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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.

  • First Steps

    First Steps

    Watch the foal's first steps here

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  • A Famous Baby Elephant

    A Famous Baby Elephant

    The safari I led to Samburu in Kenya was a bit like being on a film set - there were so many famous elephants there. The herds that wander past Elephant...

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  • Winter Wildlife Exhibition

    Winter Wildlife Exhibition

    I'm very busy finishing off paintings for my winter exhibition which runs from November 3rd-18that my gallery at Thixendale. There's a lot to do. I'll be opening my studio so...

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  • New Limited Edition Prints

    New Limited Edition Prints

    These images are now available as a limited edition prints - I hope you like them! This picture of a woodpecker hiding from a sparrowhawk is one that customers asked...

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  • Nearly finished: New hare painting

    Nearly finished: New hare painting

    I've nearly finished this painting of hares in snow. It's five foot long - larger than my easel. I've taken this close up to see if you can spot what...

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  • Fairy Wren

    Fairy Wren

    I've just finished this painting of a Fairy Wren. It was a present for a local couple's Ruby Wedding Anniversary from their daughter who lives in Australia. What a nice...

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  • New paintings on the go

    New paintings on the go

    I've just started work on these three new drawings of otters. I'm hoping they'll be ready in time for my Winter Exhibition which opens next Friday (Nov 3rd). Paintbrushes are...

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  • Red Kite Walk

    Red Kite Walk

    My exhibition opens this weekend! I'm just finishing off my final originals which I'll post details of in the next couple of days. But I thought you might be interested...

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  • Untitled

    Untitled

    I've just finished this painting of a fox. All that's left is to hang it on the gallery wall ready for my exhibition which opens on Saturday. You can see...

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  • Welcoming Back Otters

    Welcoming Back Otters

    I've been celebrating the incredible success of otters in Yorkshire at the gallery this week.The theme of my exhibition has been geared around telling their incredible survival story and I've...

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  • Leopard Lure

    Leopard Lure

    Take a look at my latest column in today's Malton Gazette & Herald. I've focused on the recent trip I led to Kenya's Masai Mara and how nervous I was...

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  • Last Christmas for the Partridge in a Pear Tree?

    Last Christmas for the Partridge in a Pear Tree?

    It was worrying to read in @The Guardian yesterday that partridge populations are still dangerously low. According to wild bird statistics published by Defra yesterday, there was a 30pc drop...

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  • Elephant Encounters

    Elephant Encounters

    I watched the four-footed stars of Planet Earth elephant surfing during my trip to Kenya in August. Read all about it by clicking here to transfer to my latest column in...

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  • BBC The One Show Tonight!!!

    BBC The One Show Tonight!!!

    I'm scheduled to be on BBC's The One Show tonight. Presenter Miranda Krestovnikoff visited the gallery last spring to ask me about how I testified against a gang of badger...

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  • All the fun of the farm here in the gallery

    All the fun of the farm here in the gallery

    Next month I've invited a mobile farm to visit the gallery. There will be piglets to pet, lambs to feed and calves to cuddle and I'm hoping the event will...

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  • Fox's Snow Hunt

    Fox's Snow Hunt

    I spent a fascinating evening watching a fox vainly trying to hunt for voles under the snow. It is very difficult to get up close to foxes in the countryside...

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  • Gearing up for some Farm Fun

    Gearing up for some Farm Fun

    These lambs were born this weekend - just in time for the farm event we are holding here on March 16th. I needed a photograph to publicise the event and...

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  • Never too young to discover a love of outdoors

    Never too young to discover a love of outdoors

    My daughters, Lily, aged four, and Ruby, aged one, are becoming accustomed to joining me on my many trips to watch wildlife.   They take freezing cold winds and muddy...

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  • Farm Fun!

    Farm Fun!

    The farm event on Saturday was a great success, despite the cold. We had some 200 children and they all adored handling the animals. There were lambs, piglets, ponies, birds...

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  • National Sparrow Day

    National Sparrow Day

    It was National Sparrow Day yesterday so I thought I'd post this photograph. I've been under some pressure to turn the image into a painting - would be quite a...

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  • Spring Blues

    Spring Blues

    This long cold spring has got to me. I started on this painting today because I needed to feel that summer will come - sometime! I hear that a few...

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  • Falcon and boy reunited thanks to Facebook!

