Dissection update

I know that your hooks have been on the tenter waiting for further news of Clare's barn owl pellet dissection, but I am not sure you are really ready for all the details. Oh well, you can always stop reading if it gets too gory.
She has identified moreorless ALL the bones of short-tailed field vole, wood mouse, common and pigmy shrew and an unidentified bird.
She has extracted two large skulls of, probably, brown rat and water vole.
Her next project is to lay out a complete skeleton of a short-tailed field vole.
How many 12-year-old girls do you know who would do this? Not only this, but she is building a collection of spiders and catching midges and other morsels to feed them. Not only this, but she is collecting the wriggly larvae from the barn owl pellets to rear them on to chrysalis and imago stage (They will turn into clothes moths, so don't tell mum, ok?).

What is your image of such a girl? Plain, spotty, scruffy? WRONG! I can tell you that she is pretty, she is well-groomed and she dresses very smartly. We have the makings of a really telegenic presenter of nature programmes here: the next Kate Humble in fact.
And she's beginning to be better at moth identification than me, so my admiration is not entirely unalloyed................