This award was recently presented to Nick Derry at a Society of Wildlife Artists' exhibition. The award winning work was of a couple of Jack Snipe in their reedbed habitat.
Some years ago there was a group of very keen Aberystwyth student birders and Nick was one of them. Many of his drawings were included in the Ceredigion Bird Reports from 2001 to 2005.
Only the other day I came across a photo taken on a boat trip one June, out in the bay from Aberystwyth with those students and including Harry, Meurig and me. With a bag or two of chum drifting over the side we attracted Storm Petrels. Happy days.