This is a bird house I painted and decorated for a little girl in 2011. I called it a Fairy Roost in my blog post back then. I’m sure the bird house is long gone, but I’ll always have the pleasant memory of creating it.
That tiny bird house was on my mind lately because my most recent completed chapter in the Neverending Saga had fun information about birds and bird houses. In this case, though, the houses belonged to a family with the last name of Bird. Since I’m trying to gently redirect my focus back to writing, I chose this more literal concept of bird houses as my coloring page on Saturday and Monday.
The birds on the houses are more fun than realistic, so I looked at some California birds before I chose their colors.
Upper row, first house, the bird has the colors of a Stellar’s Jay; middle house, the bird on the roof has the colors of the Oak Titmouse, and inside the birdhouse, the bird has the colors of the Cedar Waxwing; third house, the bird has the colors of the Ruby-crowned Kinglet.
Lower row, the first house bird has the colors of the Mourning Dove; middle bird on the roof has the colors of the Yellow Warbler, and on the porch, the bird has the colors of the Loggerhead Shrike; third house, the bird has the colors of the House Finch.
I still have a page I colored this past weekend to share, maybe tomorrow. You know, I have an abundance of coloring books. Anything you’d like to see?
I cant post photos here? What a drag. Probably for the best in my case. I was GOING to say that I found your Christmas present and post a photo of “The Sexy Fairy Coloring Book” that I found on Amazon. So just picture that and chuckle to yourself.
I must warn you, you have serious competition. Rhonda and Lindsey gave this to me last birthday or Christmas, who remembers. It remains in pristine condition. =)
Omg Best. Gift. Ever.
The bird/fairy house is beautiful. So ethereal.
Interesting to hear the names of the birds your have based your colouring on. We don’t have any of them here.
Thank you. Sometimes I look at things I painted long ago and wonder how I came up with those colors or techniques.
I know the names of so few birds, nor can I easily identify more than a few. There are so many gaps in my knowledge.
Same here. I know the common garden birds and some of the coastal birds, but that’s about it.
I use an app called BirdNET to identify bird songs.
I think Rhonda may have that app on her phone, too, and has pointed it out to me before, and I failed to write it down which means it was far more likely that I’d forget it. There’s a certain bird call I’ve always loved that sounds to me like, “Pretty! Pretty! Pretty!” From the time I was a girl, if I was walking outside and heard it, I’d call out, “Thank you!” (Because it’s nicer to be “bird-called” by birds than “cat-called” by humans!) Just this past summer, I began an online search for it after hearing it, and it’s one of the calls of the cardinals. That pleased me no end, because I really love cardinals.
Rio tells me that I am “Pretty! Pretty!” all the time.
Rio is a good soul. =)
P.S. This time I wrote the name of the app down! Thank you.
Mourning doves, cedar waxwings, yellow warbler and house finches can be here. They’ve all visited my feeders. The house finches and mourning doves are here year round with the cardinals, blue jays, tufted titmouse, Carolina wren, black capped chickadee, downy woodpeckers and the yellow bellied sap suckers. Also red-shouldered hawks and Mississippi kites fly over daily and occasionally stop at the large bird bath in the back. I hear owls regularly but they’re hard to catch a glimpse of
Tom spotted an owl the other night in a tree near the back fence. When he saw my coloring page and the colors I’d picked, he was also able to identify the birds by color. I picked the California birds to search since the chapter’s set in California, but I knew you’d recognize them all! It was a fun coloring page, even though I’m ignorant. 🤣