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Currently on my easel... Three Lilac Breasted Rollers with sunny yellow sky.

One of my favorite birds and common here in Northern Illinois, the northern flicker.  A woodpecker that loves wooded areas.  I recently made a commissioned flicker which inspired me to paint this one also.   The lilacs have already come and gone.  But I still have a few photos of them on my phone.  I used this one as inspiration for the painting of the flicker.  

I found some mountain bluebirds!  They were sitting on and near a new wheel line that's about to go in a pasture.  Male and female.  I snapped this picture before they flew away.  

Can you find the bird on the tree?  It's right below the knot on the left aspen.  The knot looks a bit like an eye.  It's a woodpecker.  At first its head was in a hole.  I was looking for a mountain bluebird, but they eluded my camera today.  I thought I saw a couple of them in flight. Here is a crow in the horse pasture.  And below is a robin.