Owls for Life List Notebooks

I recently finished another illustration project for Life List Notebooks.  These owl portraits were a lot of fun to do and I think the notebooks turned out great!  These little notebooks are handy in the field or office and I like the fact that they are blank grid paper on the inside - perfect for bird lists, grocery lists and sketches.

Check them out at www.lifelistnotebooks.com 

Oriole and Finch

More Life List Notebooks

Awhile back I wrote about a pocket notebook project I was working on, well we are getting ready to make some new notebooks and these two species just might appear on those upcoming notebooks.

Snowy Owl

Horned Grebe

To find out more about Life List Notebooks or to purchase notebooks check out www.lifelistnotebooks.com 

Winter Birding Notes

I just wanted to share a few pages from my winter field notes...

If you have ever noticed small flocks of 10-30 birds that scatter from midwestern country roads as you drive by on a winter day it is very likely you are seeing Horned Larks.  

Another common winter bird is the Dark-Eyed Junco, we typically get Slate-Colored Juncos, but I recently had a western subspecies, the Oregon Junco show up in Illinois.

I always enjoy watching the Red-Headed Woodpeckers collect acorns in recently burned oak forests.