staffordshire

Willow tit Poecile montanus

It's unusual for me to actually see a rarity when one pops up. It's normally, "Oh, you've just missed it" or "it was showing beautifully all day yesterday" - you get the idea. However, yesterday, we did actually see this bird. Thanks to Kim for the information and...

Lucky to get this plain looking warbler, in plain sight. More often heard than seen

i saw the kestrel swoop down from a telegraph pole and into a field side of the road. there he was,

A gorgeous Cuckoo sitting in the evening sun

a kestrel perched on a fence post in the rain

a kestrel eating a worm, at marsh hills. near brown edge, in staffordshire moorlands,

a kestrel on the look out,

the kestrel was away like flash of its perch,

kessie on its favorite perch. it quickly turned its head at the sound of the camera clicking.

i took the shot of the kestrel on my way back from a shopping trip to leek in the staffordshire moorlands,

a kestrel posing on top of a fence post

a kestrel hovering over the heather at marsh hills in the staffordshire moorlands, the sky was bland,

This little robin was singing his heart out for ages.

Hawfinch, December 2008 in Staffordshire.

Continuing the theme of lifers painted on pizza boxes, this is my first Spotted Crake, a juvenile that spent several weeks at Belvide Reservoir in August and September 1999. It was a real treat to be able to sketch such a showy individual.

Bit of an oldie this one, my first ever long-tailed duck. Late Autumn 2000 at Chasewater, never seen one as good as this since. Being 18, unemployed and a smoker when I painted this, I couldn't afford proper paper, this is painted on the cardboard box of a Safeways Margherita Pizza!