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Aldabra Flightless Rail and chick
watercolour unsigned
12 x 15 cm (in mount 20 x 25)
£100 buy now
illustration from Lines from Nature p.25

Aldabra White-eye sketches
pencil and watercolour
15 x 20 cm
signed Feb '74 under mount
£150 buy now

Aquatic Warblers and Bluethroat
unsigned watercolour
27 x 12 cm
£130 buy now

Balearic Warblers
unsigned pen and wash drawing
11 x 18 cm
£130 buy now

Balmacara, Drambuie - crofting landscape with swallows
unsigned pen and wash drawing
25 x 26 cm (in mount 40 cm sq)
£300 buy now
original illustration from Scotland's Nature in Trust p.102

Black Woodpecker
signed drawing
13 x 13 cm
£120 buy now
original illustration from Arlequin Press' Birdwatching Guides

Black Woodpeckers
watercolour unsigned
26 x 17 cm
£300 buy now
illustration from Lines from Nature p.36

Blackcap Studies 1993
signed watercolour
36 x 29 cm
£500 buy now

Buff-breasted Sandpiper with Starling and Lapwing
signed drawing 1996
18 x 22 cm
£250 buy now

Citril Finches
signed pen and wash drawing
16 x 11 cm
£130 buy now
original illustration from Arlequin Press' Birdwatching Guides

Collared Pratincole
initialled drawing
8 x 10 cm
£75 buy now

Common Rosefinch
unsigned watercolour
12 x 12 cm
£100 buy now

Dunlin with...
unsigned pen drawing with colour
17 x 14 cm
£130 buy now
original illustration from Looking at Birds p.3
Dunlin in size comparison with a Greater Black-backed Gull, a Little Stint, and a starling

Coot in green water
unsigned watercolour
9 x 10 cm (in mount 20cm sq)
£75 buy now

Corsican Nuthatch
signed pen and wash drawing
12 x 12 cm
£130 buy now
original illustration from Arlequin Press' Birdwatching Guides

Crow
13 x 11 cm
Pen and wash, in mount 25 x 20cm
£100 buy now
original illustration from the RSPB Anthology of Wildlife Poetry p.50

Curlews on the shore
signed watercolour
28 x 26 cm
£450 available from Birdscapes Gallery

Dartford Warblers below Les Beaux, Provence
initialled watercolour
26 x 19 cm
£350 buy now
original cover for A Birdwatching Guide to France South of the Loire Arlequin Press

Hiding strategies - diver
unsigned watercolour
8 x 11 cm paired with 'Grebe diving'
£90 for both buy now
original illustration from Looking at Birds p.35

Dotterel pair
unsigned pen and wash drawing
11 x 14 cm
illustration from Birds of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan p.83
£100 buy now

Eastern Spain 1 moorland
initialled watercolour
26 x 19 cm
£350 buy now
suggested cover for A Birdwatching Guide to Eastern Spain Arlequin Press

Extremadura 2 with Azure-winged Magpies
initialled watercolour
26 x 19 cm
£350 buy now
suggested cover for A Birdwatching Guide to Extremadura Arlequin Press

Fan-tailed Warbler 2
unsigned drawing
10 x 10 cm
£75 buy now

Fan-tailled Warbler 1
unsigned pen and wash drawing
10 x 10 cm
£100 buy now
original illustration from Looking at Birds p.31
(we also have a very similar drawing)

Garganeys
signed pen and wash drawing
14 x 16 cm
£120 buy now
original illustration from Arlequin Press' Birdwatching Guides

Golden Oriole 2
unsigned watercolour
15 x 14 cm in mount 30x30cm
£150 buy now

Great Bustards
unsigned watercolour
23 x 29 cm
£300 buy now
very similar to the cover of A Birdwatching Guide to Eastern Spain Arlequin Press

Great Crested Grebe and young
signed watercolour 2001
24 x 24 cm
£350 buy now
original illustration in Lines from Nature p. 170

Great Crested Grebe pair
unsigned watercolour
20 x 21 cm
£150 buy now
original illustration in Lines from Nature p. 169

Great Northern Divers pair
unsigned drawing
12 x 15 cm
£100 buy now

Great Spotted Woodpecker, February
signed watercolour 1989
20 x 19 cm
£350
original illustration for Birds in your Garden
February's Chapter page

Great-crested Grebes 2
unsigned pen and wash drawing
14 x 16 cm
£150 buy now

Greater Flamingos
signed pen and wash drawing
12 x 17 cm
£130 buy now
original illustration from Arlequin Press' Birdwatching Guides

Hiding strategies - Grebe
unsigned watercolour
8 x 11 cm paired with 'Diver flattening'
£90 for both buy now
original illustration from Looking at Birds p.19

Greenfinch
unsigned watercolour
13 x19 cm in mount 25x30cm
£130 buy now
original illustration from The Herald 1990's

Grey Wagtails, Bolton Abbey
signed watercolour 1981
32 x 30 cm
£500 buy now

Ground Thrush, Christmas Island
unsigned watercolour
10 x 10 cm in mount 20cm sq
£100 buy now
original illustration from On the Rocks by Bryan Nelson p.118

