Graeme Boyd

#pigeonsky

Is a soupçon too much?

Added flour and rolled, warming the griddle now.

Double cream and butter, mashed, creamed.

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I'm about to make a batch of potato scones. Potatoes are in the pan, boiling, now.

Charcoal drawing depicting a Spanish pouter pigeon.

Buchon Jiennense, Spanish pouter pigeon, charcoal, Graeme Boyd. #pigeonsky

Have you looked for said cow? They can be elusive so be thorough.

Cat on a warm nylon rug, oil pastels, Graeme Boyd.

Message written on a paving slab reads: "Feed the Pigeons ##8.25##"

Message written on the ground at a railway station somewhere in Germany #pigeonsky

Probably indicating that Tort also carries a recessive aspect of the foot feathering.

Ash red chequer with grizzle. I'm looking for signs of blue, which would indicate a young male, but I'm not seeing any. That could change of course as the "flecks" do become more apparent with age. Leaning towards young hen though.

Dragoon, recessive yellow, soft pastels, Graeme Boyd.

Soft pastel drawing depicting the head profile of a domestic pigeon variety, the Dragoon.

Soft pastel drawing depicting a blue cheq Dragoon pigeon.

Graphite drawing of a blue bar Dragoon pigeon.

Dragoon, silver, head profile, soft pastels. Dragoon, blue cheq, soft pastels. Dragoon, blue bar graphite on paper, Graeme Boyd. #pigeonsky

All of those little short beaked tumblers have really expressive faces. They often have cheeky personalities too.

Pastel drawing depicting two Stettiner tumblers, domestic pigeon variety.

Stettiner tumbler pigeons, blue bar and blue grizzle, soft pastels, Graeme Boyd #pigeonsky

Thank you 🙂

This photo was taken in 2009 at Sandringham show. This is an African Barn Owl, I thought it looked similar, presumably another subspecies?

I'm saying that but any of those pairs could have produced that combination. If it turns out to be male then that excludes Pie and Ginger.

More likely Pie and Ginger which would make it a hen.

It has kept me occupied for most of my life now, I love to create new and different colour and pattern combinations.

Probably also pied and feather footed. At least one of them is likely to be chequered pattern but a spread parent could have given rise to the cheq pattern.

At least one of this bird's parents must have been ash red and at least one of it's parents must have been spread.

This is the juvenile expression of kite bronze on blue cheq. It also has pied factor, and some of the undergrizzle expression associated with that. This will basically be dark cheq pied when it moults.

Ash red females will always have ash red sons. So if an ash red female is paired to a blue, blue cheq, or black male, their sons will be ash red and their daughters will be blue, cheq, or black. If an ash red male is paired with an ash red female, then any blue offspring are female.

Likely a male as I can see slight blue flecking on the secondaries.

Yeah, that's just what it is, ash red combined with spread. Still juvenile plumage so it will change with the moult.

Festival of St Swithin, William Holman Hunt, Pre-Raphaelite artist. #pigeonsky

Pigeons at the George Inn, Huntingdon. #pigeonsky