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Tellin

Richard Bell’s Wild West Yorkshire nature diary,  Tuesday,  7th July 2009

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I PICKED UP this fingernail-sized tellin shell on the saltmarsh at Grange-over-Sands when I was drawing there a couple of weeks ago, a detail that I’m adding to my page of location drawings.

Tellins are a favourite food of the waders that flock to Morecambe Bay.

This saggy bag (right) turned out even saggier in my drawing so I turned to a subject with more definite  form; my left hand.

I’m continuing to find this new brown ink, Noodler’s El Lawrence, useful for my pen and watercolour drawings.