BDWCA Festival of Bird Art 2017

My apologies for the delay in getting some of the photos from the 2017 show up here. Unfortunately due to my camera packing up there is only a small selection which in the main are from the Advanced class.
Our group did quite well again this year:







Sea Birds & Shore Birds - Intermediate

• Gold - Jim Flinn - Full size Arctic Tern Feeding Young
• Silver - Roger Francis - Flying Sanderling

Song Birds - Intermediate

• Silver - Roger Francis - Violet Eared Humming Bird
• Silver - Roger Francis - Richards Pipit
• Bronze - John Roberts - Starling

Interpretives - Pyrographed/Painted - Intermediate

• Silver - John Roberts - Brown Pelican (Half size)
• Silver - John Roberts - Kestrel
• Bronze - John Roberts - Loon

Decorative Miniatures - Intermediate

• Silver - Roger Francis - Atlantic Brown Pelican (One fifth size)

Group Competition

• Severn Wildlife Carvers - 2nd

The new rules (as published in Wingspan earlier this year) for judging  the group competition were used this year. Talking to people present I got the general feeling that this was a much better and fairer method.
Total entries appeared to be down slightly this year. In particular the Novice class (in my personal view) seemed to be well down on last year! A personal view again, but there seemed to be a significant increase in the number of entries two Interpretive classes!
Look forward to seeing you all at the October meeting.

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