5 October 07
Hermit Warbler
I just spent my lunch hour in an Aladdin’s cave, the Museum of Wildlife and Fish Biology on campus.
I wanted to study warblers. I was given a drawer of hermit warblers and chose one, a brightish male, to work on. I didn’t really do any pen sketches, which I think I should do first (and plan to next Friday: in fact I plan to spend every Friday lunchtime there for a while, since Fridays are mellow for them and sort of mellow for me). I did a couple of pencil sketches I colored in and then did the drawing above.
Great place for studying anything bird-related. I learned, for instance, that warbler bills are really quite broad at the base, kind of like tiny flycatchers, which makes sense, because that’s what they are…
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This is lovely — so detailed!