"Whatcha doing today?"

"Making birds."

"What?"

"Making birds."

These are actually based on data, though there is some way to go to get their shapes matched to species.

Then I'm going to render ~40,000 of them into an image!

Next step is to map them to the actual size of the birds. Then to adjust shape (going to do gulls, ducks/geese, raptors, others).

Then map the counts the Brooklyn Christmas Bird Count numbers from 1981-2019.

Ok, taking a break. Scales are real, but realizing I need more bird types.

Getting flocky.

Going to spend the night thinking about wings. I love the simple look of the triangle ones from the beginning, but it just doesn't work for some birds.

I'll let my brain work on it in the background for a while.

Some birds are better than others.

I was pretty lazy in the first round of color picking, and it shows.