theunfurlingartist posted: " Greetings. I hope that you have been well and safe in this unpredictable world. I've been venturing out of my comfort zone and have tried to paint a new bird, magpies. They have been voted Australians' second favourite bird. There are many who have re"
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Greetings. I hope that you have been well and safe in this unpredictable world.
I've been venturing out of my comfort zone and have tried to paint a new bird, magpies. They have been voted Australians' second favourite bird. There are many who have regular magpie visitors that arrive for their feed or have them as full-time pets.
When I was walking in my neighbourhood, I spotted a magpie sitting on a fence. I started photographing it and taking a step closer after each photo.
Photo taken at a distance
It was very obliging. It posed to the side, back and frontwards.
Back pose
Soon I was about a metre and a half in front of it and it was looking straight at me with piercing eyes. A sudden nervous feeling arose as I considered, "yikes, what if it flies straight into my face" but it didn't, it continued to be placid and cooperative.
Getting closer for photographing
This encounter gave me some great magpie resource photos for future paintings.
Unfortunately, this seemingly gentle bird is not loved by all mainly due to dive-bombing people during nesting season. There's also the Collingwood Magpies, an Australian Football League (AFL) team that is huge in Australia that people seem to either love or hate. Collingwood is rarely chosen as a second favourite team. So, unfortunately, the poor magpie has a strong association link with this team, through no fault of its own.
Sam Bloom wrote a story about an odd little Magpie that saved her family. The photos are beautiful and heart melting, and this has definitely helped to endear more people to magpies.
I hope that you and your family are well, and that the birds around you give you a moment of joy.
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