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My research desk! A collection of items picked up around where I have been in the past month. Mostly feathers as birds were in moult for the last couple of weeks. Kestrel feathers, that big feather is a tawny owl, a caperceilidh feather next to the feather box, barn owl feathers, pheasant feathers, eagle owl feathers, a couple of dead swallows, a jays wing, ptarmagin wing, my camera, moss, grasses, ferns, leaves, bark and a foxglove!This is an exciting project.
Also to the left of the table is a jar of honeysuckle with four pheasant tail feathers in it which I'm drawing just now~
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It depends what you want, where you live and if I still have them! This pic was taken and uploaded in 2009... I'm not sure if I still have some of these feathers in my stash.
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You've got a gorgeous collection of owl feathers 
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Thanks! There's a wildlife park near-ish my house and I got a lot of the feathers from there.
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Ooooh, wouldn't be the bird sancturary on the I.O.W would it?
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nope kincraig wildlife park (:
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Ok, thanks
And ooooh, I've just noticed.... Capercaille feather
You lucky thing
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*jealous*
That is an epic collection of feathers.
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right place at the right time!
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You must be a feather magnet.
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All the feathers look lovely! I almost never find bird feathers where I live. D: When I do they're all nasty and beaten up. Your camera is way cool. ;3
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It's sort of a matter of looking at the right time and being in the right place. Although if you live in a desert then that's understandable...
Ty it's a nikon d40, very lovely. I want a macro lens for it |:
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AZ kills. Dl Most of the days here have been 105-115ΒΊF. Nikon d40, that sounds expensive and really good. >u<
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ANYWAYS
I'm jealous of that all
it's a cool picture, those things always excite me, I'm like a little kid seeing water out doors xD
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I know I feel like a museum or an education building at a wildlife park or something. Come kiddies, come, look at my dead birdies hehehe
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xD there used to be a mumified humming bird in the garage at my old house xD he used to make me so hacking excited when I was little, I was all "MOMMY IT'S A COLOURFUL BIRD 8D" we named it kieth.
u.u I wanted to take him down and keep him but psh my parents wouldn't let me
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aw man cos of the mites and stuff i'll bet
that would have been so ace, a hummingbird.. i've never seen a hummingbird in the wild, they don't like the climates of scotland i've heard
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really? D:
There aren't a lot over here, but if you have certain flowers you get to see them 8D last year they LOVED these one bell flowers, I even got one to land one me OTL... and I had many others randomly start attacking me when I was watering the pots D:
we had honey suckles at our old house, so there were always about ten or twelve there at a time xD
<3 they're one of my favorite birds besides cardinals lol
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oh man I've never seen a cardinal either
why are british birds so boring and brown
I saw a crested tit when I was camping, that was great, and rock pippits, but that was about the most interesting thing..
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xD Utah really doesn't have much either... we only got robins and a few pretty birds that everyone likes to make fun of how HIDEOUS they all sound >.>
I've only seen half the cool birds when I visit my sister in Iowa, gosh I love it there ;n; so many squirrels and cardinals xD
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pretty cool, and colourful 
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drawing it i spose, not sure
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FEATHERS. I COLLECTS THOSE /birdnerd
Nice collection =3
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Cool!
Do you know if there's a law against keeping feathers? I heard somewhere that there was but then I read up that it was in America and only for bald eagles or something
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pft you pretty much aren't allowed to do anything to a bald eagle xD so that's understandable... but pretty much all other feathers and such should be fine :b as long as they aren't from endagered birds or something I'm assuming xD cause you can still buy plenty of feathers here and there
'specially at rendezvous and such
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yea i know common birds are fine but I thought all raptors and eagles are off limits... raptors aren't endangered but you're still not allowed to possess harris hawk feathers unless your a falconer? Dunno
still it's the US, UK is different I hope. we don't get bald eagles ):
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xD I was looking at a list I found somewhere else. I don't think anyone really pays attention to that since half the people I know just keep the '
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well the feather trade isn't so big these days anyway and i'll just plead ignorance ;_;
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xD I've never heard of that lololol and I hear all of these laws from my dad xD lolol I should look that up...
*goes to google*
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I've not heard of it (but I don't go out of my way to make sure I'm not breaking any laws *shot at* )
I imagine that would be the case in America cause they looove their bald eagles.
Otherwise, probably not x3
Those swallows are pretty (in a dead way x-x )
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True, same. I just like to cover myself when it's public like this XD
Ya like Britain and swans
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xD I spend a lot of time outside ducking and diving for feathers (even venturing beyond the confines of 'lul get off my grass, you' signs (albeit VERY CAREFULLY)
I wonder if there are people that specifically go out of their way to catch people stealing /feathers/? xD
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I went into a farm to get a lot of feathers but although it's a working farm it's usually abandoned so I was technically trespassing but no one saw me.
That would be hilarious, the feather detectives!
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We have the same camera, lol.
Also, where does one find such an assortment of dead and molting avians?
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well moulting birds just drop their feathers as they fly so you find them everywhere. I found all mine in woods and all the eagle owl feathers in a local wildlife park. they only do it biannually though so you don't find them all the time. And I found the dead swallows in the clock tower at the farm down the road where they evidently get trapped and then get turned into mummies. And the wings were from a gamekeeper-friend. : D
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