Potato varieties
Potato varieries and one green potato about to sprout
Potato Solanum tuberosum sketchbook page
Sketchbook study of the Potato showing different varieties, flower colours, the fruit, and how to chit potatoes. With written notes.
Potato Food Products
Potato Food Products: Chips or French fries, sliced, boiled, baked potatoes, potato chips or crisps
Black Oil beetle Meloe proscarabaeus
Black oil beetle Meloe proscarabaeus showing distinctive abdominal shape and antennae.
Spotted flycatcher Muscicapa striata
Spotted flycatcher Muscicapa striata perched on a gravestone, eating a beetle. Completed for Cusop Churchyard nature panel.
Wasps and bees hibernating in cracks in an old wall
Wasps and bees hibernating in cracks in an old wall, showing common UK bee and social wasp species in the mortar of a church wall
Redwing Turdus iliacus
Redwing Turdus iliacus perched on a branch, with a berry in its beak
Fountain Grass Pennisetum setaceum
Fountain Grass Pennisetum setaceum sketchbook study sheet, showing details of plant
Spotted hyena Crocuta crocuta
Spotted hyena Crocuta crocuta with leg bone of giraffe
Anting Green woodpecker Picus viridis
Green woodpecker Picus viridis anting for parasite removal
Feeding Greater Spotted woodpecker Dendrocopos major
Greater Spotted woodpecker Dendrocopos major seeking food. Using its beak to pry under areas of bark, the woodpecker looks for small insects.
Digestive system of bird
Digestive system of bird using domestic chicken, in diagram format, with close up of gizzard
Car crushed by a tree
Car crushed by a fallen pine tree. Illustration shows secondary crushing forces in nature.
Bighorn sheep Ovis canadensis
Bighorn sheep Ovis canadensis fighting, using his horns to charge at a mating rival.
Comparison of Beak use in Darwin’s Finches
Comparison of Beak use in Darwin’s Finches. Stippled illustration showing singing, feeding, and preening.
Beak comparison in Darwin’s finches
Beak comparison in Darwin’s finches showing use feeding, singing, and preening. Line drawing.
Singing Darwins Finch Geospiza fuliginosa
Singing Darwin’s Finch Geospiza fulginosa showing beak in use.
Singing Darwins Finch Geospiza fuliginosa
Singing Darwins Finch Geospiza fuliginosa. Line drawing showing Galapagos finch and beak use.
Bird preening Darwins Finch Geospiza magnirostris
Bird preening Darwins Finch Geospiza magnirostris line drawing showing the beak in use in parasite removal
Preening Darwin’s Finch Geospiza magnirostris
Preening Darwins Finch Geospiza magnirostris line drawing showing the beak in use in parasite removal
Darwins Finch Geospiza magnirostris eating a Tribulus seed
Darwins Finch Geospiza magnirostris with Tribulus seed. Stippled illustration showing beak adaptability.
Darwin’s Finch Geospiza magnirostris with Tribulus seed
Darwin’s Finch Geospiza magnirostris with Tribulus seed (line drawing)
English Scurvygrass Cochlearia anglica
English Scurvygrass Cochlearia anglica botanical watercolour illustration showing details of flower with elongate petals, and the distinctive neck of the fruit
Coral Reef scene in the Red Sea
Red sea coral reef scene showing clown fish, sea urchins, star puffer fish, brain coral, squirrel fish, sea anenome, and lettuce coral