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The Isles of Scilly
Read moreIn June we took the 20 minute flight from Land’s End to the Isles of Scilly. Ever since visiting as a 13-year old, Jane has seen the islands as a little slice of paradise, just 28 miles from mainland Britain.
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What is a drypoint: badgers and bluebells
No CommentsRead moreWhat is drypoint print? How do you make one? I explain in this blog.
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Birding in The Gambia
Read more170 different species in just 10 days! Last week, just as the birds fly south to escape the British winter,…
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Squonk
No CommentsRead moreSide 1 track 3 of Genesis’ 1977 album Trick of the Tail tells the tale of the squonk, a mythical…
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Skin deep
Read moreMy paintings have, quite literally, been getting under the skin of two admirers of my work. I was sent photos…
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Edward Lear – bird artist
Read moreToday we visited the Happy Birthday Edward Lear exhibition at the Ashmolean in Oxford. Edward Lear is best known for…
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The extinction of the Great Auk – 3 July 1844
Read moreThe Great Auk (Pinguinus impennis) was once a common and magnificent sight in the sparkling waters of the North Atlantic.…
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Swimming with dolphins in Cuba
No CommentsRead moreTwo years ago I had a beautiful encounter swimming with dolphins in Kaikoura, New Zealand. A pod of perhaps 500…
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The birds of Cuba
Read moreAlthough our recent holiday in Cuba wasn’t the typical exploratory journey through the planet’s natural wonders that Moth and me…
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Audubon’s Birds of America
Read more“With the exception of the mockingbird, I know no species so gay and frolicksome” Audubon wrote of the red-headed woodpecker…
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