This was a large mount but still using the same methods used in this manual, the base was started with a square piece of mdf covered in urethane foam carved to shape and then covered in sand. The pebbles were all individually moulded and cast in fbre glass; the rotting fsh in front of the bird was moulded and covered in fbre glass. The idea for this mount is from the birds mounted in the natural history museum in New York.