Casey Girard

@riverthrushstudio.bsky.social

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Illustrator, Birder, Non-binary, Autistic. Retail and wholesale available. Nature & Outdoors is for Everyone!

A fluffy growth on a young white oak branch. The growth is a fluffy ball that is yellowish with pink spots of tuft.
A sketchpage of 5 American Toads drawn in a rough rich brown pencil line with loose pencil limited color palette for fill. The name Anayxrus americanus is in the top left corner. Centered in the top is an adult toad looking right in a 3/4 view sitting fairly flat to the ground. It is an orange based coloration. The 5 colors are along the right edge in dots. The row down is two more toads. The one on the left is sitting upright looking left; it is yellow orange with olive green shading. The toad on the right is walking to the left in a 3/4 view, it is a green based coloration. The last row is an adult toad on the left sitting flat to the ground in profile looking right, it is orange coloration. The final toad is on the right it is a juvenile in profile moving left, it is greenish with visible black and white striping in its legs.
Casey's hand holding a Valley Oak leaf backwards over a sun lit tree trunk. They flip the leaf around to show a Western Screech Owl perched looking left painted on the front.
A page of sketches in a rich brown pencil lines of California Quails. There are 8 birds drawn, three along the top are smaller than the rest. The larger 6 are generally sized correctly together and have color, done with loose pencil sketch, using dark brown, blue grey, light yellow, and light umber. The top three birds are running from right to left, each in a different stage of a run. The first largest bird is standing facing forward, its head breaks between the running birds, it is male. Below him is a female, walking to the left in profile. Along the left edge are three juvenile birds, their feet vanish behind each other as they are moving in space down the page, the top bird is a borb facing forward and slightly right, the middle bird is in profile walking to the right, and the last in bending to forage facing right. The words Callipepla californica are written in italics above the female and juveniles.
Casey’s hand holding a wide Ginkgo leaf down and backwards over winter plants, full of seed heads. They flip the leaf around to show a painting of a male and female 
Northern Cardinal, the male on the right, female on the left. They are in their courtship display with the male's beak between the open beak of the female.
Caseys hand holding a leaf backwards and down over an evergreen with snow cover. They flip the leaf around to show a perched Barn Owl painted on the front.
A page of drawings of Common Ravens. Some of the birds are only done with a rich brown pencil line and three of the birds have color added. There are 7 birds across the page. The top three birds are all drawn slightly smaller. The top left corner has two birds perched next to each other on a rock. Both birds are in profile looking left, one with its back to the left and one with its belly. These birds are line only. To the right of them is a flying Raven, going to the right. It is filled in with black color except for its feet being slightly visible. Below them are two birds each on the ground. The bird on the left is walking forward with its bill open one foot raised and its wings open slightly. It has color added. The bird to the right is in profile as it looks back to the left, drawn only with line. Below these birds are two more. The bird on the left is only line, in profile looking down at a rabbit body under its feet. The last bird on the right is drawn smaller, it is perched on a large fence post in profile looking back to the left.
A flat pile of fall leaves of many colors, reds, oranges, tans, yellows, and brown with a layer of leaves on top of them, each with a bird painted on it. There is a Great Horned Owl on a Hickory leaf, a Great Blue Heron on a Black Cherry leaf, a Blue Jay on a Serviceberry leaf, a Northern Cardinal male on a Beech leaf, an Indigo Bunting on a Tulip Tree leaf, an American Goldfinch on a Sycamore leaf, a Ruby-throated Hummingbird on a Serviceberry leaf, a Barred Owl on a Serviceberry leaf, a flying Carolina Chickadee on a Sycamore leaf, a Carolina Wren on an Elm leaf and a Tufted Titmouse on a Black Cherry leaf.
ID A grouping of 7 fall leaves. Each has a painting of a bird on it. The center leaf is largest, it is a Maple leaf with a flying Northern Cardinal. Now top left clockwise around, is a Serviceberry leaf with a Tufted Titmouse standing looking left. Then a Red Maple leaf with a flying Ruby-throated Hummingbird. Next a Birch leaf with a Barred Owl perched looking backwards. Then a Fothergilla leaf with a Cedar Waxwing perched looking left. Next a Maple leaf with a perched female Belted Kingfisher looking off to the left. Finally a Maple leaf with an American Crow perched looking forward and left.
Casey’s hand holding a White Oak leaf backwards in front of a large tree trunk. They flip the leaf around to show a painting for a male Pileated Woodpecker perched along a tree, looking to the left.
