Aaron Blaise’s online courses are fab- I discovered them during lockdown- and surprisingly cheap if you wait for the frequent sales.

I’ve never seen or heard of a swallow tailed kite before. We don’t have them in the UK. But they’re pretty fun to draw!

Most raptor skull are hinged under the eye socket. This means that eagles can open their mouths really wide!

Harpies have facial discs of feathers, which sleek down or fluff out to direct sound to their ears. It makes it easier to find prey. This harpy is all fluffed up, like an owl. She must be listening to something.

Harpy eagles are one of the biggest eagles in the world, they might not be the heaviest or have the biggest wings but they do have talons the size of grizzly bear’s claws which counts for a lot. White tailed sea eagles have bigger wings- I saw one on Mull about 25 years ago and… Continue reading Hiatus Page 9