With its diverse habitats, Vancouver’s Stanley Park is the home to hundreds of species of animals, including as many as 230 species of birds that can be seen and heard within its diverse landscape of forests, wetlands and seashores. Visitors to the park can be treated to charming scenes much like that shown in this work, a mother bird swimming through one of the many ponds with her young ones. As one brings up the rear, likely squawking some displeasure at being last in line, the Mother floats towards some vegetation at the shore line, The entire scene is sharp in black and red formline, but the tenderness shows through nonetheless.