Updating an old logo

A friend of mine is the director for the Bedford Audubon Society, she came to me and asked if I'd be interested in updating their logo.  Of course I would be :)

This was their old logo:

Not awful, but not very good either.



I came up with several options and we narrowed it down to 3:

 

The two are slightly updated versions of what they had and we decided to go out on a limb (pun intended) and give them a completely different 3rd choice, much more sleek and modern.  

They chose to go with....(drum roll please):

I was very happy they went with this one, it was my favorite.  It's nice when the client picks the right one :)