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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Barn Owl feeding Chicks: It's too big!
Poor chicks are struggling with too large a morsel mum, tear it up smaller please!
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RSPB Leighton Moss under ice
Recently I visited one of the country’s most importantwetland reserves run by the RSPB at Leighton Moss. I arrived shortly after dawn and watched the sun come up.Most of water...
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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
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
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
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!
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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Swallows in my porch
Each Spring I look forward to the arrival of the swallows to my garden. They usually nest in the front porch of my house. This year they arrived on cue...
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Tawny Owls: Tough Love
One of this year's young I've been watching the tawny owl chicks mature over the season. They arereaching maturing now and virtually indistinguishable from the adults.The feathers on the backs...
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Barn Owl Chicks Fledge
The five barn owl chicks I have been studying have now all fledged. I have watched these chicks via nest cams from the moment the first egg was laid and...
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Tawny Owl Chicks
The pair of tawny owls that feed in my garden every night have begun to bring their chicks to the bird table and this week I had all eight at...
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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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Super Dad Diego
Now that my exhibition is finally underway, I can put down my paintbrushes and at last begin the series of blog posts on my trip to the Galapagos I promised.I...
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Bedraggled Tawny Owls
I know I should be posting moreon Galapagos and I promise I will but last week the tawny owl chicks got caughtout in the rain and I just had to...
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Some very precious eggs
Remember my post of March 3rd about thebarn owl pair I was supplement feeding? Well the good news isthat they have laid six eggs, the last of which was laid...
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Summery touches
My paintbrushes have been flying as I get a new series finished for my winter exhibition which opens on November 9th. I don't know whether it was the rain setting...
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Setting the Scene
Like all portrait artists, I like my subjects to pose within an artfully arranged backdrop but since my foci are so very shy it can be tricky to get them...
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Barn owls are back on the Yorkshire Wolds after almost disappearing from our skies completely
Earlier this month after undergoing surgery at York hospital, I came round from the general anaesthetic to see two nurses smiling down at me. I questioned them why they’d woken...
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Barn Owls Bow Out
My summer exhibition is now over. The barn owls worked their magic and people flocked to see them. Now it's time for them to take a bow and say good...
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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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Summer Exhibition will Showcase Barn Owl Paintings
I need to get this painting of a barn owl finished in time for my summer exhibition which opens on June 1st. I photographed it at each stage of the...
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Short eared owls about?
After nearly two days of solid rain, I'm hoping the short-eared owls will be hungry and out hunting today. I have to drive out to Hull to deliver an original...
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Samburu Bird Life
The bird life in Samburu was fantastic. These vulturine guinea fowl became iconic - a symbol of the safari I led. They were everywhere and were real characters. Such great fun to watch. I felt...
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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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Tawny Chicks Loving their Arty Nest Box
These sweet tawny chicks fledged last week from a nest box made from an old sycamore stump. I hoisted the stump, which I've used before for a family of kestrels,...
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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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Power line tragedy
The dangers of power lines was brought home to me with a jolt last week when I found one of the tawny owls that I often paint had been electrified on the...
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Swan Special
Some days things just don't go to plan and I find I have to make the best of things. The other day I set out to Wakefield after some visitors...
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Photographing Swans for Paintings
I came across these swans on the formal lake at Foutains Abbey near Ripon whilst on a family day out last week. I couldn't resist photographing them. Swans are relatively...
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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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Short Eared Owls by the Humber
I finally got some shots of short eared owls that are good enough to paint from. Over the years I have managed to get some good photographs of barn owls, tawny owls and...
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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
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
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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Snow Fun for Barn Owls
The Yorkshire Wolds looks beautiful in its winter coat.Pictured below is the view across the dale of Fotherdale, my home and gallery.But whilst it looks very pretty, the cold has...
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Spurn Point
Spurn Point is a great place to see winter migrants coming in. The unique shape of this spit of land means the birds don't disperse as quickly as they would...
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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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Swallow Summer
During my exhibition a lot of visitors said they had seen less swallows this year nesting in their buildings. I photographed these newly fledged chicks being fed by their parents...
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Barn Owl Sighting
The owl safaris were such an inspiration that I spent some time afterwards getting photographs of all the wildlife we had seen.This was the barn owl that we saw hunting...
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Badger Groom
I have been watching my badger sett of late, but so far no sign of any new cubs. I have to conclude that this year their just won't be any....
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Tawny Chicks Fledge
The tawny owl chicks, whose parents I feed from my garden bird table, have just fledged. I made them this nest box out of an old elm tree stump. They...
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Badger Watch
The badger clan that I have been watching from my hide on the Yorkshire Wolds all year have been putting a lot of effort into social bonding lately.They've been grooming...
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