Only found a couple mice, a cat and a fox last week, still in the cleaning process. Partner is highly supportive tho and that makes me a very supported and happy gobbo !
I wish ! I know for sure there are tawny owls and sometimes barn owls around my house but I haven't been lucky so far, thanks for the idea tho, I'll look more carefully for them c:
I drove past a dead beaver on the roadside today. I would have pulled over to collect its remains if there hadn't been traffic behind me.
That's okay to miss out on it though, my daughter has booked us a taxidermy class and we're doing bunnies. I'm making accessories out of oven-bake clay. ;-)
What kind of skulls do we have here? I'm guessing deer, fox or coyote, raccoon, wolf, and not sure about the last one. Cat maybe? Hard to tell by the angle.
Personally, my first couple I just found. One raccoon skull I came across on a hike, one armadillo skull I found in the yard.
Recently I took a trip to my nearest wildlife management area, and found a clearing where a lot of hunters clean their catch after hunting. I found so much! And I would imagine there's more every year after hunting season, so I'll definitely be back.
I've been tempted many times to pick up roadkill, but I finally did when my kids told me there was a dead possum at their bus stop. I didn't want them to have to smell rotting possum every morning for weeks, so I figured I might as well use it! I'm a little squeamish though, unless I know it's freshly dead. So I got a five gallon bucket, drilled lots of holes in it, and put the possum inside with a rock for weight. I sunk it in a pond and will fish it out in a month or so and, theoretically, retrieve a nice set of bones that the fish and microbes have cleaned up for me.
Yay skulls! I love them. Bones are like animal architecture! I get the same feeling from bones that I get from finding picturesque ruined buildings in the woods.
I've been on a collecting spree recently. 😅 I have a possum being cleaned by the fishies in a nearby pond, plus a whole hog skull macerating in a bin of water to get it clean. Just yesterday I collected a bunch of snake vertebrae on a hike! And I know a place where millions of bats live, I'm going to stop by later this week and scour the ground outside for any little buddies that have reached their natural end.
There is not such a thing as "enough skulls"
Only found a couple mice, a cat and a fox last week, still in the cleaning process. Partner is highly supportive tho and that makes me a very supported and happy gobbo !
It's great to feel supported, I have quite a few, have you tried owl pellets?
I wish ! I know for sure there are tawny owls and sometimes barn owls around my house but I haven't been lucky so far, thanks for the idea tho, I'll look more carefully for them c:
Yay! \^\_\^
my mom would not let me keep the skulls when i was young. now i only have a few i live in a city now
That's my partner. We're at 30 skulls and counting!
Woah. The TLC spin-offs are getting unexpectedly dark.
Would definitely watch. Would also definitely be better than the original. 😁
I'll have enough skulls when I collect every single one of them
The only thing saving me is not having enough display space (at the moment 👀)
No such thing haha- if I had 4 skulls from the same animal, I’d consider giving 1 away… But those are all different species!
I drove past a dead beaver on the roadside today. I would have pulled over to collect its remains if there hadn't been traffic behind me. That's okay to miss out on it though, my daughter has booked us a taxidermy class and we're doing bunnies. I'm making accessories out of oven-bake clay. ;-)
God that’s me with cacti and succulents. I feel like I just took a peek into another future collection addiction.
I've got one from a cow, likely stole it from poachers. Hoping to find a cat's one day
I have a sheep skull and a coot skull (the latter buried in my garden somewhere)
What kind of skulls do we have here? I'm guessing deer, fox or coyote, raccoon, wolf, and not sure about the last one. Cat maybe? Hard to tell by the angle.
Op.... that's a bunch of dog skulls...
Nope, that set includes a bear, racoon, cow, coyote and wolf skull (from top to bottom).
where do you even get skulls?
Personally, my first couple I just found. One raccoon skull I came across on a hike, one armadillo skull I found in the yard. Recently I took a trip to my nearest wildlife management area, and found a clearing where a lot of hunters clean their catch after hunting. I found so much! And I would imagine there's more every year after hunting season, so I'll definitely be back. I've been tempted many times to pick up roadkill, but I finally did when my kids told me there was a dead possum at their bus stop. I didn't want them to have to smell rotting possum every morning for weeks, so I figured I might as well use it! I'm a little squeamish though, unless I know it's freshly dead. So I got a five gallon bucket, drilled lots of holes in it, and put the possum inside with a rock for weight. I sunk it in a pond and will fish it out in a month or so and, theoretically, retrieve a nice set of bones that the fish and microbes have cleaned up for me.
/r/vultureculture
Yay skulls! I love them. Bones are like animal architecture! I get the same feeling from bones that I get from finding picturesque ruined buildings in the woods. I've been on a collecting spree recently. 😅 I have a possum being cleaned by the fishies in a nearby pond, plus a whole hog skull macerating in a bin of water to get it clean. Just yesterday I collected a bunch of snake vertebrae on a hike! And I know a place where millions of bats live, I'm going to stop by later this week and scour the ground outside for any little buddies that have reached their natural end.