5x7, Mechanical pencil on sketch paper.
Today's bird is actually yesterday's bird, drawn and posted today. I'm only 3 days in and I'm already skipping days. But it was my birthday yesterday, so that is my excuse.
Anyway, this little sparrow couldn't be any more opposite from the Eared Grebe the day before. This guy we see all the time, all over Arizona and pretty much everywhere we've been. So now we tend to ignore it, and rarely think to take pictures of it. Oh, it's just a white-crown, we mumble impatiently as we scour our backyard with the bino's. But sometimes, every now and again, we take the time to actually really admire how beautiful these guys are - and the girls too, although they're not as glamorous. I mean, look at that crisp black and white crown - they simply glow in the sunlight. And they make a cute whispy sound as they flit around. In fact, I don't think it would feel like wintertime here in Phoenix if we didn't hear the whisp of white crowned sparrows mingling in with the higher-pitched chips of the dark-eyes Juncos.
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