All of us working with the Klamath Bird Observatory bird banding team were able to attend the recent Western Bird Banding Association (WBBA) meeting for free, so I made this painting of a Wilson's Warbler perched on a sprig of Douglas fir to be sold at the silent auction (the proceeds of which help fund scholarships for meeting attendance.) The meeting was a blast - easily the most friendly conference I've ever been to, but attended by some real heavy hitters in the bird banding world! The colors of this scan got a little wonky, but this is an after-hatch year male Pacific Wilson's Warbler, a subspecies that has a little more of an orange tint on the forehead and chest than other birds.

I made this drawing of an Eastern Whip-poor-will and her chicks as a birthday present for my best friend Frans Boukas, who is working on an incredible comic series about a battle gnome called Gnomad. I had this image in my mind of Gnomad receiving some advice (or maybe laughter) from a mama Whip in the forest and had a lot of fun working on this project. You can check out Frans's amazingly detailed work here: http://www.rottenoak.com/ and rottenoak.tumblr.com