Birds

Birds are so interesting, very clever (forget the expression "birdbrain") and rather sweet.

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Two ducks and two chickens waiting to be bought.    Below is a creative garbage (rubbish) bin. 

  Beautiful wall painting.  Wish I could remember which street.

 Carved bird in Prague.  I like his grumpy beak.

Flying geese and a hawk on the side of a house

  

 I don't usually use official art work 
from a gallery but I just love 
these birds, their simplicity 
and the ripples of the water.




















A plastic flamingo next to a skeleton cat, Buffalo, N.Y.  Flamingos tend to be very popular in Buffalo. Not quite sure why. The skeleton cat is for Halloween.

Hilma af Klint, from Stockholm, was painting abstract paintings in 1906 years before Kandminksy, Malevich and Mondrain.   I was lucky enough to see an exhibition of her incredible work in the Guggenheim Museum, NYC. in April 2019. Below is The Swan which I love -- as well as many pieces of her work2w (1914-15).  She was convinced while she was working that the world was not yet ready to understand her art.  She also stipulated that her work should not be shown for twenty years following her death.  Amazingly, she envisioned a temple for her paintings which as to be “a round building where visitors would progress upward along a spiraling path.”  SRather like — the Guggenheim!



Birds on ancient mosaics.  They were once on floors and walls and are now on a museum wall.

Birds painted on a fake window in one of the Christmas markets in Vienna.

Plastic ducks in various disguises.

Beautiful birds on a screen

Thatched birds on a thatched roof.  The thatcher's mark.

Carved owl on a gate post in the village of Lee, Devon.

Gull keeping warm on a chimney in Clovelly, Devon.

Gull walking on the top of a sightseeing boat on the Thames, London

Gull in a mural on the side of the Little Theatre, Swansea, Wales

Playbill 

Birds in Paintings

Painted on Stones

And more murals

This one is on the side of a building in Greenland.

I wish I could remember where I saw this.

London

It's not just the bird but the feather that I like

Somewhere in Devon. This makes me laugh every time I see it.

Birds in Metal

                                     And in Plaster

                                     And Ceramic

Complete with chick



                               On a Gardening Ornament

Birds were used in Medieval meals and the entire bird was reconstructed, feathers and all for presentation to the table.

A real wren -- photograph by Laura Jill Dahl

   Three birds in a living room.  The wood carving is by Mary     Shelley -- American Folk Art.  Her work is wonderful.

                                              Geese 

A Pub Sign - No prizes for guessing the name!

                             Birds on a Metal Gate

       Metal goose at the "top of the cobbles" Clovelly, Devon