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  • WI Charm

    WI Charm

    Another group visit to the exhibition yesterday! This time we had 10 members of Sinnington WI. It was great to meet so many people who enjoy my work and so...

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  • Funny Fungi

    Funny Fungi

    We have had such a dry September the fungi is later than usual. But this current bout of wet weather has brought it all out now. I love the colours...

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  • Mull it over

    Mull it over

    It's been a busy day in the gallery, inspite of foggy wet weather. (In fact it may have helped!) As well as enjoying the show, visitors have really appreciated a...

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  • New prints for Christmas

    New prints for Christmas

    I've published three new limited edition prints of my paintings. They are:'Wren on Hook' Image size: 15 x 30cmClick here for details 'Fox on Lookout'Image size: 45 x 30cmClick here...

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  • Mist Lifts

    Mist Lifts

    I've been flying my new barn owl in the living room. She's still a bit young and has a lot to learn, so at the moment this is probably the...

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  • Best of Luck to the Blacksmith's Inn

    Best of Luck to the Blacksmith's Inn

    The new owners of the Blacksmith's Inn, formerly the Blacksmith's Arms, in Westow, popped in to the gallery yesterday to buy some prints from me to decorate their newly-refurbished pub.Mark...

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  • Swan-tastic!

    Swan-tastic!

    I've sold all three of my new swan paintings. This is great news as they were a departure from my usual style and I wasn't sure how they would go...

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  • Time to buy your Christmas cards

    Time to buy your Christmas cards

    Don't get caught out with the last minute Christmas postal rush. We have two new Christmas cards this year which should fit the bill:Pheasant PortraitClick here to orderFox on LookoutClick...

    Robert E Fuller

  • Special Deliveries

    Special Deliveries

    My Christmas exhibition is now over and as with the end of every exhibition it leaves me feeling both sad and happy at the same time. There was a really...

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  • Docking station lures shiest birds

    Docking station lures shiest birds

    After Kingfishers, I think bullfinches are this country's most colourful bird. But they are such shy birds that in the past I have had trouble getting close enough to photograph...

    Robert E Fuller

  • And the winner is.....

    And the winner is.....

    ....Amy Crowther, age 11 of Pocklington School, pictured below.Her painting really was wonderful. It kept catching my eye every time I walked past it and I thought it really deserved...

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  • Uptown Fox

    Uptown Fox

    Painting by Robert E FullerI had a call yesterday from Peter Levy of Radio Humberside wanting to know all about urban foxes after that photograph of a fox walking up...

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  • A waxwing Christmas

    A waxwing Christmas

    I always think of waxwings at Christmas. They are not resident to the UK, but like Santa they visit us from Scandinavia each winter and tend to hang around shopping...

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  • Seal Pups Galore!

    Seal Pups Galore!

    I didn't get time to go and see the seals pupping in Lincolnishire this November because my Christmas exhibition was so busy. But last week I decided to drive over...

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  • Snow Beginnings

    Snow Beginnings

    I took a break over Christmas to be with my family, but the snowfall made me keen to get back to work and I have spent this week out and...

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  • Christmas Quacker?

    Christmas Quacker?

    I'm thinking of making mallards the subject of one of my Christmas cards next year and so I drove up to Fridaythorpe yesterday to take some pictures on the frozen...

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  • Red alert for red list birds

    Red alert for red list birds

    The RSPB has warned that the savage wintry weather is the single greatest threat to wildlife this millennium. This week the society launched emergency action to help threatened red list...

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  • Field frenzy!

    Field frenzy!

    I've got loads of fieldfares in the garden at the moment. They're easily tempted in with old apples now that their natural food source is almost depleted in this long...

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  • Wise Woodpecker!

    Wise Woodpecker!

    Whilst the cold snap has brought the birds into our gardens in increasing numbers, it has also brought the predators - among them the ever-controversial sparrowhawk.A fast and single-minded killer,...

    Robert E Fuller

  • Red Kites Come Home to Roost

    Red Kites Come Home to Roost

    I watched 20 to 30 red kites fly in to roost near Nunburnholme the other day. What a magnificent sight! One of the birds had a tag on it so...

    Robert E Fuller

  • Grigin Farm

    Grigin Farm

    I had the opportunity to go to Grigin farm in Mid-Wales last month. Mid-Wales was once home to one of the last remaining red kite populations. There has now been...

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  • WWT Slimbridge rocks!

    WWT Slimbridge rocks!

    This weekend I travelled down to Gloucester. I had a meeting with the curator of Nature in Art Museum in Twigworth. I was really impressed with the collection of wildlife...

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  • Seen anything otter?

    Seen anything otter?

    There are three otters in the enclosure at Slimbridge, where the Wildfowl and Wetland Trust (WWT) are working to safeguard the recent return of the species to our waters, and...

    Robert E Fuller

  • Sparrowhawk Spoil

    Sparrowhawk Spoil

    In preparation for the Big RSPB Garden Bird Watch at the weekend, I moved all my bird feeders - I have several so that I can watch the birds from...

