Hello!
If you follow this blog expect to find ramblings on the fun and frolicks involved in amateur taxidermy, chunterings on insects and other wildlife I’ve spotted, and possibly mumblings on my Marine & Freshwater BSc that I’m currently studying.
Last week I was in Orkney for a wee holiday + wedding, where Richtea (my partner) and I found loads of cool bones!
There’s a skull of a guillemot, scapula/keel of a cormorant, rabbit skull, cow teeth, part of a cow skull, some unidentified vertebrae, tibia and fibula, possible bird humerus, and if you look closely - a puffin beak! We had to prise the beak cover off a rather grotty decomposed puffin of course. I could have collected so many bird skulls and skeletons as there were loads washed up on the beaches, but I had no penknife to hand to hack them apart and I’m not sure Richtea’s parents would have wanted them in the car.
This weekend we are off to London for another wedding. I plan to visit the Horniman Museum and the Grant Museum of Zoology if we have time as both look awesome and have some great examples of taxidermy. The crystal palace concrete Victorian dinosaurs are also nearby the Horniman but I don’t think we’ll be able to ride them unfortunately. A wee stop at The Last Tuesday Society Little Shop of Horrors may also be in order but unlikely i’ll buy anything as it’s fookin expensive.
If you follow this blog expect to find ramblings on the fun and frolicks involved in amateur taxidermy, chunterings on insects and other wildlife I’ve spotted, and possibly mumblings on my Marine & Freshwater BSc that I’m currently studying.
Last week I was in Orkney for a wee holiday + wedding, where Richtea (my partner) and I found loads of cool bones!
There’s a skull of a guillemot, scapula/keel of a cormorant, rabbit skull, cow teeth, part of a cow skull, some unidentified vertebrae, tibia and fibula, possible bird humerus, and if you look closely - a puffin beak! We had to prise the beak cover off a rather grotty decomposed puffin of course. I could have collected so many bird skulls and skeletons as there were loads washed up on the beaches, but I had no penknife to hand to hack them apart and I’m not sure Richtea’s parents would have wanted them in the car.
This weekend we are off to London for another wedding. I plan to visit the Horniman Museum and the Grant Museum of Zoology if we have time as both look awesome and have some great examples of taxidermy. The crystal palace concrete Victorian dinosaurs are also nearby the Horniman but I don’t think we’ll be able to ride them unfortunately. A wee stop at The Last Tuesday Society Little Shop of Horrors may also be in order but unlikely i’ll buy anything as it’s fookin expensive.
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