Wharfdale Snail eating Asplenium and Orchid #ArtDD2026 I'm finally back after travelling and finished my A5 #Wharfdale page. These two are about an inch across each @drrjwarren.bsky.social @andykaitken.bsky.social @holnicotenh.bsky.social @holnicotenh.bsky.social

It's been a good week for wildflowers in Upper Teesdale Field inventory and even an Spring Gentian @wildflowerhour.bsky.social #wildflowers

Six eggs in the nest box. Pied Flycatcher have lovely blue eggs. I've got an endoscopy camera to check @drrjwarren.bsky.social

Day 2 of fieldwork in Upper #Teesdale on #Widdybank fell. More species today.Even a Spring Gentian in the ungrazed treatment. We are a bit sore but windswept and happy that we've done it. Leaves from violet and teesdale violet in the last photo #climatechange experiment @stockholm-uni.bsky.social

Field work in Upper Teesdale Today on Cronkley Fell. I've got Open Top Chambers to investigate the effect of Winter warming and grazed and un-grazed plots. It's difficult to keep out some grazers 🐇🤬 This project have now run for 6 winters and things are happening. I found a lovely Moonwort 💚 🧪🌍

the George Inn in Hubberholm #ArtDD2026 I'm filling an A5 sheet with little memories from one dale in the Dales. Tiny doodle #Wharfdale #YorkshireDales #watercolour @drrjwarren.bsky.social @andykaitken.bsky.social @stevecobbin.bsky.social @holnicotenh.bsky.social

Best weekend you can wish for. Bird, birds, landscapes and plants. But the best is the company and conversations

#ArtDD2026 Great Blue Heron pondering life, the universe and everything... From a great 📷 by @boct.bsky.social, with thanks.🦉 @saocousins.bsky.social @holnicotenh.bsky.social @stevecobbin.bsky.social @andykaitken.bsky.social @mayfieldbirder.bsky.social @indikon.eurosky.social

Who hoo - who has been Swedish National Television and chatted about biodiversity, climate and landscapes in 100 years? The only certainty is that whatever I said about how Sweden will look like will be wrong. But hopefully I managed to come across with some hope. #biodiversity #climate #landuse 🧪🌍

Packing lightly but fieldwork on top of Widdybank in Teesdale (windy and wet) and 27 degrees in the south is a tough combination. Particularly as it's really warm here too so I can't wear everything 😂🥵

Barn door #ArtDD2026 I'm filling an A5 sheet with little memories from one dale in the Dales. Tiny doodle #Wharfdale #YorkshireDales #watercolour @drrjwarren.bsky.social @andykaitken.bsky.social @stevecobbin.bsky.social @holnicotenh.bsky.social

View above Hubberholm towards the south #ArtDD2026 I'm filling an A5 sheet with little memories from one dale in the Dales. #Wharfdale #YorkshireDales #watercolour @drrjwarren.bsky.social @andykaitken.bsky.social @stevecobbin.bsky.social @holnicotenh.bsky.social

Wharfdale footbridge Not a #stile #ArtDD2026 I'm filling an A5 sheet with little memories from one dale in the Dales. A September walk #Wharfdale #YorkshireDales #watercolour @drrjwarren.bsky.social @andykaitken.bsky.social @stevecobbin.bsky.social @holnicotenh.bsky.social

Searching for Wikstroemia spp. in the mountains of Kauai, sampling for systematics, popgen, and the genetics of sex-determination 🌿

Dig, dug, dug... Removing an apple tree with canker and planting a black Mulberry tree. The garden are on heavy clayey soil, great for clay pots so I had to dig deep. I'm 2 m at my finger tips so quite some fun getting it into the car. Come on and produce berries 😋

Belted Galloway #ArtDD2026 My favourite cow in my favourite dales #Wharfdale in #Yorkshire Dales Tiny doodle. I realised that black on black is a bit challenging 😁 #watercolour #cow @drrjwarren.bsky.social @holnicotenh.bsky.social @andykaitken.bsky.social @stevecobbin.bsky.social

Bit moody this one... new canvas. February on the Levels. #art #landscape #painting @drrjwarren.bsky.social @saocousins.bsky.social @indikon.eurosky.social @andykaitken.bsky.social @holnicotenh.bsky.social @jayjewels70.bsky.social

