Grey Herons; January 2011

Drawings of Grey Herons from Rästasjön. The birds sitting out the cold in freezing conditions...

Smew female; January 2011

Some drawings of a female Smew from Rästasjön...

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...

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...