Tara Okon

You are very kind ❤️

WOS Conference 2025: 'Hear it! See it! Record it!'
Great talks about the importance of monitoring & recording birds and flora & fauna sightings. Fab day👌🏼
@birdsinwales.bsky.social
@rivers-disguise.bsky.social
@penrhynbirder.bsky.social
@cofnod.org.uk @btocymru.bsky.social @rspbcymru.bsky.social

Fab day and once I had got my talk out of the way I could relax. Great to see you! :-)

Finally got round to reading this fantastic book 'Robin Prytherch: A Life with Buzzards' compiled and edited by Lyndon Roberts. I was lucky enough to meet Robin once at the 2019 BTO conference. A beautiful book celebrating buzzards and a lovely gentleman. #birds #books #art

...and we are all very grateful for the joy that @bropaulbrown.bsky.social brings ❤️

Circular bird painting - gouache (colour) and m pen. Inner to outer circle - pied flycatcher nest with 8 eggs, oak leaves, pied flycatchers, redstarts, wood warblers, oak leaves, water, storm petrels

Circular bird painting - gouache (colour) and m pen. Inner to outer circle - pied flycatcher nest with 8 eggs, oak leaves, pied flycatchers, redstarts, wood warblers, oak leaves, water, storm petrels

Circular bird painting - gouache (colour) and m pen. Inner to outer circle - pied flycatcher nest with 8 eggs, oak leaves, pied flycatchers, redstarts, wood warblers, oak leaves, water, storm petrels (detail from roughly quarter of painting)

A few more photos of @robthomasbirds.bsky.social leaving artwork. Inner to outer circle - pied flycatcher eggs, pied flycatchers, redstarts, wood warblers, storm petrels, interspersed with oak leaves #birdart #birds #nature

So pleased you like it. Now on to the next adventure...😀

Thank you so much to friends, family and colleagues at Cardiff University for the wonderfully happy send-off yesterday (and today), and for the beautiful artwork by Tara Okon @rivers-disguise.bsky.social of my favourite birds. Thank you for the friendship and support -see you along the road :)

Yes, all well here too, thank you :-)

Thank you! 💚

Aww...you are very kind, John. Hope all is well with you.

Artwork (colour) - dormouse nests and hidden dormice in repeated diamond (square on end) pattern. Gouache and drawing pen.

Artwork (colour) - dormouse nests and hidden dormice in repeated diamond (square on end) pattern. Gouache and drawing pen.

Artwork (colour) - dormouse nests and hidden dormice in repeated diamond (square on end) pattern. Gouache and drawing pen.

Artwork (colour) - dormouse nests and hidden dormice in repeated diamond (square on end) pattern. Gouache and drawing pen.

One from a while ago that I can now post. Not birds but dormice. Based on photos of different dormouse nests and individuals #dormice #art #nature

And thanks @rivers-disguise.bsky.social for another piece of wonderful sparrow artwork (can you spot the hybrid house x tree sparrow?)

My pleasure 🥰

Artwork - House sparrows with house sparrow x tree sparrow hybrid. Gouache and drawing pen.

House sparrows with house sparrow x tree sparrow hybrid @dingemanselab.bsky.social #birds #birdart

#FrescoFriday of a panther with a cornucopia. Housed at the Naples National Archaeological Museum (Inv. No. 8779)
📷Sergey Sosnovskiy/ ancientrome.ru

Thank you! :-)

Thank you! I'll probably go back to the moths at some point just trying to find the time :-)

Pink/purple and green looper moth caterpillar UK

Pink/purple and green looper moth caterpillar UK

Pink/purple and green looper moth caterpillar UK

Pink/purple and green looper moth caterpillar UK

Can anyone help with the ID of this looper moth caterpillar, please? Thank you :-) #moths #UKMoths #Invertebrates

Congratulations Dr. @cdegroot.bsky.social Hope you like the artwork :-)

What a brilliant animation! Particularly loved the pied flycatchers. Excellent work @willrose.bsky.social 👏 👏👏💚

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Black and white sketchbook pages. Left - a collage of hen harrier faces. Right - shrill carder bees in hexagon shapes pattern

Sketchbook page. Dragonflies and frogbit in hexagon pattern - black and white. Bottom of page - lesser horseshoe bats and lappet moth in hexagon shapes.

Sketchbook pages. Left - lesser horseshoe bats in hexagon shapes on black background, black and white. Right - dragonflies and frogbit in hexagon shapes- black and white.

Sketchbook pages. Left - lapwing heads in hexagon shapes, black and white. Right - lappet moth in hexagon shapes, black and white.

...and more behind thr scenes sketchbook pages #birdart #birds #bats #moths

Beautiful work :-)

Thank you! :-)

Sketchbook page - head of shore lark, wigeon, spoonbill - black drawing pen ' surrounded by paint patches, numbers and writing

Sketchbook page - heads of avocet bitterns flying (black drawing pen) surrounded by writing scrawls, numbers and paint patches

Sketchbook pages - aquatic warbler (colour), dipper, Pied flycatcher and swifts - black drawing pen. Colour paint patches, outline of snake.

Sketchbook page - rabbit, badger drawings surrounded by colour paint patches

Haven't posted for a while so here are a few more behind the scenes sketchbook pages #birdart #birds

Good morning/Bore da 💚

Modern Nature - Pharaoh (Official Video) YouTube video by bellaunioninc

We’re very pleased to announce that on August 29th, we will be releasing our new record 'The Heat Warps' on @bella_union The album’s opener and first song to see the light of day 'Pharaoh' represents the first steps for a new version of the band - UK/US dates and presave - modernnature.band

Bore da! :-)

Another family outing with @han-okon.bsky.social & @marthaokon.bsky.social to see
@waterboysmusic.bsky.social @mickpuck.bsky.social at New Theatre, Cardiff. Photos 2018, 2021, & 2025 #liveinthemomentbaby