solitaryVSong
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Quite a collection with this one up at the top!
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Quite a collection with this one up at the top!
colonelboris
Right way up again
Nice! Saw a Southern Grey Shrike a few weeks ago in Spain - ever such smart-looking birds.
buzzard12
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A few bits to get offloaded, starting with some stuff from Batumi, Georgia. Massive numbers of raptors there where I was a counter in September for 2 weeks. Around 118,000 raptors were entered in my notebook in twelve days, so not much time for sketching
Honey Buzzard; Lesser Spotted Eagle, Pallid Harrier 2nd calender male,Short Toed Eagle.
Honey Buzzard; Lesser Spotted Eagle, Pallid Harrier 2nd calender male,Short Toed Eagle.
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buzzard12
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Northern Carmine Bee-eaters, Ingaro, Sweden.
The strange story of these birds is on my blog, thought they are escapes from somewhere on mainland europe, been touring Sweden since June 2012. Stranger things have happend in birding, surely they can't be wild birds...Now moving southwards and turned up in Uppland, where I caught up on them yesterday...could of done with a watercolur box
Incredible birds and a great experience....
The strange story of these birds is on my blog, thought they are escapes from somewhere on mainland europe, been touring Sweden since June 2012. Stranger things have happend in birding, surely they can't be wild birds...Now moving southwards and turned up in Uppland, where I caught up on them yesterday...could of done with a watercolur box
Incredible birds and a great experience....
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ARTHUR BISHOP
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lovely work here Alan
timwootton
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jeez man, go get a room! Bird-sketch-porn . . . doing my eyes in, pal.
Sam Brunson
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Great drawings guys!
oivind egeland
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Great sketchwork here! It's a real challenge to draw migrating raptors, I tried it in Tarifa in March. I found that it presented me with two problems - it required a tremendous drawing speed, and I always felt that I was missing out on the action when I focused on one single bird. You've done a great job here, especially considering the numbers of birds passing!
nickderry
C'est pas ma faute, je suis anglais.
I don't know how you manage to get those lines where they are (I know, I've said it a million times before). Considering the excitement you must have felt, i'd have been a wreck trying to get a line on paper - today I had a little scribble at a group of red kites that passed over me - what a mess they were, partly because I was supposed to be counting woodpigeons, but mostly because that's what happens when I sketch flying birds!
solitaryVSong
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Just got back from watching migrating raptors, among others, in Cape May. I spent a few hours one day trying to capture them as the dipped and rose, shot by and turned sharply. It was exhilarating to watch and almost impossible to get down. These drawings are an inspiration, not that similar ones from you and others weren't in my mind as I tried to sketch.
buzzard12
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Just back from a five day trip to Landsort, which was quite incredible. What a place to go birding, involved in finding or found the following...
Dusky Warbler, Richards Pipit, Ring Ouzel(several), Golden Eagle(2nd Calender), Kittiwake(very rare on baltic coast), Shore Lark(several), Woodlark(4), a late Tree Pipit, a siberian 'tristus' Chiffchaff and a host of other birds. Heavy passage of passerines and seabirds, a huge passage of nearly 11,000 geese on October 23rd will live long in the memory...
There was a lot to see and I was birding actively, though a few things demanded I stop a sketch...
Shore Lark was one such spcies..one of the very best birds in europe. Remarkable shape shifters as regards the black markings on the head and upper breast..
Also managed a few snaps and even some nice sound recordings of these feeding birds and a couple overhead migrating..
Dusky Warbler, Richards Pipit, Ring Ouzel(several), Golden Eagle(2nd Calender), Kittiwake(very rare on baltic coast), Shore Lark(several), Woodlark(4), a late Tree Pipit, a siberian 'tristus' Chiffchaff and a host of other birds. Heavy passage of passerines and seabirds, a huge passage of nearly 11,000 geese on October 23rd will live long in the memory...
There was a lot to see and I was birding actively, though a few things demanded I stop a sketch...
Shore Lark was one such spcies..one of the very best birds in europe. Remarkable shape shifters as regards the black markings on the head and upper breast..
Also managed a few snaps and even some nice sound recordings of these feeding birds and a couple overhead migrating..
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buzzard12
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A big Great Grey Shrike here, quickly sketched against the light...
A light pencil sketch of an exhausted Sparrowhawk..
A 1st calender male Ring Ouzel. An impossibly beuatiful thrush, wit stunning scalled breast and flanks, diffuse 'orange slice' on the breast, pale secondary panel and edges to remiges. Sadly, not sound recorded, love the call. Not as rare as some of the species seen, but very much a retina expander...
Blog updated with diaries and species seen, though still have to add a lot of photos and the vast bulk of the sound recordings..
Link here to a recording of the Richard's Pipit that flew past four of us on the morning of October 23rd...
http://www.xeno-canto.org/111774
A light pencil sketch of an exhausted Sparrowhawk..
A 1st calender male Ring Ouzel. An impossibly beuatiful thrush, wit stunning scalled breast and flanks, diffuse 'orange slice' on the breast, pale secondary panel and edges to remiges. Sadly, not sound recorded, love the call. Not as rare as some of the species seen, but very much a retina expander...
Blog updated with diaries and species seen, though still have to add a lot of photos and the vast bulk of the sound recordings..
Link here to a recording of the Richard's Pipit that flew past four of us on the morning of October 23rd...
http://www.xeno-canto.org/111774
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solitaryVSong
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You manage to do a lot on your trips but that must make them all the more rewarding. Lovely drawings as usual.
timwootton
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top class birding notes, top class artwork - the best!
