Cardinal, Daisy ~ "Loyalty" ~ "Songbirds & Friends" ~ Watercolor Hummingbirds The shaggy double crest and

The shaggy double crest and oversized bill give them a personality that's impossible to ignore

The crane's fossil record stretches back over two million years

Brings a mesmerizing

that roadside flower that opens fresh every morning and closes by afternoon

This kestrel pastel painting captures North America's smallest falcon — a bird no bigger than a robin that hunts with the ferocity of a hawk ten times its size

Cardinal, Daisy ~ "Loyalty" ~ "Songbirds & Friends" ~ Watercolor Hummingbirds The shaggy double crest andA cardinal among daisies the first bird most of us learn to name, and still the one that stops you at the window. Cardinals pair for life and stay through every season, and through the winter you will see the male carry a seed to his mate and place it in her bill, a small act of devotion repeated all year long. That is where the name comes from: loyalty. I painted him in the soft early light that runs through this whole collection, that pause before