Eider #ArtDD2026 Last little doodle in the corner of an A5 sheet So what do I do now? #watercolour @drrjwarren.bsky.social @andykaitken.bsky.social @holnicotenh.bsky.social @stevecobbin.bsky.social

Tiny Bluethroat #ArtDD2026 Second to last little square on my A5 sheet. Memories from a birding trip on the west coast 🇸🇪 so tiny doodles (3×5 cm) Saw this beautiful Whitestar #Bluethroat 🦉 #blåhake @drrjwarren.bsky.social @andykaitken.bsky.social @stevecobbin.bsky.social @holnicotenh.bsky.social

Hello - anybody home?

#ArtDD2026 Trillium erectum I've been in trillium heaven today and here's one that took my eye. @saocousins.bsky.social @holnicotenh.bsky.social @stevecobbin.bsky.social @andykaitken.bsky.social @indikon.eurosky.social @mayfieldbirder.bsky.social

Three Great snipe and two grasshopper warbler. 😍😍😍

What is a little cough when there is a party. I actually think it was the cure. Theme Hawaii

Lovely day but the nights are still very chilly. I pruned the Peach tree. It always feels so wrong but the branches are too weak for a lot of fruit Mistle thrush, Tree Pipits, Stock Dove, Blackcap, Treekreeper, Goldcrest, Song thrush, Siskin, Robins, Wren, Yellowhammer are doing their best singing

Northern Wheatear #ArtDD2026 So many have arrived now and they are very pretty little bandits I'm filling a A5 sheet w tiny doodles from my latest #bird trip to the west coast 🇸🇪 #watercolour 🦉 @drrjwarren.bsky.social @andykaitken.bsky.social @holnicotenh.bsky.social @stevecobbin.bsky.social

#ArtDD2026 Tree sparrow These once-common sparrows have suffered a 93% !! decline between 1970 & 2008. But there’s a bevvy of them in the hedge here, cheeping merrily. @saocousins.bsky.social @holnicotenh.bsky.social @stevecobbin.bsky.social @andykaitken.bsky.social @mayfieldbirder.bsky.social

Sea Trift #ArtDD2026 Filling an A5 with tiny doodles from my latest birding trip to the west coast of Sweden. I've got a stinking headache cold so no inspiration 😕 #watercolour #trift #grassland @drrjwarren.bsky.social @andykaitken.bsky.social @holnicotenh.bsky.social @stevecobbin.bsky.social

Finished new canvas.. late afternoon light on the Cary at High Ham. I love the wizened willows of the Levels Much of my art is still on display at @distilcoworkingsomerset in #sheptonmallet ... thanks for the opportunity! #painting #landscape #Somerset #Art @sheptonartists

Hönö towards Vinga #ArtDD2026 islands and navigation marks on the Westcoast of Sweden Glacial polished granit & basalt Cameo doodle filling an A5 sheet with memories #watercolour #ink @drrjwarren.bsky.social @andykaitken.bsky.social @holnicotenh.bsky.social @stevecobbin.bsky.social

Morups Tånge stile #lighthouse #ArtDD2026 A little doodle from the latest birding trip to the west coast of Sweden #watercolour #stile #cameo @drrjwarren.bsky.social @andykaitken.bsky.social @stevecobbin.bsky.social @holnicotenh.bsky.social

I did it! The new pot felt huge but once the Cactus was repotted it doesn't look so big 🤔. I hope it don't need to repot it in a many years. I've kept it dry because it's very heavy. It started as a golf ball sized cutie. Only a little blood spillt. Head for scale #cactus #repotting #barrelcacti

#ArtDD2026 Black winged stilt A bw stilt has been seen not far from me... besides, they are always in my mind.🪶🦉 From a lovely 📷 by @kalmantibs.bsky.social with thanks. @saocousins.bsky.social @holnicotenh.bsky.social @andykaitken.bsky.social @stevecobbin.bsky.social @mayfieldbirder.bsky.social

#Lighthouse, #stile, #birds #sun Best Whitestared Bluethroat, Little tern, little gull, and many more. Suddenly all the Wheatears have arrived

