29 April 08

Green Kingfisher (For Teresa)

Green kingfisher at Del Rio: pen and ink A brief stop in Del Rio on our way west from Concan yielded this gorgeous kingfisher, sitting on a branch in a city park.

Green kingfisher at Del Rio: watercolor and colored pencil We saw the bird again on our last day, flying toward us, its white forehead shining like a beacon. I don’t seem to have caught the white forehead in the sketches, so this is a bird I’d like to study more. Tiny bird with a huge bill.

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  1. This is such a treat, birding vicariously through your sketches! And a very welcome distraction from trying to understand heterozygosity dynamics in finite populations…


    — richard    29. April 2008, 14:22    Link

  2. hey…speaking of kingfishers…! ;) Now we can compare the expression of this guy with the previous roadrunner’s.


    — Teresa    30. April 2008, 07:35    Link

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