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Morning all, another ink sketch attempt at the lovely singing blackcap seen this week, and also along the nuns moor a long tailed tits nest in a medusa-like thorn bush😄Have a great weekend 🙏👍

A celebration of #SkyDancerDay2024 with a watercolour sketch 🙏🍻😎 Have a great evening all

Blackwits amongst the Cowslips. Field sketches done recently Barnsley Birders RSPB_OldMoor on a dreary morning. A lovely combination of Buttercup yellow and Terracotta. I'm better with the pencil than I am a poet! 😊 Wader Quest Cheers

Quite a few redstarts up past Bolam lakes yesterday, in the unmanaged small wooded areas they love, watercolour sketch. Have a good evening all 🙏👍

Redstart framed, looks like an arty day as this wet spring continues! Have a good day all 🙏

First cuckoo of the year amongst prime cuckoo habitat at Shaftoe crags this week, heard but not seen, a watercolour sketch from imagination. Have a good evening all 👍🙏

Early morning and a skylark rises to sing, especially nice in the blue skies of the last few days, watercolour sketch Have a great weekend all 🙏👍

A beautiful morning on Barnsley Birders Wharncliffe Chase with the sketchbook. 😎🌞 Sketches of Tree Pipits and Stonechat. The former not as showy as last week but a male of the latter was a real poser! Stonking! Cheers all.

Some weekend sightings, my first swifts of the year (2) over Newcastle & a lovely Wheatear in bright sunshine near Elsdon, watercolour sketches. Have a good night all 👍

Quite a few Redstarts up near Bolam lake, busy with nesting activity, never noticed as many in previous years, watercolour sketch. Have a good evening all 👍

The Barnsley Birders Little Don Valley and Cliff Wood - the former a jewel in God's Own County. 3 singing male Redstarts the highlight of a stunning morning with Peregrine, three Cuckoos, a Spotted Flycatcher and a pair of Pied Fly's with Mark Linnington

It’s that chaotic few weeks again.. the new starlings have arrived..adults working tirelessly in hot sun to feed the noisy, quarrelsome and boisterous young, their wheezy begging calls everywhere! 😄pencil sketch. Have a good night all, many thanks for any feedback 👍

It’s been a good day !😊Things can only get better! 🍻😀😎👍

Female Red-backed Shrike study, Watercolour, 500 x 200mm. With this weather it seems to be raining Red-backed Shrikes as well as water at the moment on the East Coast of the UK, for me the original 'Butcher Bird' and one I would marvel at as I leafed through beloved books.

Plenty of Starlings around here, never tire of trying to paint their fantastic mosaics of colour, watercolour sketc. Have a great weekend all 🙏👍

Another one jumps the sinking ship..Michael Gove (cartoon from way back when he stitched Boris up ) - couldn’t even leave a legacy for nature with a simple swift brick ! Good riddance…

Spotted Flycatcher x 2 c3’s Co Durham

A lovely walk up by Darden lough yesterday, couldn’t help noticing (sorry I know I’m a prophet of doom !) the lack of insects and hence bird no’s down?😖I couldn’t have walked there T- shirted a decade ago .. A nice stonechat though, watercolour sketch. Have a great evening all👍

Break time from here I feel - not really enjoying it, swamped by stuff/followers I’m not interested in, missing things/people I am interested in, my postings ghosted out…hopefully back if/when things improve. Take care all 🙏