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  • Robin Territorial

    Robin Territorial

    Robins are viciously territorial, but one year a robin in my garden took on a competitor he couldn't compete with - his own reflection in my car window. To read...

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  • Raffle Winner

    Raffle Winner

    Pictured above is Wendy Johnson, the proud winner of the raffle I held during my Christmas exhibition. She won £150 worth of prints and came in to the gallery the...

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  • Nest Box Giveaway

    Nest Box Giveaway

    It's National Nest Box Week next week and I decided to use the opportunity to spend some of the money I have raised this year through my conservation project, Nest...

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  • Red Stag

    Red Stag

    I've just finished my first painting of 2010. I saw this red stag on a trip to Sleivemore on the Isle of Islay in Scotland and decided to paint him...

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  • More from 'Down Under'

    More from 'Down Under'

    Whilst in Otago, we went on two boating excursions. Once to fish and once to see the bird life. The fisherman who took us, Kyle, was accustomed to feeding this...

    Robert E Fuller

  • Forest Dwellers

    Forest Dwellers

    On Sunday it is World Forestry Day and we are encouraged to treasure our woodlands and forests and all that dwell there.Cropton Forest is one place that I go to...

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  • March Hares

    March Hares

    It's the first day of spring tomorrow and time to look out for hares boxing. Hares are abundant on the Yorkshire Wolds just now, and their antics are always fascinating...

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  • Back Trouble

    Back Trouble

    I've had a bit of a blow this week which has upset my plans somewhat. The doctors have told me that I'm going to have to have major surgery on...

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  • Elephants on the Move

    Elephants on the Move

    I sold my elephant painting this week. Entitled 'Elephants on the Move', it is the largest oil painting I've ever done and at 5ft x 61/2ft it's abscene has left...

    Robert E Fuller

  • Spring Clean

    Spring Clean

    I'm looking forward to the clocks going forward tomorrow as the lighter mornings and evenings mean more time for wildlife watching. In fact spring seems to be in the air...

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  • No Place Like Home

    No Place Like Home

    During my visit to New Zealand last month I was struck by how similar the countryside and its wildlife was to that of this country.It seemed to me that I...

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  • Pheasant Fight

    Pheasant Fight

    After a harsh winter, spring got off to a late start this year and I spotted these pheasants still sparring for territory this week.After taking this photograph of them I...

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  • Boxing Hares

    Boxing Hares

    It's been a busy springtime on the Yorkshire Wolds and the fields are a-run with hares boxing. I've been photographing them in a field near Little Givendale where there are...

    Robert E Fuller

  • Frogs-a-frolicking!

    Frogs-a-frolicking!

    My pond is now full of tadpoles despite a bit of a false start. The frogs all came about a month ago but then the pond froze over, so it's...

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  • Barn Owl Beauty

    Barn Owl Beauty

    I've been watching this barn owl in Millington pastures recently and this week captured it just as it came in to land.It's been having a bit of a time of...

    Robert E Fuller

  • Exhibition to go ahead!

    Exhibition to go ahead!

    My back surgery was cancelled at the eleventh hour after I started feeling better! I was due to have the operation on Monday, but an MRI scan showed that the...

    Robert E Fuller

  • International Dawn Chorus Day!

    International Dawn Chorus Day!

    If you're hoping for a lie in on Sunday you'll have to think again. It's International Dawn Chorus Day and officially time to get up with the lark...and the blackbird,...

    Robert E Fuller

  • Weather Calendar Judge

    Weather Calendar Judge

    I'm going to be on TV tonight! Well, it should be tonight. Unless some drastically important breaking news shunts me out of the way, I'll be judging the pictures for...

    Robert E Fuller

  • Not tonight!

    I watched Look North - but wasn't on. It'll probably be post-election now - I'll keep you posted!

    Robert E Fuller

  • TV appearance!

    Did you see me? I've just been on Look North! Here's the link in case you want to watch it.http://www.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/check/england/realmedia/looknorthnecumbria/looknorth?size=16x9&bgc=C0C0C0&nbram=1&bbram=1&nbwm=1&bbwm=1and fast forward to my slot which is on at 21.46...

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  • Artist's dipper tip

    Artist's dipper tip

    Whilst at Grigin Farm I bumped into the wildlife artist and broadcaster Dee Doody, who is known for the work he has done to conserve red kites. As might be...

    Robert E Fuller

  • Nature red in tooth and claw

    Nature red in tooth and claw

    Last week I spotted a buzzard's nest some 55ft up a beech tree. I knew it was there because I spotted the tell-tale sprig of pine on the woodland floor.Does...

    Robert E Fuller

  • Nuthatch Beauty

    Nuthatch Beauty

    Took this last week. Did you know that nuthatches will usually walk down a tree trunk whilst foraging, whilst treecreepers walk up them?

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  • Trade Exhibition

    Trade Exhibition

    I'm in London at the moment on the last day of a trade exhibition. The show, PG Live, is an important one because it is the only trade show dedicated...

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  • Fox attack

    Fox attack

    There has been a lot in the news yesterday and today of a terrible incident involving a fox in London. Two nine month old twins who were sleeping upstairs in...

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