Robert E Fuller: In my own words | Early life
Early years I was born in 1972, and moved at the age of two to Great Givendale in East Yorkshire, not far from where I still live today. My father,...
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Robert E Fuller: In my own words | Early life
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Lion Pride
As the herds migrate across the savannah, their predators come out in force. We saw lion everyday. This pride was very close to our camp and we had plenty of...
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Masai Mara Marvel
I've just got back from a two week safari to Kenya's Masai Mara. I've been to Africa 10 times in total and have visited six different countries on this vast...
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Kestrel Kids
A family of kestrels have been nesting in an old sycamore stump I put up for them near the garden! They actually nested in the garden to begin with, but...
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Otter watch.
I have seen otters in the sea in Scotland many times, especially in Islay and Mull, but I've found it much harder to find them in fresh water.You may remember...
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Who...Who are you? Fotherdale's Tawnys
The Fotherdale tawny owl family are growing up fast.They still come at night to feed from my bird table and in the day they perch in the line of sycamores...
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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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To Cull or Not to Cull?
The government is due to make a decision within the next few days on whether to allow farmers to shoot badgers on sight in a bid to stop the spread...
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Lapwing Chicks
It is rare to see lapwings nesting in this part of Yorkshire. But a friend of mine has created specific 'lapwing strips' to encourage these beautiful plumed birds. I spent...
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Woodpeckers Fledge
I spent a fascinating few weeks watching a pair of woodpeckers raise their chicks. This photograph was taken a few minutes before one chick fledged. The nest hole was at...
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Wildlife Photographer of the Year Semi Finalist.
My photographic studies of a group of hares in last winter's snow have made it to the semi-finals in the country's most prestigious wildlife photography competition: the Wildlife Photographer of...
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Tree Creepers Fledge
I saw these four fledgling tree creepers clinging onto a tree trunk the other evening. I heard them as I was on my way to visit the badger sett that...
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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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Boxing Hares
I watched these hares box the other day. I first spotted a group together in a field. The there was a female in season and she had attracted a large...
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Black Grouse Lek
The black grouse lek is one of the most remarkable courtship displays that you can see in this country: more reminiscent of a tropical bird dance than that of an...
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Kamikaze Pheasant
You may remember the pheasant that was attacking villagers in Newsham in North Yorkshire last year. I came across a similarly vicious bird in the Dales. I was driving along...
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Tree Creeper
Tree creepers are so well camouflaged they can be very hard to spot, but their high-pitched calls give them away. They creep up trees, as their name suggest, in search...
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Yorkshire's Red Squirrels
I spotted a thriving community of red squirrels during a visit to the Yorkshire Dales. They were running along a stone wall on the outskirts of a village near Hawes....
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London's Grebes
There was plenty of other wildlife in Regents Park. The little grebe below came by and I got a few standard shots. But then I moved nearer the bank where...
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Herons in Regents Park, London
In the countryside herons are amongst the most wary of birds so I took advantage of a weekend trip to see friends in London to visit the heronry in Regents...
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Frog Frolic at Fotherdale
We moved to Fotherdale Farm in 1998 and one of the first things I did was build a pond.Now we have a very healthy frog and toad population. The other...
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Photographing Long-Tailed Tits for a New Painting
I spent a day last week photographing this long-tailed tit building a nest.Long-tailed tits make their nests out of very soft materials which then expand as the chicks grow. They...
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Countryfile Visit
I took a film crew from BBC Countryfile out wildlife watching with me last week. It was quite a hectic day, but Julia Bradbury was very easy to talk to...
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Otter Search Goes On
Otters are nocturnal and so I left my camera at the site to see if I could capture this otter on film. My camera is set to go off whenever...
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Otter Search
I've been trying to get a decent picture of an otter recently for an idea I have for a painting. Otter numbers have increased considerably along the Derwent River in...
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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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Winter Wonders
I don't suppose we've seen the last of the snow this winter, but I couldn't quite sign off 2010 without a quick recap of those incredible snow scenes we had...
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Woodcock Viewing
Happy New Year to you all and I hope you've all had a good Christmas.The icy weather here has spelled hardship for much of our wildlife over Christmas, but it...
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Hares on the Run
These running hares reminded me of one of my best-selling paintings, 'Hares on The Run'. The lead hare is a female with the males running enthusiastically after them. She...
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Hare Watch
I spent a total of 10 days watching this large group of hares in arctic conditions.One day a group of five hares ran straight towards me. This one froze on...
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Hares Boxing in Winter
The heavy snows have made life difficult for everybody up and down the country.But for a wildlife enthusiast such as myself it has provided one of the most exciting photographic...
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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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Peregrine Falcon Swoops over Birdwatchers
Those of you who went on the two bird watching walks this weekend came back delighted. I hear the walk to find winter migrants on Saturday was a success. Michael...
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Waxwing Glut
Waxwings have been arriving from Scandinavia in record numbers this year to take advantage of a bumper harvest of rowan berries.These beautiful birds migrate to the UK when food stocks...
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Kingfishers King of the Waterways
Wasn't it good to read this week how the number of kingfishers spotted along Britain's rivers and canals have more than trebled this year? There had been some concerns that...
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Autumn Display
I've been so busy finishing off my paintings for the exhibition that I haven't had time to go out and get any photographs of the wonderful autumn display we've been...
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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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Deer Stalk
Sometimes the efforts I go to to get good wildlife photographs for my paintings can seem a little odd to the uninitiated.We had some friends from London staying and they...
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Motion Blurring Photography
In dull light it is easy to take a photograph that gives the effect of motion blur. But I took these photographs on a reasonably bright autumn day. I mainly...
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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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The Quagga Look
The unusual markings on this zebra put me in mind of the long-extinct sub-species of zebra known as the quagga. This photograph, taken at London Zoo in 1870, is of...
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Bone Crunching Giraffe?
One of the strangest things I saw during my trip to Namibia was giraffe chewing on dry bones. I thought that perhaps they could be extracting minerals from the bones...
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The Big, the Beautiful and the Comical
The wildlife was so obliging in Namibia. Here are some of my favourite poses.As we left our camp at Okaukuejo one morning we were greeted by this bull elephant. It...
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Elephant Hierarchy
My daughter Lily enjoyed the safari, especially the giraffe which are her favourite, but after a long day driving through the bush even an elephant at such close quarters wasn't...
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Nights at the Waterhole
On the last few days of our trip we stayed at a third camp overlooking the Okaukuejo waterhole. At night the waterhole was floodlit and I was able to watch...
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Life at the Waterhole
It was wintertime when I visited Namibia and the countryside was dry, so all the action took place at the waterholes. Day and night these life-giving pools were a hive...
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Black Rhino AND Leopard
Namibia is the best place in the world to see black rhino. This endangered species has been brought back from the brink of extinction in recent years and Etosha National...
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Namibian Desert
I've been offline for quite some time now because I have been travelling through Namibia in Southern Africa.I went with my family and two friends, Ged and Lucy. We hired...
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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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Dear Deer
On the first owl safari we spotted a roe doe. I had seen her there two days before at the same time and in the same place and I suspected...
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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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