The Red Deer Rut: One of Nature's Most Intense Dramas
The Red Deer Rut The red deer rut is one of nature's most dramatic spectacles, but it's intensity can take its toll in a surprising way. It takes place in...
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Film | Arctic wildlife wonders: polar bear, walrus & more | Svalbard
Polar bear cubs, a walrus colony and an adorable Arctic fox family, this is the wonder of the Arctic. One of the most dramatic encounters was a female polar bear...
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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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Film | Sloths aren't lazy: A unique way of life | 4K | Wild Panama
The brown-throated sloth is only found in Central and South America, and it's an animal I’m excited to study. So, I travel to Panama as a guest of Tranquilo Bay...
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Film | Otter mum prepares cubs for life on their own
These otter cubs are almost the same size as their mum and still suckling. Time for mum to teach them essential survival skills and begin the process of separation. Isle...
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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
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
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
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 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
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
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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'Thieving' fox of Dalby forest just trying to feed its family
The Dalby fox has a bad reputation The recent thunderstorms remind me of a soggy July I once spent camping at Dalby Forest where all the talk was about a...
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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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How I became accepted by a family of wild badgers
I visit a family of wild badgers every day and have now been accepted as one of their own. Badger watching for art's sake Most evenings I walk into a...
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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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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 Camera Stories | Spring 2019 | Setting Up Home
Welcome to the first of my Stoat Camera Stories where I share the highlights from cameras trained on a family of stoats living in my garden. The story begins this...
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In Search of Wild Ibex and Chamois in the French Alps
Braving avalanches in the French Alps in search of wild ibex and chamoisWildlife artist Robert E Fuller braves avalanches and rocky slopes to photograph ibex in the wild for his...
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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
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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Spoiled for Choice: When Foxes Move into a Badger Sett
Three Fox Cubs | Limited Edition Print | Available Here The painting above was inspired by three fox cubs that had occupied an unused part of a badger sett. I...
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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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Robert E Fuller: Weasel kits in my back garden
I've built the weasels a dry stone wall to play in!
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Robert E Fuller: Rare Footage of Weasels Moving their Kits in my Back ga...
Since the weasel's kits were born she has moved them at least three times. She literally picks up each of the seven kits and carries them one by one to...
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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
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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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
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
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
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
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
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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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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