A page of drawings of Snowy Plovers. There are 7 birds visible on the page, two of the birds are squished together. There are basically three rows each with an adult bird and a juvenile bird. The first row has an adult first, standing head up in profile looking left then a juvenile in profile running to the left with the back leg up in a right angle. The words Anarhynchus rivosus are just above the first bird which is a juvenile running into the middle of the page in a three quarter view. Next to this bird is an adult in profile looking right with a juvenile shoving itself into the adults breast feathers, you can see the juveniles legs and some of its lower body. The final row has an adult foraging one leg down one leg up head down towards the ground going left to right. There is a juvenile on the right mirroring the adult except both legs are down. Both birds' front legs are angling further out towards the middle.
A white hand holding a toad on top almost like a perched bird. there is a foot in the background and dog toys and bed
ID A photo of 7 leaves grouped together. Each leaf has a painting of a bird on it. The background is black. There are basically two rows, the top row is a Black Cherry leaf with an Eastern Phoebe painted perched looking let. Next is a Serviceberry Leaf with an American Robin painted, perched looking right (SOLD). The middle leaf is a Maple leaf with a flying American Crow, going right to left. The final leaf in this row is a Maple leaf with a perched male Northern Cardinal body facing left while it looks right (SOLD). The lower row starting on the left is a Birch Leaf with a Downy Woodpecker holding to a trunk. The middle leaf is a Sycamore leaf with a Red-tailed Hawk soaring, mostly centered with its head looking left. The final leaf is a Tufted Titmouse perched looking left.
ID Casey's hand holding a small birch leaf in front of flowering late boneset. The leaf is backwards then it is flipped to show a Downy Woodpecker painted on the front. It is perched body in profile looking left.
a sketchpage of Atlantic Puffins. There are 6 birds drawn in the space, three flying drawn smaller, two standing drawn much larger and one head only that is drawn the largest. The words Fratercula arctica is in the top left corner. Down the left side is a bird taking off with its wings open and its feet down angling towards the right. Below this is a bird that is flying, coming in for a landing, its feet and wings are out, towards the right also. In the bottom left corner is the bird head, it is looking forward with its cheeks puffed out and its bill closed, head angled slightly up. Then there are two birds standing in profile looking left. The lower is full profile with its bill slightly open. The bird behind this one and higher on the page has its body in profile to the left and it is looking in a 3/4 view to the left. The final bird is flying into the page from the right with its wings and feet out.
Casey's hand holding a Black Cherry leaf backwards in front of Button Bush plants and a blue sky. They flip the leaf to show an Eastern Phoebe painted on it, perched looking left.
a photo of numerous fall leaves each with a painted bird on it on a black background. There are six leaves two each per row, top row left is a Maple leaf with a perched American Crow(SOLD), leaf 2 is a Tulip leaf with a perched Indigo Bunting. Row 2 starts with an Eastern Screech Owl in a tree cavity on a Serviceberry leaf and leaf 2 is a Maple leaf with a perched Northern Cardinal male (SOLD). The last row starts with a Beech leaf with a swimming Common Loon (SOLD) and finally a Canada Warbler on a Birch leaf.
A white hand holding a larger yellow birch leaf backwards then flipping it to show an American Crow painted on the front perched looking down to the left. Behind are jewelweed and dead heads of hydrangea.
A page of drawings of Hawaiian Birds. Three birds still have populations and four birds are extinct. Listed by each bird is their Hawaiian name, status, number of birds left or when the bird was last seen. The top left bird is a perched Palila, a grosbeak like bird with a yellow head and upper breast and gray across its wing and tail with yellow highlights. The top right is an ‘ō’ō’ā’ā’, it is a black bird with yellow above the leg feathers, it has a longer thin slightly downturned bill, and a light eye. The bird is perched looking alert tail up in profile looking to the right. Below this bird is a Kiwikiu, it is clasping a branch hanging down from it with its tail up. The bird is overall yellow with a darker patches like stripes from the head top and eye, with a yellow stripe above the eye. Below this bird is a ‘Ula’-ai-hāwane, a red, black and grey bird, the grey is on the nap and as light ends of the feathers across the head, black in the flight feathers, upper breast and tail, then red in the belly and shoulders. It is perched in profile looking to the right. The lowest bird on the right side is hanging, belly towards the visitor, onto a stick that is up and down, as it looks off to the left. The bird has a yellow head and a greenish body that is lighter across its belly. The middle bird that is larger standing from the bottom with its head reaching to the almost top of the page, is a shorebird, the Hawaiian Stilt, that is black and white with long pink legs. Its body faces to the right as it looks back to the left. It has a straight dark bill and a the dark feathers run along the back, up the neck and down into the face leaving a white patch above the bill through the throat across the belly to undertail. The last bird, the Kākāwahie is in the lower left corner, it is perched, in profile looking to the right. It is a bright red bird with a short thin slightly hooked warm yellow bill.
