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This Mallard in flight was completed for and features om their Wild Shreds packaging.
On my morning jog I saw ducks with 10 tiny ducklings on the

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2020-04-22

A little late for I specialise in and I work with watercolour and gouache. My favourite subjects are and

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2020-04-17

This proud beast is the Sika deer, Cervus nippon.

Introduced to the UK in 1860 they now range widely across conifer forests and northern heathlands,hybridizing with red deer.

They're very vocal; whistling barking and grunting

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2020-04-01

Heres A pair of Eider ducks, hunkering down under a sleety Northumberland sky.

Eider have one of my favourite bird calls, which they do with heads flung back. For those who've not heard it, it's a baleful undulating coo.

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2020-03-19

This week's blog is about Illustrating butterflies, a workshop I taught back in the summer, and how excellent my students were, and some of the techniques we used.

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2020-01-10

New guest blog out, all about our native butterflies:

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This guest blog by https://t.co/7JKGdn5VJ0 covers butterfly biology, and threats facing these glorious insects.

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2019-06-14