Avians | Jeffrey Neel McDaniel

Winter Whooper
Watercolor, Paper, 11 x 14
Slowly and Stately
Oil, Canvas, 22 x 28
Beach Combing
Oil, Panel, 10 x 8
Surfing the Hurricane
Oil, Canvas, 8” x 10”
Spoonbills in the Mist
Oil, 24 x 36
Show-Off
Oil, Canvas, 36 x 48 x 1.5. Some of my favorite coastal characters, these white pelicans have a presence that can be both alternately ultra serious and comical. They are somewhat awkward on the ground but in flight thei…
Harassed Hawk
Watercolor, Paper, 9” x 12” x .08. Spring nesting season brings out the protective instincts of flycatchers who will drive away predators who are much larger than them…
Moondancer Series/
Oil, Canvas, 48 x 36 x 2
Godwit Study
Watercolor, Paper, 16 x 12
Sanderling Study
Watercolor, Paper, 16 x 12
Willet Study
Watercolor, Paper, 16 x 12
Dive Bombing the Laguna
Oil, Canvas, 30 x 24 x 3/4
Falcon Head Study
Oil, Canvas, 20 x 16 x 3/4
Pelican Paradise, Padre Island
Oil, Canvas, 16 x 20
Late Evening Whoopers
Oil, Canvas, 16 x 20 x 3/4
Nosy Neighbor
Oil, Canvas, 24 x 30 x 1.5
Falcon in Flight Study
Pencil, Paper, 20 x 16. A quick sketch of a Kestrel in flight
Senatorial
Oil, Canvas, 36 x 48 x 1.5. “The chairman recognizes the esteemed Senator from Texas...”
Fog-Bound Falcon
Oil, Canvas, 20 x 16 x 3/4. This little guy is an American Kestrel , one of my favorite falcons, and can be seen from fall to spring in the coastal bend.it currently is on display in the STAL show at the TAMUCC Antonio…
First Light, Last Spring
Oil, Canvas, 20 x 16 x 1
Aloof
Oil, Canvas, 20 x 16 x 3/4. These birds have a very cool attitude.
"Moonstruck"
Acrylic, Canvas, 30" x 24" x 2". Cool Moonlight and a white phase reddish egret caught my eye one eve...
Storm Rider
Oil, Canvas, 30” x 48” x 2”. Whooping cranes were almost extinct, but have made an amazing comeback due to the efforts of many dedicated individuals and groups...
“Padre Island Surf Inspector”
Oil, Canvas, 20” x 16” x 2”. Curlews frequent our beaches during migratory periods in the spring and fall. This one was posing near the National Seashore visitor center recently...
Scissor-Tail, Study
Watercolor, Paper, 14” x 11”
‘Laguna Spirit”
Acrylic, Canvas, 11’’ x 14’’ x 1’
Horned Owl, Study
Charcoal, Paper, 12” x 9”
“No Trespassing!”
Oil, Canvas, 24’’ x 30’’ x 1’’. Fearless Scissor tailed flycatchers do not suffer to allow hawks or other threats to their nest to linger long...This one is dive bombing a red tailed hawk, five times it’s size, to drive…
Playing Hard to Get
Oil, Canvas, 30 x 40. First Place Winner, Works on Canvas. February 2020. Kerrville Art Club, annual member show.
“Strutting His Stuff...”
Oil, Canvas, 24” x 18” x 1”. This great blue heron put on quite a show trying to convince another heron to get off his pier where fish cleaning was about to commence... Eventually he succeeded.
"Moonglow"
Acrylic, Panel, 18" x 24" x 2". Great egret shaking out his feathers...
“Fishing Is Serious Business!”
Oil, Canvas, 20” x 16” x 3/4”
“Shady Character”
Oil, Canvas, 8” x 10” x 1”. Beach characters such as this small shorebird make it interesting to sit an observe their often frenetic behaviors as they hustle their breakfast at the edge of the sand and surf...
Morning Stealth
Oil, Canvas, 18 x 24
''Balancing Act''
Watercolor, Paper, 24'' x 18'' x 1/64''. The Green Backed Heron is an often shy photo subject. Steve Russell had taken us to one of his favorite painting spots near Rockport, and after a morning of painting en PleinAir,…
Ay, Chihuahua
Oil, Canvas, 16 x 20
“Striking a Pose!”
Oil, Canvas, 36” x 36” x 2”. The white phase of the Reddish Egret is no less talented than their reddish kin in using their wings to create shadows which eliminates glare and thus take their prey with greater ease... Th…
“Feeding Time”
Oil, Canvas, 16” x 20” x 2”. “Another pass at a hard working Egret looking for more items in his breakfast buffet...”
“Can I Help You????”
Oil, Panel, 18’’ x 18’’ x 2’’. Long-billed curlews frequent the local beach shorelines in the winter. They have a way of looking over their shoulders as if to say you are starting to irritate them...
“Step by Step”
Oil, Canvas, 10” x 8” x 2”. Black-Necked Stilts are one of many wading and shorebirds which winter here, much to the delight and excitement of bird lovers in the area...
Night Heron
Watercolor, Paper, 20" x 24" x 2". Black Crowned Night Herons are common but rarely spotted during daytime as they have vision adaptations that allow them to hunt and feed in low light conditions. We have found them in…
“Break Time”
Acrylic, Panel, 14’’ x 11’’ x 1/8’’. Older study of one of my favorite subjects
“Pelican Drill Team”
Acrylic, Canvas, 48’’ x 60’’ x 2’’. These guys posed at the Bird Island Boat Basin while awaiting scraps discarded from the fish cleaning station there.
“Indian Point Avocets”
Oil, Canvas, 36’’ x 36’’ x 2’’. Captured these images at Indian Point Park across the bay from Corpus Christi near Portland...
