2014 NFSS Census in U.S. and Canada

[Colt]

Yay! Lots of people participating. If you wouldn't mind, pm me with your address and I'll get to work on everyone's participation reward...lol If you have a preference on a sketch or poem/short story you can indicate that. I will try to make everything bird related unless you indicate otherwise.

Sally KarenB Delray finchandlovebird jebediah Hilary (and thank you so much for the compliments on my artwork) WrenNAustinTX

lovezebs - I can't believe you aren't jumping at a chance to get a portrait of Jaxom or Sharra perched on the fire heights of Ruatha Hold...lol

[Colt]

Sick again. Working on sketches slowly but surely. If anyone else has completed the Census be sure to let me know.

[Jen]

Done! Entered all my info!

[Colt]

Well here is the first sketch done for Sally so I'll be mailing it out this week.

[KarenB]

Very nice. She'll like that.

[Colt]

I hope so. You can tell what it is right? Haha it's a little harder without colors and I'm not in love with the bill but if I fiddle with it anymore I'm bound to ruin the sketch.

[Chris103]

Great artwork you guys! Colt beautiful job, Sally will love it! Thanks to everyone who participated! I think as breeders/owners we have a responsibility to take part in things like this....

Just completed mine a few days ago and. ...I have WAY more birds than I thought lol! I had a good idea on most of my birds...until I went to catch and count Almost 150 Zebras!!! It didnt look like that many in a huge aviary...but once I had them caged, it was more than obvious! Should have snapped a few pictures...although a shower was the only thing on my mind. I looked like a statue frequented by pigeons haha!

Looks like I'll have to change brackets when I renew my license to sell. Currently I'm licensed under the 1-100 mark...

[Colt]

Chris103 - You have a license? What requires you to have one of those?

Also thank you. I'm hoping she does.

[Sally]

Colt I love it! But I haven't completed my count yet. After telling everyone else to do so, here I am, haven't gotten around to it yet. Better get it done this week.

[Colt]

Haha Sally! I'm glad you like it but shame on you...lol Could have sworn you' finished it. Oh well, guess you get it for reminding all of us to do it.

Su and Helen are getting one as well. Thinking I'll do a male or pair of Purple Grens for Su. Not sure what to do for Helen. lol

Hoping you can tell what it is. Without color it was much harder to do but I'm terrible with the cheap pencils. I need to get some nice ones like Karen. And I thought "The Strawberry Patch" was a nice touch. Hope it was ok to use it in the sketch. You could use it as your aviary pic or something for marts or whatever.

[Sally]

Finally! I did my census count this evening and got it entered at the NFSS website. Don't know why I kept putting it off, didn't take that long to count once I got started.

[delray]

Sally i procrastinate all the time, especially when it comes to studying lol.

Once a procrastinator, always a procrastinator. ;)


How's everything with you? I just got my tooth pulled today is preparation for my braces. it will be worth getting them in the end.

[Colt]

lol Sally. And now that you've counted I'm sure you're itching to get birds paired up and breeding...lol I know I was. I still haven't mailed yours yet, as I've been working on finishing Su's up as well. And then lightly working on some others.

I'll continue to post finished sketches here and if anyone else completes to Census and would like a sketch pm with your mailing address and a potential preference.

[Sally]

delray Ouch, but it will be worth it in the end. When I was growing up, braces were a real luxury, so only the rich kids in town got braces--lots of crooked teeth in my generation!

Yes, I am a huge procrastinator. It has gotten me in trouble more than once.

[delray]

Sally yeah, it will be. That's too funny. Now it's so common these days, almost everyone where's braces.

I've gotten a lot better at doing my homework right away, but studying like I said is my bad procrastination comes in. Wait, I have a science test to study for!