watercolour

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

Skylark Alauda arvensis

Snipe Gallinago gallinago perched on a slab of limestone looking forwards

Snipe Gallinago gallinago looking over its shoulder

Snipe Gallinago gallinago on the ground, cut to white

Ring ouzel Turdus torquatus perched on a branch looking surly

Sparrowhawk Accipiter nisus perched on top of a post with moss at its feet

Robin Erithacus rubecula with a worm in its beak returning to an open fronted nest box attached to the trunk of a tree with a blue sky behind

Stonechat Saxicola rubicola male singing with open beak and perched in some flowering gorse Ulex

Robin Erithacus rubecula staring at the viewer with slightly ruffled feathers and a large eye, perched on an ash twig

Swift Apus apus sketch in flight

Robin Erithacus rubecula splahsing in a white neoclassical style pedestal bird bath with water droplets spraying around, plumage fluffed out, and a grassy lawn behind

Rooks Corvus frugilegus perched on their nests in a rookery with distanct rooks behind in flight

Ruby throated Hummingbird Archilochus colubris in flight, feedin with tis long beak from a pink convolvulus like flower and showing its bright green featehrs and scarlet thoat patch

Saqr falcon with eye shades and tresses, ready for falconry hunting and perched on ceremonial Arabian perch

Pochard Aythya ferina pair with male with rusty head and female on one leg with head nestled into her chest

Puffin Fratercula arctica standing on tufts of grass facing left

Raven Corvus corax cut to white

Red grouse Lagopus lagopus

Red grouse Lagopus lagopus cut to white

Red grouse Lagopus lagopus standing on limestone boulder with a pale upland morr landscape behind, small vignette

Moorhen Gallinula chloropus swimming cut to white

Red kite Milvus milvus in flight from below showing its distinctive v shaped tail

Mute swan Cygnus olor standing on one grey leg and clearly showing its orange beak