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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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- Each Heron Bird Pin 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 Pin is approximately 2" tall by 1 3/4" wide.
- Each Heron Bird Pin has a silverplate pinback with a safety catch to keep it secure.
- Each Heron Bird Pin will come in a nice, rustic triangular gift box with the Heron Pin nestled in a bed of natural excelsior.
- Each Heron Bird Pin will come
with a decorative write-up about Great Blue Herons done in calligraphy, tucked away in a small glassine envelope.
(See the Heron Pin write-up below.)
- Each Heron Bird Pin is signed on its finished wood back by the artist.
This is the write-up that will come with the Heron Bird Pin:
 "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 "live cams" and file video.You can see actual living herons going about their heron lives!!!(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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