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Today's blog compares Canadian Goldenrod Solidago canadensis with Early Goldenrod Solidago gigantea.

https://t.co/iA3FXrx8YE

Goldenrod are great flowers for pollinators

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2020-08-28

Amphibians in the park: The frog book, by Mary Cynthia Dickerson......1907, BHL/Smithsonian, https://t.co/PGqZ0TtSen

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2020-08-21

Natural history and the park: Expédition dans les parties centrales de l'Amérique du Sud : de Rio de Janeiro à Lima, et de Lima au Para, by Francois Castelnau et al, BHL/Smithsonian, 6 vols......https://t.co/v7JjVcLID7

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2020-08-21

House sparrow, Passer domesticus.

These birds used to be incredibly common across urban areas of the UK, however, they've suffered a massive population crash recently with 71% decrease between 1977 & 2008 (RSPB)

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2020-08-13

So let's pop up this reconstruction of an extinct along with its species-specific larval mouthparts. I mostly get asked to do slightly less exacting so I love the challenges work like this poses.

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2020-07-16

Natural history and the park: Biologia Centrali-Americana :zoology, botany and archaeology, by FDC Godman et al, 1879-1915, BHL/Smithsonian, https://t.co/9DiyhNFEfH

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2020-07-13

Natural history illustration and the park: The MacGillivray art collection at the Natural History Museum........ https://t.co/idGBZlQJoA

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2020-07-11

Small Tortoiseshell Aglais urticae.

We've just raised some of these & released them to the knapweed in the garden.

For more on this common uk species, check out my Facebook https://t.co/flMSI5z8vj or on Instagram https://t.co/WUX4rm2cEK

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2020-06-28

Common R temporia. We raised froglets from tadpoles from the river wye and just returned them. Odd to see them in rivers? Love frogs & hope this population avoid the vile being studied by & the#gardenwildlifehealthproject

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2020-06-23

This is a European otter, Lutra lutra, eating a Brown trout.

Although lots of people have seen otters at The Warren in I'm yet to spot one. Brown trout we see often,leaping out of the river.

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2020-06-03

Finally heard my first cuckoo of the year yesterday - one of my favourite sounds.

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2020-05-31

This Arabian horse was done for a greetings card company some years back.

It's the only time I've illustrated a horse, im actually really scared of them. For some it's spiders... For me it's horses.

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2020-05-27

salamandra, found in european deciduous forests & active at night.

Their poison glands produce alkaloid toxinc causing convulsion & hypervebtilation in vertebrates.

Such a pretty

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2020-05-26

Here is a pair of Dabchicks or Little grebe, Tachybaptus ruficollis.

They bob underwater when disturbed and pop up at some distance, so can be hard to see.

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2020-05-25

This is a water rail surrounded by tiny toadlets.

These beautiful birds are quite rare and I'm yet to see one in the wild.

Illustrated for while ago

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2020-05-21

Bagot goat. This rare breed is found on Blithfield estate in Staffordshire has been there since 1389, and may have been brought over from the crusades.

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2020-05-12

Just finished these waxcaps for a board 4 SSSI in meadows in

Clockwise from L Crimson, Ballerina, Golden, Blackening, Scarlet, Cedar snowy, Fibrous, Cedar snowy again, Parrot, and Golden spindles.

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2020-05-07

Guest blog out about how loving nature is actually really good for us:

https://t.co/T4Rtc8nADU

So even of its as little as walking in a park or looking out of the window at trees, do yourself a favour. Love nature!

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2020-04-24