Looking after animals is always rewarding but also I find very hard emotionally...it is not possible for me to remain emotionally detached, whilst they are by no means attached to me I am to them. There have been so many successes this summer but many tragedies too, it is the way of things that often by the time a wild animal gets rescued they are very vulnerable and fragile or very poorly...

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As I begin the tales of hillside farm ebook for August it is interesting to look back to one year ago the boys are mini versions of their adult selves... they seem to have been reasonably well behaved too 😍 bless them https://ift.tt/2OAUfYX all free

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My August tales from hillside farm which will incorporate the Bird of the month. I have been doing the bird of the month for a whole year and it has been great, but added to stories about Desmond and Walter it's a bit too much work 😂 added to my teaching and other activities. So they will now be combined. You can still get this one and the Gull bird of the month all completely by subscribing to studio insights also completely free no catches just a monthly newsletter and ebook, they all come to you as a pdf download via the link in my profile https://ift.tt/2OAUfYX #sheepstories #onthefarm #ebook #freeebook #free #illustratedbook #illustration #birdofthemonth #herringgull

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Later today I will start my August tales from hillside farm which will incorporate the Bird of the month. I have been doing the bird of the month for a whole year and it has been great, but added to stories about Desmond and Walter it's a bit too much work 😂 added to my teaching and other activities. So they will now be combined. You can still get this one and the Gull bird of the month all completely by subscribing to studio insights also completely free no catches just a monthly newsletter and ebook, they all come to you as a pdf download via the link in my profile https://ift.tt/2OAUfYX #sheepstories #onthefarm #ebook #freeebook #free #illustratedbook #illustration #birdofthemonth #herringgull

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July has been spent caring for wildlife I am currently caring for 29 birds which have come to me from @westcornwallwildlife all will be released to fulfil their wild lives as soon as they can but in the meantime if you can help our network of volunteers to rescue, feed, treat and care for the animals that come to us all it would be much appreciated. I feel blessed to have been able to help raising funds through my painting sales offering time, space and care , many others are doing the same...there is a link to their website in my profile or via my fundraising page 🖤🖤🖤https://ift.tt/3fmqGXv 🖤🖤🖤

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🖤And to honour my viditing little clatter of Jackdaws here is a small canvas with a busy world background 🖤 on my website in the fundraising bit 🖤

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A clattering of Jackdaws plus 1 magpie all juveniles... the release time for corvids is not until autumn so they will be with me for a little while yet...keeping them entertained is a challenge as they are very intelligent. So I try to change something every day to keep them on their toes, they lovely each others company though and chatter away all day 🖤🖤🖤 @westcornwallwildlife #wildliferescue #helpwildlife #westcornwalwildliferescue #westcornwallwildliferescueandrehabvolunteers #wildliferescue #wildliferehab #cornwallwildlife #helpwildlife #helpbritishwildlife #jackdaw

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#Repost @suzysharpeart • • • • • • Also for @openstudioscornwhere is another canvas this lovely chap stands on a glass box...and is called Gnarled Wisdom. Crows are too intelligent to be kept in cages, no matter how large that cage is, I think... so I look forward also to the day that the other carrion crow (jackdaws and magpies) spending time with me can also be released I love to paint Crows all those rainbow shades of black to play with 😍 50 x 70 cm on Canvas. .. #wildliferescue #helpwildlife #crowart #crow #openstudio #openstudios #openstudioscornwall #studiostories

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Here is one of my larger crow (more specifically Rook) canvases...with its busy world backdrop #crowart #crowsofinstagram #lovecrows

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I definitely need to have a crow day in honour of my release for @westcornwallwildlife yesterday. I have never been interested in keeping birds in cages but find them fascinating to observe so this has been a great experience, knowing that whilst they are caged for their own care ultimately they will live a free life on their own terms. However observing corvids has to be done covertly as they hate to be looked at so I have done plenty of hiding behind sheets and doors so that I could properly check their behaviour and health 🦅🖤😂😍🖤🦅 This is my crow ebook with lots more crow information on my website