Tjolöholm Castle #ArtDD2026 Not pretty, but buildt as an homage to the Art craft movement in 1900s by a rich English couple Dickson on the west coast of Sweden. There's been a Castle there since 1200. Dodgy late doodle but at least I did it 💪 @drrjwarren.bsky.social @andykaitken.bsky.social

West coast of Sweden Different landscapes, different birds.. It rocks 🤪

Daughter (pink coat) has been working (and playing) hard to finish the contribution for the technology students carnival. She's the boss for one of 36 trucks getting people to do their but. Theme Epstein files. You get the gist I'm a very proud mum #Gothenburg #cortege #chalmers #studentlife

Paddy and Luna #ArtDD2026 Paddy was the perfect session dog for the Stockholm Irish music scene. Curling up on the floor and occasionally demanding a belly rub of anyone nearby. Luna is less patient #dogs #watercolour @drrjwarren.bsky.social @andykaitken.bsky.social @holnicotenh.bsky.social

#Stensjö Hamlet Practical #restoration of historical landscapes & showing people's history There is a lot of ingenuity to replace 180 peoples work in the past with five. Pigs, rewetting & burning are some tools. I'm studying #plant #diversity in permanent plots across 400 hectare culture reserve 🧪🌍

Wensleydale from Thornton Rust #ArtDD2026 Six small doodles filling an A5 sheet with memories from one of the Yorkshire Dales dale #watercolour #Wensleydale @drrjwarren.bsky.social @holnicotenh.bsky.social @stevecobbin.bsky.social @andykaitken.bsky.social

It's Friday!

Bye bye Paddy You have been a wonderful hopeless great friend for 13 years

Wensleydale Stile #ArtDD2026 I'm filling an A5 sheet with little memories from one dale in the Dales. One little space left #Wensleydale #YorkshireDales #watercolour #stile @drrjwarren.bsky.social @andykaitken.bsky.social @stevecobbin.bsky.social @holnicotenh.bsky.social

#ArtDD2026 Goldfinch It's never easy to paint birds with very bright feathers.😏 For @iand777.bsky.social who filmed this little bird. @saocousins.bsky.social @holnicotenh.bsky.social @mayfieldbirder.bsky.social @andykaitken.bsky.social @stevecobbin.bsky.social @indikon.eurosky.social 🪶🦉

Great show yesterday evening. Lots of lovely comments, great chats and SALES! Big shout out to the folks at DISTIL COWORKING for hosting my show.. very chill! ( as my kids would say). Going to be a while till this grin fades! #art #artshow @distilcoworking.bsky.social

Wensleydale: Grey Wagtail #ArtDD2026 Filling a A5 page of little memories (5x5 cm) from a dale in the Dales #YorkshireDales #watercolour #wagtail 🦉 #wensleydale @stevecobbin.bsky.social @drrjwarren.bsky.social @andykaitken.bsky.social @holnicotenh.bsky.social

Latest painting. A lovely hollow tree on a track nr. Beaminster, Dorset. It'll be up at the exhibition tomorrow @drrjwarren.bsky.social @saocousins.bsky.social @holnicotenh.bsky.social @andykaitken.bsky.social @indikon.eurosky.social @jayjewels70.bsky.social

Wensleydale: Fairy rings outside Castle Bolton #ArtDD2026 A A5 page dedicated to a dale in the Dales #watercolour #wensleydale #fungi @drrjwarren.bsky.social @andykaitken.bsky.social @holnicotenh.bsky.social @stevecobbin.bsky.social

It's "koo-ing" 1.5 m from my office. Cute you say but I can't shut my ears 😁 #urbanbiodiversity @stockholm-uni.bsky.social

#ArtDD2026 Common sandpiper Loved the back view of this delicate little wader. From a lovely 📷 by @fopl.bsky.social with thanks. @saocousins.bsky.social @holnicotenh.bsky.social @stevecobbin.bsky.social @andykaitken.bsky.social @mayfieldbirder.bsky.social @indikon.eurosky.social 🪶🦉

The time is 21.03. Robins are singing like the possessed, Eddie's aoooing from the sea and Woodcocks doing their knrk knrk above. Spring run #Stockholm #archipelago