Drawing Theme: "Save Our Birds"

 "Save Our Birds"

Dr Abe V Rotor

Naturalist and Art Instructor

Amihan is here but where are the birds?*- avr

Participants to a drawing workshop pose with their art works at the Living with Nature garden on November 2, 2025 (All Souls Day).  At the background is an enshrined stone bust of national hero Dr Jose Rizal  depicting his four years exile in Dapitan, a remote place in Mindanao. Besides being a doctor, author, linguist, teacher, Rizal was a lover of nature, a biologist who discovered new species of plants and animals. (Jessel Domingo,  Jhun Ronald L Larca, Ana Rose Peleyre, Lydia Mae Peleyre)

They came, the four of them, after mass.

to say Hello, share the blessings of Undas;

at home, there are drawing materials ready,

and soon they they were very busy.

Let's draw some birds before they're gone,

through art people may understand;

real or symbolic, birds are always beautiful,

emanating from fine art and soul.  

“Keep a green tree in your heart and perhaps a singing bird will come.” 

- Chinese Proverb

 

 

Hornbill or Kalaw, Jay; 

 Lark, Philippine Eagle

"Never give up listening to the sound of birds.” John James Audubon

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* In Rachel Carson's book, Silent Spring, she wrote that if humans continued to use pesticides without limitations, the chemicals would damage the environment. DDT weakened birds' eggshells. If the government didn't set laws to protect the environment, humans would soon experience a "silent spring," without bird noises.~