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Welcome to Robert E Fuller's wildlife blog

Discover the stories behind the paintings, see wildlife films, learn more about the wild characters on the live nest cams and explore fascinating wildlife facts.

  • All about owl pellets & more | bird facts

    All about owl pellets & more | bird facts

    What is a bird pellet? A bird pellet is a ball of matted fur, bones and skulls regurgitated by a bird. Essentially, it contains anything a bird cannot digest. A...

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  • A barn owl orphan finds romance

    A barn owl orphan finds romance

    As I paint, I can see pair of courting barn owls on a TV monitor next to my easel. The owls are standing side by side, the feathers of their...

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  • An only barn owl chick named Solo

    An only barn owl chick named Solo

    The extraordinary story of an only barn owl chick whose lonely, chequered, life was recorded on cameras hidden inside her nest. Read on for an owl drama that, looked at...

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  • Rehabilitating Eric, a tawny owl chick

    Rehabilitating Eric, a tawny owl chick

    This is the story of a rescued tawny owl chick named Eric and how he is fostered by a family of wild owls.Rehabilitating Eric & Ernie | AugustAlmost Time to...

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  • Saving our Natural Treasures: Rescuing Baby Kestrels

    Saving our Natural Treasures: Rescuing Baby Kestrels

    A new exhibition of my artwork opens today at my gallery in Thixendale. The theme is ‘Natural Treasures’ and is a celebration of Britain’s wildlife heritage through paintings, photography and...

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  • Secrets from a Peregrine Falcon Nest

    Secrets from a Peregrine Falcon Nest

    Last autumn I installed four cameras inside a peregrine falcon nest located at a vast industrial site on the banks of the Humber Estuary in Hull. This meant I could...

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  • The Peregrines Of Salt End: A History

    The Peregrines Of Salt End: A History

    This is the story of a pair of peregrines that lived high on a cooling tower at Salt End, a vast industrial chemical park on the banks of the Humber...

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  • Searching for Waxwings in Winter

    Searching for Waxwings in Winter

    Waxwings on Rowan Berries, by Robert E FullerI always associate them with the run up to Christmas, when they arrive to escape the icy winters further north. So when I...

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  • Stories from the Kestrel Cam

    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

    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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  • Farmer's care inspires new lapwing paintings

    Farmer's care inspires new lapwing paintings

    More farmers are taking up the challenge of protecting the countryside for wildlife, with an increasing number involved in stewardship schemes. A few years ago I visited a farmer I...

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  • Short-Eared Owl Watch

    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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  • Black grouse lek

    Black grouse lek

    If you've never seen black grouse perform their annual courting ritual, known as a lek, you've really missed a treat. I painted the picture below after spending a week out...

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  • Sparring Sparrowhawks win Top Photography Award

    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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  • Swallows in my porch

    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

    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

    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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  • Bedraggled Tawny Owls

    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 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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  • Short eared owls about?

    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

    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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  • Swan Special

    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

    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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  • Short Eared Owls by the Humber

    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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  • Snow Fun for Barn Owls

    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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  • Swallow Summer

    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

    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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  • Tawny Chicks Fledge

    Tawny Chicks Fledge

    The tawny owl chicks, whose parents I feed from my garden bird table, have just fledged. I made them this nest box out of an old elm tree stump. They...

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