Merging of Blogbirder/A Birders Studio blogs.

After careful consideration I have decided that running two blogs seperately that are both related directly to birding makes little sense. I have transfered all posts from this blog to it's sister blog BLOGBIRDER(http://blogbirder.blogspot.com/) From this date forward I will post all my artwork directly to Blogbirder. I hope that those who have enjoyed the blog will continue to do so at http://blogbirder.blogspot.com/ On June 1st 2011 I will delete this blog. Tweet

Nuthatch

Nuthatch in Song.

Indian Ink applied with Mapping Pen(14"x11")

Black Throated Diver

Black Throated Diver; Summer Adult.

Indian ink applied with Mapping Pen(12"x9")

Crested Tits; Febuary 2011

Sketches from Faboda Gård of Crested Tit, the birds showing incredibly well at a bird feeder..

A couple of head details...

Goldeneye in display; Febuary 2011

Some sketches of displaying Goldeneyes from Skeppsbron. Very hard to draw the quick movements and raher hard to know whats going on, have taken photos too to helps try see the postures a little more clearly...

Great Black Backed Gull; Febuary 2011

Indian ink and brush

Mealy Redpolls; Febuary 2011

Field Sketches of Mally Redpoll...

Tyresö; Febuary 2011

Great Black Backed Gull; 2nd Calender; Skeppsbron.

Black Woodpecker; Female

Dippers; Nyfors.

Coal Tit and Nuthatch.

A few sketches here from recent days...

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...

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...