Northern Fulmar resting on a cliff top.
Mairi has shared some of her favourite #seabird photographs with us for our #SeabirdShowOff, but you can find plenty more at:
📷: facebook.com/mairigrantph...
🔗: mairigrantphotography.com
Thanks Mairi! 🤩
Gull chicks standing on muddy ground, and some hidden under the grassy slope.
Bridled Guillemot standing on a rock in front of the sea.
#SeabirdShowOff Mairi: "The innocence of nature is where I find my solace in a world that seems to be becoming more and more complicated, the simplicity of nature keeps me grounded and gives me hope and peace in a very uncertain world.." 📸🌱 #seabirds
European shag resting on a rock.
A pair of Northern Gannets.
#SeabirdShowOff Mairi: "I absolutely adore wildlife and spend many a day out in the countryside seeking out wildlife to photograph, it is often a game of patience but the rewards speak for themselves." 📸🐦 #seabirds
Photograph of Mairi Grant aiming her Canon camera at an event, ready to take a shot.
Photograph of an Atlantic Puffin with a bill full of sand eels.
This #SeabirdShowOff we have Mairi Grant 🤩
Mairi is a professional, award winning, published photographer based in Aberdeenshire, Scotland. After getting her first camera at the age of 11, Mairi has been hooked with photography ever since, particularly wildlife & #seabirds! 📸🐦
Make sure you check out this month's #SeabirdShowOff -er, Joshua Pedley, aka 'The Wildlife Man'. 📸
Josh took the wonderful Manx Shearwater photo which we are using as our header photo across all our social media platforms this month. 🌊🐦
Joshua Pedley: "One of the only true ‘seagulls’. A Kittiwake colony bares an audible resemblance to a school playground!"
You can find Josh under the name of ‘The Wildlife Man’ on Facebook, X & Instagram (@MyWildlifePosts on X & Instagram). 🔗
Josh has a website & online shop pending, but due to popular demand will be selling 2025 Wildlife Calendars later in the year. 📅 #SeabirdShowOff
Joshua Pedley: "Northern Gannet. Europe’s largest seabird. Sadly, a bird badly hit by avian influenza over the last few years. Here’s hoping for a strong recovery in the years to come."
#SeabirdShowOff Joshua Pedley: "Skomer Island is a magical place for photography & most of my favourite #seabird photos are taken there. Outside of Wales, I have also visited
Bempton Cliffs on the East Yorkshire coast to marvel at the #seabirds there, particularly Gannets."
Joshua Pedley: "Puffins make wonderful photography subjects as they are such characterful little birds that certainly know how to pose for the camera!"
#SeabirdShowOff Joshua Pedley: "My favourite #seabird is the Atlantic Puffin & my favourite place to see them is Skomer Island, located off the coast of Pembrokeshire. Puffins make wonderful photography subjects as they are such characterful little birds that know how to pose for the camera!" 📸🐦
Joshua Pedley: "I think this Guillemot is quite pleased with its catch!"
#SeabirdShowOff Joshua Pedley: "Wildlife photography goes hand in hand with my work. I spend so much time observing the wildlife around me that it would be a shame not to document what I see. I am very much an amateur photographer with a passion for wildlife." 📸🐦
Joshua Pedley: "One of my favourite photos to try and get of the Skomer Island Puffins is one that shows them in flight. They fly so fast that this can be very tricky."
#SeabirdShowOff Joshua Pedley: "When the winds pick up or visibility deteriorates, we sometimes see Puffin & European Storm Petrel too. Outside of the breeding season, we see plenty of passage #seabirds including Arctic & Great Skua, Balearic Shearwater, & Common Scoter. 🌊🐦
Joshua Pedley: "Manx Shearwater. An elegant bird to witness on the wing. This photo was taken on one of our boat trips. It was a beautifully calm day, and this created a wonderful opportunity to get some reflective photos off the water. This photo recently won third prize at the Welsh Ornithological Society’s Photography Competition."
#SeabirdShowOff Joshua Pedley: "Throughout the #seabird season we see Guillemot, Razorbill, Kittiwake, Fulmar and Shag (to name a few) that breed locally and regular sightings of Gannet and Manx Shearwater visiting to feed."
Joshua Pedley: "Fulmar will regurgitate a fishy oil when threatened or provoked. This Fulmar is wearing this oil with pride, leading to quite a striking and unique image."
Josh works as a professional wildlife guide for SeaMor Dolphin Watching Boat Trips running wildlife cruises. ⛵
"While the Cardigan Bay Bottlenose Dolphins are often the highlight for most people on our trips, it is the #seabirds that we see that excite me most!" #SeabirdShowOff
Selfie of Joshua Pedley, 'The Wildlife Man'.
Joshua Pedley: "In May, Skomer Island is full of both Puffins and Bluebells. While there are lots of both, it can be quite a challenge to line the two up together in one frame. Luckily with plenty of patience, this Puffin popped out of its burrow just the other side of the bluebell patch I was staking out."
Time for a new #SeabirdShowOff! This month, we have Joshua Pedley, otherwise known as ‘The Wildlife Man’.
Josh is originally from Windsor but moved to the Welsh coast in 2019 in a bid to surround himself with the amazing marine & coastal wildlife that West Wales has to offer. 📸🐦
So excited to be part of the @theseabirdgroup.bsky.social #SeabirdShowOff
Graphite drawing of a Gannet on a cliff. Reference photo: Gary Jones.