Casey's hand holding a birch leaf backwards over jewelweed. They flip the leaf to the front showing a Canada Warbler, a mostly grey warbler with a yellow breast into the face, broken by a black necklace, with a strong white eye ring, painted on the front perched looking right.
ID A sketchpage of Hawaiian birds with their names next to them. The title Hawaiian Birds is in the top left corner. All the birds are drawn with a rich brown pencil line and limited colors, each bird with about three colors. The top left bird is the ‘Akiapōlā’au, it is a yellow honey creeper with a long thin hooked top bill. It is perched in profile looking right. The top right corner bird is the Ākohekohe, it is a large honey creeper with overall dark feathers with orangish sections at its nap, over wing, eye ring, and spot near where the tail starts. It also has white feather tips across its belly and a white feather tuft curling over its bill. The bill is straight. It is in profile perched looking left. Below this bird is the Hawai’i Elepaio, a small flycatcher with an upturned tail. It is overall warm brown with black and white feathers in its tail wing and face. It is perched looking left in profile. Across from this bird is the Aniānau, it is a small honeycreeper with a pinkish slightly hooked bill. The males are yellow, this is a male, it is drawn perched in profile looking right. In the middle to the bottom is a Nēnē, which is a goose. It is walking from the left corner towards the right, making its head in profile while the viewer sees across its back. It has a similar pattern to a Canada Goose but there are lighter edges to its body and wing feathers. Then, the light color that goes up the neck into a cheek patch is tan with an even warmer cheek. The dark head color is brown and goes all the way down the back of the neck with stripes through the light zone of the neck. Its bill is smaller and grey. The final bird is in the lower right corner. It is a Laysan Finch, which is a long legged finch for walking on the ground, and is overall yellow with a white under tail and dark edging on the inside of the feathers in its wing and tail feathers. Its bill is chonky and conicle shaped. #AvianAugust is written in the lower left corner.
A sketch page of drawings of Hawaiian birds that are listed in #AvianAugust from @cookiedoves I wrote their Hawaiian names instead of scientific names next to each bird. The ‘Io is in the top left corner. It is perched looking right, this is a thicker buteo hawk with a brown head and wing with some brown feathers across a light breast. In the right corner down through the right side is the flying Ua’u, a petrel, it is white under wing and belly with warm grey over its head in its primaries, back of wing, and across its back and tail. Between the hawk and petrel are two forest birds, the Akikiki, a greyish creeper bird with a light belly and throat, in profile looking right. Below it is the Ōma’o, a thrush that is warm brown over its head, back, wings and tail with a cool grey belly. It is standing looking left in a very thrush stance. Along the bottom left corner is a Manu-o-kū, a white tern. To its name it is all white with a blue to black pointy bill, a large black shiny eye and blue webbed feet. It is drawn in profile looking left. The final bird is the Hawaiian Common Gallinule, it is walking to the right while looking back to the left. It is a black to brownish bird with long yellow legs and long toed feet, with some red towards the top of the left and a red shielded bill with a yellow tip.
A drawing of an I’iwi, a mostly red bird with black primary and tail feathers and a hooked orange bill. It is perched looking left atop a branch of māmane, a yellow hooded flower with bipinnately compound leaves. The background is a light blue.
A sketchpage of Marbled Godwits. These are long legged, long billed shorebirds with a warm feather hue overall with barring throughout their wing and back feathers and some edging down into the breast. The bill shape is straight with a very slight upturn and it is pink from the top shifting to a dark grey near the tip. The breast is mostly clear with warm or light feathers. There are four birds drawn. The top left corner bird is in flight, wings downwards, going left to right. The next bird is standing facing forward angled towards the left. Its bill rests just over its breast. The next bird is mostly in profile looking left. It has one foot rising but still under water, and it is slightly opening its bill. The final bird is wading from left to right with the body and head in full profile. The name Limosa fedoa is on the left side between the two birds. There are also four dots along the left edge showing the spot colors.
A drawn designed image of a California Condor, a Turkey Vulture and a Black Vulture over a wooden carved sign that says family in small cursive letters above the bold capital letters of Cathartidae. The California Condor is at the top looking right standing with its wings and mouth open. The front wing angles back to the left leading down into the Turkey Vulture. This bird is standing with its wings open. The left wing is angling down to the left and the right is open to the right into the Black Vulture. The Black Vulture is stalking off to the right. With its wings fluffed and open as it walks with its foot outstretched in step. Around the top of the California Condor are two arches that resemble rib bones, but are designed to look like part of the wooden carved sign. The image is a limited color palette of black, warm brown, grey and rich brown pencil lines.
