Mourning Dove — Gallery Canvas Flowers and Plants This loon portrait carries the

This loon portrait carries the weight of all that association — Glen painted it as someone who had heard that call on Ontario lakes from childhood

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A Common Loon on a still summer lake — the breeding plumage in its full precision

It is one of the oldest scenes in the Canadian wilderness — bear and bees

Mourning Dove — Gallery Canvas Flowers and Plants This loon portrait carries theA Mourning Dove nests among rhododendron branches the warm buff brown plumage pressed close to the ground, the iridescent neck patch just visible, the bird completely still in the specific stillness of an incubating bird. This 1986 watercolour is a study in patient attention: the dove is fully aware of the observer but committed to the nest. The rhododendron leaves and fallen petals are rendered with botanical precision. Glen observed nesting birds