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Like Herding Cats
It’s impossible
Keeping them all together
Just like herding cats

Black-bellied whistling tree ducks, parent and chicks
Our homework assignment for Week 5 in the Natural History Illustration 101 course was to submit an outline sketch of a mammal and to provide a few sketches of a bird. I chose these two subjects because I have good photographs of them.

Dama Gazelle, from Africa

Black-bellied whistling tree duck
When I went out to photograph the sunrise, I heard some ducks on the pond. The black-bellied whistling tree ducks objected to my presence and took flight.




The mallards, however, decided I was harmless and stayed around.

Black-bellied whistling tree ducks in a tree near our pond.
