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Christmas is for the Birds

I've been going through a rough stretch with my drawing lately so I was ecstatic when I finally came up with something cute and funny that wasn't a total mess. This still needs some tweaking but I like the idea. When I redo this I think I'll make the bird with the stocking smaller and rounder and bring the birdhouse over to the left and up a bit. I'm also not sure about painting them yellow. Red birds would have looked better but I thought it may be too much with the red stockings. Merry Christmas!

Snowy Day in Ohio

Snowy day in Ohio is an understatement! When we woke up this morning we had about a foot of snow on the ground. We went to TSC on Saturday and stocked up on bird seed and suet to help out our feathered friends during this nasty storm. So far at our feeders we've had goldfinches, house finches, cardinals, blue jays, chickadees, nuthatches, tree sparrows, juncos, house sparrows, downy woodpeckers, mourning doves and a red-bellied woodpecker. We've also had a Coopers hawk visit several times looking for a meal. The wind wasn't too bad Sunday morning so I went out with my camera to see if I could get some photos of birds in the snow. Northern Cardinal This first one is of a Northern Cardinal. I've tried for a long time to get a nice photo of a male cardinal sitting on a snowy branch but it never worked out very well for me. I finally got a nice, sharp photo of this cardinal sitting in a snowy thicket.  I like this one because you can see the snow sticking to his ...