Theo
Quink sketch. Carole's beautiful Thrush posting inspired me to do this sketch of 'Theo' an orphan from last summer. I arrived at a friends house to paint and she asked if I would move a dead bird off her path. The baby bird was wet through, on it's side and dead......until I picked it up when it weakly opened it's beak. A few sheets of kitchen towel, a small cardboard box and half hour in the aga the wee thing picked up. Needless to say he came home with me and stayed for at least a month, he lived in my studio mainly. When I went out to garden he would come with me and set too grubbing which I was relieved at because supplying a hungry Thrush with worms is no task for the faint hearted; out in the garden at 05.30 every morning, wearing a pair of old motorbike boots and very little else digging for worms....well a couple of weeks is enough. I did find an easier way round that one via the local fishing tackle shop, the chap asked, what you fishing for, Salmon or Trou
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