A couple of pages from my sketchbook of 2007. At the end of October a birding friend arrived at my door breathless to say he had just found a Dusky Warbler, a very rare bird from Asia, just down the road from my house. This was a bird I had never seen before and in my hurry to see it, just grabbed the sketchbook and a black pen. I have to say I liked the results, with a pen you just have to go for it and not worry too much about the results. After watching the Dusky for several hours, walked back to my house along a narrow lane, when my eye was caught by a small warbler flitting around. It turned out to be another rarity, though not with quite the same status , a Pallas's Warbler from Siberia.
Dusky Warbler.
Dusky Warbler.