Mystery Bird

Probably something really common, but I can’t identify this bird. It was about the size of a sparrow, dull yellow, with a few splotches on its breast.

Probably something really common, but I can’t identify this bird. It was about the size of a sparrow, dull yellow, with a few splotches on its breast.
We visited a bird sanctuary and this Hooded Crane took a bath in a pond and then got the crazies and tore around, flapping its wings and having a good time.




Until tilted to the light, this looks like a hazy, gray smudge with no definition. The process was fast and fun. I used my aluminum “Brillo pad” for the background after I scored numerous, thin branches and grasses into the surface with the end of a paintbrush. The deer was sketched in gold.