mydeadthingsdiary:I feel bad, whenever I think about my collection I often forget about this lil b
mydeadthingsdiary: I feel bad, whenever I think about my collection I often forget about this lil bird! Before I started collecting or even really showing an interest in taxidermy (I used to find taxidermy very creepy and hated the old vacant eyed mounts in museums) and the like, my dad was cycling home from work and found a dead kingfisher along a canal. He brought it home for me and I left it under a flower pot to decompose. Sadly something had a nosey and scatted most of the birds lovely feathers so I didn’t have a chance to save them :( But I do have most of the bones, and this little kingfisher is one of the first specimens in my collection. For a while their bones have moved from box to box and I didn’t really have them on display. They just about fit in a nice little box I picked up at a show, and now they sit on my bones shelf~ -- source link