Film | Five kestrel chicks hatch over four days | Apollo & Athena
Watch as one by one Apollo & Athena's kestrel chicks hatch out from their shells. Apollo & Athena This kestrel pair now have five hungry beaks to feed and Apollo...
Robert E Fuller
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Film | Kestrels fight to secure nest & lay eggs | Apollo & Athena
Kestrel pair Apollo and Athena face tough challenges as they prepare to raise their chicks. Watch them fight off rival jackdaws and avoid dangerous predators like stoats and even a...
Robert E Fuller
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Film | Kestrel rehab success: All 6 chicks make it to ringing day
I was all smiles when all six of single kestrel dad Mr Kes' chicks got their ID rings. After such a difficult start it felt like they had finally made...
Robert E Fuller
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Film | Kestrel chicks fly free after tough start
In this final chapter of the incredible story of Mr Kes, the kestrel who brought up six chicks alone, the chicks finally take to the wing and fly free. Tough...
Robert E Fuller
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Film | Kestrel chicks all alone after mum disappears
When kestrel mum Mrs Kes disappears, she leaves six chicks all alone. Cold and hungry, they will surely die without her. Find out what happens and learn how tough kestrel...
Robert E Fuller
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Film | Rescued kestrel chicks reunited with wild family
When the mother of these six kestrel chicks disappeared, I took three in for extra care. This film takes up the story as they return to the nest. Kestrel chicks...
Robert E Fuller
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Film | Kestrel dad learns to care for chicks after mum disappears
This is the story of Mr Kes, a male kestrel who must learn to care for his six chicks after his mate suddenly disappears. Male kestrel must learn to parent...
Robert E Fuller
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Portrait of a plucky kestrel | A tribute to Mrs Kes
This painting features a female kestrel perched proudly at the entrance to her nest. Painted in acrylics, it’s a portrait of Mrs Kes, a particularly plucky female whose brief but...
Robert E Fuller
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Kestrel couple overcome tensions to start a family
Kestrels Apollo and Athena's relationship was fraught. But now the kestrel pair have a new family to prepare for, it's time to bury the hatchet. Their story When this kestrel...
Robert E Fuller
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Kestrel chicks fly free at last
This film follows the story of six stunning kestrel chicks as, one by one, they fledge the nest and head off to live their lives in the wild. A story...
Robert E Fuller
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Kestrel dad learns how to be a mum
Kestrel becomes single dad overnight Male kestrels are not known to brood chicks. Neither do they feed them. But last month a kestrel father living in my garden astonished wildlife...
Robert E Fuller
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Kestrels of Fotherdale | The survival story of a formidable falcon family
This film follows a resilient pair of kestrels named Mr & Mrs Kes through their breeding season. The fight for survival Watch this kestrel pair fight brutal battles to secure...
Robert E Fuller
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Kestrel pair become perfect parents
This kestrel couple are now excellent parents to their five adorable chicks. But it took them time to find their feet as a new family and for first-time dad Apollo...
Robert E Fuller
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Love is in the air; Tawny owls settle on new home & kestrels devoted. Plus free valentines day gift offer
There's a whiff of romance in the air here at Fotherdale. Tawny owls, Bomber & Luna, are loved up in Beech, Willow & Ghost are laying eggs and my latest...
Robert E Fuller
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Kestrel Male Meets His Match
This is the story of a male kestrel named Apollo, whose eagerness to find a mate and settle down lands him a partner that is more than a match for...
Robert E Fuller
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Designing a habitat for wildlife: the making of ash wood
A habitat designed for wildlife Back in 2021, I decided to turn an old ash woodland area close to my home on the Yorkshire Wolds into a wildlife haven. I...
Robert E Fuller
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Six kestrel chicks survive | all about hatching
All six kestrel chicks here at Fotherdale Farm in Yorkshire have hatched, in spite of brutal raids on their nests. Read on to find out more about the fascinating process...
Robert E Fuller
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Kestrel eggs | all about how kestrels care for their eggs
There are six kestrel eggs nestled together in a kestrel nest in my garden and they are due to hatch any day now. The eggs were laid by Mrs Kes,...
Robert E Fuller
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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...
Robert E Fuller
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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;...
Robert E Fuller