A page of drawings of Dunlin, a larger peep with a mid length, slightly downturned bill. The drawing has stylized the birds, four are larger birds on the ground and five are small birds in flight along the edges all flying in toward the middle. Each bird in flight is slightly different, the top left bird has wings down. To the right of this is one of the larger walking birds. It is walking right to left, it has breeding plumage which is rufous feathers across its wings and a black belly patch. Below it are the words Calidris alpina and a bird in flight, wings open, on the right. To the left of these is a larger walking bird, right to left, up right looking slightly back. It is in winter plumage which is a grey head, collar, back and wings with a white belly. There is a bird in flight to the left, wings open. Below this is another bird in breeding plumage walking left to right head down. On the right of this is a bird in winter plumage standing upright taking a look around in profile looking left. To the right of this is a bird in flight. There is also one last bird in flight in the lower left corner. The spot colors, black, grey, rufous and warm tan are in dots at the bottom.
A page of sketchy drawings of Black Oystercatchers. There are four birds on the page, two along the top and two along the bottom. The words Haematopus Bachmani is in the middle with 5 spot colors in dots under them. The top two birds are in flight away into the top left corner with ocean spray around them. Their wings are out so you mostly see their pale legs flailing under them. The two lower birds are larger and both walk along coastal rocks. The one on the left is walking away looking to the right, head in profile. The one on the right is walking to the right in profile with one leg up one leg down.
ID A birch leaf held backwards in front of a PawPaw tree. The leaf is flipped around to show a perched male Painted Bunting in profile to the left.
A sketchpage of Surfbirds, a drawing done with a rich brown pencil line, and three colors, medium grey, yellow and orange. There are four birds on the page, set up as a pair of birds in two interaction poses. The top two birds are breast to breast with their tails slightly up, heads off in different directions as the bird on the left is lower with its bill open. The bird on the right has its head facing to the right, we can just see the edge of its head. The lower two birds are facing each other in almost a mirror image, heads are down with their tails up as they walk together. There are designed splashes around them.
Casey holding a long warm orange Tupelo leaf backwards in-front of a river with river cane. They flip the leaf around to show an Osprey painted on it. The bird is perched facing forward.
Aposter of the western sparrows of North America. They are individually drawn and collected onto this poster. The poster is hanging on a grey wall.
A page of Sparrows, there are three, each perched up on a grass stalk. The words Ammospiza maritima are along the top. There are two grass seed stalks along either side mirroring each other. The bird on the left is upright and takes up the full top to bottom. It is standing tall on its stalk body facing forward as it looking forward, head in profile. It is a juvenile bird. The bird on the upper right is perched in profile towards the right as it looks back to the left with its head, this is an adult bird. The lower right bird is perched to the left with its tail upright more like a wren, it is a juvenile bird. These birds are all greyish brown over all with a yellow lore, light malar stripe and throat patch. The juvenile have some breast checking.
Caseys hand holding a leaf in front of ninebark along the river. The leaf is a triangular sycamore leaf. They flip it around to show a Green Heron in profile walking left painted on the front.
A page of sparrows in varying poses. These are all Bachman’s Sparrows, they have a thicker longer bill for a sparrow with a longer tail. Their pattern is almost speckled tan and rufous patterns with a buff breast. There are three birds that are drawn smaller and two that are drawn larger. The top left corner is one of the smaller birds, it is perched looking away to the right. To the right of this bird is one of the larger birds, it is in profile looking left singing to the sky. Puecaea aestivalis is written to the right of this bird. Below these is a bird launching into flight from a perch to the left. Its wings are catching the air and this bird is drawn larger. Then there is a bird in each lower corner, they are both in perch bodies facing their corners. The bird on the left is ending singing and looking relaxed. The bird on the rights head is facing forward and it looks around.
A floral wreath circling a Mother Mallard and ducklings. The flowers are Ninebark, Tulip Tree flower, Bleeding Heart, and Dwarf Crested Irises wrapping from the left down around to the right corner. The ducks are swimming out from the wreath to the left, Mom in back ducklings spread out across the left lower corner. The words Happy Mother’s Day is between Mom duck and the wreath.
ID A Maple leaf pointing down over a plant of geraniums. The leaf is flipped around to show a Carolina Wren standing facing right.
a cicada emerging from its nymph exoskeleton. the emerging insect is mostly yellow with red eyes and blacm spots above them.
