Animal Still Lifes
When I got home from Louisiana I found a dead and mostly decapitated finch in our front yard. I put it in the garage and got around to photographing it yesterday.
House Finch, 2006
A few months ago Tyler, one of my students, brought me in a few Great Horned Owl Pellets. Pellets are the bones and fur that owls can't digest. Great Horned Owls regurgitate oval gray/brown fur pellets about the size of a golf ball. They were pretty fresh (moist), so they've been drying out in my garage ever since. Yesterday I pulled them apart and managed to find around 15 rodent skeletons. I had to use tweezers to remove as much fur as possible. Susan says she doesn't want them back. Anyway, here are some of the skulls.
Rodent Skulls, 2006
House Finch, 2006
A few months ago Tyler, one of my students, brought me in a few Great Horned Owl Pellets. Pellets are the bones and fur that owls can't digest. Great Horned Owls regurgitate oval gray/brown fur pellets about the size of a golf ball. They were pretty fresh (moist), so they've been drying out in my garage ever since. Yesterday I pulled them apart and managed to find around 15 rodent skeletons. I had to use tweezers to remove as much fur as possible. Susan says she doesn't want them back. Anyway, here are some of the skulls.
Rodent Skulls, 2006
6 Comments:
I'd say you ought to invest in your own set of tweezers! Did you wear a mask and gloves? I can certainly see why owls regurgitate these things, I can't imagine the pain of the alternative...
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Wow! I'm glad you got some interesting things out of those pellets. The sculls look really cool. What was Kevin doing to decapitate the finch? Ha ha! Anyway, glad to hear you got back ok, can't wait to hear more about Lousiana. Come down to IF sometime and we'll try out Tom's Gyros and build some frames.
The Alternative...OUCH!!!
Pretty goreY!!!!
MOM B
Yeah, only Darren could make regurgitated rat skulls look cool.
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