Birdspot. On the road. Drawing birds.

Archive: February 2008

time for another sketch progression: this drawing is somewhere around 12×9,” and is ink on paper. Or will be once it is further along, right now it is mostly paper.

Just because one has to spend all day sitting on an airplane does not mean that there are no birds to be seen… from the drive to and from LAX and JFK: Cooper’s Hawk (LA, CA) Peregrine Falcon (Queens, NY) Ring-billed Gull (LA, CA) California Gull (LA, CA) Herring Gull (Queens, NY) Western Gull (LA, [...]

Eaton Canyon, added: Turkey Vulture California Quail Purple Finch (1 male, 1 female) mammals: Mule Deer, Fox Squirrel, California Ground Squirrel

Yesterday was a day of Eaton Canyon adventure complete with rock-hopping and swollen-stream fording, culminating with the prerequisite injury. This always seems to happen after one has done something of questionable judgment, e.g. climbing tiny deer trails on canyon walls the day after a rain storm and rock/mudslides, or jumping across a flooded stream with [...]