Bird a Day: Day 31: Last Day Dodo Bird

Bird a Day: Day 31: Last Day Dodo Bird

 

It's the last day... which has me feeling kinda sad... mostly because now I might have to get back to doing some proper work and I have to do my accounts next week. Mostly I am feeling a little sad because it's been good fun... hard at times but good fun too. There are so many more birds I want to make, I'm really hoping that I can keep my creativity flowing and come up with some new designs to offer in my shop now!

I decided to finish with the Dodo partly because someone requested him and also because he's a warning from history. The Dodo bird was the first species we know to have been made extinct by humans... it's the bird that was too naive to run away and too tasty for sailors.

Poor Dodo!

he Dodo used to walk around,

And take the sun and air.

The sun yet warms his native ground—

The Dodo is not there!

The voice which used to squawk and squeak

Is now forever dumb—

Yet may you see his bones and beak

All in the Mu-se-um.

by: Hilaire Belloc (1870-1953)

Bird a Day: Day 26: Green Honeycreeper

Bird a Day: Day 26: Green Honeycreeper

I decided to do something a bit different today... I found this turquoise bead which had been crying out to be made into a bird for ages and decided just to google "turquoise bird" and see what came up!

I found this stunning image and decided to make one... he was a different kind of challenge! Photgraphing him was very trick as it's very dark today and I don't want to go outside!

Bird a Day: Day 19: Zebra Finch

Bird a Day: Day 19: Zebra Finch

This one was a request from someone on instagram... I'll hunt them down later and show them!

Day 10: Bird A Day: Long Tailed Tit

Day 10: Bird A Day: Long Tailed Tit

10 days!!! Wooohooo!!! That's a third of the way thru this challenge!

Long tailed tits are among my favourite birds... they have a habit of not looking quite real, like they are in a Disney film! They were described to me as a ping pong ball on a stick when I first identified one and that kind of stuck!

Day 9: bird a Day Challenge - Love Bird

Day 9: bird a Day Challenge - Love Bird

Making this little guy's perch was more challenging then making the bird itself! My wood working skills being none existant!