Day 9: Peach-Faced Lovebird

Colored pencil on mylar, about 5x7

As I fall further behind on my pie-in-the-sky goal of drawing a bird a day, I get rewarded with one of my all-time favorite birds around here in the Phoenix area. They are not native, of course, but we have whole flocks of them in pockets around town - they have adapted and flourished here in the desert! For anyone who doubts in the rewards of birding, seeing these attack your hummingbird feeder is a total treat. You can usually hear them a mile away, they are so loud. My husband has dozens and dozens of absolutely beautiful photographs of these birds, and I probably should have drawn a full-body picture to show off the vibrant blue tail feathers, but I barely had time to do this today. But it was fun, and reminded me of the kind of rewarding suprises birding always seems to give me. Easter egg hunting, totally!