11 August 09
Gulls at the Ball Park
I bird at baseball games. We went to the Giants game on Saturday; lots of gull action, particularly after the game, when hundreds of gulls and pigeons swept in to find goodies…
20 July 09
Bluebirds
This pair seems to be thinking about a third nest.
13 July 09
Back from Maine
I’m back now. I had very little opportunity to sketch birds (or anything else) while my mother was recuperating from surgery, but did get a session out at Wolfe’s Neck State Park, where I saw this adult osprey feeding two checks…
25 June 09
Bluebird City
The bluebird chicks are now foraging more with less supervision. This bird hovered over the ground for a while before perching, first on the tree swallow house, then on the ground.
22 June 09
Chicken Sunday
I went to my neighbor’s yesterday to clean out the henhouse and get a loaded wheelbarrow full of manure, it’s fantastic for the garden. There were three hens sitting on eggs, and they ignored us the entire time.
I went back later on to sketch them. They are quite happy to gather around my feet as I sketch. I found doing their bills difficult (no surprises there) but it was a very pleasant end to the weekend…
19 June 09
Bluebirds, Adult and Chick
Well, that settles that: two chicks. One of them is here next to the adult female, speckled and loudly begging when it got the energy. Really happy to see a nesting success!
18 June 09
Nuttall's Woodpecker: How to Hang Backwards
12 June 09
Juvenile Tree Swallow
There’s at least one chick in the tree swallow box. It looks close to fledging. I’m pretty stoked.
9 June 09
White-tailed Kite: Display Flight
The white-tailed kite is flying all around the pine, semi-hovering with landing gear down. They are among the loveliest of birds…
8 June 09
Fayoumi Chicken
This one, today, was for work, for the cover of a manual on poultry health in Africa. The Fayoumi is a very old Egyptian breed of chicken.