Julian R. Hough

Trying to find space in the maelstrom of life to continue to practice some painting. One of my favourite thrushes in the US, Varied Thrushes, are dazzling denizens of forests of the Pacific Northwest and remind me of some of the Asian zoothera thrushes more than the subdued-looking catharus thrushes. This vagrant first-winter female Varied Thrush skulked in Prospect Park, Brooklyn a few winters ago.

America's most famous eagle!

Steller's Sea-Eagle, Dighton, Massachusetts, December 19th, 2021. 9" x 12" watercolor and colored pencil.
FOR SALE
(Prints may be available. DM me).

One of the largest and most stunning eagles in the world, they reside in coastal areas of northeast Asia with only a handful of records in North America.

A wandering individual, first seen in Alaska in 2020, has been making headlines in the birding world. In the past year it has wandered to Texas (?), New Brunswick, Quebec, and Nova Scotia before it was discovered on the Taunton River in Massachusetts to the delight of hundreds of birders:
https://naturescapeimages.wordpress.com/2021/12/23/a-steller-day/

Finally got around to working on a painting of the Black and White Warbler that's been sitting on the board for a while.
"Spring in Black and White", 9" x 12" mixed media on Arches hot press paper.

From the winter Collection. Ivory Gull in snow.
8" x 10" on Arches Hot Press watercolor paper.

For sale

Chasing rare birds in the UK occupied most of my teenage waking hours. Rare waifs from the Arctic were highly prized. A British Ivory Gull had remained "blocked" for our generation of twitchers. On 2nd February 1986, at the tender age of 18, the gods delivered one to Saltburn-on-Sea, near Redcar. After navigating a scary white-out blizzard crossing the Pennine hills between Lancashire and Yorkshire, myself, Guy Shorrock and Simon Smethurst arrived before sunrise. I tried to catch some shut-eye, but suddenly, there on the beach, in the car headlights that penetrated into a raging North Sea storm, sat the unmistakable ermine-shape of an Ivory Gull. Good times. (Lawrence Middleton photo).