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Angharad @angnatur.bsky.social · 26/10/2025

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

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Tara Okon @rivers-disguise.bsky.social · 13/09/2025

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

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Tara Okon @rivers-disguise.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

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

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

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Rob Thomas @robthomasbirds.bsky.social · 31/07/2025

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 :)

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Tara Okon @rivers-disguise.bsky.social · 25/07/2025

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

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

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Niels Dingemanse @dingemanselab.bsky.social · 18/07/2025

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

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Hannah Okon @han-okon.bsky.social · 04/07/2025

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

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Tara Okon @rivers-disguise.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

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

Pink/purple and green looper moth caterpillar UK

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Tara Okon @rivers-disguise.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

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

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Tara Okon @rivers-disguise.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

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

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Tara Okon @rivers-disguise.bsky.social · 07/06/2025

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

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

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Modern Nature @modernnature.bsky.social · 28/05/2025

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

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Modern Nature - Pharaoh (Official Video)

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Tara Okon @rivers-disguise.bsky.social · 11/05/2025

This little fella made my day today. Wood warbler singing at Craig-yr-Hesg LNR/Lan Wood today. What a beaut! #birds

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Tara Okon @rivers-disguise.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

A few oldies of some of the brilliant birds seen this week - lapwing chicks, cuckoo, barn owl & a new bird for me, dotterel...currently musing over artwork to celebrate this beauty 🤔 #birds #birdart

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Tara Okon @rivers-disguise.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

They're back! Woohoo! Swifts today over Pontypridd #swifts ##boysofthesummer

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Tara Okon @rivers-disguise.bsky.social · 27/04/2025

Local patch Craig-yr-Hesg LNR #Pontypridd with bluebells looking resplendent in today's sunshine. Blackcap, willow warbler, chiffchaff singing. Blue tits on eggs & great tits with chicks. Magical 💚

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Tara Okon @rivers-disguise.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

A celebration of the birds at Newport Wetlands over the years for a dear friend #birds #birdart

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Hannah Okon @han-okon.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

Relief of a millstone from tomb 78 of the Isola Sacra Necropolis. A glimpse of work life in Rome and the importance of grain for the people. A servant with whip for horse/donkey/mule (?) preparing grain for bread, surrounded by tools. #ReliefWednesday 📷 Parco Archaeologico di Ostia Antica.

A tomb relief showing a millstone. A servant holds a whip for a horse like animal going around the millstone. Sieves, hoppers and bells present in background.

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Hannah Okon @han-okon.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

Something rather beautiful about these little botanical illustrations within a 15th century herbal. Taken at a recent trip to the Wellcome Library (item MS574) 🌿

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Tara Okon @rivers-disguise.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

More behind the scenes. Early hawfinch artwork. Style still needing honing #birds #birdsart

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Tara Okon @rivers-disguise.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

More behind the scenes. Playing with herons #birds #birdart A post for @everyheron.bsky.social :-)

Black and white pages of heron drawings in sketchbooks

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Tara Okon @rivers-disguise.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

An old artwork based on an article about the effects of pollutants in the River Taff on aquatic invertebrates and dippers. Zoom in for detail. #birds #birdart

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Rob Thomas @robthomasbirds.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

Thank you @violars.bsky.social for this very kind review of The Storm Petrels in BTO news.

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Tara Okon @rivers-disguise.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

1/2 More behind the scenes. How a waxwing artwork started and finished #birds #birdart

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YOLOBirder @yolobirder.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

Leaving this here just incase anyone who likes this rather niche sort of thing missed it!

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YOLOBirder @yolobirder.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

Huge thanks to @rivers-disguise.bsky.social for creating this incredible Hendrix inspired ‘album cover’ for this week’s bird!

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YOLOBirder @yolobirder.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

Bird of the week #5 03/03/25 Ring-necked Parakeet

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Tara Okon @rivers-disguise.bsky.social · 02/03/2025

'There, full as soon, bumbarrels make a nest Of mosses grey with cobwebs closely tied And warm and rich as feather-bed within, With little hole on its contrary side' (Bumbarrel's Nest: John Clare) Watched a pair of 'bumbarrels' (long-tailed tits) doing this today #birds #birdart #poetry

Bird artwork - Long-tailed tit drawing pen and gouache paint (colour).

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Rachel Deering @racheldeering.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

‘And nightly under the simple stars As I rode to sleep the owls were bearing the farm away, All the moon long I heard, blessed among stables, the nightjars Flying with the ricks, and the horses Flashing into the dark.’ ~ Fern Hill by Dylan Thomas for #BookWormSat 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🖼️ Caspar David Friedrich, c.1836.

Owl in flight across full moon revealed in clouded night sky, painting.

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Ian Denton @iand777.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

🧵 1/2 News Flash!!! - a female Wren has just arrived! - such is the excitement of the male that he drops his nesting material and goes the full Romeo... Unfortunately, the sun was so hot it had shifted the lens on the camera, leading to a poor quality clip - them's the breaks... All sorted now.

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Tara Okon @rivers-disguise.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

Starling artworks - One in a million & detail from it; Don't let the sun go down; and detail from another artwork. Inspired by murmurationd at @rspbcymru.bsky.social Newport Wetlands & @rspbengland.bsky.social Ham Wall #starlings #birds #birdart

Starling artwork 'One in a Million' - starlings flying from south-west to north-east across A2 size page. One starling flying north-east to south-west. Starlings black drawing pen with blue gouache paint background.

Detail from artwork 'One in a Million' artwork. One starling flying north-east to south-west all others flying south-eest to north-east. Starlings black drawing pen. Background blue gouache paint.

Starling artwork: 'Don't let the sun go down' Starlings flying out of reedbed south-west to north-east direction. Background orange-red gouache paint. Uskmouth Lighthouse (Newport Wetlands National Nature Reserve, South Wales) bottom right. Starlings, lighthouse and reedbed - black drawing pen.

Drawing pen detail of single starling rising from reedbed. Flying south-west to north-east. Black drawing pen. White background.

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YOLOBirder @yolobirder.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

Apologies there was no Bird of the Week (as if anyone noticed! 😂) this week, but it’ll be back on Monday with an awesome ‘album cover’ from @rivers-disguise.bsky.social !#purplehaze

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Tara Okon @rivers-disguise.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

More bird artwork- little owls, magpies, jay feathers, Pied flycatchers #birds #birdart

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Tara Okon @rivers-disguise.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

Even more birds... First one: 'Impostor Syndrome' - an all too familiar feeling (Knot/Oystercatcher); and a few nuthatch artworks (one with treecreepers) #birds #birdart