HERON HAWKING IN DAYS OF YORE
After posting my own developing sketch of heron hawking, I found an old lithograph of the same, so here are the twain, side by side.

HAWKING AT HERONS
This is my newest pencil sketch, in a yet slightly unfinished state, as more loose feathers are still being drawn. It is a sort of study for a Saker on a Houbara, so stay posted for developments.

HAWKING FOR HARES WITH KESTRELS?
This 19th century engraving by Fromentin seems to depict kestrels on hare or rabbit.
Not sure this is a very accurate concept, sometimes artists did not quite know the sport of falconry.

MONGOLIAN FALCONERS
This image appeared in the Illustrated London News on 18 May 1901, as part of an article about English falconer Gordon
Robinson. It appears in the de Chamerlet book Falconry and Art, in a black and white
version. I am not quite sure if the London News printed this in colour, so the provenance of this print is still undetermined.

A BIRD IN HAND
An old pencil drawing I did of Emma Ford with a Peregrine. She and her husband Steve run the British School of Falconry, which is now up in Scotland, after years of being in Stelling Minnis, Kent.

BEE-EATER BY KEULEMANS

This is one that is neither my work nor a falconry image. However,
it is a rare lithographic print by Keulemans. Dr. Richard Soffer saw it
at my house in and told me it was done ex-libris as a promotional offer to
patrons. I got a hold of them at Weldon & Wesley when they were moving a
few years ago. Little did I know then how rare they were. One site nicely
in my flat with a gold frame around it.

SITTING ON A FENCE

This is a drawing of a Harris' Hawk (Parabuteo unicinctus)I did in 1991. Working a lot this week in pencil, and I like to go back over the old work and revive my memory of certain techniques, so I pulled out a lot of items I had not seen for a while, including a number of sketches of the birds here in the Natural History Museum. They have a nice Harpy Eagle, and had, but took down, the Philippine (Monkey Eating) Eagle, so I am glad I sketched it when it was around. One Harpy Eagle is already up, it is the largest work I have at hand, about A1 size and in oil.

SANDGROUSE EVADE THEIR PREDATOR

Here is a simple painting I did some years ago and used to illustrate Sirdar Mohamed Osman's Musings of an Afghan Falconer. It is a Laggar Falcon hunting Chestnut-bellied Sandgrouse. The falcon usually sneaks up on them at the wadi, when thousands congregate for a drink, and takes the weakest link.

WAITING ON A BRANCH

This accipiter is just killing time. A Goshawk at rest, but still alert, with its ruby red eye on the sky.