Lynne

It was a lot harder to draw than I imagined but I enjoyed doing it immensely -- I was completely absorbed in the details, even if I didn't do a very good job of portraying them.  I wouldn't say anything came easily.  I have not tried drawing anything like that in nearly 40 years.   I have been taking photos of birds for some time, and this is very different.   I am a bird watcher and educator, so I am used to spending time observing bird form and behaviour through binoculars or scope and identifying and interepreting them for groups, but this is a very different experience, lending much more attention to the finer details of the form and physical features rather than behavior.  (Now I see the bill is more like a duck's -- a Duck-billed Warbler!)