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❤❤❤🎉Happy 80th Mum 🎉❤❤❤

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This is the group I am volunteering and raising funds for #Repost @westcornwallwildlife • • • • • • WE NEED YOUR HELP: Fundraising - Vet fund Please can you tag a friend who maybe able to help, Vet gofundme donations have nearly been used up now! We have had so many trips to vets and whilst many Vets will treat wildlife for free we do still have to pay costs. We are all volunteers and do not receive any memberships or funding except from your donations. Virtually everyday we receive a message about injured wildlife and they always need to see a vet before we can even begin to nurse and rehabilitate them, we always recommend that people take the casualty to the nearest vet and offer us for nursing and rehabilitation. Just today our amazing Volunteer Wildlife Vet Felicity spent hours checking over gulls, corvids and house martins, sadly had to undertake a postmortem and will be performing a minor operation under general anaesthetic tpday she is on hand to advise us at anytime and could not be more generous with her time...but we still have to pay for medication. We have had Badger Cubs release blood and Tb testing costs which is expensive; as well as all the other veterinary procedures, medications etc to cover, we feel so lucky to have this service to help our wildlife casualties and we really want to be able to continue this service which is so essential to our work. It is our future aim to have a dedicated wildlife hospital but that will take a while so in the meantime if you can help in anyway by donating to the fund or sharing our posts please do. if everyone in Cornwall gave just £1 that hospital would be more than a pipe dream. https://ift.tt/2YWXJtN

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Do you have my Gull bird of the month ebook? It was such a hard one to write these iconic birds sadly polarise communities...anyway it was all very interesting to research and I am learning more about them and their relationship with humans every day...the one I have been caring for have started their route to release now. I have made many interesting discovery about them purely from observation. I hope you enjoyed it if you have it if not its 20 pages in a pdf via my website link in my profile of use this link all free https://ift.tt/2OAUfYX #ebook #anthrozoology #herringgull #redlistedbird #endangeredwildlife

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Back to landscape and Crows... the crows staying with me are bringing more Corvids to find out what is going on. with 30% to @westcornwallwildlife Linking my profile to the page or you can use this address https://ift.tt/3fmqGXv

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Here is the first of the paintings from my Gull Bird of the Month Ebook... they are so adorable at this size I had to paint them, they are now very much bigger almost flying resident Herring Gulls. I am offering for it and many others for sale with 30% to @westcornwallwildlife. Link in my profile to the page or you can use this address https://ift.tt/3fmqGXv

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My beautiful Sausage throughout everything she is always just there, close by, always amazing...I think we have many connections, deep SOUL connections in our lives she is one of mine...❤🖤🤍❤🖤🤍

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Still having a bit of a Corvid appreciation moment... mixed media on paper, Crow, on my website with at least 30% to @westcornwallwildlife volunteers, but probably all of it 😊 as this is what I enjoy doing, painting and caring for wildlife, raising money for and to support wildlife. I am one of many volunteers in this group and between us we have many corvids in our care... it's such a pleasure to see these birds develop as the grow, so bright and quick to learn they knock spots off any dog, bit maybe I shouldn't say this!

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Here is one of the paintings of one of my now much bigger temporarily resident Herring Gulls which I offering for sale with 30% to @westcornwallwildlife. Linking my profile to the page or you can use this address https://ift.tt/3fmqGXv

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⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ Another Rook linocut on paper... with a bright sun to celebrate our days achievements! ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ #everydaymagic #linocut.#printmaking #blockprinting #monoprint #utbanbird #contemporaryart #birdart #birdartist #wildbird #contemporaryprintmaking #get_imprinted #ukprintmakers .#magpieart #printmaker #oneofforiginal

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In honour of the young took I am caring for at the moment... I have always found them fascinating, the one in my care was painfully thin and has a lot of white in the feathers denoting a potential deficiency, but it is eating so we are hopeful... Lino cut with mono print on paper

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More Razorbill's with a bit of social distancing 😍 I have just popped this one onto my website all these small paintings will help raise funds for @westcornwallwildlife please look them up and follow the link in my profile to my fundraising page to see what else i have listed... https://ift.tt/3fmqGXv . . . . westcornwalwildliferescue #westcornwallwildliferescueandrehabvolunteers #wildliferescue #wildliferehab #cornwallwildlife #helpwildlife #helpbritishwildlife

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Look at this gorgeous creature brought to me wet cold and skin and bone...but now feeding and seen the vet, quite strange behaviour so monitoring closely... time will tell.

