Does anyone want any postcards?

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(Asking for someone who's made 0 sales in April)

The Many Parrots Project The Many Parrots group is a team of scientists studying parrot vocal learning and musicality. We invite the public to contribute to research by filling out surveys about their talking and singing parr...

That's so cool! Have you heard about www.manyparrots.org?

A family of Ravens is putting the goth back in gothic at NYC's largest cathedral--St John the Divine. There are five mouths to feed, so the parents are staying busy! ⛪️⛪️⛪️ #Ravens #Cathedral #birding

I think it’s beyond retrieval. I may need to start again. (I think I’ve got some dried starter somewhere, will have to check)

I have had my starter go mouldy while on extended hiatus in the fridge but I assume that’s due to a faulty storage vessel or something.

You can just put it in the fridge and wake it up again when you need it.

First layer of linocut print - lemon yellow on white paper

Second layer added on top of first yellow layer - pale orange and the design of a bumblebee on a flower is beginning to emerge

A third layer of orange-pink ink has been added (on top of pale yellow and orange)

#Linocut prints in progress! I started work on this design about 2 years ago but parked it for reasons I can’t remember. Fingers crossed, its time has come.

(It’s a bumblebee on a hollyhock flower if you can’t tell yet) 🐝

Illustration of 3 swimming Pink-footed Geese. Gouache on white paper.

Illustration of two swimming male Pintails. Coloured pencil and gouache on white paper.

Illustration of a first-winter Mediterranean Gull standing in wet mud. Coloured pencil (actually almost monochrome apart from a bit of brown in the wings!) on white paper.

Illustration of 6 adult LittleGulls flying right to left. Coloured pencil on white paper.

I haven't posted anything about it for a while, but I'm still plodding on with writing and illustrating my Birds of Eyebrook Reservoir book with a view to hopefully publishing next year. Here are a few more illustrations from it. #art #WildlifeArt #birds #UKBirding

Homemade banana granola is the best! 🍌

Thank you, that’s very kind!

Linocut print of Wren lurking amongst beech leaves underneath snowdrop flowers

My Wrens lurking under the snowdrops are finally ready to fly the nest.

Handmade #linocut print
Limited edition
No AI slop here!

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I’m hoping he can get me seeing Woodpigeons in a whole new light 👀

A male Sparrowhawk is perched on a stump in centre of picture. His brown/orange looking front, neck and cheeks, and his grey/blue back and cap is surrounded by Camillia to the left and Daffodils to the right.

A male Sparrowhawk backed by Camillia and Daffodils. #birds #ukwildlife #photography #ECK #BirdOfTheDay

Goldcrest feeding on insects amongst white damson blossom

Here’s a blast from the past: the little damson tree in our garden had an even smaller visitor back on 2 April 2020 - a goldcrest. These days, the blossom and leaves are nobbled by woodpigeons and the total yield of damsons over the years has come to less than a dozen.

The Met Office announce that Storm Dave has been named. The background photo is of the sea, looking appropriately moody. Because Dave’s like that.

Originally, of course, it was Storm UK Gold Classics.

Colour pencil drawings of Firecrest and Mallard

Colour pencil drawings of Robin and Skylark

Colour pencil drawings of Goldfinch and Starling

🦆 I’ve dusted off my colour pencils… I present to you my Small Birds collection - OK, one is a Mallard which is not really a small bird, but it’s the *drawings* (and the prices) that are small.

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I’ll be adding to the collection soon - what would you like to see? ✏️

The same cassowary dad sculpture as the original post but now complete with a shiny layer of varnish.

The cassowary chick on its own in the palm of my hand, about the size of or an olive.

Different angle of cassowary dad.

Cassowary dad now glazed and glamorous.

Two small barred brown feathers from a woodcock, held by a hand in front of the container port at Felixstowe

Large pink container ship, ONE Ingenuity, being loaded/unloaded by big cranes at Felixstowe port

💨 On a day trip to Felixstowe yesterday, it was a bit breezy for seeing many birds (we saw a black redstart but that was about all). But some feathers floated past @steamjam.bsky.social and they turned out to be from a woodcock! Must have been from a peregrine’s meal somewhere in the port

I think the collective ‘tut’ from the moth nerds of the UK was probably detectable from space 😉

I’m nostalgic for the days when people could actually make a living from being an artist! 😉

Wall full of Ladybird Books

Painting of Little Red Riding Hood with a deer peeking out behind her

Painting of children with their mother looking in the window of a bakery

Wall full of Ladybird Books

What beautiful work and a thought-provoking exhibition at @staplefordgranary.bsky.social - The Wonderful World of the Ladybird Book Artists, curated by @lbflyawayhome.bsky.social 🐞

Watch out for peregrines on the tower…

If you have a Mac, the Spectrolite app can be useful for getting an idea of how inks might combine spectrolite.app

European Stonechat - eBird Perky little bird of open country, especially heathland with gorse, moorland, weedy meadows, scrubby marsh margins, and rough grassland with scattered low bushes. Perches atop bushes and on fences, dropping to the ground to feed, before flying back up to a perch. Male distinctive, with blackish head set off by big white patch on sides of neck, orangey breast. Female brownish overall with paler eyebrow (only behind eye, unlike Whinchat), dull orangey breast; shows paler rump in flight, contrasting with solidly blackish tail. Warbled song is short and buzzy. Calls include dry “tchak” and rising “weet.”

As others have said, it’s a stonechat which is a close relative of the robin. Lovely birds! ebird.org/species/ston...

Linocut print of marbled white butterflies feeding on musk thistle. Colour has been added to the black and white print using watercolour

The sun is shining (for now) and I’ve just added these summery butterfly prints to my Etsy shop.

They are:
Handmade (linocut + watercolour)
Limited edition
AI-free
Ready to bring positive vibes to your wall ☀️

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Black and white linocut print of marbled white butterflies on a thistle.

Here are some new prints in progress! I plan to hand-colour them using watercolour once the ink is dry. And then I’m going to try chine collé, and use thin painted paper to add colour to another batch in a different way. Linocut can be quite time-consuming so it’s good to try some new techniques.

Swarm of tiny tadpoles wriggling in pond

I think… things are working ok for me? (Here are my tadpoles)

Bluesky, we need your help to count walrus! 🦭

Previously on "Walrus from Space", volunteers like you sifted through around 500,000 satellite images to support our conservation research.

Now we're asking the you to help us count the walrus in those images 👀

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♻️ People of (and near to) Kent! Printmaking workshop using materials destined for the recycling bin! 👇