sent you a package today Dundee i hope they do ok

i have been trying to make realistic flies which are not really ment for fishing but i am pretty much completely new to tying and i have not been fly fishing once yet (to busy trying to pay the rent on this awesome minumum wage job) so its taking me a little while to get certain things right. I am finding whatever materials i can at the time, hunting and fishing in botany just had some 1/2 price deals on that i snapped up  and roadkill has been awesome... the good fresh stuff. And i have no idea what the feathers are that i used in the last fly , there is peacock and i think you might be right with some kind of parakeet, i paid $5 for a bag full of feathers and they were in it , i spent ages sorting out all the bits and pieces and i figured i could use them.... in fact i have been playing with all sorts of random (cheap) materials to see what i can and cannot do ... sofar i have found that tying is not something you can really go anyplace to learn i just have to reseach on the net and then just practice, so yeah i only started a couple months ago but loving it , i think its a great and rewarding hobby and more people should give it a try, its really pretty simple