Woodchat Shrike

Woodchat Shrike
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It&#39;s always a pleasure to see your work on POL - and in the many other places I can see it: I think you don&#39;t get more likes and comments partly because people think of you as a consummate professional and don&#39;t know what to say: and partly because too few of them share your love of birds (as I do). Some are doomed to be unappreciated, while less accomplished work gets praise - but I&#39;ve long admired your dedication to painting as many birds as you can (of which there are millions, so you still have much to do) and of course your other work. <br /><br />I wish you all the best - as always - and am delighted by the success you&#39;ve enjoyed this year.

I am honored and feeling blessed with your kind words Robert Jones Sir...

I love shrikes, and this is lovely!!

Thanks Jenny Moed_Corpela maam ...

Hang on Studio Wall
22/12/2015
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PAKHI DEKHOON PAKHI CHINOON #601... WOOD CHAT SHRIKE... WATERCOLOUR...A4... 2014 ...[From a photograph of Mr. Sajin Varghese] ...The woodchat shrike (Lanius senator) is a member of the shrike family Laniidae. The woodchat breeds in southern Europe, the Middle East and northwest Africa, and winters in tropical Africa. It breeds in open cultivated country, preferably with orchard trees and some bare or sandy ground. The male is a striking bird with black and white plumage and a chestnut crown. The race L. s. badius of the western Mediterranean lacks the large white wing patches. In the female and young birds the upperparts are brown and vermiculated. Underparts are buff and also vermiculated. This migratory medium-sized passerine eats large insects, small birds and amphibians. Like other shrikes it hunts from prominent perches, and impales corpses on thorns or barbed wire as a "larder".[info:wikipedia]

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