Thursday, 28 October 2010

Fall birding

Bluethroat in a ditch...


White Wagtail Juv...

Ravens...Ågesta

Some favourite images from the autumn...

Falsterbo; 2010

Common Buzzard and Red Kite; a different silhoette entirely...



Goldcrest, everywhere over the week...

Hobby Juv...


Honey Buzzard; 1st Calender; Dark Morph



Mistle Thrush; 1st Calender



Woodlark; Never tire of drawing these....





The best of the sketchbook from Falsterbo, a place where I should of sketched moe but theres just so much going on...birds everywhere by the minute...

Gulls; Skeppsbron

Lesser Black backed Gull; 1st Calender; Light Morph; a real stunner...



Baltic Lesser Black backed Gull, adult.


Greater Black backed Gull; 2nd Calender


Argentatus Herring Gull...line drawing
Drawings here from Skeppsbron, the learning curve goes on. Large gulls are the ultimate ID challenge, learning them requires time. It has it's rewards, understanding moult and individuual variation have opened my eyes...



Great Snipe; Ågesta


Not quite right, but as I sketched it. My first in daylight, easy to see the white fringes to the primary coverts in flight.Short billed, bulky and a really different call to Common Snipe...

Thursday, 5 August 2010

Water Colours; Hällögarn; 31st July-3rd August 2010

Wood Sandpiper



Caspian Tern

A couple of watercolours done in the field whilst on Hällögarn, northern Sweden...

Hällögarn; 31st July-3rd August 2010

Begging Common Tern juv.



Goosander young...

Common Tern juv.


Common Tern juv.



Common Gull



Common Terns comp sketch.



Common Sandpiper



Temminck's Stint



Temminck's Stint



Temminck's Stint


Sketches here from a five day trip to a small island in the north of Sweden called Hällögarn, a tint island on the baltic coast. Filled an entire sketchbook whilst there of the species seen, all pages are posted here...






Hällögarn; 31st July-3rd August 2010

Red Breasted Merganser female with young...




Red Breasted Merganser, female.

Common Tern, juv.


Common Gull, juv.


Caspian Tern, adult

Common Tern...



Spotted Redshank juv.




Red Breasted Merganser young...




Wood Sandpiper





Wood Sandpiper



Oystercatchers

Hällögarn; 31st July-3rd August 2010

Caspian Tern, adult..



Caspian Tern, adult..


Roosting Curlew


Curlew juv.



Preening Curlew



Curlew


Adult Caspian Tern



Adult Common Tern



White Wagtail



More sketches from Hällögarn...




Hällögarn; 31st July-3rd August 2010

Common Terns and Rock.



Common Tern

Oystercatcher


Oystercatchers..



Common Gull.



Goosander young and Common Tern.



Common Tern...



Greenshank...



Black Headed Gull



Tufted Duck, female.




More sketches from mt few days on the island of Hälögarn, straight out of my sketchbook...