looking for advice

[ladyarcher726]

Other than driftwood I have not had any experience with habitat and would like your suggestions on what I should add to this mount?  I have seen mink working the shorelines while I was out fishing, so something waters-edge-ish may be appropriate?  I don't want to add much for fear of overpowering what I have, but a little something may really make it pop and look finished.

Thanks so much!  Oh, this is my first mink after doing a few squirrels and two deer heads... thanks!

[Moosabec Taxidermy]

NICE work!!! Whats wrong with what you already have? I sometimes add cat tails and green moss to my habitats, and sometimes slabs of wood from a saw mill can be worked into interesting habitats as well. Real rocks can be to heavy and once in a while I even use drift wood from the beach. I keep playing with ideas that sometimes come into my head too... Keep up the good work...

[ladyarcher726]

Thank you!  I was thinking perhaps a little moss around the base of the stump and then a little more along the length of the base, here and there.  I'll have to do a search, but is real moss used, or should I get something at a craft store?

[Moosabec Taxidermy]

You can buy dried moss in most craft stores. Or take a walk in the woods and get some.

[mark c]

go to lowes or homedepot and get there ceder strips they will bend really good make a ovel out of ply wood put the strip around it add some very small fish gravel from walmart and get some plastic plants cut the tops very short and put next to your drift wood sparsly glue in place then put your gravel in   pour you water over the gravel  hope you can see what im talking about!   hope that works for you . mark c