Feathers: Hyacinth Macaw

The summer before last I went to Brazil and picked up a gorreous feather (there wil be photos to come, errr, when I've edited them).   I have a bit of a collection of pretty feathers.   It's from a bird called a hyacinth macaw.   They're the biggest parrots in the world, and also really stupid.  They're kind of odd in that they look kind of grey, until the sun hits them just right, and then they're suddenly the most brilliant blue.   Well, my feather is the same.   It just looks like a plain grey feather until the sun hits the inside edge just right.   The photo doesn't really do it justice, but here it is all the same.

 Without the light

 

 With the light