If you are a regular to my blog, you will know that White-tailed Eagles are a favourite of mine to paint. The model for this portrait was a young female White-tailed Eagle called ‘Snatch’, who was the resident White-tailed Eagle at Blair Drummond Safari Park. I visited Blair Drummond in 2011, and took many photos […]
My drawing of a male White-tailed Eagle with a flounder fish. The eagle is clutching his meal in his razor sharp talons, while perching on a wooden post encased in seaweed, situated in the Eden Estuary, Fife, Scotland. Meet the eagle This particular eagle is a male who was brought over from Norway as a […]
The story behind this drawing of a White-tailed Eagle on the Isle of Mull. This eagle and his mate regularly flew past, or over, the house where I was staying on the Isle of Mull, back in March 2015. The scene in the drawing captures a moment the male flew low over the trees next […]
Earlier this year I posted a blog [here] showing in cartoon form one of the differences between Golden and White-tailed Eagles. Here is another cartoon, Sibling Rivalry. It is not uncommon for Golden Eagles to have twins, but the youngest can get an incredibly rough deal compared to White-tailed Eagle siblings. In fact, while Goldens […]
I have recently finished a new painting of a White-tailed Eagle in flight. This particular bird is one I have watched for many hours, female ‘Turquoise 1’, as she is known from her identification wing tags. I didn’t paint in her tags in this portrait. Below is a timelapse I have put together from a […]