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Showing posts with label birds of prey. Show all posts
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Wednesday, April 17, 2013

O is for Osprey - A Painting a Day

A to Z Challenge

"Osprey Landing" - acrylic painting ©Mary Montague Sikes

I am continuing with my Painting a Day theme for the A to Z Challenge. Today is "O" for Osprey.

For as long as I can remember, up until our new modern bridges opened on both sides of our peninsula town, we had draw bridges with a bridge tender house situated on each bridge. Every year a family of osprey nested atop the Mattaponi River Bridge. Today, the new bridge that spans the river has no metal framework for nesting, so I wonder where the ospreys are raising their young. Perhaps on another bridge farther up the river...

Today's painting is 11" x 14" acrylic on stretched canvas. Where have the birds of prey gone?