Fox Sparrow

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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Fox & Fire

I stopped by Hildacy on Friday for a quick 20min visit before meeting Matt for lunch.  As you can see it was totally worth it.  I spent a lot of time last year trying to get a clear shot of a Fox Sparrow. 

Winter Sparrows

Fox Sparrow

White-throated Sparrow

Song Sparrow

Tree Sparrow

I'm really pretty sure it was another White-throated but I'm having doubts.

The sparrows were also out enjoying Tuesday's sunshine.  The Fox Sparrow is the newest to me and I really like to see them.  Unfortunately I did not get as good a shot of the Tree Sparrow as he deserved.  His "rusty" cap was really quite red.  Last year I determined to learn the sparrows and I have made progress but it is still a bit tricky for me.  You can see the problem if you look at both White-throated Sparrow photos.