Feather ID please

[wingman]

Walking along the riverbank today I found this feather along with half a crows wing and some pigeon tail feathers (not altogether by the way), if anyone knows what bird its off I'd be interested to know. I initially thought partridge but I have a partridge skin and none of the feathers look similar. It's just over 2 inches in length and very soft fibres.

cheers

mark

[irishflies]

The feather is of a Woodcock

[wingman]

Its certainly not from the wings if it is Irishflies as I have some and no feathers match, it also seems too big and soft for a woodcock feather, but I don't have the rest of the woodcock to check it, but thanks anyway, you could be right.

[arkle]

It's a hen pheasant wing covert.

[wingman]

You could be right arkle thanks, these are some hen pheasant feathers and it looks similar to the bottom right one.

http://www.thefeatheredegg.com/i/tn_...ixedDetail.jpg

Don't really use much HP apart from the centre tail and wing quills, so not really up on the rest of them, wonder what I can use it for....

[Fluffchuker]

It looks like a pheasant feather to me. I'm certainly no expert mind.

[arkle]

About the only use for them is hackling large spider type flies, of which there aren't that many.

[wingman]

That'll do thanks arkle.

[silversedge]

Hen pheasant Mark,strip the fibres of and bunch them for a wing

[bumblehog]

Benig that it was found on a riverbank, I think it's more likely to be a Hen Mallard breast feather. Take a closer look at the mixed bag here Mixed Feather Bag, Medium There's an identically marked feather in the bottom right of the bag.