20 August 08
Yellow-billed Magpie
Young magpies are now flying around in great cacophonous flocks, interested particularly in the newly-mowed alfalfa field. I caught this one out the kitchen window this morning. Their tails are nearly full length and they brandish them like sabers.
Happy to see them, though: we thought they might be very hard hit by West Nile Virus. I wrote a blog post about this in 2003, and notice I was reminding myself to go out and sketch birds. Ha. Here I am.
In that same post I refer to Richard Bell’s Wild West Yorkshire — Richard is the absolute BEST that Britain has to offer in nature sketching, and there are lots of fantastic nature sketchers in Britain. I see following my earlier link that he has finally added an RSS feed to his website. I’m very happy about this. I rely heavily, now, on RSS feeds. Please take a look, but be warned: you may get lost in there.
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That’s a great site! I’d heard of his books before, but don’t think I’ve seen any of them.
Re your drawing: is that what they call a “cutie ‘pie”? ;D