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September 6, 2007
SwallowsQuest Items Are Not Available At This Time.
For the next year I will be taking leave from painting SwallowsQuest Bird & Trout items. I will be experimenting with other projects in painting and calligraphy, etc.
Thankyou so much for your support. I look forward to being back next year.
Lynda Proper
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This stately, handcrafted Heron Bird Ornament can be hung on the wall all year long or placed on the Christmas tree year after year!- Each Heron Bird Ornament is handcrafted in inks & acrylics on Sycamore using a wet-sculpting technique developed to give it a 3 dimensional appearance - like a bas relief.
- Each Heron Bird Ornament is approximately 3 1/2" tall by 4 1/2" wide.
- Each Heron Bird Ornament will come in a gift box with a write-up about Herons done in calligraphy mounted on matboard. (Please see the write-up below.)
- Each Heron Bird Ornament is signed by the artist on its finished wood back.
This is the write-up that will come with the Heron Ornament:
 "With the happy thoughtlessness of a summer's day's walk, we followed the path out of the forest to an earthen dam which was making a small pond at the foot of a greater marsh. There we saw a Great Blue Heron who, like a scholar disturbed at his carrel by a group of chatty students, unobtrusively rose from his work and left for a more secluded venue.
- ORDER: Ciconiiformes
- FAMILY: Ardeidae (herons,egrets, & bitterns)
- GENUS & SPECIES: Ardea herodias
- SIZE: About 4 feet tall. Lives 15 years.
- GEOGRAPHY: North America
- HABITAT: haunts marshes, lake margins, rivers & small streams.
- NESTING: Platform of sticks in swamp trees-usually in colonies.
3 - 4 dull bluish eggs
Both parents share incubation and feeding. - FLIGHT: Measured wing-beats with legs straight back & neck tucked in an S-shape.
- Fossil remains of herons & ibises have been found from 40 million yrs. ago."
Copyright L.Proper 1995
Order any 4 Swallows Quest items at one time,
and one of those items will be FREE.
Check out the Collector's Special!
Thanks!
Washington State Dept. of Fish & Wildlife (click here)
Would you like to see Great Blue Herons? The WDFW site has really neat wildlife file video of Great Blue Herons nesting.(The site will open in a "new window" and you'll have to click the "X" at the top right of your screen to return to this page.)
Got a question or comment? Email me!
Please put "greetings" in the subject line to help me sort out "spam". Thanks!
LProper@SwallowsQuest.com
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