The past month has been a whirlwind of crazy! My family has been out-of-town twice, my mom and dad hosted a huge family reunion of over 150 people that we had been preparing for for over a year, the kids and I attended the last of my husband’s amateur soccer games for the 2018 season (his team has been promoted to division one for the 2019 season – woohoo!), and I’ve been working with a great group of soccer parents to organize a recreational soccer league for kids in our community (you can read about the problems we’ve been facing here, here, and here). This Watercolor Wednesday post is not being posted on the first Wednesday of the month, nor is it being posted on a Wednesday at all due to all that has been happening, but I wanted to get caught up.
So, without further ado, I present to you:Â A Pair of Indigo Buntings.
My family and I spent a week up at the family cabin last month, and on one particularly rainy day, the kids and I decided to get out our paints.
As I sat gazing out of the large lakeside windows, I remembered seeing an indigo bunting fly into the very windows I was peering out of just a few years ago.
At the time, I ran out onto the deck and looked over the railing to see an immature male indigo bunting sitting stunned in the shrubs. His bright blue feathers were just beginning to show through. He sat in the shrub for about 10 minutes before flying into the woods, allowing me to take a few photos of him. What a treat it was to sit and observe this skittish species from just a few feet away.
Remembering this event led to the painting of A Pair of Indigo Buntings – a bright blue male with a soft brown female on a birch tree.
Do you have any memorable bird experiences? I’d love for you to share them in the comments below. Thanks so much for stopping by to read today!
Beautiful buntings! I saw bald eagles–one not far from my car as I was driving–when visiting my dad this summer. And I spied a blue bird here in my town. Such fun!
Thanks so much, Rebecca! Birds are so much fun to sit and observe. Bald eagles are so massive and powerful looking. We have a pair that hunts near the stream in the woods behind our house so we often hear their shrill cries.
Thanks so much for sharing your thoughts!
They are sooo pretty and you have captured them beautifully! 😀
We’ve seen quite a few hummingbirds this summer. I love seeing them, but they are so, so fast! I hardly ever manage to snap a photo!!
Thank you, Josy! 🙂 I absolutely love hummingbirds. We have ruby throated hummingbirds that visit my gardens every day. They’re on my list for painting very soon.
Also, we traveled to Costa Rica, and the hummingbirds in the Monteverde cloud forest were amazing. There were so many different types, and the colors were striking. If you ever travel that way, you’ll have to stop and explore. 🙂
Thanks for your thoughts, Josy!