Stuffed Up

On display today at the Academy of Science - a human male!! This room is actually always empty when I visit, but today, there was a scientist drying and preparing bird specimens for display. Although he's working on a hummingbird, notice the cameras pointed down on his workspace. The Academy installed these really thin projection screens on the glass door, so you can watch what he's doing both from afar and close-up. It was pretty cool watching how he went about grooming and stuffing the bird, but seeing the specimens on the table with cotton balls for eyes is a bit creepy.