All of Ruth's images are drawn in graphite, using Faber-Castell series 9000 pencils, on Bristol board. ✏️
You can check out more of Ruth's work on her website & social media: linktr.ee/ruthwalkerart 🔗
Thanks so much to Ruth for taking part in our #SeabirdShowOff 💖
Graphite drawing of a Shag on a Rock. Reference photo: Ruth Walker. This drawing was a finalist in the 2023 Sketch for Survival competition.
@ruthwalkerart.bsky.social: "Being surrounded by the sights, sounds and smells of thousands of Puffins, Razorbills, Guillemots, Bonxies etc. made me fall even more in love with these incredible birds – there really is no other experience quite like it!" 🐦 #SeabirdShowOff
Graphite drawing of a Gannet holding nesting material in it's bill. Reference photo: Gary Jones.
@ruthwalkerart.bsky.social: "I have been a bird ringer since 2008 and this has led me to some amazing places, including #seabird ringing expeditions to the Shiant Isles in Western Scotland." 🏝️ #SeabirdShowOff
Graphite drawing of a Long-tailed Tit stood on a branch. Reference photo: Bill Jones.
@ruthwalkerart.bsky.social: "I have a degree in Wildlife Conservation and my love of birds resulted in a job working for the @btobirds.bsky.social (where I work in the Ringing & Nest Recording Team) and is also reflected in the fact that most of my wildlife artwork features birds." 🐦 #SeabirdShowOff
Graphite drawing of a Curlew in flight. Reference photo: Bob Brewer. This drawing was a finalist in the 2022 Sketch for Survival competition.
@ruthwalkerart.bsky.social: "I studied art many, many years ago before discovering photography. I picked the pencils back up a few years back and now specialise in highly detailed, graphite drawings of wildlife and pets." 🎨 #SeabirdShowOff
Ruth at the Explorers Against Extinction Sketch for Survival competition exhibition at the Oxo Gallery in London in November 2023, looking at her Shag drawing which was selected as a finalist.
Graphite drawing of a pair of Wandering albatross. Reference photo: Alastair Wilson.
Hello May and hello to @ruthwalkerart.bsky.social who is our #SeabirdShowOff artist this month! 👋
Ruth has always had a passion for wildlife & animals as well as a love of art 😍
Staffa Puffins painting using mixed media.
If you love Jenny's artwork as much as we do, make sure you check out her website and social media pages to see more:
🎨 jennymclarenstudio.com
❎ twitter.com/jmclarenstudio
🔗 instagram.com/jennymclaren...
And if you would like to be featured as part of our #SeabirdShowOff, please do get in touch!
LITTLE BROTHER OF THE NORTH. Puffin painting using acrylic ink, acrylic paint, graphite pencil, coloured pencil, on map and wood panel.
Jenny lives by the coast in Cumbria & travels north regularly to visit the Scottish Highlands & Islands where much of her inspiration comes from. She will be holding an exhibition of new work at the Castle Gallery in Inverness in June 2025. #SeabirdShowOff
Fulmar over Barra by Jenny McLaren. Painting on an old map using acrylics and watercolour.
"My interest in #seabirds was sparked by reading Adam Nicolson's "the Seabird's Cry" I loved the marriage of prose & science & was struck by the incredible journeys that seabirds make." 🌍 #SeabirdShowOff
BASS ROCK SURVIVOR by Jenny McLaren 2023. Showing a gannet with the marbled black iris of a bird flu survivor, next to the Bass Rock.
One of the things that she enjoys most about being an artist is being able to spend time just looking, being still and observing nature as it goes about it's business. #seabirds #SeabirdShowOff
Painting of a Little Auk in Shetland made on an old maps with acrylic inks, paint and graphite.
Painting of a Great Auk made on old maps with acrylic inks and watercolours.
Jenny's unique paintings are made on old maps with acrylic inks and watercolours. 🗺️ When her exhibiting schedule allows Jenny takes commissions for her bird/map paintings at jennymclarenstudio.com
#SeabirdShowOff
Painting of a Gannet from the Hebrides made on old maps with acrylic inks and watercolours.
Headshot of Jenny McLaren.
Happy April! A new month means a new #SeabirdShowOff 🤩 This month we highlight the incredible artwork of Jenny McLaren. Jenny is an artist specialising in landscape and natural history subjects - a favourite being #seabirds.
Thank you so much to Sarah for letting us show off your photos this month!
If you are interested in our #SeabirdShowOff please get in touch 🙏
In January, Sarah committed to a 31-day art challenge in collaboration with Wildlife Preservation Canada to paint as many at risk species as she could raising over $1365!
You can view the gallery at smccombturbitt.com
#SeabirdShowOff
Through spending many hours observing animals, Sarah strives to capture not just the raw beauty of wildlife but the personalities of the animals that live there. #SeabirdShowOff
What better way to celebrate our first day on Bluesky than with a #SeabirdShowOff!
For those who aren't familiar, every month we feature a different #seabird artist/photographer/etc on social media.
This month, we feature Wildlife Artist & Master Marine Biologist, Sarah McComb-Turbitt 🎨🐧🐋
