Today I went to a friends to drop some flies off and found these in his back garden.
Birds.jpg3 Ducks 3 hens. One of the hen necks was quite badly damaged so I left that. One hen was black with a little brown. My friend wouldn't let me skin the bird but I got the cape off it. The final hen is a dark Greenwell's. Very well marked. I made sure I got the cape off that one. As I don't have any borax I'm drying the skins in salt.

The ducks provided me with lots of large flank feathers for Wally wings. (I will have several hundred Wally Winged Wullfs to tie for a shop I supply in a few months time) and some CdC. I was disappointed that the duck wings were rather tatty so I couldn't utilise those for winging quills. However, I have been told that soon I will be getting several dozen pairs of hen pheasant wings, which I will dye up various colours.

I'm a happy camper today
Cheers,
A.