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Wildlife Blog

Discover the stories behind the paintings, see the wildlife films, learn more about the wild characters on the live nest cams and explore fascinating wildlife facts all in Robert E Fuller’s fascinating blog.

  • Film | Seal pup suckling | Discover wildlife

    Film | Seal pup suckling | Discover wildlife

    This seal pup is just a few days old. Watch it find its mum on a beach full of pupping seals and quietly, with a little encouragement, begin to suckle.

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  • Film | Adorable badger cubs cuddling

    Film | Adorable badger cubs cuddling

    Watch these two badger cubs cuddle one another as they settle down to sleep. These cubs have now dispersed, but it was fun watching them on my hidden cameras whilst...

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  • Film | A home fit for a red fox family

    Film | A home fit for a red fox family

    I've been building a home fit for a family of foxes. Fingers crossed I'll be able to film cubs soon. Filming foxes I’ve been filming red foxes with my friend...

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  • The hedgehog that won my heart

    The hedgehog that won my heart

    Hedgehog in Autumn Leaves | Limited Edition Print | Available Here Falling in love with hedgehogs The painting above is a portrait of a hedgehog that won my heart. Until...

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  • Close encounter with a rhino inspires new painting

    Close encounter with a rhino inspires new painting

    Rhino encounter inspires new painting Rhinos are magnificent animals. With wrinkled, armoured-looking skin and spiked horns, they look almost prehistoric as they amble across the dry plains of Africa. Close...

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  • Travel | Sloths are slow for a reason

    Travel | Sloths are slow for a reason

    In Spanish, the word for sloth is “perezoso,” which means “lazy”. But during a recent trip to Panama, I discovered that their slow pace of life is in fact a...

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  • Tracking down elusive pine martens for a new painting

    Tracking down elusive pine martens for a new painting

    Click here to see the limited edition print of this painting Searching for pine martens in Scotland Pine martens were once Britain’s second most common carnivore. But following years of...

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  • Film | My Yorkshire year | Discover wildlife

    Film | My Yorkshire year | Discover wildlife

    From the frogs spawning in spring, to stoats turning white for winter, the Yorkshire Wolds teams with wildlife all year round. Join me as I follow some of the most...

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  • Film | Baby seals' first days full of drama

    Film | Baby seals' first days full of drama

    In December Yorkshire's beaches are windswept and bleak. And yet this is when grey seals come to shore to give birth to their young pups. Its bitterly cold, but the...

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  • Film | Brooks Falls' fierce 'mama' bears | Alaska

    Film | Brooks Falls' fierce 'mama' bears | Alaska

    Alaska’s Brooks Falls hosts one of the biggest concentrations of grizzly bears in the world. As salmon make their way up the six-foot waterfalls, bears vie for the best fishing...

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  • Otter magic on Scotland's Isle of Mull

    Otter magic on Scotland's Isle of Mull

    Mull's magical otters I spent a magical week filming a family of otters on the Isle of Mull. The Scottish island is renowned for its wild otters and didn’t disappoint....

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  • Seal pups: Winter's true snow babies

    Seal pups: Winter's true snow babies

    Seal inspiration I have a painting of a grey seal pup that I am yet to finish. I was inspired to begin it after watching it just days after it...

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  • Watching wildlife at night

    Watching wildlife at night

    The dark nights of winter have never stopped me getting out and about. In fact, I love walking in the dark. This is a time when my hearing becomes my...

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  • Film | The magic of wild Alaska

    Film | The magic of wild Alaska

    Sit back and enjoy the magic that is wild Alaska. See grizzly bears catching salmon, watch bear cubs pad obediently behind their mothers, and even glimpse humpback whales breaching and...

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  • Yorkshire's top 10 wildlife & where to spot it

    Yorkshire's top 10 wildlife & where to spot it

    Yorkshire spans some of the most varied landscapes in the country; including wolds, dales, moors and a spectacular coastline. These different habitats support a variety of wildlife species. To celebrate...

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  • Hare paintings through the seasons

    Hare paintings through the seasons

    This collection of hare paintings follows the seasons from spring, through to summer and winter.  Hares in spring and summer These paintings depict hares in the heat of summer and...

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  • 16 paintings of stoats & weasels

    16 paintings of stoats & weasels

    This collection of 16 paintings of stoats and weasels follows five-years of intensive studies. Scroll down to see the paintings in the collection and read all about the wildlife sightings...

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  • Going ermine - How stoats turn white for winter

    Going ermine - How stoats turn white for winter

    Most people know stoats can turn white in winter. But very few understand exactly how this transition takes place. This film follows a stoat in my garden named Bandita as...

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  • Stoat Adventures in Ash Wood

    Stoat Adventures in Ash Wood

    The wild stoats living in Ash Wood are mesmerising as they scale trees, scurry along paths and hunt animals twice their size. With the help of cameras hidden in this...

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  • Stoats' shocking breeding habits

    Stoats' shocking breeding habits

    This blog post is all about the fascinating, if somewhat alarming, breeding habits of stoats and is told through the story of a new stoat mum in my garden in...

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  • Sleeping badgers | my painting story

    Sleeping badgers | my painting story

    I have watched badgers for years but it wasn't until I built an underground sett rigged with hidden cameras that I learned what happens when these mammals disappear below ground.Click...

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  • Rehabilitating a stoat named Whisper

    Rehabilitating a stoat named Whisper

    WhisperThis blog post follows the rehabilitation of a tiny stoat kit named Whisper. Whisper was found alone and handed to me because in recent years I've taken on the job...

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  • Film | Portrait of a stoat - my painting story

    Film | Portrait of a stoat - my painting story

    Below is a short video following the story of how a new painting featuring a stoat named Crackle came about. Crackle was born in my garden in 2019 and when...

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  • Stoat camera stories 2020 | the Fotherdale stoats

    Stoat camera stories 2020 | the Fotherdale stoats

    This blog post follows a family of stoats in my North Yorkshire garden. The matriarch, Bandita,  is famous. She is the star of a BBC Natural World documentary.Autumn 2020 -...

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  • Seven Red Squirrel Gifts to go Nuts For

    Seven Red Squirrel Gifts to go Nuts For

    As an artist, I find the rich russet colouring of a red squirrel so inspiring. This collection of luxury art gifts features my paintings of these lovable animals and offers...

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  • Weasels and Stoats - Mustelids and Me

    Weasels and Stoats - Mustelids and Me

    The wonderful world of weasels and stoats More is known about the habits of snow leopards than of weasels and stoats, so as a wildlife artist and photographer I created...

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  • Stoat Cam

    Stoat Cam

    Welcome to my stoat cam where I collate the best clips of stoats from the cameras hidden inside and outside nest boxes in my garden. I've been watching stoats in...

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  • Red Stag of Etive

    Red Stag of Etive

    This red stag is painted in acrylics and pencil. Read my blog about the day I watched this red stag in the Scottish Highlands.

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  • Robert E Fuller: Weasel: I just can't stop itching

    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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  • Stunt Stoat's TV Debut

    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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  • 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

    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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