birds

Earthworm coiled and curled up showing its saddle and segmentation clearly, cut to white

Small pen and ink sketch with stippled texture and a watercolour top wash, cut to white

Desert locust Schistocerca gregaria on millet adult cut to white

Desert locust Schistocerca gregaria life cycle including early instars, hopper nymphs, egg laying, millet, and swarm in the sky

Desert locust Schistocerca gregaria cut to white sketch

Yew Taxus baccata sprig and detail of lone berry

Sunflower Helianthus annuus close up of one flwoer

Red currant Ribes rubrum showing the shiny red currants and birght green leaves and flowers

Oak bark Quercus robur study

Oak polypore fungus piptoporus quercinus bracket fungus growing on the side of an oak tree

Oak Quercus robur pen and ink tree shape without leaves

Meadow with wild flowers and insects and lark in the sky above, showing fertilized grassland without any other species then a gradual increase in flowers and other species until, in unimproved grassland, you have lots of wild flowers and associated insects, snails, and loveliness

Lawson’s Cypress Chamaecyparis lawsoniana pen and ink drawing of a mature tree

Larch Larix decidua sprig with mature cone and young flower detail

Hawthorn Crataegus monogyna sprig of blossom and detail of shiny red berries

Snipe flying across a ride clearing in woodland with forestry behind showing how to manage and harvest trees and related prodcuts such as charcoal, coppicing and timber; a distant pool and alder carr gives way to clear fell forestry on distant hills and patchy clearings; in the foreground wild flowers and butterflies are shown growing […]

Wetland landscape with a water rail emerging from the fringing vegetation and a cross section of the stream shows fish, aquatic invertebrates, and a blue dragonfly; a frog rests below an orchid and pond skater sit on the water surface

Salt marsh landscape showing mud and a cross section of the snails and invertebrates who live here, wading and predatory birds above in the glasswort and aquatic plants; further away from the salt estuary are soft cliffs and the distant sea

View of a head water stream with dipper, wagtail, waterfall and damselflies then view of a river with a heron fishing from a shingle bank, sand marten flying low, and dragonfly and beetles at home amongst driftwood; the river meanders on to a wetland meadow delta with grazing herds and established aquatic plant communities flanking […]

Landscape with Malham tarn in the background and wild flower meadow in front; stream with grey wagtail, green woodpeckers, peregrine falcon, and kestrel in the sky

Old oak woodland with bullfinch, woodpecker, badger, orange tip butterfly, vole, and ground beetle in amongst the plants growing on the forest floor below the spreading oaks

Landscape showing a brown field industrial site with factories and refineries in the distance, and an area of spoil and trah behind along with fly tipped wheels and bikes, flush next to a railway grown with buddejas; in the forground there are jackdaw and redstart, wild flowers and a small pool, and ltos of opportunist […]

Bluebell wood with the spring flowrs carpeting the forest floor, in the foreground a male redstart perches on a tree stump with lichen, behind are some butterflies and a pied flycatcher perches on the wooden bridge walkway that covers an area of boggy ground, beyond the path stretches away into distant airy woodland and sunlight