15-minute sketch with ink.
I love that this is the first bird I drew out of my jar.
Athletic, fun, self-sufficient, unassuming and a bit of a loner. Sort of like who I am (the last three) and who I want to be (the first two).
We caught our first brief glimpse of American Dippers in July 2007 at Yellowstone Park, and a year later we really got to watch them skimming and swimming in a cold stream near Provo, Utah. We also saw plenty more in the cold streams of Juneau and Ketchikan on our cruise tour to Alaska this past summer. They were diving in and out of the currents, jumping around the rocks, and flitting around in the spray, catching insects galore. They are such cool birds. I mean, how many birds (outside of ducks) do you see diving and swimming in the water?
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