Robert E. Fuller is a wildlife artist and photographer from the UK who lives in Thixendale, North Yorkshire.
For his art, he builds places for animals to hang out in his garden so he can watch how they act with nest cameras.
Keeping an eye on how they act helps him paint and do other creative things. Fuller also saves animals like owlets (baby owls) that have been abandoned or lost.
I regularly place orphaned or lost owlets into tawny owl nests and these birds accept the young chicks as their own. Their urge to protect and nurture is strong,
Fuller explains in a caption of one of his YouTube videos.
Luna is the name of one of the tawny owls that Fuller has played the role of adoptive mom.
Luna was actually an owl who had been saved.
In 2017, owls at Fuller’s place took her in and raised her as their own.
Because they took care of her and kept her safe, Luna grew up to be a healthy adult owl who wanted to have her own babies.
Luna tried for two years to have babies, but her eggs didn’t hatch.
A source says that she also lost a whole batch of eggs the year before.
But thank God, Luna was still able to become a mother. Fuller found two more owlets who were also looking for a mother.
He knew that letting Luna take care of the babies would help her follow her instincts as a mother and give the babies a chance to live. So, Fuller put the two owlets in Luna’s nest and waited for her to come back.
He hoped that she would take the babies in and raise them as her own.
Lucky for them, Luna liked the two babies right away. Luna ran into her tree hole when she stuck her head in and saw two babies.
She ran over to them quickly and put the babies under her wings. Then she put a blanket over them to keep them warm and safe.
“Brooding” is the word used by All About Birds to describe this. Female owls will sit on their babies to help keep their bodies at the right temperature until the babies have enough feathers to do it on their own.
Fuller was so happy to see that these two babies now have a new mother.
He was happy for Luna, too.
This means that after a long wait, Luna the tawny owl is finally a mum,
Fuller wrote.
Bomber, Luna’s partner, was also happy to have the owlets in their home.
The first time Bomber the tawny owl discovers the two rescued chicks I placed in the nest he seems very excited. But Luna seems a little protective and doesn’t let him too close just yet. She lets him have a quick look then guides him out of their nest with a firm claw on his leg as if to say, now go and get them some food,
Fuller remarked.
The babies are doing well and will soon be able to go back into the wild on their own, thanks to mom and dad’s new roles.
