CALF ISLAND.

     This spring brake, my family and me went to West Mexico. It was so so so amazing to be able to see some of these beautiful birds, not to mention how nice it was to photograph them. The Nayarit aria has many endemics like the Citreoline Trogon and Golden-crowned Emerald. Enjoy! Reddish Egret, fishing Citreoline Trogon Golden-crowned Emerald Elegant Trogon Ferruginous Pygly-owl Black-necked Stilt Streak-backed Oriole Reddish Egret Ferruginous Pygmy-owl

     I have been doing art for as long as I can remember but something that I just really got in to is photography. When I went to Costa Rica in 2015 I took lodes of photos, and I kind of took the hobby home with me. This year, for my Birth day my wonderful parents got me the new Nikon camera so I have been taking some really fun pictures with that. The Okanagan Valley turned out to be the photographers dream, this summer. Hear are some of the photos that i took, enjoy!

       This one is a Rooibos tea Kangaroo.

Oh my god, these paintings have been published by Melissa Hafting, in the December 2017 and the March 2018 issues of "B.C. Birding" magazine. Also, I am now on Instagram as calf_island. A male Hooded Merganser with a scarf, from the march issue. A female King Fisher, from the December.

I love love love Hooded Mergansers. The original of this piece is 5" by 7" and for sale at $30. Also, cards with this painting will be for sale at the Tofino Christmas Craft fair Dec. 2 at the Tofino Community hall from 11:00am to 3:00pm. Hope to see you there.

     I love Cuckoos as you may know by my earlier post "Going Cuckoo". The Cuckoos that we have in Canada are the Yellow-billed Cuckoo and the Black-billed Cuckoo. If you were to compare this guy to any actual species it would be most similar to the Mangrove and the Squirrel Cuckoo. These birds seem kind of posh to me so I thought that they would match this tea very well.

     One of the suggestions that I received for a tea animal was a "coffee cheetah", this is obviously not exactly a tea animal but suggestions like this are welcome. The other piece is a Belted Kingfisher that was another request. Coffee Cheetah female Belted Kingfisher