Ruby-throated Hummingbirds with Trumpet Flower — Framed Piece Mammals Looking through a stand of

Looking through a stand of old Eastern White Cedars toward an autumn valley — Hockley Valley in full October colour

the piece has a softness that suits the subject's domestic industry

The composition is formal and completely confident

A Mourning Dove nests among rhododendron branches — the warm buff-brown plumage pressed close to the ground

the female's warmth rhyming with the russet of the remaining hips

Ruby-throated Hummingbirds with Trumpet Flower — Framed Piece Mammals Looking through a stand ofTwo Ruby throated Hummingbirds at a Trumpet Vine one hovering to feed, one perched and watching the orange red trumpet flowers large and vivid around them. The Trumpet Vine is co evolved with hummingbirds, its flower shape and colour adapted to exactly these birds, and Glen painted the relationship with the same ecological awareness he brought to his columbine hummingbird composition. The two birds allow a comparison of postures: the hovering bird's