A selections of bird magnets

Hello on this rainy spring day in South Florida!  Theres been a lot of showers and storms coming from the Caribbean and its a good day to be inside and working on projects. One of the things I work on besides from my bird carvings is making what I call "flats".  These are flat pieces of wood carved into a semi-relief sculpture of the bird it represents.  Once they are carved and painted, they can be framed, turned into magnets, pins, keychains, and other accessories.

Here are a few sets that were made into magnets:

Golden Yellow Warbler (Cuban ssp.) and Florida Prairie Warbler

These 2 birds were seen together in the mangrove forest of Key Largo.

A custom set of 4 warblers:  

Black-throated Blue Warbler, Cerulean Warbler, Chesnut-sided Warbler, 

and Black-throated Green Warbler.  

A variety of birds from my summer collection last year. 

Ruddy Turnstone, Common Yellowthroat, Cooper's Hawk (a small male), 

Bobwhite (the darker Florida subspecies), Black Skimmer. 

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Bee Hummingbird charm

Here is a custom Bee Hummingbird charm I made for one of my good Cuban friends here in Miami.  The Bee Hummingbird is a special bird, in that it is the smallest bird in the world!  It measures just over 2 inches, and weighs about .06 oz.  In Cuba, this bird is called Zunzuncito and can be found in various locations throughout the island.

 

Bee Hummingbird , Mellisuga hellinae

Charm. Carved out of basswood and painted with arcylic paints.

German glass eye and brass hook.

 

Another shot of it in my hand. Its hard to imagine this about the actual size of this bird!

DAvesFL - July 2017 Collection

DAvesFL - July 2017 Collection

Flats, all magnets

-Black Skimmer (head)
-Ruddy Turnstone
-Florida Bobwhite (head)
-Common Yellowthroat (SE US subspecies)
-Coopers Hawk (head, small male)

Some of these are available in my Etsy store:
D Aves FL Etsy