The base for this piece has a small plaque that reads "Salt Creek Greenwing". Salt Creek Waterfowl Management Area was a favorite haunt of mine during our years in Utah, and I shot a lot of greenwings there. I used to hunt the north end of the marsh, and late in the season greenwings would sit south of the point I hunted, on the ice edge where the creek flowed through. The pattern for this piece was a full page photo I found on the back of an old North Dakota Fish and Game magazine.

The bird is hollow and carved from basswood and painted in acrylics. The "ice" is made from painted masonite covered with Envirotex and artificial snow, while the water is cast from Envirotex.