This is how it's coming along, I just couldn't handle the detail today, so got rid of it for the moment. The picture needed to be brought all together before I could find somewhere to put the detail in. It'll come back though!
It looks like the tunnel vision that I wanted in the first draft has disappeared though, maybe it'll come back, otherwise, when I saw this rail, it wasn't happily sitting in the background, it was still on the run, just pausing to glance back over its shoulder. Hence why the bird is now bigger and more obvious.
Seafood buffets and alcohol are never good conversation partners, you did the right thing Tim!
Arthur, it looks like I will have good luck for sketching this PM, the French weather forecast of rain looks like a lie, the sun is out, it's lovely, seriously, they should content themselves on reporting the weather from yesterday rather than predict the weather for the next day. Fingers crossed for a crag martin or two! (would be a lifer!)