Beautiful autumn day

Another glorious day,the sun was warm and bright all day.
Late afternoon and I noticed a sudden influx of blackbirds in my garden, migrant birds and then overhead Redwings maybe a hundred, they streamed over the house towards last years winter roost, I will have to go to check it out.
Yesterday the barn owl trust put an outdoor nest box up in the field behind the house, I can't wait to see what uses it .

Puffins on sea campion and thrift

Puffins on sea campion and thrift. Last summer I spent days painting Puffins on Skomer.I love making Drawings of puffins and really enjoy making them In clay.
On show in the Duchy Gallery Princetown Dartmoor.

Raku fired Gannet

This Gannet was made after my visit to the Bass rock .It is on show at my exhibition in Princetown Dartmoor.

Fieldfares on crabapples in my garden

Kittiwakes Dunbar castle, Gannets the Bass rock

This July I was lucky enough to spend a week in Northe Berwick, with John Busby David Measures and others, all drawing and painting wildlife.Days were spent in the field watching and drawing the frantic activity of the breeding season , during a squally week .
I was able to spend a day on the bass Rock with its 40,000 pairs of Gannets,amazed to see how many more pairs have arrived since I last visited.
These are a couple of my watercolours from that week.