Sunday afternoon after I staked the hollyhocks, took photos of cicadas, and made a bouquet out of the ground cover that is growing like crazy in my swampy back garden, I called my sister for our weekly sketch and dish session known as face-time sketch-time.
We talked about peaches and home-made pizza and how we hate it when birds fly into windows and get stunned, and then she told me she was going to make me a new journal to draw in because she had too many new ones and thought I might like one. At least I think that's what she said.
Warning: this is not really what starlings look like and is not a suitable substitute for the Audubon Birds of North America Field Guide. But you probably already knew that.
I love your starlings!! And isn't the holyhock pretty. I haven't seen any cicadas here yet. Kansas seems to be ahead of Missouri weatherwise and growing wise.
Posted by: Janet | 06/12/2015 at 07:44 AM
Posted by: Leslie | 06/12/2015 at 11:35 AM
You are so on task. Love your yard, but I especially hope you show us the new journal...
best to you!
Posted by: Pam | 06/12/2015 at 11:41 AM
Well I don't know what American starlings look like, but this is exactly what English starlings look like!! Perhaps you just drew English ones without realising!!! I love this picture and would frame and hang that picture on my wall if it were mine! Hope you have a great weekend! xx
Posted by: Amy at love made my home | 06/12/2015 at 03:20 PM
European Starlings are the species we have here in the USA. They were introduced here and have spread throughout the entire country. Many consider them invasive, competing with native species for food.
I love the hollyhocks, such old fashioned flowers.
Are you going along with Mary Ann to Sweden?
Posted by: Joan | 06/12/2015 at 08:24 PM