Birding Project Update

I've been working away on my birding project.  These are digital/photo fusions.  I'm finding that the "plain" brown birds are the most complex to render.  Much more work than the brightly segmented birds.  But it's partly a proximity issue.  I've decided to let each rendering reflect how much of a particular bird I can actually see which is of course affected by how close I am to the bird.  So the Bald Eagle that was WAY up in the sky took about 5 minutes to render and these sparrows took about 5 hours each. 

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