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I have a Rook come to stay, for a bit of R & R so thought I would bring them back into 3 little paintings like this one approximately 21 x 15 cm all on my website with 30% to @westcornwallwildlife and the rest probably to bird food ! 😂 I have the vet calling in to see this one today so will up date later on how he is getting along. https://ift.tt/2YhsZER https://ift.tt/3fmqGXv #crowcollage #crowpainting #westcornwalwildliferescue #wildliferescue #wildliferehab #cornwallwildlife #helpwildlife #helpbritishwildlife

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Another beautiful sea bird, i adore these beautiful creatures... Razor Bill's abundant on Skokholm Island and we have a few here too my delight 😍 I have just popped this one onto my website (finally) all these small paintings will help raise funds for @westcornwallwildlife please look them up and follow the link in my profile to my fundraising page to see what else i have listed... https://ift.tt/3fmqGXv . . . . westcornwalwildliferescue #westcornwallwildliferescueandrehabvolunteers #wildliferescue #wildliferehab #cornwallwildlife #helpwildlife #helpbritishwildlife #razorbillpainting #razorbill

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Re-igniting my seabird obsession... guiliemots on Skoholm island

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Well I didnt get around to adding any more work to my website but I will... this will be one of them... i think Ravens are spectacular i say good morning to a pair that pass over most mornings...always a good omen for the day. #ravenpainting #raven

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Wow what a day, the good the bad and the ugly! Nice chat with Desmond this evening... puts everything into perspective ❤ #lovemysheep #countryliving

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At the beach I always have to check the Cormorants, there is a small breeding colony just up the coast... I find them fascinating and have painted them.often

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Feeling very proud because this little one fly off the cage on to my head! Woohoo...stronger everyday! Sorry about the bit of food still working on table manners!

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I have to tell you this wonderful story from my July bird of the month ebook Its about St Kenneth In Wales it is believed that Cenydd (Kenneth) was a Breton Prince and son of King Dihoc, born of incest Glamorgan while his father was with King Arthur. Cenydd was crippled and placed in a willow cradle and cast into the estuary of the River Loughor, he eventually landed on Worm’s Head, Wales. Gulls carried him to their breeding colony and built him a feather bed, he grew up in the gull colony and local people gave him the name St. Kenneth. He went on to become a hermit, In 545, Saint David cured Cenydd but he preferred to remain as he was born and prayed for his infirmity to be restored. Read more stories by downloading the full Gull ebook for free link in profile or https://ift.tt/2OAUfYX

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😂😂😂 well sowing them inside and transplanting was always a risk... I should give them names!

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This was such a fun day with @artdesigncornwall & @sianbluntart #Repost @schoolofoutdoorart • • • • • • The lovely @suzysharpeart having a sensory play with a Pod Studio © If you haven't seen Suzy's beautiful bird and animal paintings and drawings go and check them out. The course inspired Suzy to revisit her past interest in natural pigments and making her own willow charcoal. Her latest landscapes are beautiful and her bird rescue work is an inspiration. Thank goodness for Suzy's out there guardians of our natural world.

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Flight to the Carn... maybe these are crows maybe gulls... I really enjoy making these little paintings....i now have a little Jay in my studio until he can go out into a soft release aviary...hmmm I think I can work round him though 😊 This one is on my website still raising funds for the West Cornwall Wildlife Volunteers, we have raise £200 so far which has paid for some mesh for an aviary (not mine) and the rest is going towards a portable Incubator which is needed regularly. If you want to know more about them there is a link on this page https://ift.tt/3fmqGXv and in my profile .

