When the Snowdrops appear, you know that the cold east winds days are numbered, the little wren knows he can look forward to better days. This one has gone off to be framed now

Spring is here when the Blackthorn has flowered and the hawthorn, first with fresh new leaves, then its turn to bloom, then the sound of Nightingales fill the air as they establish territories

Maybe, Female Sparrowhawk eyeing up her prey

I have recently taken over the website myself, my sister very kindly ran it for me up to a little while ago, but I felt I should take more of an interest in it myself, so here I am, unfortunately all this computor malarkey is quite a lot out of my comfort zone, so please be patient with me. I shall shortly be getting help from a friend in exchange for a bit of work on his mini engine, a bit more my kind of world. The biggest issue is the pricing, the app has made some of the

This is a new piece of work, I've titled it "scrumping", I was inspired by this young male blackbird eating apples I'd saved on a garden chair, so I thought I'd give it a bit more interest, you can see the painting in its various stages on my instagram page,( Ians_birds_paintings_