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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.

  • Hunkering Down

    Hunkering Down

    I spent a morning during the worst of the snows watching these partridges cope with the cold The experience inspired me for my latest column in the Ryedale Gazette &...

    Robert E Fuller

  • Love Birds

    Love Birds

    I painted this for my wife one Valentine's Day.It's now available from the gallery as a card. Visit the website if you haven't already found the perfect gift.

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  • Loving the Lemurs

    Loving the Lemurs

    Isn't David Attenborough's new series on Madagascar spectacular? Makes me want to go. I used to work at Chester Zoo, where I painted this lemur, but that's the closest I've...

    Robert E Fuller

  • Blue Tits Set Up Home at Leavening School

    Blue Tits Set Up Home at Leavening School

    A pair of blue tits has moved into one of the nest boxes that I donated to Leavening School last year. The early birds were spotted flying into the box...

    Robert E Fuller

  • Hooray for the Forest Sale U-Turn!

    Hooray for the Forest Sale U-Turn!

    Squirrel Nutkin gets to live another day after yesterday's spectacular climbdown on government plans to sell the nation's forests. Thankfully the government has seen sense and withdrawn its plans to...

    Robert E Fuller

  • And Badgers Get to Live Another Day Too

    And Badgers Get to Live Another Day Too

    It seems squirrels AND badgers have had a narrow escape this week. After yesterday's dramatic climbdown on its plan to sell off our forests, today the government has announced a...

    Robert E Fuller

  • Wild Dogs Coming to Chester Zoo

    Wild Dogs Coming to Chester Zoo

    Chester Zoo is getting a new pack of wild dogs, or painted dogs as they are sometimes called, and have asked me to provide some photographs for their publicity material....

    Robert E Fuller

  • Falcon Fracas

    Falcon Fracas

    The other day I watched a buzzard take on a peregrine mid-air. The pair locked talons and tumbled alarmingly through the sky in a spectacular display. Read more about it...

    Robert E Fuller

  • Otter Search Reveals a Wildlife Bridge!

    Otter Search Reveals a Wildlife Bridge!

    My search for this elusive otter continues....I decided to give up on the log and followed some tracks up a tributary of the Derwent until I found an otter holt....

    Robert E Fuller

  • BBC Countryfile Visit!

    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...

    Robert E Fuller

  • Masai Mara Wildlife Trip

    Masai Mara Wildlife Trip

    Africa's great wildebeest migration is something I'm drawn back to again and again - despite having already seen it five times!Tomorrow I shall be giving a talk here at the...

    Robert E Fuller

  • Countryfile filming here tomorrow

    Countryfile filming here tomorrow

    COUNTRYFILE BBC Countryfile are coming to film here tomorrow! They'll be arriving first thing and want to spend the whole day with me as I look for subjects to photograph...

    Robert E Fuller

  • Wildlife Log Footage

    For those of you who remember my wildlife log which I discovered whilst looking for otters along the River Derwent, I've now got some very amusing footage of the animals...

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  • Need a Card for Mother's Day?

    Need a Card for Mother's Day?

    Now there's a mother's love for you: The way this tiny reed warbler struggles to keep up with the demands of the huge cuckoo chick got me thinking about parenthood...

    Robert E Fuller

  • Listen out for me on BBC Radio Humberside.

    Listen out for me on BBC Radio Humberside.

    I'm going to be on BBC Radio Humberside tomorrow morning. I'm going to be interviewed by Ruth Barcroft, pictured below, for Saturday Breakfast Show's 'Learn Something New' slot. Ruth wants...

    Robert E Fuller

  • TV Appearance!

    TV Appearance!

    If you missed us on Countryfile this Sunday then click here. You have to scroll to the end of the programme - I was the last feature. But it is...

    Robert E Fuller

  • BBC Countryfile Feature Me!

    I've edited down the Countryfile feature so now if you click on the arrow you just get the section with me in it!!!

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  • Adders in Allerthorpe

    Adders in Allerthorpe

    Whilst watching adders on Allerthorpe Common recently, I discovered that they eat lizards.Click here to read about my encounter in the Ryedale Gazette & Herald.

    Robert E Fuller

  • Technology

    Technology

    I don't pretend to be overly keen on computers and much prefer to leave the day to day running of the business to my wife Victoria whilst I go out...

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  • Originals Catalogue

    your browser does not support IFRAMEsMy exhibition starts on Saturday (4th June), so I thought you might like to have a sneak preview of the originals that are going to...

