I am fortunate to have heard the cuckoo every year since I moved here in 2008; one year I saw 3 fly from one tree in early summer. There are a fair number of dunnocks around me and they are a preferred host for the cuckoo, and lots of trees to provide the caterpillars that … Continue reading Cuckoo Lino Print
Pheasant Lino Print
Pheasants are all over the wheat fields behind my house at the moment enjoying the worms, and the males are posturing and sizing each other up while the females look on. They are really quite magnificent birds and seeing them on the short greenery and dark earth coupled with low winter sunlight can be a … Continue reading Pheasant Lino Print
Blackbirds
I don't get a great variety not birds in my garden - just the usual suspects of robins, blue tits, dunnocks, wood pigeons and occasionally sparrows. I also have blackbirds, and I watched a female gathering nest material and a male gathering worms, and noticed with some dismay that they seemed to be building a … Continue reading Blackbirds
Another linocut
I really enjoyed doing my chicken linocut, and I had in my mind a thought to do a more landscape type of print on the larger piece of lino I had in my drawer. I had found a really lovely bird field guide at Camilla's secondhand bookstore in Eastbourne when I went there in the … Continue reading Another linocut
Blue tits and linocuts
It's a difficult time to be creative, as on the one hand I finally have some time to pursue some artsy pursuits, but my mind is rather foggy and preoccupied; not the best environment for fomenting ideas. However, I cleaned my house (well, the bits that matter) yesterday and I finished the blue tit I … Continue reading Blue tits and linocuts
