the big sleepy

A British Birds Feathursday

These delightful birds are from the book Oak & Company by Richard Mabey and illustrated by Clare Roberts. We highlighted Roberts’s illustration of a Little Owl from this book this past Monday. Oak & Company tells the life story of a single Oak tree from it’s beginning as a tiny acorn to it’s demise 283 years later in a blizzard. The book shows the variety of life that lived in, on, and around the oak throughout it’s life.

These birds are not identified in the book but we think we figured most of them out. You can see what our guesses are by clicking on the image. The only species we couldn’t identify is the little warbler that appears throughout the book. Can anyone help us out and Name That Bird?

Mark Boyle and Joan Hills - Liverpool Dock Series

(Cyfrwng cymysg / Mixed media, 1976)

“Wrth daflu saeth ar fap, i ble’r aiff ffawd â chi? Ai dyma sylfaen dechreuad newydd?”

“Throwing an arrow into a map, where does fate take you? Is this the base of a new beginning?”