Robert Vaughan

🇵🇸 Look at this solidarity! Even more great civil society organisations have endorsed our National Demonstration for Palestine tomorrow. See you at the Garden of Remembrance at 12.30pm, all out for Palestine! #FreePalestine #GazaGenocide 🇵🇸

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A lifer today for some of the county’s most enthusiastic and experienced birders - this county-first Swainson’s Thrush should have been heading from Canada to South America, not Málainn Mhóir (Malin More), Gleann Cholm Cille (Glencolumbkille). Photo @delboydonegal.bsky.social

They are beautiful Steph, capturing a stunning bird perfectly.

Announcing the Steve Wing Memorial Bursary - BirdWatch Ireland Steve Wing (1957 – 2024) Today we remember our dear colleague and friend, Steve Wing, long-serving Wildlife Officer at BirdWatch Ireland’s Cape Clear Bird Observatory, who passed away on 19th...

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A couple of White-tailed Eagle sketches from earlier in the summer. This tagged female is from a nest in Mountshannon in 2014 and has been settled in Donegal for a few years now.

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Thank you Steph, they are a funny bird, elegance and awkwardness teetering on the long legs! I do have a few failed attempts at feeding poses, happy that one sketch worked out.

Thanks Ed.

I was in Dublin for a few days earlier in the week, and the timing was perfect for a juvenile Stilt Sandpiper that was found at Broadlough. A beautiful species and my first time to see a juvenile in Ireland, having seen 3 adults previously.

I was delighted to receive this beautiful 2026 calendar from @hollygroganart.bsky.social , it is stunning! Thank you very much Holly and keep up the great work!

We had a little time for birding, the Ring-billed was still about, we had it just opposite the gallery. 3 Caspian and several Baltic also. Lots of White-tailed and a few Golden Eagles on Gotland. It was a great trip, perfect mix of art and birding. Great blog post.

No, it ends in mid-October.

I don't know, they were out of my price range anyway! A few lithographs sold while I was there, but I didn't see prices for originals.

I am just back from a wonderful few days in Sweden where I visited the incredible Lars Jonsson exhibition in Stockholm, and then his museum on Gotland. Absolutely mind blowing, the selection and range of work was just unbelievable!

Beautiful! Can't wait to get a copy!

Beautiful sketches of a stunning bird Steph, sadly just before my time twitching!

I had a really enjoyable afternoon teaching Watercolour techniques at the Colgan Hall in Cardonagh yesterday. A huge thank you to Sinead Smyth for organising the weekend of events, and for inviting me along. It was lovely to meet so many enthusiastic artists trying something new.

I am really exited to be presenting a Watercolour Workshop this Saturday, August 2nd from 2-4pm, at the Colgan Hall in Cardonagh. I hope it will be a fun and educational event for all.
There are still some tickets available, and you can find them here:
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The Birds of County Donegal - Cork University Press The Birds of County Donegal is the first complete record of the history and status of all 376 birds known to have occurred in County Donegal. In this compreh...

Finally took possession of this magnificent book, and what an achievement it is by the estimable Ralph Sheppard. Essential and fascinating for #donegalbirding
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And I'll do again!

I was absolutely delighted to receive this beautiful Chough from the very talented Holly Grogan, @hollygroganart.bsky.social It was lovely to swap illustrations and I definitely feel I got a great deal! You can see more of her stunning work at @hollygroganart on Instagram.

Delighted to get this beautiful blackcap illustration from the incredibly talented @robertvaughani.bsky.social as part of an art swap. Rob also included an extra blackcap painting, a sketchbook, acrylic paper, and a bunch of lovely cards, which was such a generous surprise! Thanks again Rob!

Plans were abandoned on Saturday afternoon when I heard about an Orca in Donegal Bay. A couple of Humpbacks, countless Minke and 1000s of Dolphins stretched across the bay. All topped off by regular sightings of the Orca distantly in the bay throughout the evening.

Back to normal service Steph! There was very little moving, nothing up here is used to this heat!

Another really enjoyable day out on Tory Island today. As always, I wasn't as productive as I hoped, but it was just lovely to sit in the sun and sketch for the afternoon.

Thanks very much Ed.

Thank you very much Steph.

Thanks Ed.

It was a real pleasure to be invited along to speak about my work as an artist to Glenveagh National Park yesterday. It was part of Natures Classroom: Science and Art in the National Park, a wonderful course for teachers to encourage more Biodiversity education in schools. #glenveaghofficial

Golden eagles were reintroduced to Ireland, but without prey they’re now struggling to thrive Rewilding isn’t just about reintroducing predators. Without prey and habitat restoration, even wild-looking landscapes can’t support them.

Sobering, well written article, the one word missing inexplicably is "sheep", overgrazing in most of our uplands is largely down to unsustainablly high densities of sheep. Deer undoubtedly are a huge issue too, esp Killarney, Wicklow and Glenveagh
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