having not commented for a while, I am left with a solid page chock-a-block full of brilliant drawings and not knowing where to start. I am just going to keep it simple, Dipper, Rough-leg and Skua are all simply stunning. How come you never showed us this brilliance before! I could add detailed notes and analogies on why each individual drawing is so fantastic, but I'm going off to Wales tomorrow morning and I wouldn't be finished by then! Be going to Anglesey and I won't be back til wedensday, but I'll have plenty of sketches once I'm back, I promise!
Keep up the sketches, can't wait to see what the modern work is like Phil :t:
This is
now recent work Gropper. Thanks for pulling me back into the present!
And thanks for the kind words. Woo-Hoo! Tysties and Choughs! Hope you get them! We want to see what you found and sketched! :cat:
And here's another.
Severn Beach/New Passage (South Gloucestershire, England) is one of my local haunts since the 80s.
The Severn Estuary is like a giant Heligoland Trap. When winds pick up fom the right direction it can force pelagic species into the "neck of the bag."
For years, I'd been going there in conditions I thought right for Leach's Petrel. And for years...no luck!
On this one day I got lucky, with a nice Pom Skua thrown in for good measure.
On returning from my "secret sheltered sea-watching site", and no! I'm not giving it away! I was surprised to see "millions" of birders huddled against the elements, in the usual sea-watch site (where the sea-wall gives some little protection against the winds and rain.) Even Lee Evans was there. Which I thought odd?
I thought they'd all come down for the Leach's.
I later found out that, earlier that day, John Martin had found the West Pal's first Fregatta Petrel here!
I was more than satisfied, however, with seeing my first Leach's Petrels! B
PS Maybe I should email these to John Martin? Whoops! :-O
