Lark

Hay Festival Landscape completed for Hay Festival Mug design 2022

Coastal Hay Meadow in Devon (Bentham).  Illustration shows idealised grassland scene with insects, birds, and wild flowers one would hope to see in a well managed coastal hay meadow.

Hay meadow cross section showing mole burrow and roots below the soil and flowers, butterflies, and insects above ground

Landscape of fields speckled with buttercups and grazing herds of sheep and cows, in the foreground there are shrubs then wild flower patches which provide cover for grey partridge, gatekeeper burtterflies, seven spot burnet moth, adonis blue butterfly, green woodpecker, hoverfly, bees, tiger beetle, and oil beetle on bare soil. WIld flowers shown include meadow […]

Heath landscape with a hare looking startled and an emperor moth and caterpillar in the foeground, plants include bilberry, cotton grass, rush, cloud berry, blueberry, rush; distant k=hills and an ascending lark behind

Skylark Alauda arvensis ascending in flight small vignette scene with fields and heather behind

Skylark Alauda arvensis