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  • Exhibition starts tomorrow

    Exhibition starts tomorrow

    I'm just about ready for my exhibition which opens tomorrow. I finished this original yesterday. It was taken from my studies of a little owl family just down the road...

    Robert E Fuller

  • Wildlife Roundup

    Wildlife Roundup

    It's still a bit soon to be offering an overview of the year but when The Yorkshire Post asked me to give them a round up of my wildlife watching...

    Robert E Fuller

  • Paintings Going Like Hotcakes!

    Paintings Going Like Hotcakes!

    So far my summer exhibition is doing really well!I've sold seven original paintings in the first week! This barn owl is going to Australia straight after the exhibition is over...

    Robert E Fuller

  • Blackbirds Fledge

    Blackbirds Fledge

    We had a family of blackbirds nesting just above the front door to the gallery during the exhibition. They didn't seem to mind all the comings and goings - and...

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  • Tawny Owl in Flight

    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...

    Robert E Fuller

  • Wolds Secret Orchids

    Wolds Secret Orchids

    The orchids are out on the Yorkshire Wolds now. I photographed these alongside the very busy A166. Hundreds of people drive past them every day. I wonder if they give...

    Robert E Fuller

  • Excited Badger Cub

    Excited Badger Cub

    Watch this very sweet badger cub setting off for his evening outing. It is so funny seeing him run round and round in circles with sheer excitment.I videoed him from...

    Robert E Fuller

  • Wildlife Watching with The Press

    Wildlife Watching with The Press

    I took a journalist from The Press out wildlife watching with me and he enjoyed himself so much he has written a very complimentary article in Wednesday's edition all about...

    Robert E Fuller

  • Owl Safaris

    Owl Safaris

    The owl safaris I held this summer have been a great success.Originally meant to complement my summer exhibition I had so much demand that I ended up doing five safaris...

    Robert E Fuller

  • Kingfishers on Road to Recovery

    Kingfishers on Road to Recovery

    Kingfisher populations were among the most serious casualties of last winter's bitter snows.As ponds and streams froze over there were reports that some populations tried to relocate to the coast,...

    Robert E Fuller

  • Hare Abundant

    Hare Abundant

    For an animal in decline, there seems to be a lot of hares about on the Yorkshire Wolds at the moment.

    Robert E Fuller

  • Serengeti Highway

    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...

    Robert E Fuller

  • Regent's Park still an oasis of calm

    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...

    Robert E Fuller

  • Shooting Season Begins

    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...

    Robert E Fuller

  • A family of kestrels at Fotherdale

    A family of kestrels at Fotherdale

    A pair of kestrels set up home in my garden this summer! They perservered despite losing their first brood to a carrion crow and went on to raise .

    Robert E Fuller

  • Badger Painting Sold

    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...

    Robert E Fuller

  • Early Morning Leopard

    Early Morning Leopard

    We came across this male leopard early one morning. There was a dead wildebeest nearby, so he had clearly made a kill in the night.

    Robert E Fuller

  • Book a Walk on the Wild Side

    Book a Walk on the Wild Side

    Book now if you want a place on one of the wildlife events taking place during my Winter Exhibition. Choose from daytime walks to see short-eared owls, red kites, and...

    Robert E Fuller

  • Winter Exhibition

    Winter Exhibition

    My Winter Exhibition opens on October 29th and you are all invited of course! I've been putting the finishing touches to a new series of paintings of red kites to...

    Robert E Fuller

  • Bee Keeping is Over

    Bee Keeping is Over

    My wife Victoria and I have kept bees for a few years now and last year we had almost 100lbs of honey from our hive. But last week my bee-keeping...

    Robert E Fuller

  • New Prints and Cards Now Available

    New Prints and Cards Now Available

    I have four new limited edition prints and two new Christmas cards now available. They include the limited edition collection taken from my latest original paintings of a red kite...

    Robert E Fuller

  • Red Kite Painting Finished

    Red Kite Painting Finished

    I've just finished this painting of two red kites engaged in an aerial combat - good job too because the exhibition opens on October 29th! I used acrylics this time...

    Robert E Fuller

  • Winter Migrants

    Winter Migrants

    Wasn't it exciting to see Spurn Point on Autumn Watch?The east coast is such a fantastic place to watch migrating birds as some arrive and others leave our shores to...

    Robert E Fuller

  • Great Feedback

    Great Feedback

    I'm really chuffed. I got a really nice email last night from a customer who ordered the first red kite at deepdale print."I opened it and cried for there was...

    Robert E Fuller