Fraser's Birding Blog: Wildfowl drawings

Tuesday, December 15, 2009

Wildfowl drawings

Two more pencil drawings: Tufted Duck and Eurasian Wigeon.

5 comments:

Warren Baker said...: Nice bit of art Fraser. Thats about the closest I come to both those species on my patch!; 4:44 pm
Dale Forbes said...: another great post!; 6:04 pm
Fraser Simpson said...: Thanks Warren and Dale.; 6:20 pm
Neil said...: Marvellous drawings; 11:15 pm
Fraser Simpson said...: Thanks Neil.; 10:48 am

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35. Greenshank
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