Stories from the Kestrel Cam
I've been following the intimate lives of a pair of kestrels living in my garden for more than 10 years and over the years I've come to know them well;...
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Stories from Inside a Barn Owl Nest
I've been following the story of a barn owl pair on my nestcams throughout this breeding season and in this post I plan to tell their story from the moment...
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Red Kites At Thixendale
'Red Kites: The Chase', painting by Robert E Fuller This morning I spotted two red kites soaring above Thixendale for the first time. I've seen one flying solo above the valley...
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Rare birds flock outside my window thanks to the farmer next door.
This year my farming neighbours, John Midgley and his son Richard, provided me with the most priceless bird watching season that I have ever experienced. From my studio window, I...
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Travel | Galapagos Wildlife Inspires New Art Collection
Watching the fascinating, and sometimes bizarre courtship behaviour of Galapagos wildlife inspired a new art collection from British wildlife artist and filmmaker Robert E Fuller
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Spoiled for Choice: When Foxes Move into a Badger Sett
Three Fox Cubs | Limited Edition Print | Available Here The painting above was inspired by three fox cubs that had occupied an unused part of a badger sett. I...
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Short-Eared Owl Watch
I've just finished this painting of a short eared owl and it is now on show in my gallery in Thixendale, North Yorkshire. . Birds of prey have alwaysfascinated me,...
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Sparring Sparrowhawks win Top Photography Award
This week I won 'highly commended' in the 2015 British Wildlife Photography Awards for this photograph of two sparring sparrowhawks. I traveled down to London to collect my award on Wednesday...
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Robert E Fuller: Weasel: I just can't stop itching
The weasel kits continue to entertain me outside my kitchen window. This one is indulging in a really good scratch! If you've been following this blog you will know that...
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Robert E Fuller: Weasel kits in my back garden
I've built the weasels a dry stone wall to play in!
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Robert E Fuller: Rare Footage of Weasels Moving their Kits in my Back ga...
Since the weasel's kits were born she has moved them at least three times. She literally picks up each of the seven kits and carries them one by one to...
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Strange food cravings. A Barn owl struggles to eat mole
Watch how this brooding barn owl reacts to the unusual meal its mate brought for it. Well, it was mole!!!
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Stunt Stoat's TV Debut
Did you catch my stunt stoat on BBC's The One Show this week? Presenter Mike Dilger described it as the only performing stoat in the world!!!Click on the link to...
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Barn Owl feeding Chicks: It's too big!
Poor chicks are struggling with too large a morsel mum, tear it up smaller please!
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RSPB Leighton Moss under ice
Recently I visited one of the country’s most importantwetland reserves run by the RSPB at Leighton Moss. I arrived shortly after dawn and watched the sun come up.Most of water...
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Stoat Agility Course in Action!
Here it is! My stoat agility course in action. If you remember from my last blog I've only just finished making it and the stoats have made barely stopped in...
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Red Squirrel Watch
I've been watching an endearing colony of red squirrels in the Dales.Wildlife photographer Simon Phillpott has been feeding these indigenous squirrels near Hawes for some years now and they have...
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Stoat Assault Course
Exactly three days before the snow fall last week, I spotted this white stoat hunting in the valley opposite.I watched it hunting and then put out food and set up...
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Stalking a red stag with a camera
Red stags are truly magnificent beasts and can be seen quite readily in Scotland. But to get up close you need to be prepared to really get down on your...
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Standing on top of an otter's holt!
I had one of the most incredible sightings of otters during a trip to the Ardurmurchan Peninsula on west coast of Scotland this summer. I was staying on the shores of Loch Sunart, a sea...
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Swallows in my porch
Each Spring I look forward to the arrival of the swallows to my garden. They usually nest in the front porch of my house. This year they arrived on cue...
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Barn Owl Chicks Fledge
The five barn owl chicks I have been studying have now all fledged. I have watched these chicks via nest cams from the moment the first egg was laid and...
