Gallery - Birds

Wassailing!

In memory of fieldfares flitting through an old orchard on a Shropshire Hillside.

Original felt 36cm x 33cm
£190

Lovely Legs!

In the Hebrides you see pretty much everything ona  post - from Ravens to Snipe - and this splendid Redshank

Original felt 24cm x53cm
£200

Maggie Rose

The bright red leaves and berries of our Guelder Rose make a stunning backdrop for a beautiful Magpie - much maligned but smart in both nature and appearance. 

Original felt 35cm x 45cm
£300

Harbour Masters

Black Guillemots flashing their cherry red feet as they paddle the clear waters of Oban Harbour

Original felt 43cm x 45cm
£300

Machair Lapwings

The machair on Uist was  a thing to behold! June landscapes yellow and white with buttercups and daisies, bejewelled with birds 

Original felt 40cm x 40cm
£200

On Committee Road

Committee Road on North Uist is the haunt of many raptors and the naturalists seeking them! This pair of Short Eared Owls was obligingly right by the verge

Original felt 35cm x 41cm
£200

A Four-Thousanth

Anyone who has been fortunate to visit the Farne Islands will have had a view rather like this, hundreds of times over - three of the 12000 odd Guillemots, and a nesting Kittiwake

Original felt 44cm x 38cm
£290

Sunny Puffins

I love that when puffins stand in the sun the light from their bright feet reflects up onto their tummies 

Original felt 36cm x 34cm
£190

On the Fennel

Fennel just outside the house is a delight all year attracting lots of insects and birds including warblers and these gorgeous LTTS. 

Original felt 45cm x 41cm
£320

Autumn Tawny

I love those autumn nights when the owls are calling, this one disturbed from its roost on an autumn afternoon.

Original felt  37cm x 43cm
£260

Dabbling Drake

Lovely on a canal dotted with fallen leaves.

Original felt  34cm x32cm
£160

Lily Lochan

The lochans on South Uist were often blanketed in water lilies and embellished with swans. 

Original felt 34cm x 32cm
£100

Safe Harbour

Black Guillemots nest in the harbour walls at Oban. Such delightful birds with an amazing cherry red feet and gape

Original felt 32cm x 39cm
£180

Campion Cliffs

In May the cliff tops of Bempton are clothed in Red Campion whilst the cliff faces are home to thousands of nesting seabirds including these super smart Razorbills.

Original felt 34cm x 33cm
£180

Barnack in April

Red Kites seem to be a constant in the skies above the Pasque Flowers and Cowslips of Barnack Holes and Hills NNR

Original felt 38cm x 43cm
£210

Sunset Spoonbill

A spoonbill with a following wind! Paul Phillips captured the bad hair moment and I added the apricot glow.

Original felt 35cm x 33cm
£170

Always a Dunnock

There is always a Dunnock outside my kitchen window - all months, all times of day. Always. I am sure they are related to mice the way they move around under the plants.

Original felt 30cm x 22cm
£80

Pipit Assassin

The Barra machair was alive with Meadow Pipits gathering the plentiful Craneflies - it was hardly a fair contest! We we were honoured that one mum fed her fledglings right by our tent

Original felt 31cm x 23cm
£130

Rutland Egret

How statuesque is a Great White Egret wading through the summer shallows of Rutland Water!  With gleam in the watery fibres.

Original felt 34cm x 43cm

£160

Bathtime

Right outside the kitchen window is a pond well used by all our garden birds.

I decided it was time to feature the beautiful subtle browns and tawnys of the female front and central.

Original felt 28cm x33cm

£100

Winter Rooks

Looking out across the fen from the Carr Dyke bank with its Hogweed skeletons

Original felt 42cm x 32cm
£95