Bird of the Day: Brambling

Bramblings are gorgeous little finches, and are often called an orange chaffinch, for obvious reasons. They are indeed very similar … More

Bird of the Day: Linnet

My house in Hellingly is a short drive from Ashdown Forest, which is a forest in a historical sense rather … More

Growing up in the 70’s, starlings were often regarded as a nuisance, and I remember crowds of them on the … More

I painted an oystercatcher very early on in my gouache journey when using the white paper as the white part … More

My favourite book as I was growing up was Usborne’s The Naturetrail Omnibus, and I pored over the different chapters … More