This site is dedicated to the memory of Arnold McLay, undoubtedly one of the world's most brilliant and dedicated collectors of ornithological dejecta.
Arnold passed away in August 1986 while attempting to bring to our headquarters a rare splay of the Wryneck (Jynx torquilla), which he had managed to collect on his windscreen, some two hundred miles away in Dunbar. Unfortunately, the splay almost compelely obscured his vision and in order to see properly, Arnold was forced to drive with his head protruding from the driver's window. Tragically, he was only five miles from his destination when the combined effects of exhaustion and excitement caused him to misjudge the proximity of an oncoming truck and trailer.
His decapitation, however, was not in vain. Arnold's windscreen and its remarkable splay miraculously survived the collision. It is, thankfully, preserved to this very day in the executive boardroom of the Birmingham Ornithological Dejecta Society.
In keeping with Arnold McLay's unswerving devotion to the preservation and study of splays, a commemorative plaque underneath the windscreen simply reads:
