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Mike's conservatory (1 Viewer)
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Woody
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I reckon I can forgive you and all my oversees friends for that Colleen! Here's a cyberpint anyway, just for being the person you are! B
Mike
timwootton
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Hmmm - ok, I'll take a (cyber)shot - Little owl, p6 and s8. Colour and scale would be a help . . .
Nice work, whatever.
Nice work, whatever.
Woody
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Colour would definitely help with number 1, especially on the leading edge... and a quick feel of the feather would confirm the id pretty quick...
No. 1 is approx 5" from tip to quill tip, No. 2 is approx 6" and there was no sign of little owls on the farm this year... There was however a tatty individual of a new species for the farm that I spotted several brief times during the week, big b*gger 'e was!
Gettin' thursty there Tim?...
Mike
No. 1 is approx 5" from tip to quill tip, No. 2 is approx 6" and there was no sign of little owls on the farm this year... There was however a tatty individual of a new species for the farm that I spotted several brief times during the week, big b*gger 'e was!
Gettin' thursty there Tim?...
Mike
phil baber
Clipped Wing
WooHoo! Art-Quiz!
I need lots of Cyber-Pints right now. So am going down the Common Buzzard road. For the wide one. (Tawny Owl could also be a good call...)
Common Kestrel, or Sprawk for the thin one.
Unless you've been out plucking waders?
Then Curlew would be a suggestion.
Second thoughts? I'm Cyber-Drunk already! B :cat:
I need lots of Cyber-Pints right now. So am going down the Common Buzzard road. For the wide one. (Tawny Owl could also be a good call...)
Common Kestrel, or Sprawk for the thin one.
Unless you've been out plucking waders?
Then Curlew would be a suggestion.
Second thoughts? I'm Cyber-Drunk already!
B :cat:
Woody
Well-known member
Cyber pint for Phil on the bar please barkeep!
B
Spot on with buzzard. The one hanging about was in a right state feather wise.
No.1 seems to be causing more problems than I thought it might. My first thought on seeing it was little owl but when I picked it up and looked closer the colour became obvious and all was revealed!
Mike
B
Spot on with buzzard. The one hanging about was in a right state feather wise.
No.1 seems to be causing more problems than I thought it might. My first thought on seeing it was little owl but when I picked it up and looked closer the colour became obvious and all was revealed!
Mike
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Strandman
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Cyber pint for Phil on the bar please barkeep!
B
Spot on with buzzard. The one hanging about was in a right state feather wise.
No.1 seems to be causing more problems than I thought it might. My first thought on seeing it was little owl but when I picked it up and looked closer the colour became obvious and all was revealed!
Mike
mornin'
that feather looks rather green woodpeckerish to me..
Woody
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Line 'em up for Mr Keeble!
B
Green woody it is. The strength in the shafts of woodpecker feathers never ceases to amaze me. I'd been hearing the green woodpecker all week and even caught a glimpse or two of them as they flew by but I didn't catch up with a perched one until the end of the week. No photos, just the sketch.
Mike
B
Green woody it is. The strength in the shafts of woodpecker feathers never ceases to amaze me. I'd been hearing the green woodpecker all week and even caught a glimpse or two of them as they flew by but I didn't catch up with a perched one until the end of the week. No photos, just the sketch.
Mike
Woody
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Here's a couple from yesterday, it was the best day for weather that we've had all week and the only day I got out and about.
The hobbies have been elusive this year and, according to my sources, haven't bred. So it was good to spot this distant one and get what will possibly be my last sketch of the year.
Only slightly closer were the two kestrels. It was useful though to have them turn up only a couple of minutes after the hobby departed. That way I got an opportunity for sorting out some differences, like the longer tail on the kessies, the higher, more rounded heads and the different head patterns.
I found the little owl in his usual spot in the tree behind the loos. He scratched around a bit before settling down to sleep in the sun. I couldn't resist.
Having spent too much time with the owl I started to walk out to the hides but got distracted by a wheatear hanging around one of the gates. I was quite happily sketching away when a woman came up the track behind me. I explained what I was sketching and she described a bird she'd seen to me. I happily gave her my opinion that her red-faced small bird with yellow flashes on its wings was probably a goldfinch. She then happily carried on through the gate, to scare off the wheatear for me... Thanks for that.
Somehow I didn't fancy sharing a hide with that particular woman so I turned round and had a slow drive back home. On the way I stopped to watch a kestrel perched in the grass 'till she flew off low to the ground. I'd been waiting for that and sketched her as she passed. I think my flight sketching is improving at last!
Mike
The hobbies have been elusive this year and, according to my sources, haven't bred. So it was good to spot this distant one and get what will possibly be my last sketch of the year.
Only slightly closer were the two kestrels. It was useful though to have them turn up only a couple of minutes after the hobby departed. That way I got an opportunity for sorting out some differences, like the longer tail on the kessies, the higher, more rounded heads and the different head patterns.
I found the little owl in his usual spot in the tree behind the loos. He scratched around a bit before settling down to sleep in the sun. I couldn't resist.
Having spent too much time with the owl I started to walk out to the hides but got distracted by a wheatear hanging around one of the gates. I was quite happily sketching away when a woman came up the track behind me. I explained what I was sketching and she described a bird she'd seen to me. I happily gave her my opinion that her red-faced small bird with yellow flashes on its wings was probably a goldfinch. She then happily carried on through the gate, to scare off the wheatear for me... Thanks for that.
Somehow I didn't fancy sharing a hide with that particular woman so I turned round and had a slow drive back home. On the way I stopped to watch a kestrel perched in the grass 'till she flew off low to the ground. I'd been waiting for that and sketched her as she passed. I think my flight sketching is improving at last!
Mike
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Andrew Ellis
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very nice drawings there Mike , love the Little owl and the Kestrel in flight has well and truly been nailed! excellent
birdboybowley
Well-known member.....apparently so ;)
Great sketches Mike....agree with the owl study, cool
colleenc
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yep for sure, haven't seen one, but the sketch is one of my all time high points on your sketches...:t:
phil baber
Clipped Wing
Wow! Those Cyber Pints are strong!(o)<
Am lucky. Buzzard feathers fall like snow where I am. But that "Yaffle" feather I have never seen. A lucky find! And congrats to Ed for getting that! I hope his head is ok after his Cyber Pint?
I am SUCH a big fan of your sketches! This latest batch drove a wedge of Sunshine right through my heart!
Absolute brilliance! Put these on bathroom tiles and I'd happily lie in the bath until I swelled up like a gourd, and died from hypothermia!
Great, great, GREAT! :t:
Am lucky. Buzzard feathers fall like snow where I am. But that "Yaffle" feather I have never seen. A lucky find! And congrats to Ed for getting that! I hope his head is ok after his Cyber Pint?
I am SUCH a big fan of your sketches! This latest batch drove a wedge of Sunshine right through my heart!
Absolute brilliance! Put these on bathroom tiles and I'd happily lie in the bath until I swelled up like a gourd, and died from hypothermia!
Great, great, GREAT! :t:
timwootton
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Just one more vote for the foot-picker- beauty and simplicity.
