I've not done any posts in a while, not since they've started doing double prompts from their archive - this is Kingfisher Blue and Lava.

A tiger burning bright - based on an old work, but given a glow-up for Lunar New Year 🔥🐯🔥

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Kingfisher Blue and lava are the colours for this weeks

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Some ladies from olden times in Kingfisher Blue and Lava

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🦉 Schreibers kleiner Atlas der einheimischen Vögel. v.1.
Esslinger, J.F. Schreiber[n.d.]

During territorial disputes Kingfishers may try 2 grab & hold beaks of rivals underwater! C our (fig. 9) https://t.co/NbbWJTKhI7

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Today is raising awareness about the role of wetlands for people and planet.
We taking the opportunity to highlight wetland birds with these from John Gould's 'Birds of Europe', 1873. Great crested grebe, moorhens and kingfisher.

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Really Interesting feature on tonight's about how Kingfishers take advantage of the presence of otters. Here's my kingfisher drawing, ink pen and watercolor

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Stephen, the paladin of the dead god The Saint of Steel, busily knitting some socks. From the INSANELY EXCELLENT book, “Paladin’s Grace” by T. Kingfisher ( )

Seriously, go read it.

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Thanks, a few more of my faves.

Ref pics
Kingfisher-Ian Unwin
great tit-Paul Fine

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I am the one person in the watercolor world without a kingfisher. But I do have a cardinal.

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Yellow billed kingfisher 🌟

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As prompted by : some kingfisher birbs and ginkgo leaves

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Today's the perfect day to request by on !

A retelling of Edgar Allen Poe's "The Fall of the House of Usher" featuring 10000 more mushrooms and T. Kingfisher's signature spookiness. Request here! 🍄

https://t.co/xINZwmCEYd

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‘Winter willows’ watercolour and charcoal
Chilly on the river. Kingfisher sped by.

https://t.co/RxpFEHDE2s

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There's a kingfisher that lives near me, I've seen it three times. The first time it was just a blue flash, not much, but unmistakable!

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A watercolour painting of a Common Kingfisher looking to the right sat on a branch. Painterly style with bright colours.

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Halcyone, daughter of wind god Aeolus, married King Ceyx. One winter he drowned at sea. Halcyone was grief-stricken

In pity, the gods turned the couple into kingfishers. While they nested in winter, her father quietened the winds: the Halcyon Days

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