Wednesday 24 June 2015

30 Days Wild - Day 20 - 20 June 2015


30 Days Wild - Doing something wild everyday

Day 20 - Learning to sketch birds at Camp Avalon, the camp I have organised for young birders and children from the city who have never engaged with nature

The session was given by the amazing bird artist John Gale with help from his 16 year old son Tom.

It was great to watch teenagers who had never drawn a bird look at a photograph carefully, see the shapes and have a go and produce something brilliant.



Bird sketching workshop for young birders at Camp Avalon
Photograph taken by and copyright Young Birder Birdgirl Mya-Rose Craig



Bird sketching workshop for young birders at Camp Avalon
Photograph taken by and copyright Young Birder Birdgirl Mya-Rose Craig


Bird sketching workshop for young birders and Young Birder Birdgirl Mya-Rose Craig at Camp Avalon
Photograph taken by and copyright Helena Craig



Hoopoe and Spoonbill by Tom Gale age 16 at Sketching workshop, Camp Avalon
Photograph taken by and copyright Helena Craig

About the Writer




Young Birder Birdgirl Mya-Rose Craig on Scilly
Photograph taken by and copyright Chris Craig





Mya-Rose Craig is a 12 year old young birder, conservationist, writer and speaker. She is based near Bristol and writes the successful Birdgirl Blog, with posts about birding and conservation from around the world. She is looking forward to going Mountain Gorilla Trekking in East Africa in the summer and watching Penguins in Antarctica in December 2015, which will be her 7th continent. She has recently been listed with the singer songwriter George Ezra and actress Maisie Williams from Game of Thrones as one of Bristol's most influential young people. Please like her Birdgirl Facebook Page and follow her on Birdgirl Twitter





















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