Wolds next week and are looking...

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  • BBC Countryfile Feature Me!

    I've edited down the Countryfile feature so now if you click on the arrow you just get the section with me in it!!!

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  • Puffin Walks, Photography Talks and Summer Styling

    Puffin Walks, Photography Talks and Summer Styling

    The events we laid on during the exhibition this year have been a great success. The talk last week by landscape photographer Joe Cornish was particularly fascinating and the gallery...

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  • Tawny Owl in Flight

    Tawny Owl in Flight

    I've started to experiment with a stroboscopic flash recently. It fires off a rapid series of flashes so that you can record multiple images of a moving subject in a...

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  • Serengeti Highway

    Serengeti Highway

    I'm very worried about the plans for a road across the Serengeti. It looks as though it will slice straight across the migration route. Click here to read more about...

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  • Regent's Park still an oasis of calm

    Regent's Park still an oasis of calm

    My article for the Gazette & Herald this month was on my visit to Regent's Park to see the famous heronry http://www.gazetteherald.co.uk/features/columnists/9175548.Artist_makes_city_trip_to_visit_a_wild_resident/ what an oasis of calm this photo is...

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  • Shooting Season Begins

    Shooting Season Begins

    The shooting season opens this week for red grouse. It's not a sport I take part in but I accept that the grouse we see on the moors are only...

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  • Badger Painting Sold

    Badger Painting Sold

    I've sold one of my paintings of a badger! I chose to use a combination of pencil and acrylic paints to bring out the texture of the badger's fur.Pencil is...

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  • Raffle Winner

    Raffle Winner

    This is Mr & Mrs Watkins who won this picture of Hare Today Gone Tomorrow in our exhibition raffle. Mr Watkins had been having a bad week when he got...

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  • Short Eared Owl Watch

    Short Eared Owl Watch

    Did you know that owls with yellow eyes hunt during the day? My column in the Gazette & Herald this week is all about the day I watched five short...

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  • Badger Trust Award

    Badger Trust Award

    I am very proud to have received this glass badger from the Badger Trust - but somewhat humbled to have been presented it by Jean Thorpe, the Badger Trust's Ryedale...

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  • Red Kite Walk

    Red Kite Walk

    My exhibition opens this weekend! I'm just finishing off my final originals which I'll post details of in the next couple of days. But I thought you might be interested...

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  • BBC The One Show Tonight!!!

    BBC The One Show Tonight!!!

    I'm scheduled to be on BBC's The One Show tonight. Presenter Miranda Krestovnikoff visited the gallery last spring to ask me about how I testified against a gang of badger...

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  • Spring Blues

    Spring Blues

    This long cold spring has got to me. I started on this painting today because I needed to feel that summer will come - sometime! I hear that a few...

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  • Sparrowhawks: Love or Hate?

    Sparrowhawks: Love or Hate?

    Love them or hate them, you have to admire sparrowhawks for their lightening speed and superior skill as hunters. I've been studying one for a painting and I have mixed...

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  • Red Deer in Cheshire

    Red Deer in Cheshire

    I couldn't resist taking the family to see the red deer at the National Trust's Lyme Park during a visit to see some friends in Cheshire this weekend. This is...

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  • Barn Owl Chicks Hatch

    Two of the barn owl chicks have hatched! These tiny owlets are vital to the recovery of barn owls here on the Yorkshire Wolds and I am continuing to monitor...

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  • Understanding birdsong

    Understanding birdsong

    The meanings behind different bird songs I usually sleep with the window open, which means I wake up each morning to a cacophony of bird song. Before I get up,...

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  • How to help hedgehogs

    How to help hedgehogs

    Humble, cute and shockingly rare, hedgehogs need our help more than ever. These prickly creatures have been around for 15 million years and once roamed Britain alongside sabre tooth tigers...

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  • A year of birdwatching in Yorkshire

    A year of birdwatching in Yorkshire

    A year of birdwatching At the end of each breeding season, I send details of bird species I have recorded here in Yorkshire to the British Trust for Ornithology and...

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  • Your favourite wildlife reads of 2023

    Your favourite wildlife reads of 2023

    Your 5 favourite reads of 2023 My wildlife blogs are all about wildlife and the animals I watch. In 2023 I can reveal the 5 wildlife blogs you enjoyed the...

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  • Your top 5 wildlife films of 2023

    Your top 5 wildlife films of 2023

    Your top five films of 2023 As the 2023 comes to a close, let's recap and celebrate what you loved to watch most. From feature-length favourites, to new wildlife stories...

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  • Travel | Why Panama is a wildlife paradise

    Travel | Why Panama is a wildlife paradise

    Why Panama is a wildlife paradise Panama ranks as one of the best birdwatching spots in the world, but you'd be surprised how many rare mammals also thrive in this...

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  • The hedgehog that won my heart

    The hedgehog that won my heart

    Hedgehog in Autumn Leaves | Limited Edition Print | Available Here Falling in love with hedgehogs The painting above is a portrait of a hedgehog that won my heart. Until...

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  • Close encounter with a rhino inspires new painting

    Close encounter with a rhino inspires new painting

    Rhino encounter inspires new painting Rhinos are magnificent animals. With wrinkled, armoured-looking skin and spiked horns, they look almost prehistoric as they amble across the dry plains of Africa. Close...

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  • Travel | Sloths are slow for a reason

    Travel | Sloths are slow for a reason

    In Spanish, the word for sloth is “perezoso,” which means “lazy”. But during a recent trip to Panama, I discovered that their slow pace of life is in fact a...

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