PICK-N-MIX #7-The Red Tailed Hawk

Hello everyone. Today I have my 7th installment of the 52 week PICK N MIX Challenge. This week's promps were wildlife and or yellow. Given what I wanted to do, I left the yellow out and went with just wildlife. This is an abstract design based on the tail of the Red Tailed Hawk. For visual interest, I took the white bars from the body and added them to the design.

I have been a birdwatcher since my early teens. In fact when I was that age, I really wanted to be an Ornithologist. Birds were my life (OK, I know I was a geek). 

I had to do something with the Red Tailed Hawk. To begin with, The Red Tailed is the most common hawk in North America. And where I live (rural Missouri), they are a daily visual treat. They can be found soaring with the wind currents or just sitting on a telephone pole waiting for something to stumble by to eat. I don't think I have been outside for over 15 minutes without observing a Red Tailed.

The Mani

I hand painted this with three different Zoyas. They were:

• Pepper, a brick red cream
• Jacqueline, an off white nude cream
• Codie, a blacken brown-now discontinued  (it was one of my freebees from last Spring's Zoya order)

From Left to right: Pepper, Jacqueline, and Codie

Just a One Shot of the Hawk Mani 

A Red Tailed Hawk is even on the front of my Sibley bird guide.

So this is the end of this bird tail and until next time, take care...........Terri

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