Ravens have become more and more regular around the #LDV in recent years, but it was notable to record two at Wheldrake and two at Melbourne/Thornton Ings over weekend - thanks to @niqvassie.bsky.social for the fantastic artwork ✏️

been caring for some little silkworms for a friend - they're all cocooned up now.

My online shop is open until April 28th if anyone wanted to order a copy of my little artbook about the Lower Derwent Valley NNR @ldvnnr.bsky.social 🌱 Option to have an original pencil drawing on the front page 🌸🌼🌱 niqvassieshop.bigcartel.com

Laila after lunch.

drawing outside in 森町 in december.

A caterpillar i rescued from the floor a station twice within 20 minutes. Glad they didn't get trampled!

Study of Laila in the sun.

Thanks to #LDV volunteer and artist @niqvassie.bsky.social for the fabulous sketch below - one of many to be featured in the soon to be published 'Birds of the Lower Derwent Valley' 📖 @yorkbirding.bsky.social

beastie

Titan

Longhorn cow from @ldvnnr.bsky.social 🌱

Taking on a handful of pet commissions to work on next week for anyone interested! Details at my online shop: niqvassieshop.bigcartel.com 🌱

Collared pratincole in June on Wheldrake Ings, Yorkshire. Painted for the upcoming book 'Birds of the Lower Derwent Valley'. I grew up next to this nature reserve and do miss the smell of meadowsweet underfoot and skies full of noisy swifts. ☀️

a yorkshire hare 🌱

The Red Bike

a conker fairy 🌱

palm tree, supposedly very rare

Male fig wasps generally look entirely different to the females with most having no wings, vestigial/no eyes and tiny antennae. They cannot survive long outside the fig - their only role being to mate and then chew an exit for the winged females. 🌱

Drawings of female fig wasps done for my masters thesis. The intricate interdependence between fig trees and fig wasps is so so amazing! ✨

A Sandworm of Dune - based on real beautiful marine polychaetes ☀️

Conkers painted from life in gouache (seeds of European horse-chestnut 𝘈𝘦𝘴𝘤𝘶𝘭𝘶𝘴 𝘩𝘪𝘱𝘱𝘰𝘤𝘢𝘴𝘵𝘢𝘯𝘶𝘮) 🌱 The name is a bit misleading as this tree is poisonous and not related to typical edible chestnuts. Horse-chestnuts are actually in the same family as trees such as maples, lychees and ackee.

fireflies and oarfish ✨

laila in the straw. 🌾

Alien fish concepts

By The Lake

a little hare 🌾

nightjar studies

a creature of the deep 🐠🐠🐠🐠

We report: our throat sometimes catches at nightfall. The emotion is tough to identify, neither sadness, relief, or joy - something muddled that comes from a hidden corner of our mind, that stirs when the light dims. In autumn, it visits us a little bit earlier every day.

microscope life drawings.

looking forward, looking back.

orphaned badger cub I met shortly after they were acquired by a local wildlife rehabilitator 🌱

hellooo, giving bluesky a try - here are some old little worlds of mine 🌧