Times readers were invited to share their drawings of the avian life around them. Here are more of our favorites. By The New York Times All through the summer, as part of our birding project, The ...

Struck by the contrast of the bird’s silhouette against the gridlike wires ... “My earliest memory of art is looking through the works of John James Audubon and Roger Tory Peterson.” ...

Draw a rough circle in the top right quadrant of a square sheet of paper; this will become the bird’s head. Next to it, starting at 7 o’clock, add an oval twice the size for the body.

FARMINGTON — Like a Alfred Hitchcock movie, the Franklin’s gull dominated the art work submitted by students this year for the 17th annual Davis County Great Salt Lake Bird Festival art contest.