Cooper's Hawk — Framed Piece For him A field mouse sits on

A field mouse sits on a fallen log

has here been transformed: Glen returned to the work years later with soft pastel

perfectly camouflaged against the dappled forest floor

This botanical study renders the columbine's complex flower structure with complete accuracy: the five long red spurs

its long spurs evolved to exclude all but the longest bills

Cooper's Hawk — Framed Piece For him A field mouse sits onA Cooper's Hawk perches on a dead oak branch, hunched forward, red eye blazing, the rufous barred breast pressed against the bark. This 1982 watercolour is an exercise in raptor authority the hawk owns the branch, the autumn leaves behind it are secondary, the viewer is assessed and found uninteresting. Glen captured the species' characteristic intensity: these are birds that are always watching. Glen spent years observing raptors both from field