I think I've told everyone I've ever met about how I work at the Peabody Museum on Thursdays doing bird taxidermy. These birds are usually window kills (meaning they've crashed into windows and died) and I take them out of the bird freezer, taxidermy them, and then the Peabody uses them as study skins for school classes and things like that. It's really the most interesting place I've ever been a part of, and I think I'll try to continue doing something like it after I move. Natural science as always interested me, but this is really intense hands on work. I bring my sketchbook and draw them while they thaw sometimes, and every once in a while I'll bring my camera. Luckily for all of you, today I did. The merlin (formally known as pigeon hawk) must have just eaten before it crashed into something, because it's crop was full. So I disected it's stomach also, and found the remains of a bird almost the size of the merlin itself. No skull, but there was this entire foot. I am also showing the picture of the merlin's head, sin eyes.
Dead things with wings, it doesn't get any more beautiful than that.
