How to spot kingfishers | Kingfisher art studies
Despite their bright shock of electric-blue and orange feathers, it can be difficult to spot a kingfisher in the wild. I built an entire kingfisher bank so that I could...
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Kingfisher paintings inspired by intensive studies
Kingfisher inspiration Electric blue and accented in bright orange, kingfishers are undoubtedly Britain's most striking birds. This art collection follows an intensive study of their behaviour, during which I filmed...
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Barn Owl Chicks Thrive Despite Their Clueless Dad
Barn owl chicks Ginger, Cinnamon & Clove grew up to be beautiful owls, despite having a very inattentive owl dad. Willow and GhostThis is the story of barn owls Willow and...
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Tawny Owl Chicks Flourish Against All Odds | Tawny Owls of Ash Wood
This film follows the fortunes of a family of tawny owls living in a wild woodland in North Yorkshire, UK.A tail of tawny owl resilienceFilmed using cameras hidden inside their...
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Barn Owl Chicks Get Ready to Take First Ever Flights
Barn owls' Willow & Ghost's first brood 2021Thanks to cameras hidden inside a barn owl nest, I've followed the secret lives of a barn owl pair named Willow & Ghost...
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Bird migration: Drama in the skies at autumn
Bird migration in autumn The bird migration is one of nature's most breath-taking dramas. and you don't need to travel far to see it. In fact, here in Yorkshire, you...
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Barn Owl Pair Search For Perfect Nest
When lonely male barn owl Ghost met Willow, a female, it seemed like the perfect match! But when their would-be home was taken by kestrels, the pair had to search...
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Six kestrel chicks survive | all about hatching
All six kestrel chicks here at Fotherdale Farm in Yorkshire have hatched, in spite of brutal raids on their nests. Read on to find out more about the fascinating process...
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Barn owl eggs | barn owl facts
To learn how barn owls lay their eggs, I follow the lives of a pair of barn owls living in my Yorkshire garden via cameras hidden in their nest. Gylfie...
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Tawny owl courtship | the love story of bomber & luna
Filming Tawny Owls in the NestTawny owls are very secretive, so I’ve only managed to persuade them to raise their chicks inside a nest with hidden cameras a handful of...
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Barn owl chicks: the facts
Hatching & Early DevelopmentLike many ‘baby’ birds, barn owlets are naked and ugly after they first hatch. But they quickly develop a very thin covering of down and by five...
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Barn owl facts | all about barn owls
Barn owls: the factsThis list of barn owl facts is drawn from a lifetime of watching barn owls for my paintings and tells all you need to know about barn...
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Rehabilitating Eric, a tawny owl chick
This is the story of a rescued tawny owl chick named Eric and how he is fostered by a family of wild owls.Rehabilitating Eric & Ernie | AugustAlmost Time to...
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Salt end peregrines 2020 | stories from a live peregrine nest camera
This is the story of a family of peregrine falcons living on an industrial site in Hull. Known as the 'Salt End Peregrines', these birds live high on a cooling...
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Saving our Natural Treasures: Rescuing Baby Kestrels
A new exhibition of my artwork opens today at my gallery in Thixendale. The theme is ‘Natural Treasures’ and is a celebration of Britain’s wildlife heritage through paintings, photography and...
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Secrets from a Peregrine Falcon Nest
Last autumn I installed four cameras inside a peregrine falcon nest located at a vast industrial site on the banks of the Humber Estuary in Hull. This meant I could...
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Barn Owl Nest Camera | Summer 2019 | Time to Fly the Nest
The three barn owl chicks are now flying free and the parent birds are sitting on a new clutch! Read on to watch their first flights. From the beginning: Click here...
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Tawny Owl Nest Camera | May-June 2019 | One Precious Chick
After a worrying start to the season, just one precious tawny owl chick hatched inside my purpose-made Beech Stump nest box. This fluffy owlet was joined by two foster chicks...
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Barn Owl Nest Camera | Summer 2019 | See The Barn Owl Chicks Grow
The barn owl chicks are growing up fast. Their fluffy down is giving way to fine, buff-coloured feathers and they are now exploring the nest and even standing at the...
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Tawny Owl Nest Camera | April 2019 | Laying Eggs & Incubating
The female tawny owl is now incubating three eggs. She sits on these eggs alone for 30 days until hatching begins. This year she laid two weeks later than usual...
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Barn Owl Nest Camera | March-April 2019 | The Eggs Are Laid
The female barn owl is now laying. She is supported by the male who brings regular meals into the box. Barn owls differ from other birds in that they incubate...
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Barn Owl Nest Camera | Courtship & Defending The Nest
March 2019 UpdateUpdate: Barn Owl Love in the BoxWhat's new on the Barn Owl Nest Camera this MonthThe barn owl courtship is hotting up. The pair are still deciding which...
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Tawny Owl Nest Camera | March 2019 | Will There Be Eggs?
March 2019 Update - Will there be eggs?What's Happening this MonthI'm expecting the female tawny owl to lay any day now, but she hasn't been looking well. Read on to...
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Barn Owl Nest Camera | Selecting A Nest Site
Jan & Feb 2019 UpdateUpdate: Barn Owls Find LoveWhat's new on the Barn Owl Nest CameraRead on to follow the story of barn owls as they pair up and find...
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Tawny Owl Nest Camera | Jan-Feb 2019 | Courtship & Nesting
Feb 2019Update - Finding, Digging & Defending A NestWhat's new this monthThe tawny owls are still uncertain where to nest. Read on to see them flit between Beech Stump and...
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Searching for Waxwings in Winter
Waxwings on Rowan Berries, by Robert E FullerI always associate them with the run up to Christmas, when they arrive to escape the icy winters further north. So when I...
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Stories from the Kestrel Cam
I've been following the intimate lives of a pair of kestrels living in my garden for more than 10 years and over the years I've come to know them well;...
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Stories from Inside a Barn Owl Nest
I've been following the story of a barn owl pair on my nestcams throughout this breeding season and in this post I plan to tell their story from the moment...
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Short-Eared Owl Watch
I've just finished this painting of a short eared owl and it is now on show in my gallery in Thixendale, North Yorkshire. . Birds of prey have alwaysfascinated me,...
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Sparring Sparrowhawks win Top Photography Award
This week I won 'highly commended' in the 2015 British Wildlife Photography Awards for this photograph of two sparring sparrowhawks. I traveled down to London to collect my award on Wednesday...
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Strange food cravings. A Barn owl struggles to eat mole
Watch how this brooding barn owl reacts to the unusual meal its mate brought for it. Well, it was mole!!!
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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