Baby Raven

This fuzzball little baby raven is 5 x 3 x 3 inches, feet 4 inches wide

Eek – I really need a new camera

2/22: Picture update! OK, three steps back and set to 2X produces a better shot

Ravens on a Wire

Raven on a Wire Sculpture
14 x 6 x 6.5 inches

Well, it’s kind of a TV antenna, the ones that go on the top of buildings around here. I’d take a photo for you but I dropped my camera and broke the focus – as you can probably tell by my picture quality. Took me three hours of shots just to get these two! I hope you can tell it’s an antenna

http://doudoubirds.com/Ravens-On-A-Wire-Sculpture.html

Who doesn’t love a mustache?

So birds are strange creatures. They have evolved to display the most beautiful and the most absurd plumage. Bird’s of paradise are a great example, but we’ll save that for another post. Right now there is a more pressing issue. Bird’s with facial hair, or what looks like facial hair. Observe:

Photo By Barry Boswell

Photo By Harry Eggens

Photo By Alfredo Fernández

These are pretty important images to ornithology.

I spent too much time looking for pictures of birds with facial hair on the internet.

Samantha