'This painting appears in my book Desert Adventure. For more about that book click HERE.
I had a small hide set up in the dense forest just next to a small stream that ran just below where I was camped at Drotsky's Camp at Shakawe in Northern Botswana. I spent weeks sitting in this hide trying to get material that I could use for paintings. In that time two francolin became quite tame and I would throw crushed biscuits out the back of the hide and watch them hunt under every fallen leaf and find every last crumb. I grew very fond of these two francolin. However what I did not know there was an observer in the huge tree above my hide. One morning a dark shadow swooped down and scattered my tame francolin friends which I never saw again. I exited the hide and had a good look at every branch in the tree above me and was rewarded with my first Pel's Fishing Owl sighting! I considered that a fair exchange.'

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