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Hazel Corylus avellana sketchbook study with pencil and wash leaf as well as details of catkins, nuts and a leaf.

Hazel Corylus avellana sketchbook page with detailed pencil leaf study, detail of a young leaf and some nuts

Sketchbook study of the Beeck, with details of leaf and beech nut

Colorado Potato beetle Leptinotarsa decemlineata life cycle with adult, egg, pupa, and colourful orange grub all cut to whtie

Lanceolate leaf diagram showing the simple leaf shape

Holly Ilex aquifolium leaves with a cluster of red berries at the centre

Hazel Corylus avellana tree pen and ink drawing of the shape of the thicket without leaves

Hazel Corylus avellana twig, catkins and leaf

Hazel Corylus avellana sprig with immature and mature hazel nuts, along with a sprig with small female flowers and catkins

Fringed waterlily Nymphoides peltata pencil drawing of flowers, buds, and leaves

Crack willow Salix fragilis tree shape without leaves and individual sprig of leaves and flowering catkin

Crab Apple Malus sylvestris with small fruits, woody stem, leaves, and blossoms

Black horehound Ballota nigra with detail on individual purple flower

Beech Fagus sylvatica twig in bud and leaf and beechnuts

Beech Fagus sylvatica tree outline showing tree shape without leaves

Beech bark study Fagus sylvatica showing a knot

Stylized diagram of the duck egg showing chalaza, yolk, white, germination, membranes, and air pocket

Stylized diagram of the development of a duck egg from being laid until after hatching Day one yolk held in place with chalaza, germinal disc where fertilized chick starts to grow

Stylized diagram of the development of a duck egg from being laid until after hatching day eight blood vessels carry waste and oxygen, eyelids start to cover eye, beak and egg tooth more clear.

Stylized diagram of the development of a duck egg from being laid until after hatching day five embryo separates from the yolk, blood vessel network grows and branchesm eye starts to get a colour.

Stylized diagram of the development of a duck egg from being laid until after hatching Day 27 hatchling squashed inside egg ready to hatch, air cell still shows

Stylized diagram of the development of a duck egg from being laid until after hatching day twelve feathers start to show eye covered with lid claws formed