"Soaring"
Watercolor, Paper, 18" x 24" x 1/64". The American Kestral, smallest member of the falcon family, has superb flying skills. We are graced with the presence of many of these diminutive migrants here in the Coastal Bend f…
“Flycatcher”
Oil, Panel, 14’’ x 11’’ x 1/4’’. We see many different species of flycatchers during the spring and fall migration on the spoil islands in the Laguna Madre...
"Regal"
Watercolor, Paper, 24" x 36" x 2". The grace and beauty of the Great Blue Heron are difficult to capture in a 2 dimensional format, but perhaps it can be honored by the attempt to describe the amazing royal presence of…
''Curlew Parade''
Watercolor, Paper, 20'' x 16'' x 2''. Still working on capturing the nonchalance of these wading shorebirds that kept me company while on my residency at the LMFS.
"Packery Channel Brunch Bunch"
Acrylic, Canvas, 30" x 48" x 2". A mixed group of wading birds were busy feeding on a falling tide as we were heading out early one morning on a fishing trip this August. Especially curious to me was the fact that five…
"Bellicose"
Watercolor, Paper, 30" x 24" x 2". The Osprey is a beautiful, streamline, deadly, and efficient fishing machine. Here it is in a territorial pose, warning competitors that they cannot encroach on his feeding grounds...
“The Fishing Guide”
Pastel, Paper, 30 x 22 x 1/32. When fishing the shallow waters of our Laguna Madre, we often get free advice on locations of bait fish by observing the Ospreys who have a much better vantage point...
“ Calming Tides”
Oil, Canvas, 12” x 24” x 2”
“Crowded Beach”
Oil, Canvas, 16” x 20” x 1”. A small traffic jam on the Padre Island National Seashore as these curlews work the Surfline for their dinner...
“Excuse Me?”
Oil, Panel, 20” x 16” x 1/4”. White pelicans always seemed so self confident and self assured it often seems problematic to interrupt them with photography...
"Cleaning Table Critics"
Oil, Canvas, 48" x 48" x 2". Often in winter, our fish cleaning activities are viewed with great interest by the many migrant White Pelicans...
''Stately''
Watercolor, Paper, 24'' x 30'' x 2''. Slowly and with great assurance, the Great Blue Heron demonstrates his sovereignty over the salt flats of the Laguna...
"Blue Moon Baby"
Acrylic, Canvas, 30" x 24" x 2". The egret grooms itself not only for health but for beauty reasons
“Pita Island Courting Crew”
Oil, Canvas, 24’’ x 30’’ x 1’’. The Roseate Spoonbills who live here year ‘round can be found in the spring going through their mating rituals on many of the spoil islands in the Laguna Madre on our cities southern boun…
“Stealthy”
Oil, Canvas, 30” x 24” x 2”
“Paused”
Oil, Canvas, 10” x 8’’ x 2’’
“ Laguna Madre Synchronized Swim Team”
Acrylic, Canvas, 16” x 20” x 2”. These White Pelicans are a common sight around fish cleaning stations around the coastal bend in winter...
“Woodie”
Acrylic, Canvas, 16” x 20” x 3/4”. An earlier commissioned piece for a good friend’s son. Wood ducks are the most colorful member of our Texas duck family...
“On the Edge of Day”
Oil, Canvas, 11” x 14” x 3/4”
“Step Lively !”
Oil, Canvas, 11” x 14” x 10. Here in coastal south Texas,The shore bird show in fall is impressive. This rare visitor is the Red Knot.
Vermillion Fly Catcher Study
Oil, Canvas, 8 x 10
"Poise"
Acrylic, Canvas, 24" x 18" x 2". Egrets can be the most graceful of birds as they study the water while in feeding mode...
“Packery Channel Odd Couple”
Oil, Canvas, 11’’ x 14’’ x 3/4’’. This pair was feeding together one morning on the edge of a estuarine flat near a channel that connects to the Gulf of Mexico...
“Packery Flats Friends”
Acrylic, Canvas, 30” x 48” x 2”. Another take on an interesting morning discovery of six different species of wading birds feeding together...
“Late Winter, Early Morning, Lifting Fog...”
Acrylic, Canvas, 11’’ x 14’’ x 1’’. An older take from 2015 of a Whooping Crane searching for breakfast at the Aransas Wildlife Refuge, the cranes’ winter home.
“Ripples on Still Waters”
Oil, Canvas, 30” x 24’’ x 2’’. Love the light refracted through the egrets feathers and reflected in the water in the first light of day...
“Bird Island Basin Swim Team”
Oil, Canvas, 18” x 24” x 1”. White pelicans often take advantage of scraps from the Padre Island National Seashore boat basin fish cleaning statio...
“Breakfast is When...?”
Oil, Canvas, 14’’ x 11’’ x 3/4’’. The early sun catches a killdeer, a plover family member, as he watches the water’s edge for his morning meal.
“Waiting His Turn”
Watercolor, Paper, 10” x 8” x 1”. Saw this brown pelican posing by the fish cleaning station st Goose Island State Park after taking a boat ride to go see the Whoopjng Cranes at the Aransas Wildlife Refuge. Liked his at…
“Whoop-deee-doo”
Oil, Canvas, 16’’ x 20’’ x 1’’. Whooping cranes have come back from the brink of extinction but still live precariously on the edge of survival... They winter about 50 miles north of us at the Aransas Wildlife center wh…
“Looking Sharp!”
Oil, Canvas, 30’’ x 40’’ x 1’’. The Reddish Egret is a local resident who comes in two color phases... reddish and white. This one was hunting for breakfast every morning while I was an Artist in Residence with the Texa…