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Artist's NoteNote
Barry Van Dusen visited Mass Audubon's Flat Rock Wildlife Sanctuary in Fitchburg on June 17, 2015. This is an excerpt from his blog post about the visit:
HIGH ROCKY GROUND
The mountain laurel is in full bloom as I hike up the Loop Trail at Flat Rock Wildlife Sanctuary in Fitchburg. I admire the many stately beech trees in the forest here, their smooth gray bark dappled with sunlight. Ovenbirds and towhees sing from the understory.
As I near the power lines on the Link Path, I hear the unmistakable song of a Prairie Warbler (certainly one of the easiest of the warbler songs to learn and remember). With gentle pishing sounds I lure the bird closer until it's singing from the top of a white pine right above my head. I sketch furiously as it moves to nearby oaks, singing all the while. --Barry Van DusenNote Type
Curator's NoteNote
This artwork was created for Van Dusen's artist-in-residence project at Mass Audubon, which culminated in the book, Finding Sanctuary.