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Sea lanes and Firth of Forth

Favourite birds and bird-watching places from around the Forth; Aberlady, Dunbar, The Bass Rock and, of course, St Abbs Head.  For more seabirds see the Seabird Gallery

click on the pictures for details

Bass Rock
unsigned drawing 20 x 14 cm £130 buy now original from Lines from Nature p.53
Bass Rock Shags, July 2000
signed watercolour sketch 40 x 25 cm £450 buy now
Buff-breasted Sandpiper with Starling and Lapwing
signed drawing 1996 18 x 22 cm £250
Cormorant and Shags, Craigleith 1999
signed watercolour 25 x 38 cm £500 buy now
Cormorants, Craigleith 1989
Framed, signed watercolour 27 x 31 cm £550 available from Birdscapes Gallery
Craigleith. Kittiwakes and Bass Rock 1999
signed watercolour sketch 38 x 27cm £350 buy now slight marks on paper
Tantallon Castle Doocot
unsigned watercolour 10 x 11 cm £75 buy now On the clifftop above North Berwick, Tantallon Castle has a dramatic view of the Bass Rock.
Estuary Birds 1998
signed watercolour 15 x 33 cm £300 buy now
Fidra, July 2000
unsigned watercolour sketch 40 x 28 cm £400 buy now
Fighting Kittiwakes, Bass Rock
signed oil on canvas 60 x 45 cm framed £2950
Gannet sketches Bass Rock by John Busby
Gannet greeting behaviour sketches
Drawing, unsigned, Bass Rock July 2009 23 x 30 cm £250 buy now
Gulls nesting, Fidra
unsigned watercolour 31 x 22 cm £350 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
Kittiwakes, St Abbs Head 2, 2004
signed oil on canvas 51 x 41 cm £please enquire
Kittiwakes and rocky bay, St Abbs
signed watercolour 2010 27 x 39 cm £650 framed origina from Land Marks and Sea Wings p 65
Kittiwakes Dunbar 2002
signed watercolour sketch 28 x 20 cm £300
Kittiwakes Dunbar 2003
signed watercolour 20 x 23 cm in mount 40cm sq £400 buy now
Kittiwake Studies, Dunbar 2009
signed watercolour sketches 28 x 38 cm £500 buy now original illustration from Lines from Nature p.51 (in part: the three kittiwakes stretching are in the book)
Kittiwake sketches, Dunbar
signed pencil drawings and watercolour 23 x 30cm £250 buy now
Kittiwakes off St Abbs Head
signed oil on canvas 1986 46 x 40 cm framed £please enquire
Kittiwakes St Abbs Head 1, 2003
signed oil on canvas 51 x 61cm £2250
Little pool figure, Tyninghame 1999
signed watercolour 36 x 24 cm £550 Framed
Low Tide, Gosford Bay, East Lothian
unsigned watercolour sketch 28 x 18 cm £250 buy now illustration from Lines from Nature p.58
Nesting Gannets, Bass Rock
watercolour 27 x 19 cm £350 buy now illustration from Lines from Nature p.57
Periwinkle Tracks II
signed oil on canvas 54 x 65 cm £please enquire
Pool and lichen, Tyninghame 1999
signed watercolour 40 x 26 £650 Framed Please contact us here
Puffins on Fidra
unsigned drawing dated 2008 20 x 22 cm £300 buy now
Seabird Cliffs 2008
signed drawing with chalk 54 x 64 cm £1450 Framed
Shags and Guillemots Bass Rock 2002
signed watercolour 38cm x 28cm £500 buy now
Shags and Razorbills sketch, Craigleith
unsigned sketchbook page drawing dated 12th July 29 x 20cm £250
Shags on the Bass 2009
signed drawing dated 6th July 2009 24 x 31 cm £250 buy now
St Abb's Head and boats
signed watercolour 2008 29 x 29 cm £650 framed
The Cleaver, St Abbs 2008
signed watercolour 30 x 30 cm £400
Young Shag, Craigleith 1995
unsigned pencil drawing 25 x 35 cm Framed £400

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