    Falcon and boy reunited thanks to Facebook!

    When 17-year-old James Dickinson lost his beloved lanner falcon over Barnsley this week he was devastated. The young female falcon, named Nakela, was his pride and joy and when she...

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  • Making a living out of the countryside

    Making a living out of the countryside

    FARMING has undergone tremendous change over the years. As a farmer’s son, I can remember having family picnic lunches during harvest. Can't imagine the combine harvesters stopping now. And whilst the bigger...

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  • A TV Mug

    A TV Mug

     Anyone spot the real star on BBC Countryfile last week? As presenter John Craven sat down to interview Badger Trust vice president Jack Reedy about the latest badger cull, there...

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  • Watching Osprey

    Watching Osprey

    Osprey are on their way back from breeding grounds in Scotland to 

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  • Win a free wildlife event!

    Win a free wildlife event!

    I'm offering followers the chance to win a free ticket to one of the many nature walks and talks taking place next week. Choose from a stargazing evening under the...

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  • A bear for Pudsey

    A bear for Pudsey

    I'm auctioning this limited edition print today for BBC Children in Need. If you want to win this print of a European brown bear place your bids by commenting below....

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  • Fledged

    Fledged

    This is one of several new paintings that left the gallery to be hung in their new homes this week. I shall miss them!

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  • Sparrowhawks: Love or Hate?

    Sparrowhawks: Love or Hate?

    Love them or hate them, you have to admire sparrowhawks for their lightening speed and superior skill as hunters. I've been studying one for a painting and I have mixed...

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  • Warts and all

    Warts and all

    I painted this last month as a gift for someone and it was a delight to do so as I've always wanted to create a composition featuring these characterful creatures....

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  • Red Deer in Cheshire

    Red Deer in Cheshire

    I couldn't resist taking the family to see the red deer at the National Trust's Lyme Park during a visit to see some friends in Cheshire this weekend. This is...

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  • Courting fox

    Courting fox

    The foxes in Thixendale have begun courting. I've been out listening for their calls and so far I've tracked five in the vicinity. Fox on the Lookout, limited edition print ...

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  • How I Built an Artificial Fox Earth

    How I Built an Artificial Fox Earth

    You may remember my plans to build an artificial fox earth so that I can attract a vixen? This is how it looks now it’s finished. The green bank at...

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  • Barn Owl Chicks Hatch

    Two of the barn owl chicks have hatched! These tiny owlets are vital to the recovery of barn owls here on the Yorkshire Wolds and I am continuing to monitor...

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  • Galapagos!

    Galapagos!

    I have just returned from a spectacular trip to the Galapagos Islands and Ecuador. What a fantastic and other-worldly experience. I've seen so much, from condors to marine iguanas and...

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  • Wildlife Walks and Talks

    Wildlife Walks and Talks

    I'm hosting lots of exciting wildlife events during my Summer Exhibition and I've been flat out organising them. There will be nature walks and bird watching tours of all the...

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  • Wildlife Art Exhibition and a walk on the Wolds

    Wildlife Art Exhibition and a walk on the Wolds

    My new wildlife art exhibition opened on Saturday with a lot of interest in my new paintings inspired by my trip to The Galapagos, like the waved albatross pair pictured...

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  • Exhibition

    Exhibition

    My exhibition on Yorkshire wildlife opens tomorrow and I've got lots to share about the wonderful variety of wildlife to be enjoyed here in Yorkshire. I'm planning to make a...

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  • Exhibition Success

    Exhibition Success

    My Winter Art Exhibition is now over and this week I've been wrapping up the original paintings that have been sold ready to go to their new owners. These include...

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  • Twelve Wild Creatures to Look for at Christmas

    Christmas can be a great time to go out looking for wildlife, especially if it gets you out of the house when all the food and gifts have been consumed!And...

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  • Enjoy Natural Wonders at my Summer Art Exhibition

    Enjoy Natural Wonders at my Summer Art Exhibition

    I've just finished a new series of paintings for my summer wildlife art exhibition which opens at my gallery in Thixendale, North Yorkshire, tomorrow.   This buzzard portrait is among...

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  • White shouldered house moth

    White shouldered house moth

    A batch of white shouldered house moths hatched in my gallery following a children's activity to dissect barn owl pellets held here during my latest exhibition. The larvae of these moths...

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