Category: Wildlife

My wildlife sightings and photos

Red Squirrel Garden Visitors

I’ve been lucky to have these lovely Red Squirrel visitors to my garden over the last four weeks. I set my trail camera on the feeding area to catch them when I’m not watching. I bought a squirrel feeder the day after I saw the first squirrel, and it’s being well used. The Red Squirrel […]

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Marine Clean in Memory of a Humpback Whale

On Sunday 16th June, I took part in Marine Clean 2019 organised by a good friend of mine, who volunteers with the British Divers Marine Life Rescue (BDMLR).  The inspiration The clean was done in memory of a Humpback Whale who was spotted earlier this year in the Firth of Forth dragging a buoy along […]

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Ladybird Bonanza

It looks like it is going to be a ladybird bonanza summer. I don’t know if anyone else has noticed the large number of ladybirds that have seem to have appeared this year? I’ve spotted (no pun intended) many in the garden. On a walk this morning there were lots of them along the road’s […]

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Young Lion painting in progress

I recently started work on a painting of a young lion relaxing in a tree. I’ll post more updates as I work on it. Here’s some photos of progress so far. About the painting Medium: Acrylics Paper: Heavyweight Bockingford watercolour paper Size: A3, 16.5″ x 11.7″ / 420 mm x 297 mm Reference photo: Laura […]

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