David @ The HALL of EINARさんのイラストまとめ

When I was a child I kept a series of enthusiastic nature notebooks. I had a Daler art pad of cartridge paper and pencil crayons and made detailed drawings of the birds I saw.
I've just seen a Redwing, so here’s a sketch of one from when I was 13.
Seeing one is still a thrill.

Turning the pages of this 1950s Ladybird book to see what's changed. Today: the Goldfinch.
Here's the illustration by Allen Seaby, my recent digital photograph and a drawing from when I was a child.
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Today’s extinct animal of the British Isles #6: The Dalmatian Pelican.
A magnificent bird with a wingspan of up to 3.5 metres. Extinct in Britain due to habitat loss and human disturbance. Illustration, Edward Lear, 1837.
We live in wildlife poverty and most of us don't know it.