Nests - Susan Ogilvy

A unique celebration of the architectural ingenuity of birds, by an acclaimed illustrator. Susan Ogilvy started painting bird nests almost by accident. One day, while tidying up her garden after a storm, she found a chaffinch nest--a strange, sodden lump on the grass under a fir tree. She carried it inside and placed it on a newspaper; over the next few hours, as the water drained out of it, the sodden lump blossomed into a mossy jewel. She was amazed, and dropped everything to make a painting of the nest at exact life size. This was the start of an obsession; Ogilvy has since painted more than fifty bird nests from life, each time marveling at its ingenious construction. Every species of bird has its own vernacular, but sources its materials--most commonly twigs, roots, grasses, reeds, leaves, moss, lichen, hair, feathers, and cobwebs, less usually, mattress stuffing
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