Harlequin Ducks
14 x 20 cm
Watercolour in mount 25 x 30 cm
£130 buy now

Hen Harrier harried, Orkney 2012
unsigned watercolour
19 x 23 cm
£250 buy now
original illustration from Lines from Nature p.115

Heron and Lapwing 2010
signed watercolour
25 x 32 cm
£450 buy now

Heron by blue estuary river, Aberlady
signed watercolour 2011
24 x 35 cm
£300 buy now
illustration from Lines from Nature p.60

Heron, Oystercatcher and Crows 1990
signed watercolour
30 x 22 cm Framed
£450 available from Birdscapes Gallery

Hoopoe and Azure-winged Magpie 1994
signed watercolour
28 x 35 cm
£500 buy now

Hoopoe and goat
11 x 13 cm
Watercolour in mount 20 x 25cm
£100 buy now

Horned (Slavonian) and Western Grebes
signed watercolour
10 x 20 cm (in A4 mount)
£130 buy now
original illustration in Lines from Nature p. 168

In a winter field, New Forest
signed watercolour
23 x 28 cm
£450 buy now
'fieldfares, Hawfinches, Blackbirds and Meadow Pipit in a winter field, New Forest February 2000'

Jackdaws
initialled drawing
16 x 16 cm
£150
original illustration from The Herald Birdwatch series, published 16 March 1995
includes photocopy of article by Hugh Ouston

Kentish Plover sketches
unsigned pen and wash drawing
17 x 24 cm
£250 buy from SOC online art shop

Lapwing song flight
unsigned watercolour
21 x 14 cm
£130 buy now
very similar to illustration in Looking at Birds p.50

Lapwing, Starlings and Knot
signed watercolour, 2001
17 x 18 cm
£180 buy now

Lesser Short-toed Lark
unsigned pen and wash drawing
11 x 10 cm
illustration from Birds of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan p.115
£75 buy now

Little Grebe Reflection I 1987
signed watercolour
25 x 30 cm
£500 buy now

Magnificent Frigate Birds, Giant Tortoise and moorhens I 1999
signed watercolour
30 x 40 cm
£500 buy now
Galapagos Islands
"Here on El Chato lake, Magnificent Frigate birds bathe by splash diving. The giant tortoise is swimming, reaching down with its long neck for weeds, and surrounded by a flotilla of attendant moorhens hoping for disturbed food" - Land Marks and Sea Wings p.141

Mallard
unsigned watercolour
12 x 16 cm
£130 available from Birdscapes Gallery

Mallard and Coscorba Swan
unsigned watercolour
15 x 21 cm in mount 25 x 30 cm
£130 buy now

Mallards resting
charcoal and pastel, signed
39 x 29 cm
£500 buy now
illustration from Lines from Nature p.17

Moorhen Studies
unsigned drawing with some colour
28 x 20 cm
£250 buy now
original from Lines from Nature p.20

Mute Swan and Black-headed Gull
unsigned watercolour
18 x 18 cm
£150 available from Birdscapes Gallery
originally published in The Herald in the 1990's see blog

Mute Swan swimming under water
unsigned watercolour
11 x 23 cm
£130 buy now
original illustration from Looking at Birds p.69

Mute Swan with Black-headed Gulls 2003
signed watercolour
25 x 35 cm
£500 available from Birdscapes Gallery

Nightjar
unsigned pen and wash drawing 13 x 17cm £130 buy now
illustration from Birds of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan p.105

Nutcracker, Bulgaria
watercolour
11 x 14 cm
£100 buy now
illustration from Lines from Nature p.45

Studies of Penduline Tits, Poland
signed watercolour 1992
30 x 24 cm
£350 buy now
illustration from Lines from Nature p.38

Peregrine and Red Grouse
unsigned pen and wash drawing
24 x 17 cm in mount 40x30cm
£250 buy now
original illustration from Lines from Nature p.111

dispute between Pied Crows and Kite, Aldabra
drawing 11.5 x 25 cm
£100
"Two pied crows eventually drove off the black kite: egret spectators drawn to the scene" JB

Dispute between Pied Crows and Kite (watercolour)
watercolour 13 x 25cm
illustration from On the Rocks by Bryan Nelson p.189
£130

Pied Wagtail 'trotty wagtail'
9 x 13 cm
Pen and wash in mount 20 x 25 cm
£75 buy now
original illustration from the RSPB Anthology of Wildlife Poetry p.90

PIn-tailled Sandgrouse
unsigned pen and wash drawing
11 x 16 cm
illustration from Birds of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan p.97
£130 buy now

Raven riding a swaying branch
unsigned pen drawing with colour
11 x 11.5 cm
£100 buy now
original illustration from Looking at Birds p.57

Raven flying upside down
unsigned pen and wash drawing
8 x 11 cm
£75 buy now
original illustration from Looking at Birds p.53

