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10 years in the making! Lol!!!

Posted: Sat Oct 28, 2017 7:24 am
by fly_fischa
This fly was inspired by my favorite Parrot affectionately known as Morgie or sometimes the Morganimal. He’s our baby, a 10yr old Green Cheek Conure. Morgie has been willingly donated a lot of feathers over the years and I’ve stored them in zip lock bags. I’ve never tied with them but with his permission tied a fly entirely out of his feathers tonight :lol:
Hook partridge 12 sproat nymph
Thread nanosilk
Tail- barbs off one of Morgan’s tail feathers
Abdomen and thorax - Morgan’s filoplume? (fluff off the base of the feathers)
Hackle-didn’t ask him where it came from, guessing the wing or his back ;)
Here’s to 10 glorious years (sometimes challenging) and hopefully another 30+ to go :D

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Sorry for including the soft and backlit images, I get bored taking technical photos and it’s refreshing to sometimes focus on taking photos you enjoy because their imperfections make them perfect. Lo fi, lit by window light late in the day, fly sitting on a mobile phone screen, hand held... I personally really like the last one even tho it’s all soft and fuzzy...

Re: Parrot Fly Emerges

Posted: Sat Oct 28, 2017 8:22 am
by swellcat
Out of the shadows . . .

Re: 10 years in the making! Lol!!!

Posted: Sat Oct 28, 2017 8:30 am
by tie2fish
Awesome! The collar hackle looks like waterhen dyed olive green and one of those mahogany tail barbs would make a spectacularly segmented body if wrapped like herl. Thanks, Karstern, for sharing your creativity and tying/photography skills. Thanks to your bird pet as well for the donations.

Re: 10 years in the making! Lol!!!

Posted: Sat Oct 28, 2017 10:02 am
by hankaye
fly_fischa, Howdy;

Please thank Morgie for his donations to the "One bird does it all fly".
Very well done!

hank

Re: 10 years in the making! Lol!!!

Posted: Sat Oct 28, 2017 12:38 pm
by Theroe
Nice..very nice indeed!

Re: 10 years in the making! Lol!!!

Posted: Sat Oct 28, 2017 2:31 pm
by redietz
Lovely. Very nice contrast of colors there.

Re: 10 years in the making! Lol!!!

Posted: Sat Oct 28, 2017 4:07 pm
by fly_fischa
Thank you all for your kind comments, I’ll pass them onto Morgie too, he’s come out of his bed cage to run amuck today and have his morning cuddles. :D

Bill, it’s funny, I had the same thought at the time I was tying in the tails, very short fibre tho, maybe if I space the wraps a little over a thread underbody? I’ll experiment and share the results...

Re: 10 years in the making! Lol!!!

Posted: Mon Oct 30, 2017 7:43 am
by Smuggler
K, That's an excellent looking fly. That emerald green hackle is very pretty against the grey dubbed body of that fly... good stuff!

Re: 10 years in the making! Lol!!!

Posted: Tue Oct 31, 2017 3:19 am
by Premerger
Nice Karsten.
I think green is under estimated and this shows why.
A very handy looking fly.
I'll order a dozen in 3 sizes thanks and leave you to give Morgie the news :-).

Re: 10 years in the making! Lol!!!

Posted: Tue Oct 31, 2017 4:33 pm
by fly_fischa
Cheers Eric :)

Premerger- Passed ur request onto the Morganimal, his response was; :roll:
He doesn’t donate feathers for strangers, u should know that Tim ;)
I can’t wait to tie a few more and give them a swim...