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Done! Feel free to use this! it's not much but I wanted to be able to contribute in some way using my art and I hope any of y'all participating in will enjoy this! If you guys would like to use this as a sticker design, please let me know!

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2020-06-03

Finished an illustration for Simpler poster version where the birds are line art to keep the focus clear, and crazy all the birds in color version because...birds. CC License, no restrictions.

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2020-06-03

Today is on Here is with her fav. a Barred Owl.

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2020-06-03

For the second day of I@ posting a bird, here being my favorite NYC Bord (besides pigeons). Pileated Woodpeckers (Dryocopus pileatus). These guys sound like machine guns when punching holes for acorns and I j love their shape and form

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2020-06-02

Hello everyone! I’m Morgan, an illustrator has a background in scientific illustration. I love drawing animals! So excited to see this tag!

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2020-06-01

Morning birders. Today's is our most populous water fowl: the Mallard. And as it's here's Pericles (Act 3):

...the grisled north
Disgorges such a tempest forth,
That, as a duck for life that dives,
So up and down the poor ship drives.

xx

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2020-04-23

Happy lockdown birders. Today's is the effervescent and iridescent Kingfisher. And as we're celebrating some I also give you the equally frothy verse of Gerard Manley Hopkins. Love to all. xx

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2020-04-22

Morning lockdown birders. How about a good old sing-song:

Sumer is icumen in
Lhude sing cuccu
Groweþ sed
and bloweþ med
and springþ þe wde nu
Sing cuccu.

Have you guessed today's I call this one Alan (after The Whicker Man). Stay safe. xx

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2020-04-21

Good morning lockdown birders. Today's is Britain's favourite: the Robin redbreast. As Emily Dickinson put it:

If I shouldn't be alive
When the robins come,
Give the one in red cravat
A memorial crumb.

I call this one Bert Ward obvs. Stay safe . xx

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2020-04-20

Morning lockdown birders. Today's was requested by who wanted another corvid (and why not?). So here's a good old Cornish Chough (*pace* Wales). I'm quite chuffed with it. Stay safe and take Kernow ('care now'... geddit?... oh forget it!). xx

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2020-04-18

Good morning lockdown birders. Today's is a member of the flycatcher (Muscicapidae) family, the lovely Redstart. And seeing one of these fellas is always a good start to the day! Stay safe. xx

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2020-04-17

Morning lockdown birders. Today's is the 'nightingale of the north', the mellifluous Blackcap. A small warbler with a mighty song, an avian Jimmy Somerville. I call this one Bronsky because he’s hard to beat. Stay safe. xx

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2020-04-16

Happy Easter lockdown birders. Without today's you wouldn't have easter eggs or easter chicks. It's a big fat easter hen, a Sussex Light. I name this one Ed, after me, for I am, at heart, a chicken.! I've also chucked in a Tortoiseshell butterfly as a free gift. xx

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2020-04-12

Morning lockdown birders. Very excited to find a Long-Tailed Tit's nest in the park where we take our daily constitutional. So today's is the Long-Tailed Tit, the longest tailed of all the tits... I call this one Anna Karenina, one of the longest tales I know. xx

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2020-04-08

Morning lockdown birders. Today's is the one most close to my heart, the Curlew. Born & raised in Haworth (100 years away from the Brontes & 10 miles away from Ted Hughes) I wandered the moors listening to 'the curlew’s tear turned its edge on the silence' . xx

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2020-04-07

I'm sorry this is the weirdest one yet. Hail king Western Tanager. I'm never putting hair on a bird again.

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2020-04-05