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Ha!! Great stuff. Engaging sense of humour those antipodeans possess, no? Good to see the birder had buoyant bins with him - at least they survived . . .

Ian Fleming said:
He disagreed with something that ate him
Funnily enough, the guy who writes the articles is a UK expat as well and it was a visiting birder from the UK causing the trouble.

brilliant, that isn't the chav robin's hat is it? ;-)

Ah pity da foo'... ;)


Cheers!

It'll be interesting to see what I've got for the next issue in a few months...
 
I've been offline for a while as we've movd house from Australia to the UK and we're still sorting out somewhere to live and getting the new position underway, so not much time to have caught up on what everyone else has been doing.
I've finally had the chance to get to a scanner, so here's a couple that I drew on the aircraft (drawing passes the time on a 14-hour Singapore-LHR flight...) and a couple of birds, too...
 

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Somehow I missed this thread completely while taking time (too much, obviously) away from the forum. Glad I found it with your new post, and just spent time going through it. Great work here! Hope to see more.
 
Crikey. Finally got a house and moved our stuff in, unpacked and slowly settled in, so back to drawing...
The first one is for yet another Tales From The Track - this time about IDing corellas in WA. I tried to scan the original (this being a mobile phone photo) at work and left it in the scanner. One of the desk warmers down the corridor decided to recycle it rather than ask around if anyone had left any artwork about the place...
The second is the second in a possible series of "lots of waders". If I went in for titles, it'd be called "black-white-black-white-black-white" or something like that.
 

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Thanks, Oivind!

Finally got round to finishing the Waxwings and also managed another drawing this evening.
 

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Having had a play with coloured pencils I appreciate your work even more now SUPER:t:

Thanks!

The kids are ill and wanted me to make them something, so as I was making some small flag patches at the time, they got patches of some of their favourite birds. They're only small at about 1 1/2 by 1 inch, but that sort of thing keeps them happy.
 

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