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I’m so in love with this little guy that I simply had to do a second version. He was such a little fellow in such a big storm, plumped against the cold but unruffled — intrepid, birdly, brave. So here is Plumpster II …

As a rule, I don’t draw from other people’s photographs (though I shamelessly plunder wildlife videos). But when my friend Andrea Carlisle posted a photograph of a varied thrush that had landed on her deck after the recent snowstorm in Portland, I fell in love and couldn’t help myself. This one’s for you, dear friend. (Plumpster is Andrea’s word, and I love that, too.)