Scotland holiday

My first good drawings (to my eyes) in ages. Stuck on the Levellers, sat in my bedroom for a few hours today and yesterday and came up with these. They were copied from photos I took while in Scotland for half term...

Ringed Plovers, Newhaven Tide Mills, (not from scotland but I had the pics to hand so did my best!)
Personally I prefer the left-hand one.



Common Gull, Longniddry




Oystercatchers, Longniddry, a collection from all the different photos I took of these.




Waxwings, Loch of Kinnordy RSPB. My favs out of all of these!

 The four above were all done yesterday, while I did the ones below today.



Black-headed Gull, Loch Leven. More of a warm up before I sketched some of the more impressive birds today




Whooper Swans, Loch Leven. These are my second favourites after the Waxwings!




Goldeneyes, Loch Leven. You may have noticed one is circled yellow.
I hideously cocked that up, then carried on drawing it anyway, and I
thought it came out as a very, very weird, but somehow interesting drawing.
The female is turning her head away in disdain!




Female Shoveler, Loch of Kinnordy RSPB. In a way she was nicer than the
dazzling males, her subtle orangey-brown hues go well with the season. The bottom picture shows her
preening.




Cormorant, Threpmuir Reservoir. A bird i had previously overlooked
for sketching potential, but they are fun to draw and a nice challenge to
make look real.




Mute Swans, Musselburgh Lagoons. By now I was fairly knackered and realised
I wasn't doing quite so well any more!




And, finally, I did a quick, '15-minute flash' of one of the Longniddry Oystercatchers.
The same bird as the bottom right of pic. no 3, copied from that little sketch.