22 September 07
Snowy Egret
They finally irrigated the field today; I got home after lunch to a large flock of cattle egrets pouncing on worms in the mowed alfalfa just outside the kitchen window. I started sketching: this was much closer than my cattle egrets from Tuesday.
I quickly noticed a snowy egret in with them (whiter, sleeker, taller, black bill, yellow feet). After a couple of sketches in color I tried this black and white. The bird moved out of view quickly but I was able to finish the shading because of all the cattle egrets still there, whose plumage is almost identical…
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