Hi guys -
Been away for a long time now, but the past two weeks I have been browsing the Forum and I am renewed and rejuvenated!

I am retired now, but I used to work for the small City where I live. Our largest Park, as you enter town, is the
"jewel of the city" they say. We have a medium-to-large Bird Sanctuary facility here as it is called, but is really more of a zoo, as there are more than just indigenous species here... they actually purchase exotic species and cage them here.
I had a key to this facility, and once I became interested in jig tying, I realized there was a Goldmine of choice feathers to be had here. So - about once a week I would go inside with a big baggie and collect molted feathers off the ground.
It was a treasure-trove of Guinea Fowl, Peacock, Silver Pheasant, Golden Pheasant, Wood Duck, Mallard, Bobwhite
and Kentucky Red Quail, Chuckar and others. For a while, we even had two Double-Yellow-head Parrots, waiting for a home.

I am really going to miss that Natural and FREE source for materials!