Dovekie

I think that I will be getting a drill press for the stop motion project and also because it would be useful for other pieces as well.

Art 

goal for the week 8 hours

Today

cleaning

get a drill press ?

Animal

Photo by Alastair Rae

The Dovekie (alle alle) is a robin sized bird that is one of the smallest members of the auk family. They are odd as they are specialized filter feeders that strain plankton through tiny tooth-like structures in their beak. The live in the northern arctic, with greenland being their main stronghold they can range as far south as new Jersey in the winter. They breed in very large colonies numbering in the millions, and their plumage changes fairly dramatically during the breeding season. They are occasionally driven off course in very large numbers by storms in one case in 1930, 1000 dovekies were found in Sydney Australia.