Fall Colors

Black Lab, Penguin Sculpture, and two Larch!

 

Travelers' Rest

Great program last Saturday, Art Show of 50 years of pieces, 53 to be exact, and BIRDS! Next program will be the beginning of December, as the show is up until the end of the year.  WOW!

Today!

 

"Our" Pair

 

Winterizing!

 A photo of Mose at the slough just before the weather turned, currently snowing. Sort of. Took down the eagle building shade cloth, wound up the hoses, and clear shower curtains for windbreaks on windows facing west and north. Plus Sonora the Aplomado Falcon has one of her two red-bulb lamps going.

And THANKS everyone for a wonderful art opening at Travelers' Rest yesterday! Lots and lots of friends and Portia the Barred Owl quietly perched by the big winter landscape photo of Lewis and Clark-Land for two hours!

WOW!

 

Installation Day

 52 pieces from zinc plate etchings, offset prints, drypoint, sculptures, and paintings. Thanks Lee, Molly, Renee, and Jacob. Grand opening this Saturday from 1 until 3 pm, Janie the Peregrine and two owls on hand. Great!

New Art Opening!

First delivery for the big art show at Travelers' Rest State Park in Lolo next Saturday the 10th, Barn Owl sculpture secure with a seat belt, Peregrine sculpture in the back, and Janie lookin' good. She'll be there with Litte Billie, Portia the Barred Owl, and 45 of my art pieces over 50 years. WOW! Opening from 1 to 3 pm. Second delivery tomorrow will FILL the Subaru.

Today's Red-tail

 

Today's Osprey

 A brief battle with a Bald Eagle then right overhead!

Hurray For Chickens!

Feeding the eagles from Living River Farms, organic delights. Took two hours to butcher these, listening to jazz in the garage, FUN!

Happy Monday

 

Woodpecker Saturday

 Pileated in the yard today, bright sunny day.

Preening

 First time I have witnessed Janie actually preening, taking care of all those feathers! Day 18 here. Next we want her to tear up a quail all by herself, holding it in her feet. It will happen, I just know it.

Rope Expert

Nigel the 28 year-old Golden Eagle gets these treats, knots to untie for fun. The one on the left today, wasted one a week ago. He drapes them dramatically over his perches, and Bald Eagle Sonny doesn't get it. Enrichment.

Mose

I often have to remind him that he is a Labrador Retriever! 

Our Heron

Our resident Great Blue Heron, identifiable by what looks like a missing back toe on that right foot, and we see here it is just tucked under her foot for some reason, years and years here. My favorite.

Japanese Students

Perhaps our Best Ever program, 20 Japanese students Saturday with the U of M and they are the Sweetest, here with their souvenir cards taken with Nikons and Sony cameras. The Japanese connection.

More!

 

WOW! An Hour Ago!

 

Killdeer Fleglings

 

One Week Today

I have a big art show coming up at Travelers’ Rest in October and was talking to the director over there, Molly. I told her I might name the bird Sacagawea, and she said, how about  “Janie.” That’s what Lewis and Clark called her, a nickname. So meet Janie:

Janie!

Our new youngster, Peregrine Falcon from breeder Mark Bolton in Livingston. A gift as she is very small, might have vision issues, and would not be a flighted bird for falconry. So an education member and practically perfect so far, one week tomorrow. News on the way. Love her, Janie! 

Man, I Love Turkey Vultures!

 

Young Heron Today

 

Ducks Today

 

Love a Yellowlegs!

 

New

New one, drypoint etching called "Backyard Balds" and portrait of our resident pals. 15 x 12" with a bunch of pastels to finish it off. Officially run out of wall space in the office. Said that before. HA!

Greater Yellowlegs Just Now

 

Happy Hour Today

Friday fun with an Osprey perched on the eagle nest tree.

 

Here's a Good One

  Bald Eagle chasing a young Osprey at the beach.Wow!

Happy Hour at the Beach Today

 

California Quail!

 

Osprey!

Found!

I just found this forgotten pen & ink from high school, Screech Owl. I remember we made it into prints that I sold around the neighborhood...to buy music albums at the mall!  About 1976 or '77 (Talking Heads!)

Song Sparrows

Babies all over the beach, sort of.

Killdeer Today

 

A Dozen Nighthawks

 Finally!

Youngster

 A fledgling American Kestrel male down at the beach yesterday, learning how to perch!

Squaaawk!

 Our friendly Great Blue Heron always lets out a squawk resonating through the trees upon departure from a favorite limb.

"Hi Kate!"

 

Painting Days

The latest etching was an experiment, the moose in our back yard 11 years ago. First on buff paper, it was it was headed for the burn pile because it folded up like an accordion when I painted it. So I printed another edition on heavier white paper and painted that one. The water is acrylic paint. Then Saturday I rescued the buff one,  ironed it flat a dozen times and added colored pencils and pastels. ( I actually used that iron for clothes a few times, Good Will $4.99) It worked! Next - Pair of Bald Eagles, also in our yard.

"Our" Great Blue Heron

I could always tell our resident heron for years by her missing back toe on the right foot. Now I see it is simply tucked under for some reason, a deformity I guess. Wow.