Hällögarn; 31st July-3rd August 2010

Black Headed Gull and Common Tern...

Black-headed Gull...

Goosander female...

Common Tern

Greenshank

Common Tern

Common Tern

Scaup and young, an eclipse male...

Goosanders...

Goosanders...




Sketches here from the baltic island of Hällogarn....

Black-throated Divers

A collection of field sketches of Black-throated Diver from this week, as well as a couple of rough black and white sketches worked up from the fieldwork...

Flash Painting

Black Throated Diver; Watercolour Flash Painting..

A very quick watercolour which took 15 minutes, an enjoyable exercise. Have been watching these fabulous birds of late at dawn, brilliant birds...

Lapwing Painting

Latest painting here, overlooked to post it a while back. Early Lapwings displaying in the smow, a scene witnessed in April this year..

Acrylic on Canvas; 120cmx30cm.

Wheatear and Yellowhammer; May 2010

Wheatear

Yellowhammer

Wheatear

Technical pen inks done at Landsort of these bird, the pens fine lines and stratchy texture work rather well...

Arctic Tern and Ringed Plover; May 2010

Arctic Tern

Ringed Plover

Arctic Tern

Sketched here from Sandhamn last week of these birds, both present on the south end of the island...

Thrush Nightingale and Bluethroat; May 2010

Thrush Nightingale

Bluethroat

Thrush Nightingale in shade, the sun highlighting the bird from the left...

Some sketches here of these fantastic birds. The Thrush Nightingale is rather drab in appearance, but makes up for it with a wonderful song. Spent two days in a hide photographing this elusive species, got some great shots which have benn posted on Blogbirder, the sister blog, link in the margin here.

Bluethroat is far from drab. I had this stunning male on Landsort last week, which made my evening. Photos on Blogbirder also...