Nathan Redland (he/they)

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💙🩷💜 Wildlife illustrator, failed actor, sometimes counts bats. Avatar: @blackmudpuppy.bsky.social

Two chicken like birds with grey black feathers covered in white spots cross a patch of bare earth amidst sparse grass. Each bird has a bright blue bare-skinned head with a red wattle at the base of the bill, and orange skin on the crown of the head below a bone-coloured casque which curls slightly backwards.
A tiny shortbilled wading bird with pale brown-grey plumage stands on a muddy shoreline. They have a black band running from their eye to the nape of the neck, and the underside is a paler shade than the upperparts. The water behind the bird is blue and rippling.
A metallic green blue bird with an indigo head, yellowish underside and bright ruby red eyes regards the photographer amidst some rocks under dappled tree cover.
A metallic green blue bird with a black head perches on the lip of a picnic table
An apparently headless, legless ostrich on a dusty plain
A massive, black feathered bird with a long bare neck, pink bill and fluffy white wings and tail brushes up a cloud of dust as he cleans his feathers on a bare patch of ground.
A large, dagger-billed bird comes in to land, its black wings still unfurled. Its breast is white, with a small ruff of feathers framingits nape, which is orange-red, while its head is unfeathered pink blotched with black. A sprawling grassland stretches out behind the bird, with a tan jeep in the background
Amidst green vegetation, two pieces of broken concrete plumbing have filled with rainwater. Two round black and white headed birds are bathing in the distant one, while a bigger brown bird admires their reflection in the closer piece.
A brown and grey bird with a long tail, black face mask scours a rough stone floor for treats, a second is just out of frame with its tail and wingtips showing
A large golden brown raptor (bird of prey, not dromaeosaur) perches on a rock looking directly at the photographer. The background consists of open plains with dense green grasses giving way to bare earth and acacia scrub nearer to the camera.
Two birds walk along a shoreline in front of a calm sea. The bird on the left is tall and white all over with a black bill and legs, the one on the right is nearly all black with a charcoal nape. Seaweed washed onto the sand foregrounds the image.
A very large bird with a long neck and legs and shaggy brown plumage stands with its empty beak open in front of a mixed group of gazelles and zebra. A male elephant looms in the distance alongside a wildebeest grazing. The far distance is a forested hillside below a blue sky with scattered clouds
Two iridescent purple/black long tailed birds with pale yellow eyes perch on a thorny acacia branch in scrubland under a blue sky. A thorny acacia tree stands behind them.
Two large tawny cats (they’re female lions) rest on a narrow mud track between a lake (with birds visible behind them) and a calm channel of water.
A long necked cerulean blue bird glares into the camera, with a backdrop of open woodland and scrub and exposed tree roots. He does not approve of the impudence of this inadequately skilled photographer
A group of long necked, long legged birds, pale pink or white in plumage, with deeper rose pink feathers on their wings, stand reflected in the ripples of a wide shallow lake. In the distance, the green forested rim of the volcanic crater they inhabit can be seen below a partially cloudy blue sky. Some of the birds stand taller than the others, though they reject the conceit that this makes them greater than the others.
A large bird of prey with a hooked beak, resting with wings closed on a very thorny green tree. The bird is white underneath with dark grey-brown wings and head, its beak is yellow tipped with black and it has a white patch on its cheek. It is apparently tolerating what looks to be a less than comfortable seat.
A flumph from Dungeons and Dragons, a jellyfish like creature with a happy little face and eyestalks. It is a warm orange with translucent reddish tentacles tipped in blue. The background is purplish and swirly
A parody image of an ident for the 2010s TV series Mad Men which depicted a besuited man in silhouette smoking a cigarette above a skyline with MAD MEN printed in red and white. The parody depicts two men, one with a pile of Rio soft drink cans behind him, and the text has been changed to MAG MEN in reference to the Men’s careers in publishing.
a red fox’s paw holds a scrap of paper titled “Tod Do” with a to-do list comprising “eat Peter Rabbit”, “eat Jemima Puddleduck”, “eat Tom Kitten”, “kill Tommy Brock” and “laundry”. Only “laundry” has been checked off as complete.
A long legged bird stands on the paved section of a public park. It is white underneath with brown wings and tail. Its head is black with a greenish yellow eye and beak and a brighter yellow fleshy mask covers its forehead and droops down either side of its bill like a meat moustache. Sorry for using the phrase ‘meat moustache’.
A fibreglass sculpture of a dinosaur-like animal, it is green with blankly staring eyes, chunky little legs and is “hovering” slightly above the grass, supported by metal poles.
Screen grab of the linked news story reading “the remains of the statue had to be covered with a bin bag to prevent it from upsetting children.”
Screenshot of a line from a Spotify playlist where the track “Grond - Hammer of the Underworld” from the soundtrack to the movie Lord of the Rings: Return of the King is playing.
Eurasian hoopoe, a nice warm brown and grey bird with boldly barred black and white wings closed, looking away from the camera
Two grey seals recline on a rugged rock in a calm sea. One seal is facing the camera, the second is facing left and lying on its side with its rear flippers held aloft from the rock.
A blue crane, but it’s actually a nice cool grey. The bird has a long neck with long decorative feathers on its breast and cheeks with a pale crown to its head. It has big dark eyes and a long pinkish bill.
4*Town from Pixar’s Turning Red
A wooden jetty goes out into the sea next to a concrete boat ramp. Standing on the ramp facing the sea is a big white bird with a long pink bill and black wingtips. A second bird, also facing out to sea, swims on the surface of the water.