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The view from the Greater Black Back Gull side of the soft release aviary, we seem to be attracting a lot of adult Gull attention lately...but there are a lot of fields around being cut for hay and silage and a bit if ploughing so plenty for them to be here for as well as the orphaned and injured! 🤕🏥⛑🚑

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Another Herring Gull, slightly older this time... they all have such big personalities...this is another painting I made for July bird of the month, I found quite a few folk stories/ myths about Gulls . If you want to read it it's free... Link in my profile or https://ift.tt/2OAUfYX

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She looks like she has pollen on her nose 😍 its turmeric for her aches and pains bless her, she has it with her feed each day... so do I, does anyone else use tumeric?

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Aren't they just the cutest little creatures....Herring Hull chick a few days old...

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It's a bit damp and grey here in Cornwall today... this is one of my little landscapes with crows happily sold to help me raise funds for West Cornwall Wildlife Volunteers, more about them link in my profile

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Did you guess... I wanted to do House Martins but being so close to swallows there wasnt enough to say... so they will feature in my next newsletter. This was such a hard one to write these iconic birds sadly polarise communities...anyeay it was all very interesting to research and I am learning more about them and their relationship with humans every day... I hope you enjoyed it if you have it if not its 20 pages in a pdf via my website link in my profile of use this link all free https://ift.tt/2OAUfYX #ebook #anthrozoology #herringgull #redlistedbird #endangeredwildlife

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As you know I am a bit delayed so you have about 3 more hours to get this edition of Tale from Hillside Farm plus the Swan bird of the month. It will be out to my subscribers at around noon. If you would like it its Free and come to you as a pdf download via the link in my profile https://ift.tt/2OAUfYX #birdofthemonth #swanpeotry #sheepstories #onthefarm #ebook #freeebook #free #illustratedbook #illustration #ebook

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Well...its been rather busy here so I am late with my bird of the month 😬 again!!!! So if you would like my June Swan bird of the month ebook you have until around midday tomorrow, when July will be finally on it's way to my mailing list...can you guess which bird I chose for July??? These ebooks are Free and include stories, poems and information over 16 + pages and comes to you as a pdf alongside Tales from Hillsude Farm which you can also download free, there is a link in my profile https://ift.tt/2OAUfYX

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As my studio is currently full of wonderful wildlife, here is one I made earlier...the first birds i saw this morning where a family of 5 blue tits on my fat ball feeder . #openstudioscornwall #virtualopenstudios #studiocompanion #artfromthestudio #openstudio #artistsupportpledge @openstudio https://ift.tt/3fmqGXv

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And this little poppet... another House Martin...its a countdown to release day for the other 3 in my care, Monday morning is looking very very likely...it will give them 3 days of dry weather without high winds 🤞 Link in my profile to West Cornwall Wildlife volunteers... https://ift.tt/2YhsZER #westcornwallwildliferescueandrehabvoluneers #wildliferescue #helpingwildlife

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And another Gull with a sore leg... Link in my profile to West Cornwall Wildlife volunteers... https://ift.tt/2YhsZER #westcornwallwildliferescueandrehabvoluneers #wildliferescue #helpingwildlife

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Just be sure it's about time Desmond was featured in my feed again ❤🐑❤

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If you would like my June Swan bird of the month ebook. It will be out until Monday when July will be finished and on it's way to my mailing list...which bird will I choose for July??? If you have it I hope you enjoyed reading it, if you didnt its Free and includes stories, poems and information over 16 pages and comes to you as a pdf alongside Tales from Hillsude Farm which you can download, there is a link in my profile https://ift.tt/2OAUfYX.

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It's not the best carrot in the world but it is a carrot! 😂

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One of my little birds on a cup, it has always been one of my greatest pleasures to watch our garden birds, but I am conscious always that their existence is a fine balance, that is part of what I was considering when making these paintings 😊

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Here is a poster from the west cornwall wildlife group that I am volunteering and raising funds for... please share if you can there is a link in my profile to their website with more information. ❤🦡🦊🐇🐦🦢🦉🐤🦔❤ #westcornwallwildlife

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Not many of these little paintings left on my website now... this one is called Red River Valley. I said I would continue the fundraising until the end of June but I think there is such an important need to help the wildlife in cornwall and establish and equip the network of volunteers at West cornwall wildlife rescue and rehab volunteers that i will keep going...know the money raised from my work is doing good in the world is my favourite thing... so why not keep going?

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