Watercolour wading bird standing on one leg, facing viewer, looking over to left, with eye shut. Dark-ish head and back, pale breast. Leg and bill red. Standing in water with reeds sticking up.

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Redshank

From my archive for the 7th Day of Christmas
(somehow I seem to have moved seemlessly from the 5th to the 7th DoC... oops!)😀

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Two inky black and blue birds perched on a branch, looking at each other, the tips of their beaks nearly touching.

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Crow conversation

From my archive for the 5th Day of Christmas 🦉

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Two red-capped toadstools, with white spots and white stems, growing out of grass.

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Fly agaric

From my archive, for the 5th Day of Christmas.

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Painting of small finch, facing viewer but looking slightly to left. Has two scarlet crests on it's head, a scarlet beak, red flashes on its wing and tail feathers. Rest of thebird is buff.

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Northern cardinal

For @roperlou.bsky.social, who shared the lovely 📷 by @jennyleeshee.bsky.social with me.

Day 4 of the 12 Days of Xmas🦉

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Sketch of white-breasted gull, with dark back yellow beak, facing viewer but looking over to left. Rather a pointed stare on its face.

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'Don't mess with me.'

Gull from my archive.

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Mountain hare

Hunkered down against the cold… (I have some sympathy with this hare.)

Happy Boxing Day!

Fox looking to left with mouth open, tongue curled and eyes shut.

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Yawning or laughing?

My final painting (from my archive) for #ArtAdventCalendar Day 24

Happy Christmas friends, followers & passers-by🎄

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Profile of gull looking left, with white breast, brown-grey-black head and back. Black wing feathers.

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Juvenile common gull

For #ArtAdventCalendar Day 23

A very quick sketch of one of my favourite gulls, from a 📷 by @sbisson.bsky.social with thanks.

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Climbing plant with 3 heart-shaped leaves climbing a wooden post, and string of scarlet berries hanging between them.

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Black bryony

Another from my archive for #ArtAdventCalendar Day 22.

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Watercolour of flat landscape with yellow cornfields divided by a muddy cart track and lowering grey clouds and rain overhead.

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Storm over corn fields

For #ArtAdventCalendar Day 21

From my archive as I’m on the move today.

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Watercolour of tall wading bird, facing viewer but looking to left, with curved beak. White everywhere except glimpses of black wings, and grey top of head.

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American avocet...

...looking very wary!

For #ArtAdventCalendar Day 20 🦉

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Blurry painting of grey deer head, facing viewer, one horn pointing straight up, the other broken in half, two large ears pointing outwards, big dark eyes and nose.

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Roe deer

A hazy pic for #ArtAdventCalendar Day 19 by my laptop, as my phone's gone walkabout🙄

From a lovely 📷 by @iand777.bsky.social with thanks.

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Watercolour of duck on one leg, looking to left but facing viewer, in smudgy browns and greys.

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Female pintail

Only had 20 mins between getting in and going out this evening, but here it is, for #ArtAdventCalendar Day 18

From a 📷 by @klausbusse.de with thanks.

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Grey-headed bird, with tuft on top of head, facing viewer but looking down, with black feathers around top of beak, paler buff chest and grey wings just visible.

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Tufted titmouse, again

For #ArtAdventCalendar Day 17

From a 📷 by @jocelynanderson.bsky.social & sent to me by @bearofoses.bsky.social

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Watercolour of goose standing on one leg, facing viewer but with head resting on breast and pointing slightly to the left. Pink beak and legs, buff chest and grey wings. Large brown splodge on lower breast, and around the eye. Orange eye.

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Egyptian goose

For #ArtAdventCalendar Day 16

From a lovely 📷 by @lorrainebirder.bsky.social with thanks.

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Grey and white watercolour of flying dove, seen from below and moving to left of frame.

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Dove

For #ArtAdventCalendar Day 15

Frozen forever in the ceiling plaster of St John the Baptist, Matlock, owned by @friendlesschurches.bsky.social

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Watercolour of side-view of small brown bird facing to left, sharp pointy beak, chestnut brown top of head and back, speckled brown breast and wings. Brown tail feathers pointing straight up.

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'Does my bum look big in this?'

For #ArtAdventCalendar Day14

Fluffy wren 🦉

📷 by @aintright.bsky.social, with thanks.

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Black bird walking to left, long pale pointed beak pointing down as it looks at the ground, slightly shaggy feathers around head and belly.

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Fossicking rook

For #ArtAdventCalendar Day 12

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Deer's head looking to left, with slightly pointed black nose, and the rest in browns and greys, one ear pointing forwards, one backwards.

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Deer (roe?)

For #ArtAdventCalendar Day 11

From a great 📷 by Jordan Cormack, with thanks.

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Watercolour of three wading birds, each one facing the viewer, standing on one leg only, with black heads and backs. Their heads are all turned round and tucked into their wings, so that only the left hand bird is still showing an eye.

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'Not looking'

3 lovely stilts keeping their heads tucked under their wings.

For #ArtAdventCalendar Day 10

From a great 📷 by @theonetruekat.bsky.social with thanks.
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Thanks for the acknowledgment, Rebecca.
Nadolig Llawen! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🎅 🎄 🥳 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

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Pencil sketch of small waterbird, with sharp beak and damp, fluffy plumage, on water, swimming to the left, surrounded by circling ripples of water and it's own reflection.

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Dabchick

Aka little grebe. For #ArtAdventCalendar Day 9.

From a lovely 📷 by @emyr-wyn.bsky.social with thanks.

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Sploshy ink and paint wading bird, looking to left, with black neck and top of head ending in crest, green-black wings and back, white belly. Standing on one leg.

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Lapwing

For #ArtAdventCalendar Day 8.

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Front view of grey bird, standing on a twig, looking to left. Has a black moustache, grey-blue over head and back of neck, white/grey front, with sandy flashes below black wing edges just visible.

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Tufted titmouse

For #ArtAdventCalendar Day 7.

A charming little bird from the US.
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Painting of long, thin brown snake moving horizontally across the page. Regular black spots down it's side, pale under-jaw.

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Snake

For #ArtAdventCalendar Day6.

I love drawing snakes! (This one's from my archive.)

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Profile portrait of fox, looking to left, with russet fur on top of head and neck and white/grey on jaw and lower neck.

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Fox

For #ArtAdventCalendar day 5.

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Profile of male duck looking to left, with black-purple head with down-pointing crest, and a round yellow eye; with dished grey beak, green-black breast and back over white belly, floating on water which reflects its colours.

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Tufted duck

One from my archive for #ArtAdventCalendar Day 4 (run out of time today🙄)

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Front view of wading bird with black head, neck and back, white breast and belly. Pink legs and striking orange beak and eye.

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Oystercatcher

One of my favourite bird calls is the plaintive cry of the oystercatcher.

Day 3 of #artadventcalendar

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Wading bird facing viewer but looking to left, black beak and eye, white breast and neck speckled with brown and brown/grey top of head and back.

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Sanderling

Today's painting for #ArtAdventCalendar

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(from 📷 posted by @tawandafree.bsky.social, with thanks)

Sploshy portrait of hare, mostly grey, looking to left with ink splashes acorss the paper.

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Hare

For #ArtAdventCalendar here's a grey hare from a 📷 by @SW_PhotoNature with thanks.

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