The Little Nuthatch
Inspirational Artists I grew up on on... Arnold Lobel.
Another favorite artist and author of picture books is Arnold Lobel. Owl at Home, Frog and Toad, Mouse Soup, etc... you might think they are simple books from the "I Can Read" series, being inexpensive paperbacks with few colors, but behold the beauty inside! Arnold Lobel. Owl at Home Owl at Home Frog and Toad I also loved Arnold's wife Anita Lobel's work, particularly Princess Furball.
Field Guide: Foxes.
I get a lot of requests for more fox paintings, so I thought a field guide would be pretty cool. There are so many different types of foxes, I didn't even realize how many... in this field guide we have: Arctic Fox Bat-eared Fox Bengal Fox Blanford's Fox Cape Fox Crab-eating Fox Corsac Fox Culpeo Fox Darwin's Fox Fennec Fox Gray Fox Hoary Fox Island Fox Kit Fox Pale Fox Pampas Fox Ruppell's Fox Red Fox Sechuran Fox South American Gray Fox Swift Fox Tibetan Sand Fox Prints are in the shop!
Birds of Prey: Red-shouldered Hawk and Red-tailed Hawk.
More birds of prey studies here, the Red-shouldered Hawk and the Red-tailed Hawk. Hawks have a lot of different color variations, it can be difficult to identify them. To the inexperienced birder around here, the question is often... "Red-shouldered or Red-tailed?" Also, there is an incorrect fact about the Red-tailed Hawk above. Although my Audubon guidebook stated the Red-tailed Hawk as the largest in the United States, they recently informed me that it is the largest hawk in FLORIDA and the largest hawk in the United States is actually the Ferruginous Hawk.
Mushrooms at Spring Hammock.
mushrooms spring hammock preserve
Somehow I returned from my most recent hike with no photos of birds, or flowers, but lots and lots and lots of mushrooms...
Inspirational Artists I grew up on... Clement Hurd.
More from my childhood picture book collection, we have The Runaway Bunny. Margaret Wise Brown and Clement Hurd made a great team with Goodnight Moon and The Runaway Bunny. Simple, sweet, and imaginative.