An ink and coloured-pencil drawing of a peregrine falcon in a resting perch. The falcon is a predatory bird with blue-black upperparts and a pale underside marked with black splotches. It has bold yellow feet and a short, hooked yellow bill with yellow skin around its eyes.
A small chestnut & ash-coloured goose with a pink bill and feet stands on a short-cropped grass lawn with an ornate wall separating it from a blue lake with a willow growing over it. Next to the goose are two goslings, who are fuzzy little guys with blotches of cream and coffee brown
A largeish lizard with handsome stripes of black and pale yellow along its tail, and a black stripe following its jawline behind its eye. It is posing with head slightly to the left and body positioned towards the camera.
A drawing of a featherless European robin, that is instead covered in scales like a lizard’s, perches on a holly branch. The horrible little creature has bright orange scales on its face, throat and breast, greyish scales on its underside and brown scales on its back and ‘wing’, which also sports long claws on the remaining digits.
A seagull with silver and dark grey wings has pinned another to the ground and the pair are fighting next to a parked car on a concrete drive. The gull underneath is kicking their pink legs in the air desperately.
A brownish-grey lizard with a yellowish white streak running from the back of its neck to the base of its tail and subtle cream stripes on its tail which darkens towards the top. The lizard is basking on a large sandstone-coloured boulder resting on two others, with grass and ferns surrounding it.
Three hardback children’s encyclopaedias on a bookshop shelf. The one on the left reads ENCYCLOPEDIA OF LIFE in green text with the eyes of a cheetah or spotted big cat in a letterbox window. The central one reads ENCYCLOPEDIA OF KNOWLEDGE in blue text with a diagram of a prism splitting visible light into a spectrum in the letterbox window. The third book, on the right, reads ENCYCLOPEDIA OF SHARKS in orange text along the spine and has a shoal of hammerhead sharks in a deep teal ocean visible in the letterbox frame. All three books are the same size and thickness.
Fineliner pen sketch of multiple birds posed facing the camera. The artists’ renderings vary in quality as his hand was probably quite tired from inexplicably rendering individual feathers that wouldn’t be visible at the implied distance.
An Egyptian vulture sits in its housing at Edinburgh Zoo. It is white with black wingtips, which are barely visible as its wings are closed. It is quite hunched up, and the white feathers over its yellow face are scruffed up into punky spikes. It maintains this anti-establishment attitude by having shat vociferously over the front of its housing.
The double wattled cassowary is now looking down and to the side. In addition to the blue skin on its head you can also see the bright red patch on the back of its neck.
A double-wattled cassowary (a large flightless bird) stands facing the camera. It has shaggy black plumage, a naked blue-skinned head adorned with a bony casque and a red wattle hanging from its neck. Behind the bird is dense foliage with smaller ferns and palms growing around it.
An Australian white ibis is perched on the lip of a trash can with a metal lid designed to prevent animals from getting into it. The bird is using its long bill to reach safely into the bin through the hole used to put garbage inside, and has put its whole head and part of its neck into the hole to reach the delicious trash inside.
An Australian white ibis, or ‘binchicken’ perched atop one of three wheelie bins/garbage cans made of black plastic with red plastic hinged lids. Each bin is stuffed to overflowing with black plastic trash bags. The ibis is a largeish bird with long black legs, a white body and a long neck. Its head is also black and it has a narrow, gently curved beak about the same length as its neck or legs.
A pair of male Masai ostrich standing in a field in bright sunlight. Behind them are fir trees and saplings protected (scarcely) with fencing. The ostriches have black feathers covering their bodies, with white plumes on their wings and tails that are stained with clay or dust from bathing. Their heads and necks are the kind of bright pink normally observed on the scalps and bellies of white British men during summertime or at any time if spotted in the Mediterranean.
A closeup image of a male ocellated turkey, he has bronze and green iridescent feathers with a blue and red naked head adorned with golden yellow tubercles. His eyes are big and dark and disapproving.
An Australian superb fairywren, a tiny bird with sky blue and black bands on its head with dark wings, a pale underside and a long flicky tail. It is facing away from the photographer, who is clearly not up to the task of capturing its image. The bird is standing on a field of dry yellow grass.
A two-spot ladybird (a small beetle with a shiny orange red wing-case adorned with a circular black spot on each wing cover, with black and white towards the front of its body). The ladybeetle is climbing on a bright yellow-green leaf (I don’t know trees) which bears several bite marks presumably from caterpillars or other insect herbivores.
Cover to the vintage children’s book “The Glerp” by David McPhail. The Glerp is a dark grey blob-like creature with two tiny black eyes and a large mouth at the base. It is saying “GLERP!” from a speech bubble. The backdrop is pale green, with stripes of olive green, sky blue and terracotta brown under the Glerp, with a warm brown bar at the bottom with “written and illustrated by David M. McPhail”
A Bluesky skeet by Dr David Shiffman, shark biologist, that reads “Today is Shark Awareness Day! Are you aware of sharks?”
Mack, a tan-coloured lurcher dog sits up from his nap, he is still curled into a ball with his long tail around his body but his head and neck are lifted up and looking at the camera with an inquisitive expression
Oil/gouache painting of a red ruffed lemur, an animal that looks like a monkey/cat hybrid with fluffy ginger-coloured ears and piercing green eyes. The background is lush bright greens.
A portrait sketch of the Australian shingleback skink lizard. The lizard has a rough scaly skin in shades of brown to camouflage it against the ground. This one is performing its defensive stance where it opens its mouth wide and displays its inky blue tongue to startle and ward off predators.
Mack, a tan lurcher, doing a skilful impression of a pretzel while curled up on the sofa.
A tan lurcher, slumped on the sofa wrapped in a grey blanket with a decidedly haunted look in his eyes.