Long-tailed tit

Here's the next page in my 'natural world' journal, a long-tailed tit in graphite.

Usually long-tailed tits are busy little birds travelling in small flocks; I'd noticed this one early in the day, sitting near the bird feeders, on its own and all hunched up, looking rather ill. I wasn't surprised, then, when I went out a few hours later and found it dead, poor little thing. An opportunity nonetheless for a drawing, and a chance to get a good look at one of these charming little birds close up...