INTRO
Hi, everyone. I'm Ethan and I'm a trans man from Spain. This blog is a diary of my stay as a volunteer at the RV natural reserve.
I am a traditional and digital artist, though in latest years I only really do digital art. I also study dogs for fun and my dream job is to keep and breed hunting nihonken, specially Shibas, my heart breed. Right now I own two Spanish Water Dogs.
Aside from drawings, dogs and birds I love indie music, the color yellow, video games, dinosaurs, the sea and some other stuff. I collect feathers and I used to do a bit of vulture culture (this is how I started getting interested in birds).
BIRDS
I started formation as a bird ringer in September of 2023 after being interested in it for a small while and getting introduced to birdwatching and ornithology when participating aboard in a long-stay program with the European Solidarity Corps. I was able to join a fairly active ringing station not long after returning home and I have been going ringing almost weekly since then.
In Januray of 2025 I will be moving again as a volunteer for the same ornithology ONG I am a member of now, and I'll stay with them for roughly a year doing work in a natural reserve and participating in several environmental and scientific programs.
I am very excited for this opportunity because my favorite birds are gulls and I don't have much opportunity to work with them in my autonomic community. I hope to re-enter the educational system at some point (since I studied arts back in college) and specialize in gulls through either biology or ecology, and to keep working with these birds overseas if I'm lucky and able to. I love the sea and the ocean and to experience both of these things together beings me immense joy.
BLOG + SPECS + MISC
This blog is intended as a diary and I will try to post a small update each day, along with pictures if possible. I use a NIKON P1000 to take my photos, but I don't consider myself a serious photographer and I don't have much interest in editing or artistic photography. My digital art is made in Clip Studio Paint with a HUION Kanvas Pro 16 Premium.
My icon is my oc Trout, a mongrel based on a Pallas Gull, my favorite gull species.










