Spring Passerines; May 2010

Willow Warbler

Lesser Whitethroat

Garden Warbler

Spotted Flycatcher


Some recent fieldwork of returning spring migrants done over the past ten days or so, great to have the summer birds streaming back into the country...

April 19th 2010

Displaying Nuthatch; the bird was stationary for a long time, unusual for this species. Took the opportunity to make a fuller sketch of the bird and its surroundings...

Nuthatch, the same bird as above....

Singing Nuthatch, again another study of this cooperative bird...

Lapwing pair in display flight. Glorious to watch in the air...

Common Buzzard, a pair displaing over the forest all day....

Yellowhammer



A few sketches from today as the spring creeps in. The weather was great, warm sun and glorious light and a very relaxing day out wandering around drawing whatever stopped me..

Glaucous Gull, Skansen, March 2010

A couple of biro sketches of a 2nd calender Glaucous Gull, a bird which has been present in stockholm all winter and has led me a merry dance until now. Finally caught up on the bird yesterday at Skansen where it more than obliged me with superb views. Delighted to get something on this lovely bird...

Dippers; Nyfors; 22nd March 2010

Dipper fieldwork from today at Nyfors, brilliant birds to sketch these. Now displaying as the thaw gets underway in earnest. Photos posted on Blogbirder...

Dublin; March 2010

Shelduck; Bull Island

Redshank; Bull Island

Purple Sandpipers in flight, 8 birds present at Howth East Pier.

Meditereanean Gul; 3rd cal. Year, a ringed bird from the Lady Island Lake colony in Wexford...

Mediterranean Gull and Black Headed Gulls in foreground...

Mediterranean Gull; Adult in full summer plumage, a cracking bird this...

Curlew, Redshanks.



A selection of field sketches from Dublin over the past week. Great to get back to the Bull Island in particular, nice warm weather, good light and loads of birds to scope! Mediterranean Gulls sketched in Dalkey where three birds were present.

Lapland bunting, Black and White

A recent black and white biro drawing of a Lapland Bunting, a second calender male bird. The bird is in fact still present south of the city at a feeding station. Done from photos...

Goosanders; 1st March 2010

A few sketches from today at Stockholm Strom, Goosanders the subject today. A thaw has begun here and I can finally get some fieldwork done in rising tempertures....