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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.

  • 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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  • Animal magnetism: Do animals feel love?

    Animal magnetism: Do animals feel love?

    Are animals romantic? As Valentine’s Day approaches I have been thinking about whether animals experience the same emotions that we do. And, in particular, whether they feel love in the...

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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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  • 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 that...

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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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  • Portrait of a stoat | my painting story

    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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  • Stoat Assault Course

    Stoat Assault Course

    Exactly three days before the snow fall last week, I spotted this white stoat hunting in the valley opposite.I watched it hunting and then put out food and set up...

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  • Stalking a red stag with a camera

    Stalking a red stag with a camera

    Red stags are truly magnificent beasts and can be seen quite readily in Scotland. But to get up close you need to be prepared to really get down on your...

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  • Standing on top of an otter's holt!

    Standing on top of an otter's holt!

    I had one of the most incredible sightings of otters during a trip to the Ardurmurchan Peninsula on west coast of Scotland this summer. I was staying on the shores of Loch Sunart, a sea...

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  • Sea Lion Hunt

    Sea Lion Hunt

    Although sea lions are not unique to The Galapagos, they are really prolific here. Nearly every beach you come to is crowded with them and at Puerto Villamil they even...

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  • Saving hedgehogs to help the State of Nation

    Saving hedgehogs to help the State of Nation

    This month I released the young hedgehogs I found in the garden last winter.  They didn't know quite what to make of the garden and spent some time sheltered by...

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  • Badger's unlikely lodgers

    Badger's unlikely lodgers

    Whilst examing a badger sett looking for signs of occupancy recently, I stumbled across a fox den. The vixen was using part of the sett for her cubs and when...

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  • Roe Doe at Longdale

    Roe Doe at Longdale

    I keep seeing this roe doe near the gallery here at Fotherdale. I think she has a fawn stashed somewhere close by. The cold weather we had in April means...

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  • Badger Baiters are sent to prison

    Badger Baiters are sent to prison

    Four men were sent to prison for four months for badger baiting at Scarborough Magistrates Court yesterday. Sentencing them, the judge said that people in Yorkshire would not tolerate such "abhorrent"...

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  • Roe Buck

    Roe Buck

    I photographed this handsome buck at the edge of a small wood last week. I had spotted it with a doe in a nearby hay meadow but didn't have my...

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  • Badger Cubs

    Badger Cubs

    There are three badger cubs at the sett by my badger hide this year. It's so good to see them after last year when there were no cubs there at...

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  • Seal-tastic

    Seal-tastic

    Shortly before Christmas I drove to Donna Nook in Lincolnshire to see the seals. Grey seals come here each winter in their 1000s to pup and to breed.Maternal care in...

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  • Studley Royal

    Studley Royal

    I had a day out in Studley Royal Deer Park at Fountain's Abbey near Ripon on Sunday. I know it's not the Highlands of Scotland, but with a busy schedule...

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