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African Sacred Ibis, Rondevlei Nature Reserve
signed watercolour
30 x 25 cm
£500
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
Bolinas Creek, California
signed watercolour
26 x 36 cm
£600 Framed
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 and Lesser Yellowlegs 1984
signed watercolour
27 x 37 cm
£650 Framed
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
Jay in tree
Kentish Plover sketches
unsigned pen and wash drawing
17 x 24 cm
£250 buy from SOC online art shop
Lake Davis, Oregon 1994
signed watercolour
29 x 37 cm
£850 Framed
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
Night Heron and Black-winged Stilts
unsigned watercolour
23 x 33 cm
£600
Nightjar
unsigned pen and wash drawing 13 x 17cm £130 buy now
illustration from Birds of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan p.105
Northern Carmine Bee-eaters
Nutcracker, Bulgaria
watercolour
11 x 14 cm
£100 buy now
illustration from Lines from Nature p.45
Peacock in the Jungle 1998
signed pastel
33 x 25cm
£450
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 Rock, Quirang, Skye 2011
signed oil on canvas
50 x 39 cm
£please enquire
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
Rufus-chested Dotterel
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 Study I 1990
signed watercolour
12 x 36 cm
£550
Schiermonnikoog Study II 1992
signed watercolour
27 x 36 cm
£450
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 fronted Bee-eaters
White-headed Ducks
signed watercolour
18 x 18 cm
£180 buy now
White-tufted Grebes, Falklands
signed watercolour 1992
21 x 35 cm
£500
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