BYC’s BirdTober Thread - 2024

[StinkyAcres]

She's a very delicate color that's hard to see against the background but I think that's excusable because they live in ice and snow in real life.
Unlikely that you'd see them in breeding plumage in WI but I just wanted to draw that ring.
I used pencil, watercolor, ink, and for the ring I did colored pencil since the ring has a pencil quality in real life.
Doubt I'll ever get to see a Ross' Gull but one can dreamView attachment 3962220

Beautiful!

 

[Amer]

Beautiful!

Thanks

 

[Amer]

I was stuck deciding whether to do the long-tailed silky flycatcher or the vermillion flycatcher but decided I've done enough red birds already and should to whatever color the long tailed silky flycatcher is supposed to be.
My poor red pencils are shorter than many of the others due to my love for red.

 

[Amer]

 

[Lacy Duckwing]

Day 12: Nest. I tried to draw a Robin's nest by memory. I have one on a pine tree on my front lawn that I used as inspiration.

 

[RDchicken99]

Marsh Wren, Black-chinned hummingbird + nest, and a Scissor-tailed Flycatcher (who are, in my opinion, some of the prettiest birds in Missouri)

The reason behind the hummingbird is last summer one hit my porch window, I went out and actually held him briefly while he recovered. He was either a vagrant black-chinned, or an exceptionally dark ruby-throated. The latter is the most probable, but hey, I can dream.

 

[Amer]

He was either a vagrant black-chinned, or an exceptionally dark ruby-throated. The latter is the most probable, but hey, I can dream.

As if a dark-morph ruby throated isn't cool!

I drew a scissor-tail in a previous year because I agree, they are gorgeous! That drawing is just adorable!

 

[Amer]

My brother told me to draw a Puerto Rican parrot

 

[Amer]

Sandgrouse have a subtle beauty I really want to depict so I look them up to figure out which species to draw and the patterns on some of them are just really intimidating...

 

[Amer]

not sure if it's more of a grasslands or desert bird but it is a cool bird