A dark-eyed junco (common backyard bird). The eNature link: Search “junco” on iNaturalist or the archived eNature content via the Wayback Machine.
One curved dash for the dome of the back/breast. Dash 2 – The Tail: A straight, slightly downward dash. Dash 3 – The Head: A smaller dash overlapping the front of the body. a little dash of the brush enature link
That’s it. You have drawn a bird. You have not drawn it “correctly,” but you have drawn its felt presence . Now write the scientific name ( Junco hyemalis ) next to it. You have just created your own little dash of the brush eNature link. The original “a little dash of the brush enature link” may have been a broken hyperlink, a mis-typed memory, or a dream from the early internet. But meaning is not found in a 404 error. It is found in the act of recovery. A dark-eyed junco (common backyard bird)