Cedar waxwings from previous posts
The Wednesday Studio blog has had eight appearances of cedar waxwings. Their mask and bright yellow tail tip are beautiful and distinguishing marks.
April DAB-Day theme: Shore Birds
Artists were invited to submit work showing shore birds for April Draw-a-Bird Day. What a delight to see all of these water birds. Both Judith Davis and Tara Hamilton chose … Continue reading
Great variety for March Draw-a-Bird Day
Here are the great birds submitted by artists for March DAB-Day. [Did anyone even notice that the blog did not have a DAB-Day post in February? That’s what I thought. … Continue reading
First birds of 2024!
Here are the birds artists submitted for January 2024 Draw-a-Bird Day.
What’s in a name? Quite a lot when it comes to birds.
This month’s theme for Draw-a-Bird Day is collective nouns for bird groups. It sounded like an innocent-enough theme when we started out. But it’s complicated. First, as we learned from … Continue reading
National birds–some quite exotic, all wonderful–fly in for November Draw-a-Bird Day
Artists have had great fun this month with the theme “national birds.” Wikipedia conveniently provided us a list of them. I noticed 13 countries have an eagle as their national … Continue reading
August DAB-Day theme: Local Birds
For August I asked submitters to Draw-a-Bird Day to focus on their own local birds. We’ve enjoyed the months when there has been a DAB-Day theme–Ukrainian birds, extinct birds, and … Continue reading
Birds fly high in July!
We have been publishing Draw-a-Bird Day art since September 2016! Meaning seven years, every month. I don’t have an easy way to count the birds without going through every blog … Continue reading
June is a great month for birds!
Here are the submissions for June 2023 Draw-a-Bird Day.
Spring and birds just go together
The birds for April Draw-a-Bird Day are definitely in the mood for spring, with courting, eggs, and chicks.