Showing posts with label sketch. Show all posts
Showing posts with label sketch. Show all posts

Monday, October 12, 2015

European Robin

Euro-Robin sans color, 1.5" in height

I really miss seeing the wee fellow out in the back garden.  So sketching him, sort of, brings him 'to life' for me on this side of the Atlantic.  Our American robin looks like a female black bird wearing an orange bib.  -not a bad-looking bird, but just very different.


Euro-robin with his orange face mask.


Wednesday, July 15, 2015

Squirrel and birthday.

Over the past month, or so, I have consistently been seeing empty peanut shells on the back deck.  Not a lot of them, mind you, but enough to make me wonder if birds are bringing their booty to my yard and snacking.  We've a lot of crows that hang about out back and, of course, there's the crafty Jay, among other bit players.

This morning I got up early to have a coffee at the kitchen table & contemplate my (birth) day.  As I sat I saw a plump squirrel standing by the deck chairs with a peanut in its mouth.  The peanut was partially shelled, not yet fully 'enjoyed' by my wee friend.  I got up to get a better look out the back window, making the squirrel shoot off, peanut firmly in mouth.  No shells on the deck this morning.

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