Bewick's Wren

Bewick’s Wren’s reside in our year round and I wonder how they feel when the orioles show up in the spring.

‘Spring Visitor to a Wren’s World’ 24” x 18” watercolor

‘Spring Visitor to a Wren’s World’ 24” x 18” watercolor

The Carolina Wren

This small wren of the eastern parts of the United States and eastern parts of Mexico is very noisy for its size. Its loud “tea-kettle tea-kettle” song lights up forests during the breeding season. They are hard to see because they favor brush thickets, but hearing them is not a problem when they are singing.

Photographed at El Franco Lee Park, Houston, Texas.

Green-tailed Towhee Sketch

This is the third year in a row we have found Green-tailed Towhees among the flowering manzanita shrubs in the Sierras. I love the various greens and the way the orange cap of the towhee mirrors the orange in the manzanita branches.

Towhee and manzanita sketch 2019

Towhee and manzanita sketch 2019

The Green-tailed Towhee

A strange looking bird indeed. In the summer this species is common in the Sierra Nevada Mountain Range of California. It prefers relatively dry shrubby mountain slopes. Early in the breeding season they can be located by their unique song.