birds – KDD & Co

in the winter garden

By: Kate Davies Designs December 23, 2025December 23, 2025

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birds in the dogwood tree

Doctor Robin

By: Kate Davies Designs October 17, 2025

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well met by the shores of Loch Maree

peak tulip?

my favourite variety, and some garden birds

migration

By: Kate Davies Designs September 13, 2022September 13, 2022

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a farewell, until next spring

on not being sure

A squeaky toy? A rusty gate? How do we begin to learn about birdsong?

birds and feathers

By: Kate Davies Designs February 28, 2021March 21, 2021

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Tom creates images with an avian theme

Sterntaucher

By: Kate Davies Designs November 20, 2020November 20, 2020

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Designing hand-knit garments (and clear instructions for others to follow) can involve a lot of compromising, a lot of accepting that, for a multitude of reasons the finished thing won’t turn out quite as you initially envisaged. But sometimes you design something that looks and feels exactly as you expected. This design started with a…

found feathers

By: Kate Davies Designs July 9, 2020July 9, 2020

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I’ve been thinking about how I might incorporate local found materials into the pieces I’m making for my Crafting Futures collaboration with Pilar. So, for the past couple of months, I have been picking up the feathers I come across on my daily walks. I’ve not done anything special when gathering these feathers – I’ve…

magpies

By: Kate Davies Designs July 1, 2020July 1, 2020

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It has taken a while for me to make my peace with magpies. For a long time, as a child, youth, and young adult, they were a creature I profoundly disliked. The reason for this was pretty simple: a magpie killed my tortoise, my only childhood pet, named Werner. So I came to regard magpies…

cuckoo watch

By: Kate Davies Designs May 10, 2020May 10, 2020

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Though our landscape is full of the sound of cuckoos at this time of year, I’ve always found it quite difficult to actually see them. Their song carries a remarkably long way, and when I’ve followed the source of the sound and spotted one, it always seems to be sat up high on a far…