Great Black Digger Wasp: Transparent Watercolor and Time-lapse Video
Over the years I’ve learned that most wasps, bees and hornets are pretty tolerant of humans, and if you approach them carefully, they leave you alone.
Over the years I’ve learned that most wasps, bees and hornets are pretty tolerant of humans, and if you approach them carefully, they leave you alone.
Last fall we went on a family birding trip to northern Ohio for migration, and these little birds were everywhere that weekend.
In my photos from Sanibel, the beach was covered with tons of Sanderlings, with shell debris around many of them.
In Michigan Red-winged Blackbirds are plentiful and conspicuous in every season but winter.
I based this painting on photos taken at the Marsh Boardwalk at Point Pelee National Park in Ontario.
Through the sieve of time, we tend to remember the real extremes. The horrific or the terrific.
I never remove pages from my hardbound sketchbooks, so I feel pressured to produce a high-quality sketch on every page.
I’ve never gotten to see a motmot in the wild. Maybe someday! I’ve had to be satisfied with seeing them in zoos. In fact, the photos I took as reference for this were from the Syracuse and Toledo zoos.
I always love seeing my first Eastern Pheobe of the spring. Often it is before many of the other insect-eating birds return.
I always love seeing American Redstarts. I got the photo references for this painting in northwest Ohio, on our annual spring migration birding trip.