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Description
This is for the Zooly Weekly Animal Challenge; the prompt was to do a Nuthatch. Since the Pygmy Nuthatch ranges through New Mexico, I wanted to try to render one.
This species is highly gregarious. A nesting pair may have other birds as helpers. Outside the breeding season, this bird wanders in noisy flocks. It also roosts communally; over 100 birds have been seen huddled in a single tree cavity.

4.875" X 4.59", Sketched with a Venus 6H drawing pencil, colored with Prismacolor pencils, on a Strathmore Bristol card. Photograph by Greg Schechter.

Description
This is for the Zooly Weekly Animal Challenge; the prompt was to do a Nuthatch. Since the Pygmy Nuthatch ranges through New Mexico, I wanted to try to render one.
This species is highly gregarious. A nesting pair may have other birds as helpers. Outside the breeding season, this bird wanders in noisy flocks. It also roosts communally; over 100 birds have been seen huddled in a single tree cavity.

4.875" X 4.59", Sketched with a Venus 6H drawing pencil, colored with Prismacolor pencils, on a Strathmore Bristol card. Photograph by Greg Schechter.