Male Dunnock singing from the top of the conifer at the bottom of the garden. Sketched from the kitchen window this morning before breakfast. Not the most colourful of birds but its understated plumage, a subtle combination of warm browns and blue greys is worthy of closer study. I drew the pen sketch first then changed to pencil and washed in the colour.Saturday 21 March 2009
Signs of Spring
Male Dunnock singing from the top of the conifer at the bottom of the garden. Sketched from the kitchen window this morning before breakfast. Not the most colourful of birds but its understated plumage, a subtle combination of warm browns and blue greys is worthy of closer study. I drew the pen sketch first then changed to pencil and washed in the colour.
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I'll look out for these in my garden. I've a feeling they are about, but I may be confusing them with sparrows.
Hi Keith,
At this time of year they will be fairly obvious. They have a loud song, not unlike that of a wren, which they sing from some high vantage point. The resident male in our garden sings from the conifer at the bottom of the garden. Then moves closer to the house, sings for a bit from the top of a Silver Birch and then flies into next doors garden and sings from the top of their fence. Quite a regular circuit.
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