Where to get Starling wing?or substitute?

[kenster]

Hi wanting to tie a few spider variations but looking at a tying recommendation on here the hackle is made from starling wing? can this be bought or is that a sillly question
Or is there another feather that is recommended/can be used?

[maharg]

Slug gun with some bread on the lawn
You are really wanting a skin for the best hackles for flies like Stewarts black spider.
Try Phil at spider plus or Steve at Cookshill.

[the stig]

Originally Posted by maharg

Slug gun with some bread on the lawn
You are really wanting a skin for the best hackles for flies like Stewarts black spider.
Try Phil at spider plus or Steve at Cookshill.

as maharg says then just pop away at ur leasure

[gus262]

The Wildlife and Countryside Act (1981) makes the unlicensed shooting of Starlings a criminal offence. And rightly so.

If Stewart was tying his spiders today, I suspect he'd be knee deep in the myriad genetic hen capes now available to the fly tyer in all the natural and dyed colours imaginable. Game bird feathers as a by product are one thing, but to kill a living creature with no food value just for a feather to get a pattern 'right' is morally reprehensible and risks bringing the craft of fly tying into disrepute. Cookshill or Spider plus is a much better proposition. Just my opinion, of course.

[splashtestdummy]

Originally Posted by kenster

the hackle is made from starling wing? can this be bought

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[salmoman]

Slug one,skin it and feed the rest to the cat. Now it has a food value.

[gus262]

...and with that, your honour, the defence rests.

[maharg]

I am pretty sure your local pest control officer could get you one if you have run out of bread

[the_beach_caster]

Not got a neighbour with Cats...and a big garden ?

Always tripping over , standing on , catching notice of various dead wildlife courtesy of downstairs cat......it's the dopeyest thing alive , but I'll tell you what , it must be one helluva hunter , if there was any way of introducing it to cormorants I would......