Red-crested Pochards
signed pen and wash drawing
14 x 14 cm
£120 buy now
original illustration from Arlequin Press' Birdwatching Guides

Red-rumped Swallow
unsigned pen and wash drawing
11 x 11cm
£75 buy now

Redwing on berries, November
signed watercolour 1988
21 x 17 cm
£400
original illustration for Birds in your Garden
November's Chapter

Rival drakes
unsigned drawing with colour
11 x 15 cm
£100 buy now
original illustration from Looking at Birds p.63

Rock Nuthatch, Bulgaria
Watercolour
13 x 14 cm
£130 buy now
illustration from Lines from Nature p.45

Lithoprint, Sacred Ibis and Crab Plovers
limited edition signed lithograph hand coloured by the artist
26 x 38 cm

Sardinian Warbler
signed pen and wash drawing
13 x 12 cm
£130 buy now
original illustration from Arlequin Press' Birdwatching Guides

Schiermonnikoog Studies IV
signed watercolour 1992
22 x 36
£600 Framed available from Birdscapes Gallery

Schiermonnikoog, Netherlands
signed drawing, 1990
21 x 35 cm
£300 buy now

Scottish Wildlife print
Originally created for a calendar, this print of Scottish Wildlife is countersigned by John Busby
Overall size 37 x 41cm unmounted
£50 buy now

Serin
unsigned pen and wash drawing
12 x 14 cm
illustration from Birds of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan p.155
£130 buy now

Short-toed Tree-creeper
signed drawing
13 x 10 cm
£130 buy now
original illustration from Arlequin Press' Birdwatching Guides

Shovelers
unsigned watercolour
20 x20 cm in mount 30x30cm
£150 buy now

Shoveler Ducks 2
initialled watercolour
12 x 20 cm
£130 buy now

Slavonian Grebes, Loch Ruthven
unsigned drawing
20 x 25 cm
£250 buy now
dated 24 April 1993, Loch Ruthven, Scotland

Slavonian and Black-necked Grebes
unsigned watercolour
12 x 22 cm
£130 buy now
original illustration in Lines from Nature p. 173

Slavonian Grebe
signed watercolour
31 x 26 cm (in mount 47 x 40cm)
£500
original illustration in Lines from Nature p. 172

Smew, female
unsigned watercolour
14 x 16 cm
£130 buy now

Snipe drumming dive
unsigned pen and wash drawing
12 x 12 cm
£75 buy now
original illustration from Looking at Birds p.51

Stone Curlew
unsigned pen and wash drawing
12 x 10 cm
illustration from Birds of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan p.80
£100 buy now

Two Stonechats
unsigned watercolour
8 x 17 cm
£100 buy now

Stonechat and Twite studies
signed watercolour, 2004
26 x 24 cm
£400 available from Birdscapes Gallery

Studies of Smew 1992
signed watercolour
25 x 35 cm
£400 buy now

Young Stonechat on a Cornish Beach
watercolour, framed
37 x 54 cm
£790 available from Birdscapes Gallery
original illustration from Land Marks & Sea Wings p9
'A wonderful memory for me of a summer holiday. We had a little inflatable boat (a promotion from the Fina petrol company) just like the one lower centre, and I suspect that is my mother and little sister nearby. Of course a similar picture nowadays would have everyone in wetsuits. We were hardier then!' John's daughter

Sunset estuary with heron
unsigned watercolour
16 x 22
E130 buy now
original illustration from Looking at Birds p.79

Takahē sketches 1991
signed watercolour
25 x 35 cm
£500 buy now
from a trip to New Zealand

Three Grebe species
unsigned watercolour
24 x 17 cm in mount 40x30cm
£300 buy now
Black-necked, Slavonian and Red-necked Grebes

wagtail
unsigned pen and wash drawing
12 x 20 cm
£100 buy now

Wall Creepers and Crag Martin, Bulgaria
charcoal, watercolour and pastel, dated June 2005
29 x 22 cm
£300 buy now
illustration from Lines from Nature p.44

water pipit
unsigned pen and wash drawing
11 x 11 cm
£75 buy now

Waxwings
unsigned drawing
14 x 14 cm (in mount 30cm sq)
£120 buy now

White-crested and Silvery Grebe, Falklands
signed watercolour
24 x 28 cm
£500 buy now
original from Lines from Nature p.174

White Crested Grebes, Falklands
signed watercolour 1992
16 x 19 cm
£200 buy now
original illustration in Lines from Nature p. 175

White-headed Ducks
signed watercolour
18 x 18 cm
£180 buy now

White's Thrush
signed watercolour 1998
41 x 30 cm (in mount 50x40 cm)
£450 at The Donald Watson Gallery, Scottish Ornithologists' Club, Aberlady contact
with record and verification details on back
illustration from Lines from Nature p.28

willow warblers wing waving display
signed pen and wash drawing
12 x 21 cm
£200
original illustration from Birds in your Garden p.41

Wood pigeon light and shade
unsigned watercolour
20 x 14 cm
£130 buy now
the lower picture is an illustration from Looking at Birds p.15