Apparently it’s #OwlAppreciationDay today, so here’s a handmade short-eared owl linocut print. 👉 katiefullerart.etsy.com/listing/1307...

Last week the posy I brought home from the garden had a chrysalis attached though I didn't notice till I got home. If you, like me, haven't watched a butterfly emerge you won't be prepared for how amazing or how long emergence takes #TinyJoys a 🧵

Finally we’ve had some rain - enough to fill at least one water butt and enough to get our local frogs out and about. (Photo from July last year in similar conditions)

Overnight, a masked bandit broke into our kitchen. Armed with opposable thumbs, he proceeded to sample everything on offer. I’d just visited the farmers market, so the menu was extensive. I can now share a highly specific peer-reviewed list of what this particular raider did & did not enjoy. 🧵

Raccoon's Evil Smile: 'Good, Good'

Alt: Raccoon's Evil Smile: 'Good, Good'

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Finally got a photo of a Red Underwing once it settled back down on the shady fence

Katie Fuller@katiefullerart.bsky.social · 4w ago

On my way to fill the watering can I startled a red underwing moth from the shady wall of the house (a bit early in the year? but who knows anymore). It flew around before settling - then left before I could fetch my phone. Truly the wallcreeper of the moth world.

C’est magnifique 🪡

Josh Luke Davis 🏳️‍🌈@joshlukedavis.com · last wk.

this summer's cultural cross over we've all been waiting for jimothy x bayeux

✏️ Here’s something I made earlier, and finally I can share it with you! An original colour pencil drawing of a Common Kingfisher, on A3 220gsm smooth grain drawing paper. Ready to fly to his new home now! katiefullerart.etsy.com/listing/4544...

This frog emerged from under our barbecue. I relocated it to a safer location near the pond. It’s rained a tiny, tiny amount - not even worth going inside to shelter. Hoping for more tomorrow. ☔️

Here’s another blast from the past for, er, Throwback Friday. A Nuthatch #linocut with loads of different colours, all printed from one piece of lino - actually I think it was Japanese vinyl, before I decided that proper biodegradable grey lino was the way forward. My website: katiefuller.co.uk

Juvenile Peregrine Falcon #isleofman #BirdSeenIn2026 🇮🇲

I haven't sold a print in ages :( so here's a little reminder that I'm still here! juliaallum.co.uk/shop/ #prints #posters #illustration

Just helped a lady who had tripped over her Zara Death Trousers. Beware! www.theguardian.com/fashion/2026...

‘Zara death pants’: are these the world’s most dangerous trousers?

Wide-legged and flowing, they are causing a storm on social media, with people posting videos of the fabric getting caught in escalators and causing painful trips

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Great job 👏

I've been adding some work to my website – a reminder of some older stuff that I'd forgotten about. Here's one of my favourites – a commission from the dark, dark winter of 2020. Swifts flying over a lovely vintage French map of the Cognac area: katiefuller.co.uk/portfolio/

“Oh we do like to be beside the seaside…” Dodged the worst of the heat during the last week by going to the Dorset coast, where I replenished my levels of butterflies, pretty umbellifers and blue sea (containing dolphins).

From 2019, when the news was telling us that staring seagulls out had been proven to stop them eating your chips

Anyway, support actual human artists and creators because they need to eat, and Sam Altman, Elon Musk and everyone else profiting from the wholesale theft of creative work to churn out "AI" nonsense already have too much money

On my way to fill the watering can I startled a red underwing moth from the shady wall of the house (a bit early in the year? but who knows anymore). It flew around before settling - then left before I could fetch my phone. Truly the wallcreeper of the moth world.

I’ve just had to move indoors from the garden because it’s getting chilly, rather than because it’s too hot. This feels like progress… for now.

The Met Office weather station on our Monks Wood site recorded 35.7C yesterday, 26 June. It was >30C by 10 am, and the grass temperature reached 45.2C. Imagine being a vole, hare, skylark chick, lizard or ground beetle in that heat. A foot deep, the soil was 22C.

Was just pooed on from a great height by what must have been a swift (they are still active over our street while we’re watching the football outside). I know it’s meant to be lucky but I’ve been shat on by too many birds to believe this.

The Red-necked Grebe couple is trying to re-kindle the romance with calling and an attempt at some rushing, but Juniors have other ideas (trying to climb on board) 😂 #birds

Stay hydrated, everyone. Follow the hot pigeon’s example. 🐦

🤍🖤 Marbled White butterflies are on the wing around here! And luckily enough, I have some handmade, hand-coloured linocut prints ready to go. None of your AI slop here, just art made by a real human artist. 👉 katiefullerart.etsy.com/listing/4475...

It’s been a while since we had a cooler than average year in Cambridge 🫤 showyourstripes.info/c/europe/uni... #ShowYourStripesDay

Show Your Stripes

Visualising how the climate has changed for every country across the globe

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Fulmar and Northern Gannet over East Yorkshire (Multiple exposures) 📷 Dan Kitwood

@globalflyway.bsky.social I was hoping to follow the red knot to Greenland but what's happened to the tracking data recently? Seems like only two birds still being updated? www.globalflywaynetwork.org/tracks/speci... 🙏

Global Flyway Network - Birds connecting the dots

Global Flyway Network (GFN) is a partnership between researchers worldwide who are devoted to long term – usually demographic – work on long distance migrating shorebirds.

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A hedgehog! Emerging from our hedgehog house! 🎉

I've been playing with a new craft...foil embossing. There are parallels between it and printmaking, simplifying a design down, knowing where to have lines and not, working away with a hand tool. It gives me a similar flow state feeling. Perhaps you might like to have a go too haggytea.com/workshops

Did our late Breeding Bird Survey near the River Cam this morning. Red kite, yellowhammer, treecreeper, kestrel and lots of whitethroat fledglings. Meadow browns were out in force enjoying the bramble blossom. And the Lincoln Red cows had a… gentleman visitor 🐂