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Robert E Fuller
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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...
Robert E Fuller
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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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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!!!
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
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?
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
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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Film | Barn owl sounds & what each call means | Discover wildlife
Nicknamed 'screech owl', the barn owl's call is a haunting, high-pitched scream that pierces the night sky. Identifying owl sounds Barn owls make a high-pitched screeching sound, very different to...
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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
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 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 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 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
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
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
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
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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Photographing osprey at Rothiemurchus
Now is the time to see ospreys in Yorkshire. They are on their way back from their breeding grounds in Scotland and are likely to stop at well-stocked fish ponds...
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Filming a common buzzard nest
European common buzzard (hawk) European common buzzards are recognised by their broad, rounded wings and fanned tail. Members of the Buteo family, these magnificent birds are found on almost every...
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Travel | Whales, otters & eagle chicks: 24 hours in Alaska
24 hours to find whales, otters & humpbacks Alaska is one the most incredible places to see wildlife and despite its vastness it’s possible to have close-up encounters with some...
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5 things about kingfishers you didn't know
Common kingfisher (alcedo atthis) Just 12cm high with strident blue plumage and the flying-style of a speeding bullet, a kingfisher can really pack a punch. But in spite of all...
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My wildlife pond attracts animals all year long
Digging a wildlife pond When I built a wildlife pond close to my home in Thixendale on the Yorkshire Wolds, I had no idea just how popular it would be....
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Travel | Searching for giant harpy eagles in Panama
Panama ranks as one of the best birdwatching spots in the world and many rare species thrive in this tropical isthmus. But I was drawn to visit the narrow strip of...
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Get ready for the RSPB big garden birdwatch
This weekend is the RSPB annual ‘Big Garden Birdwatch ’, an opportunity for us all to help the conservation charity count up Britain's bird species. Bird count for science This national counting...
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Otter magic on Scotland's Isle of Mull
Mull's magical otters I spent a magical week filming a family of otters on the Isle of Mull. The Scottish island is renowned for its wild otters and didn’t disappoint....
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Seal pups: Winter's true snow babies
Seal inspiration I have a painting of a grey seal pup that I am yet to finish. I was inspired to begin it after watching it just days after it...
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Getting a sparrowhawk to feed in your garden and not on your birds
Sparrowhawks inspire mixed feelings I always have mixed feelings when I see sparrowhawks in my garden. I can't help but admire their speed and agility, but they come in to...
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Barn owl Gylfie finds new foster love.
Gyflie the barn owl's new love Next to my painting easel is a TV monitor displaying live views from inside owl and kestrel nests. Inside one, a pair of loved-up...
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Red kite painting inspired by secret, lofty lives
Red kite painting I've just finished a new painting of red kites. These beautiful birds of prey were a rare sight when I was growing up. There were just a...
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Short eared owls | Stars of the autumn bird migration
Short Eared Owl Painting, by Robert E FullerFrom my studio window, I have a great view over the Yorkshire Wolds. I like to keep my French windows wide open for...
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Autumn wildlife walk on the Yorkshire Wolds
As autumn begins to take hold here on the Yorkshire Wolds, I’ve been watching the wildlife get ready for the coming winter. The birds in my garden in Thixendale, North...
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How wildlife helped me overcome dyslexia
Becoming a news columnist Back in 2019 I celebrated my 10th anniversary as a columnist for the Yorkshire Post. I've now been writing a wildlife column for this paper, and...
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'Thieving' fox of Dalby forest just trying to feed its family
The Dalby fox has a bad reputation The recent thunderstorms remind me of a soggy July I once spent camping at Dalby Forest where all the talk was about a...
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Art Inspired by Swallows in a Storm Lantern
One late summer, as the long evenings drew to an end and the swallows began gathering along telephone wires in preparation for their long journey back to Africa, I grew...
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Tawny owl Luna's tragic loss has a happy ending
This is the story of a wild tawny owl named Luna who's eggs fail to hatch and it has a very happy ending. Luna's story The story begins in January...
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Barn Owl Paintings | Owl Artwork Through The Seasons
Barn owl paintings Welcome to my collection of barn owl paintings and limited edition art prints. The series features barn owls throughout the seasons. Each painting was informed by watching...
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Barn owl pair raise first ever chicks | Full story of Willow & Ghost's 1st breeding season
In this video I look back at a UK barn owl pair named Willow & Ghost and follow their first breeding season, from the time they first met to the...
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Adopted tawny owl chicks first days full of drama
Two tawny owl chicks adopted by Bomber & Luna have an eventful first few days as they settle in to their new lives. Watch as they are fussed over by...
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Hare paintings through the seasons
This collection of hare paintings follows the seasons from spring, through to summer and winter. Hares in spring and summer These paintings depict hares in the heat of summer and...
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Hawk chicks grow tougher each day (European common buzzard)
Buzzard chicks grow up tough. Their nests are open to the wind and rain and if they drop their food from these high-up structures, it's gone forever. See how early...
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Tragic death of barn owl Finn was preventable
This week one of my favourite barn owls drowned in a water trough used for livestock. The loss was particularly tragic, not only because Finn was such a beloved owl,...
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