Challenge -- today it was a challenge to even FIND a bird! The temperature fell and the wind rose and everything was hiding. Late in the afternoon Jorge found a flock of starlings near a manure pile behind some barns.
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| European Starling (Sturnus vulgaris), Horsebarn Hill, Storrs, CT, USA |
I occasionally see brown creepers during lunchtime birding at my workplace, no such luck today, but I sketched their white pine trunk and added the birds from memory. They fly to the base of a tree and creep upwards, searching bark crevices for dormant insects.
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| Brown Creeper (Certhia americana), Hamden, CT, USA. Pencil, white gouache, sharpie marker |
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