A page of drawings of Two spotted Bumble Bees and Rhododendron flowers, a pinkish-purple variety, probably a cultivar of Catawba Rhododendron. In the top left corner is the name Bombus bimaculatus next to a flying bee, its wings split forward and backward as it flies to the right, with its tongue visibly out. It moves towards a left facing Rhododendron flower with water drops across its lower petals. The drawing includes the base of this flower cluster, with unopened buds and lines of the leaves. Rhododendron is written along it. To the left of this and lower is a full inflorescence of rhododendron flowers drawn smaller. To the left of this are the words buzz pollination, written going down the page. There is then a full flower facing open and to the left with a bee flying into it from the right. In the lower left corner are the words, while there is pollination most reproduction from stolons, which is clonal. In the lower right corner is another flower with a bee crawling into it.
a spring photo of a black gold and red cicada on a daffodil leaf with a geranium leaf under it. There are two ex skeletons on the daffodil leaves behind it.
A very small beetle with antenna that have feather like arts coming off of only one side of them. The shell wings have two lumps towards the top. It is a overall dark little beetle.
A hand holding a birch leaf pointed down and backwards in front of a river with bare banks. The leaf is flipped around to show a Great Blue Heron painted on the front.
A page of Ruddy Turnstones drawn in a sketchy style of a rich brown line and spot colors of rufous, black, and light orange. There are 5 birds. The top left corner has the words Arenara interpres, the bird’s scientific name. The first couple birds are in breeding plumage, so their face and wing feathers are fully saturated rufous and black. The top right corner bird is blorb form, this bird is running away so you see a circular body shape from behind with front foot reaching forward and back foot open and pushing off. There is then a bird lower on the left side. It is a profile view of it moving to the left with some sand blocking the full view of its legs. Below this bird to the right are two birds overlapping. Their color is muted as they are in winter plumage. Each bird is walking to the right, the top one is in profile, the other is in 3/4 view walking away. The final bird is breeding colors walking to the left and forward. It has one leg down and one up walking.
Casey holding a Birch Leaf backwards over pink geraniums. They flip the leaf around to show a perched male Hooded Warbler looking to the left as its body faces right.
Id A sketch page of three species of birds, words and two spring tree branches. The top left corner has three flying Tree Swallows, drawn the smallest as if at a distance. Tachycineta bicolor is to the right of them. Spring is written in lime green to the left of them. Under them are two Rough-winged Swallows, perched. One looking towards the viewer with its head in profile left the other looking right. There is a speech bubble that says ‘we sound like fairy farts’. To the right of them is a hornbeam just leafing out branch. The words Stelgidopteryx serripennis are under them. To the right and below them is a male Ruby-throated hummingbird in forward hover, looking right. The words Archilochus colubris is under him and to the left of him is a small branch of a spring Maple.
A grouping of leaves on a black background. Each leaf has a painting of a bird on it. In a circle around a center leaf top left around, a Black Cherry Leaf with a Carolina Chickadee perched looking left. A Beech leaf with a Blue Gray Gnatcatcher in a downward perch looking right. A Serviceberry Leaf with a singing Carolina Leaf looking left. A Black Cherry Leaf with a Blue Jay perched looking left. A Tulip Poplar leaf with a perched Gray Catbird. A downward pointing Birch leaf with a perched Eastern Phoebe looking right. A Black Cherry Leaf with a standing Great Blue Heron looking left. The center leaf is a Maple with a soaring Red-tailed Hawk.
Caseys handing holding a Tulip Poplar leaf backwards in front of a leafing Trillium. they flip the leaf to show a perched Catbird looking to the left painted on it.
A page of drawings of Field Sparrows, a light colored bird with a pink bill. It has warm tones throughout its back and head. There are 5 sparrows all in varied perches. The top left bird is upright and singing, facing right in profile. Under this bird is the scientific name Spizella pusilla. The top right corner bird is in a hop, coming down to the right in a 3/4 view with its tail up. Between these two birds and a bit below them is a bird, body facing away to the left as it looks back, in a resting perch, tail down. The two birds along the bottom over lap. They are both perched on long grass stalks foraging for seeds. The one on the left is in profile parallel to the ground looking towards the leaf with its head looking down. The one on the right is looking right parallel to the ground, but head and tail up.
a bare section of wood with a fuzzy fly perched on it. the fly has a dark body with outer yellow fuzz and a long proboscis.
Casey's fingers visibly holding a leaf up in front of a redbud, other spring trees and a blue sky. They flip the leaf around to show a perched Red-Tailed Hawk painted on it.
A sandy river bottom with a back bear foot track next to a size 6 womens foot in a brown boot with grey pants.