Water Rail with chicks sketched Cley. Spent an enjoyable summer watching birds raising young and this was one of the highlights
OwenTat Draws
@owentatdraws.bsky.social
Wildlife illustrator & photographer Birder in East Yorkshire 🐦 Patch total (Figham Common) = 123 (Ruddy Shelduck)
Here's some #patchbirding (& insect) highlights from yesterday! I've added a little more information about each in the alt text. #ukbirding #birds
Spent some time watching the local Peregrines this morning. Here's one of the adults in the sunshine. Happy to see one of the juveniles has fledged and was flying around with the adult at times. #ukbirding #birds
My Peregrine Falcon prints are now available! Each one is hand-printed and inked, with a limited run of 50. On sale locally (or with UK postage) at Art & Soul in Beverley: artandsoulhub.co.uk/collections/...
Here's the final linoprint of my local Minster and the Peregrine Falcons that are nesting there. Really pleased with how much the ink wash added to the piece! #birds #birdart #sciart #printmaking
I've been working on this linoprint for a month now and it's almost complete! It's of my local Minster which the Peregrines have chosen to occupy this year. I'm really excited to start making print editions of it soon! #birds #birdart #sciart #printmaking
Had a nice encounter with a local Barn Owl this morning which I haven't seen for a few months. Also picked up Grey Partridge for my #patchbirding list this year and a Ruddy Shelduck two days prior which was a patch first! #ukbirding #birds
A foggy start to the #CityNatureChallenge made birding difficult so I turned to the plants instead. 106 species seen for day one, with birds accounting for about 35%. Fun to see the 12 mile walk in a trail of pictures afterwards! @inaturalist.bsky.social @teamneyedc.bsky.social
Redstart, Wheatears (4), Yellow Wags (2) & Red Kite have been the highlights over these past few days of #patchbirding. 11 new species for the year, taking me to 105 points for the challenge already! A big head start on last year 🐦
Got my copy of The New Birds of the Sheffield Area a few days ago. It’s seriously good. I can see I am going to lose hours😉 Gratuitous photo of one of the illustrations I did for it too. #Birds #UKbirding #sciart
Here's the last painting I produced for the report on my local wildlife 🦋 Butterflies and plants are new subjects for me art-wise but it would be a crime to leave a page on butterflies without an illustration #sciart #butterflies #painting
I made a glow-in-the-dark sticker inspired by my time finding Jack Snipe with a thermal at Spurn. #birds #birdart #sciart #ukbirding
Look what arrived today! Thank you to everyone who has ordered one, they will be posted out over the next few days 🐦 A link for anyone interested in one (or the free digital version): ko-fi.com/s/576ed43853
It’s been a good winter for Jack Snipe at Cley NWT, with a bird favouring the cut reeds near Bishop’s Hide.However, seeing them is a different matter !
The long awaited owls returned to the #patchbirding list last month. Both Short-eared and Barn Owl. Neither of which had been seen in over a year. And can't forget the 80 feeding White-fronts either! Very lucky to see them in such numbers. #ukbirding
The bird report that I’ve been writing about my #patchbirding is now out! It includes many months of research, writing, illustrations, and photographs from the local community too. It is free to look through and I hope a nice read even for those not local 🐦 Here's a link: figham.neocities.org
The #PWC2026 January review is now out! Take a look at where you have come in the mini-leagues and gawp at what others have seen on their patches! To do this, click the link to go to our blog: patchworkchallenge.blogspot.com/2026/02/janu... Hope you enjoy reading it!
Some excellent goose watching in North Norfolk over the last week. A notable influx of White-fronted, Barnacle and Tundra Bean Geese joining the Pinkfeet flocks. The Netherlands is most likely the origin of these birds. Certainly livened up the grey weather.
Very excited that this project might (finally) be finished this month! 60 pages of data, artwork and community photographs. Here's the first look at the front cover that I just finished painting. #birds #ukbirding #patchbirding
I framed up a few of my original sketches and listed them on my shop today. There's also a few prints still available if you'd like some smaller versions too 🐦 ko-fi.com/owentatdraws... #birds #birdart #traditionalart
Back to work: just finished this watercolour of Glaucous-winged Gulls from Egg Islands, near Cordova in Alaska. We've visited this place last May, during our Artists for Nature Foundation & Native Conservancy project. You can see our boat approaching from the left.
The patch has quieted down recently, so here's a painting of a regular winter scene, when the Cormorants would hang out on their chosen telegraph pole. #birds #birdart #watercolour #painting
Took my scope #patchbirding for the first time in case there were any geese about. There was a 10 minute gap in the fog which produced a Tundra Bean, 3 White-fronts, 3 Barnacles! And 2 bonus Water Rails on the walk back. Very pleased! #ukbirding
