The Little Nuthatch

What do you think? I've just redone my blog and changed the name of it to 'The Little Nuthatch'. I painted all the details in this design- the border, background, text, and of course the adorable little nuthatch! I had so much fun doing this and it may be silly but it makes me a lot more excited about my blog! I am going to be working on many changes with my blog and website within the coming weeks. And speaking of nuthatches I am currently working on a bird nest painting of a red breasted nuthatch in a nest...

The Sparrows are done!! Aren't sparrows interesting? They are so similar but all different. I don't think I could EVER identify one as anything specific but a "sparrow". Taking a tiny little break from the bird list project now to work on some bird nest paintings. My thought was that if I do 5 more bird nests paintings I will have enough pieces for a 2011 calendar, with no repeats from the calendar I made in 2009 (although that was just for family + friends)! I am working on a cute pekin robin and one red breasted nuthatch with eggs.

We are having lower humidity today, so it was a nice morning to be out. I took the chance to go around to my parents and take a walk. This wild bunny is often seen in my parents backyard: Clavulinopsis laeticolor: I also got to observe some birds and deer, although I did not have the camera ready, they made me quite happy!

While there are many more water birds to go, there are even more perching birds! So I am starting with sparrows.

My bird list paintings continue! Quite a selection of birds in this one! I started with the list of 'Limpkin, Rails, Gallinule, Coot, Loons, Grebes', then added in the 'Shearwaters, Storm-petrel, Pelicans, Gannet, Cormorant'. 199 birds to go!