After uprooting my newly planted herbs and flinging them on the deck, this little demon crow has been burying peanuts in my plant pots. I have put wire cages on the plants so that he can’t get at them and hopefully the plants will root. Or perhaps I’ll end up with a big crop of peanuts…
Messy brat. 
A photo of my demon crow, about to squawk, “What are you looking at???” He actually squawks loudly any time I venture out onto the deck. Then his mate joins him and they both squawk at me, and emboldened, together hop onto ‘their’ railing preparing to attack!
A sketch of this devil crow.
Another drawing where he’s giving me the evil eye. 
This crow is admiring his reflection in the half-frozen pond at the Lagoons. I had wanted to do some studies of water but just had to add this little guy. 
The sketch of the crow at the Lagoons with a watercolour background and the details brought out with a scratchy old pen and acrylic ink, black ink for the crow and white ink for the pond reflections. 
Raven the colour of an oil slick, down on Tonquin beach near Tofino on Vancouver Island. This was another study of water reflections and ripples that I had wanted to do. 
Raven on top of Cypress Mountain in West Vancouver. 
And another, also up at Cypress.
I thought this raven would be fairly easy after drawing several crows. But the raven is a completely different bird, and it took me three hours to get this pencil drawing. Plus I hadn’t sized him properly for the page so I ended up doing a separate drawing of his bottom half on the other side of the sketchbook. 
On top of that, when I inked it in and finished it I realized that the beak was way too small in proportion to the head and had to go back and fix that.
More of Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Birds.
Batz Gallery 
Oh what wonderful birds for this week. Thanks for playing along 😀
Taking more photos of local birds thanks to COVID. Still, it’s very challenging, both to take the photos and to do the drawings!
You are very talented to capture ravens. Until I lived in BC, I never appreciated these clever birds. They have so much character, more so than ones I commonly see in Toronto. Do ravens even exist here? I did a quick google search & it says that they do not live in the “heavily populad areas of Southern Ontario.” Clever birds!
I think Ravens don’t exist in Vancouver City proper; not even in the parks and wild areas which are populated with both Bald Eagles and masses of Great Blue Herons. One has to climb one of the local mountains to see them – I guess they are truly solitary birds.
Goodness, you’ve got some great sketches here!
Very tricky to get the proportions right – they all took a LOT longer than I thought they would.
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