I became involved with Taxidermy 30 years ago when as a young teenager I began taking dead birds I found on the road, or my own birds that had died in one of my aviaries to a local Taxidermist.

I have always had an interest in birds from a very young age and eventually when my dad accepted this was not one of those passing childhood fads, arranged secretly, for the construction of my first aviary. Up to this time our family was well known in the area for rescuing and rehabilitating young and injured wild birds, everything from Blue Tits to Tawny Owls.