The Big Bird in Telford

The Grouse Statue has travelled down to Telford where it will be dipped first in acid and then in a bath of molten zinc. We're here to film it emerge with its new plumage (all except the wings and the tail which aren't finished yet -- they'll be dipped in Scotland).

This weekend, the silver bird will be assembled near the Broxden roundabout in Perth and then mounted on a giant plynth on Sunday -- the plynth is 8m high; the bird is
6m tall. That should be high enough to fly above the Broxden trees.

Thanks to Fluid Eye Productions, we'll have several cameras watching the bird take flight.