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...