The art of building beautiful bird boxes
A rare, living elm tree On the wooded slope of a valley that sweeps away from my home and gallery in Thixendale, grows one of England’s rarest species: a magnificent...
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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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Tiny reed warblers tricked into raising cuckoo chick 5 times their size
Wildlife artist Robert E Fuller follows the incredible story of how a cuckoo chick dupes a pair of tiny reed warbler birds to raise it as if it were one...
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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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Watching grey seal dramas play out on the Yorkshire coastline
Grey seals in Yorkshire With soft, puppy-dog eyes and eager to please expressions, grey seals are so beguiling. But in fact, these large sea mammals are as tough as boots...
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Bird roost make real life decorations at York Christmas markets
Christmas shopping in York? Look up At this time of year the ancient city of York is humming with shoppers, heads bowed as they plough up and down the streets...
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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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Watching reed warblers: from skilful nest builds to chicks' first flights
Reed warblers are small, brown birds known for their noisy, rhythmic song. But what they lack in glamour, these tiny migrant birds make up for in ingenuity and skill.I watched a...
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Spotting woodcock in winter
Here in Britain, the November full moon was traditionally known as the 'woodcock moon' since it was associated with the arrival of migrant woodcock from Europe, apparently navigating by the...
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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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Barn owls can't wait to start a family - Even in winter
Barn owls Willow & Ghost nested so early this year, there was still snow on the ground when they laid their eggs. Quick to start the season And it was...
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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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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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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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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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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
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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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
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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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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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
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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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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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
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
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?
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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 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
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?
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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!
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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