This year I entered the World Championship of Bird Carving and won a Blue Ribbon in Advanced Songbirds with this Variegated Fairy-wren. The Championship is sponsored by the Ward Museum of Wildfowl Art in Salisbury, Maryland.
I enjoyed carving this bird because of it's spirited pose and beautiful colors.
The bird and rock are both carved from basswood.
Variegated Fairy-wrens are highly sociable birds found throughout most of Australia.
