Another experiment, this one "Pelican Flotilla." A drypoint etching with water-soluble pastels in the upper background, then run through the press and the damp paper picks up the colors! Took a few tries, then painting with gouache and some colored pencils. Whew. I just ran out of wall space so am having a carpenter cover the windows with drywall. Just kidding. 16" x 12"
Last evening I was turning off the fans in the Falconhouse when both birds started screaming. Right away a wild Peregrine began high speed swoops on the building, circling the yard in attack mode. A big adult female and even the coloration of a "continental" anatum Peregrine, that salmon cast to the ventral feathers. Cool.
Our racing homing pigeons, flying around several times a day. I could take them to your house and they would beat me home. Eight and two babies still in the nest.
I live for jazz and the go-to station is KCSM from San Mateo, CA and Jazz Station to the World. My favorite announcer is Sonny Buxton on Saturdays, and today is his final show, retiring from the station after 28 years. "Pull the Plug Day" he calls it. We named our eagle after him! 60 years total in radio and even TV and love you Sonny. Good luck, and we'll miss you! https://www.kcsm.org/
Three of them. This morning both fledglings were standing on Sonny and Nigel's enclosure fence, discovered by the dogs before I could grab a camera.
The other Bald Eagle fledgling waiting for some nice nutrition to float by, scavenger-fashion. Not very spooky with me and the swimming dogs.
Missoula Community Access Television Kids, and started this Filmmaking Camp with the International Wildlife Film Festival in 1989, today the kids on the beach and at the van, major fun. Thanks MCAT and Scott Ranf! Our birds filmed for fun, all afternoon.
A kestrel has been making the rounds at all of the swallow boxes and have seen him score. This box is right in the yard, a snapshot just now when I was hanging the laundry on the line.
The resident beavers are building another dam under our bridge across the slough, several attempts over the years. One time our dogs ripped the branches out with great relish every trip to the river, for some reason. This is just three days (nights) work! Before Tom built the bridge 23 or so years ago, a beaver dam was our access to the other side, washed out repeatedly.
New one today, drypoint etching called "Red-tail and her Stick" inspired by a hawk I saw last summer, flying high, dropping a little stick and catching it over and over. Playful fun. 12" x 16" with printing inks, gouache and pencils.
No eagles in the nest Tuesday afternoon and one flew over to the pine trees by the pigeon building at 5 pm. So the earliest fledging since I started watching that nest by the house, 2011. This is my favorite shot of the youngsters, taken in 2017!
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