Birds – Stork

Continuing with the nature I experienced while in the Bardenas and Mallos de Riglos area of Northern Spain.

On leaving the Bardenas national park one day we stopped to photograph an entire field of storks, who were happily feeding, I think they had recently spread manure on the field which appeared rather wet. We have storks around here but I never get close enough to photograph them. I took several photographs but used just one image to create three birds of different sizes.

In my stash of fabric I had the material I have used for a background, I bought it while I was in Canada some years ago and if I remember correctly it was hand dyed in the New Brunswick area. The colours were just right to create a damp muddy field against which the storks stand out. Each bird was constructed with scraps of fabric, mainly silk, and then hand stitched.