Cooper's Hawk — Framed Piece For him That patience reads in every

That patience reads in every feather

A field mouse sits on a fallen log

A jaguar cub in the rainforest canopy — draped over a branch

The male's plumage is rendered with the chromatic discipline this subject demands: Indigo Buntings are not blue in the pigment sense but in the structural sense

Glen Loates is a member of the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts whose bird studies extend across all of Canada's ecological regions

Cooper's Hawk — Framed Piece For him That patience reads in everyA 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