I’ve mainly been painting birds and woodland over the winter, I love both. Mainly I head to the coast to watch the birds and these paintings are from the Lune Estuary near where I live, and the barnacle geese from the Solway Firth in Galloway. The entire Svalbard population of barnacle geese overwinters on the Solway Firth and it is really worth a visit to see them.
The Scottish word for curlew is whaup. I was in my twenties before I knew that they were the same bird 🙂 Morecambe Bay is a wonderful place to see them and other wading birds.
![Whaups, Morecambe Bay. Oil on canvas, 61 x 46 cm](https://jmr.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/Whaups-Morecambe-Bay-JM-Robinson.jpg)
![Barnacle Geese, Solway Firth. Oil on canvas, 30 x 40 cm.](https://jmr.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/Barnacle-Geese-JM-Robinson.jpg)
![Little Egret, Lune Estuary. Oil on canvas, 50 x 50 cm](https://jmr.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/Little-Egret-Lune-Estuary-JM-Robinson.jpg)