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Tawny Owl Chicks
The pair of tawny owls that feed in my garden every night have begun to bring their chicks to the bird table and this week I had all eight at...
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Travel | Underwater Grace of Galapagos Penguin
Inspired by the Galapagos penguin Galapagos penguins are endemic to the archipelago and are very different to those found in South Georgia. I tried to capture their endearing nature in...
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Super Dad Diego
Now that my exhibition is finally underway, I can put down my paintbrushes and at last begin the series of blog posts on my trip to the Galapagos I promised.I...
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Bedraggled Tawny Owls
I know I should be posting moreon Galapagos and I promise I will but last week the tawny owl chicks got caughtout in the rain and I just had to...
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Barn owls are back on the Yorkshire Wolds after almost disappearing from our skies completely
Earlier this month after undergoing surgery at York hospital, I came round from the general anaesthetic to see two nurses smiling down at me. I questioned them why they’d woken...
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Barn Owls Bow Out
My summer exhibition is now over. The barn owls worked their magic and people flocked to see them. Now it's time for them to take a bow and say good...
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Saving hedgehogs to help the State of Nation
This month I released the young hedgehogs I found in the garden last winter. They didn't know quite what to make of the garden and spent some time sheltered by...
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Short eared owls about?
After nearly two days of solid rain, I'm hoping the short-eared owls will be hungry and out hunting today. I have to drive out to Hull to deliver an original...
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Samburu Bird Life
The bird life in Samburu was fantastic. These vulturine guinea fowl became iconic - a symbol of the safari I led. They were everywhere and were real characters. Such great fun to watch. I felt...
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Badger's unlikely lodgers
Whilst examing a badger sett looking for signs of occupancy recently, I stumbled across a fox den. The vixen was using part of the sett for her cubs and when...
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Roe Doe at Longdale
I keep seeing this roe doe near the gallery here at Fotherdale. I think she has a fawn stashed somewhere close by. The cold weather we had in April means...
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Swan Special
Some days things just don't go to plan and I find I have to make the best of things. The other day I set out to Wakefield after some visitors...
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Photographing Swans for Paintings
I came across these swans on the formal lake at Foutains Abbey near Ripon whilst on a family day out last week. I couldn't resist photographing them. Swans are relatively...
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Badger Baiters are sent to prison
Four men were sent to prison for four months for badger baiting at Scarborough Magistrates Court yesterday. Sentencing them, the judge said that people in Yorkshire would not tolerate such "abhorrent"...
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Short Eared Owls by the Humber
I finally got some shots of short eared owls that are good enough to paint from. Over the years I have managed to get some good photographs of barn owls, tawny owls and...
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Roe Buck
I photographed this handsome buck at the edge of a small wood last week. I had spotted it with a doe in a nearby hay meadow but didn't have my...
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Badger Cubs
There are three badger cubs at the sett by my badger hide this year. It's so good to see them after last year when there were no cubs there at...
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Seal-tastic
Shortly before Christmas I drove to Donna Nook in Lincolnshire to see the seals. Grey seals come here each winter in their 1000s to pup and to breed.Maternal care in...
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Snow Fun for Barn Owls
The Yorkshire Wolds looks beautiful in its winter coat.Pictured below is the view across the dale of Fotherdale, my home and gallery.But whilst it looks very pretty, the cold has...
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Spurn Point
Spurn Point is a great place to see winter migrants coming in. The unique shape of this spit of land means the birds don't disperse as quickly as they would...
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Studley Royal
I had a day out in Studley Royal Deer Park at Fountain's Abbey near Ripon on Sunday. I know it's not the Highlands of Scotland, but with a busy schedule...
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Swallow Summer
During my exhibition a lot of visitors said they had seen less swallows this year nesting in their buildings. I photographed these newly fledged chicks being fed by their parents...
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Barn Owl Sighting
The owl safaris were such an inspiration that I spent some time afterwards getting photographs of all the wildlife we had seen.This was the barn owl that we saw hunting...
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