Birds were considered the harbingers of spring thus they were a commonplace pysanka motif. Birds of all kinds are the messengers of the sun and heaven. They are usually portrayed on pysanky perched; swallows, though, are shown in flight.


These are some of my non-folk bird pysanky.

Birds

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