WHOA.

Miki - I think that looks just fantastic! Well done you!

Thanks guys, that's not the best photo of the actual artwork, but the close ups don't include the whole skull. And I'm going with cute images for these to avoid the morbid look, and especially with the coyote I'll be doing, to not picture them as "nuisance animals". Most animals aren't, IMO, they're just trying to live their lives as we encroach on their habitats

Miki, this looks fabulous! And I agree. I get so upset with cities encroaching upon our wildlife's habitats and then making insane laws about not caring for them. Even the roaming bears and coyotes (we have a herd nearby), they are just trying to live like we are. Yet, I live among people who are upset that they live in a swampland and have snakes and voles. Or are upset that they moved w/in a mile of a gun range and they have to listen to the trap shooters. Sorry, I just went on for a moment there. Getting back to your pieces. I for one, can not wait to see more! They look awesome!

Wonder, I agree completely. I don't think coyotes, bears, raccoons or anything is a nuisance. They were here first. I know we've got a pack of coyotes around (Miki has howled in response to them), there's a fox den near my house and I was always excited to see the mom with her babies on my runs, hopefully she'll have more this year. I saw a bear on a run last year which was cool. They all have as much, if not more, right to be here than we do. And because I love seeing them, I always respect them by staying a safe distance away and not feeding them. Actually one exception...Miki found a possum in my yard once. Once I got her away I went back and checked on it to make sure it was breathing and didn't have any wounds. It was just playing dead and was gone an hour later. And I grabbed a blackbird that had its head stuck in our bird feeder at work. He was hanging by his neck and I just held him up and kept him from thrashing while someone else cut him free, then immediately let him fly off. But I'd only touch them if it was life or death and I could do so safely. Otherwise they're way better off if we leave them alone

I've done the same with some local wild life. At our old house, we fed the birds. That included the canadian geese that mosied on up from the pond down the block, or the wild turkey herd that would wander and graze as they made their way back to their nesting areas daily. And the bird feeders fed the mice which then fed the hawks and falcons. For saying this was the most urban area in the suburbs, I always found it remarkable at the wildlife we had there. And here we have it all. In their natural habitats. Even the river otters on the ravines and muskrats out back busily working along side the beavers. Our pond out back hosts many lay overs for all kinds of migrating birds too. From the sandhill cranes, to egrets to water fowl of all sorts. My favorite are the loon cries or the white swans. They are so rare to see in this area. I'll toss out cracked corn to the ducks and geese in the summer here. And I'll keep a humming bird feeder supplied as we have some of those too. But I've stopped with the other feeders. Too many voles and too many vole issues. I don't mind if they grab a bite to eat from the cracked corn, but bird feeders up by the house is a no go now. Plus the girls (aka cats) can sit and watch the swallows dive for pond bugs.

I hear you Wonder. Even living in a suburban area of a small city there were a lot of critters. Deer, foxes, coyotes, fisher cats and the occasional moose. Lots of birds, groundhogs, beavers etc too. Now I live in a rural area, I’m in the woods and 2 streets down from a lake (I love it, my parents might have thought I was crazy for that), so we’ve basically got everything that lives in NH. Coolest sighting was probably the gray fox I saw a couple years ago, beautiful animal. I do feed the birds too, meaning the mice, squirrels, bunnies and probably turkeys benefit, and the deer are also frequent visitors