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Message: <blockquote data-quote="EliS" data-source="post: 1202277" data-attributes="member: 65340">Nick - touché on what bird art should convey. Though I did edit the beaks, since my first thought when I saw the Tereks was: "Wow, their beaks are SO long!" So probably should have rather made them too long. <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" />Tim - thanks. <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" />Jomo - thanks, that is encourageing! I'm definitely living with the situation, and I've noticed that doing things the hard way usually teaches a lot.Though I do admit, that at the moment I wonder whether I'd be better off now with an ok scope (a Nikon) than none at all as an aid to drawing birds, rather than waiting 'till I'll have enough money to get the Swarovski (might be years and years before a Swaro is in my reach)...Today I'm gonna go to see the Tereks with a young birdwatcher from Greece. I haven't told him, what we're gonna go to see, though. I really wait forward to seeing the look on his face! <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /> And I really hope the sandpipers are still there. And I hope it won't rain.Oops, I should be working already, instead I've been looking at paintings and scetches here. But wait, that's never time wasted.</blockquote>

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