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Study of Pear leaves and flower Pyrus communis, cut to white.

Pear fruit with leaves shows one pear and sketched leaves behind.  Pencil.

Scots pine Pinus sylvestris cone and needles.  Pen and ink illustration with top colour.

Downy birch Betula pubescens pen and ink illustration with watercolour top wash.

Bittern Botaurus stellaris cut to white showing cryptic colouring and large beak and legs

Illustration of Red deer buck with antlers and mane

Garden scene designed for use on seed packet for wild flowers.

Swift Apus apus parent visiting its nest in the eaves of a brick barn

House martin Delichon urbicum at nest in the eaves

House martin Delichon urbicum in flight showing tail and wing shape

Swift Apus apus in flight showing sickle shaped wings and dark stomach

Swift Apus apus and House martin Delichon urbicum comparison of the two birds in flight

Nesting tower for swifts, martins, & bats diagram showing the slots for bats, curved slits for swifts and nests for martins

Sessile Oak tree Quercus petraea showing habit and twisted branches

Fieldfare Turdus pilaris with hawthorn berry sitting on branch

Fieldfare pair Turdus pilaris in hawthorn tree with one eating a berry.

Duck potato Sagittaria latifolia botanical illustration by Lizzie Harper showing underwater “potato” growths

Fool’s water-cress Apium nodiflorum with seed and flower detail

Greater Bird’s-foot trefoil Lotus pendunculatus or Lotus uliginosus with calyx detail

Gypsywort Lycopus europaeus with detail of flower calyx and seed

Water fern Azolla filiculoides shown floating with water repelling properties

Water figwort Scrophularia auriculata with detail of flower stem and seed

Water forget-me-not Myosotis scorpiodes showing growth habit

Water-violet Hottonia palustris showing submerged leaves