You are Most Welcome to Come and Visit My Taxidermy Studio!
You are very welcome to come and visit my taxidermy studio and small museum! I have in the past had many, many kids here. In fact they used to bus them in by the dozens. Not so much anymore due to budget cuts. But there are many people that come and bring their kids.
The only rule is you Should Call First! I am old enough to not want to be here every day all the time. I do have other interests in life! I hate to have people come and find the shop closed. During the spring and summer months I may be gone some days researching fishing conditions, or tending my honey bee hives of which I have many.
Ok, You want to know what you will see when you get here.
There are over 100 pieces of taxidermy work in my shop and I am constantly adding more as time allows. I have quite a back log of very interesting things I want to mount in the future. I tend to add to the shop a bunch of new stuff each summer. I keep a very busy lifestyle. I am doing something ALL the time. Call First! I also no longer have any other employees to shop sit and wait for you. I now work alone.
This shop is a very large taxidermy studio. It has several rooms filled with many of my favorite mounts and other taxidermy work. Plus a large work room which is mostly always pretty empty because I am the type of person who is a project completer. I don't tend to sit on customer mounts very long. When the hides come back to me from my tannery, I tend to get the work done, completed and back to the customer as soon as possible. You won't see much in my work room, but your welcome to go in there.
When people come to visit: Some people spend quite a bit of time viewing the mounts. Others see the mounts but don't get to interested in anything to really study them. The animals and mounts are beautiful! You really should spend time really getting to know the various critters I got on display here. They are extremely life like! Many of them are award winners in taxidermy competitions.
The kids really like looking at the animals! I encourage the parents to look at the taxidermy work with them. To encourage this I have a made a 4-5 page search game for for them to work out together, or have several kids work it out. They get a reward when done. To that end I am putting this game right here on this site so that you can see it and find out what you can see, if you spend the time.
Here below is the search game list.
Kids Can You Find At Least 100 pieces of Taxidermy?
And Win A Free Prize!
When you find a mount put a check mark in front of the sentences below.
Note: Two or more kids or parents can work on this together:
Front Room
3 Deer Feet hiding under a shade!
A Turkey Tail under Glass!
2 Partridge hung up wishing they were never born!
A Monkey Man shot out back by Reimond Grignon! Guided hunts available!
3 Fishers just hanging out on the walls, really nice male and female fishers!
A beautiful Grey Fox keeping his eyes on you!
A Red Fox that tells me when people come in the door!
A "Flying Bear!!!" Yes he's real! How's he stay up there?
A Raccoon staring at you!
A black bear lying on the wall? How does he do that !
A Bobcat up on a cliff!
A Bobcat head watching every move you make! Watch his eyes follow you as you move from side to side!
A White Porcupine with sharp needles. DON'T TOUCH or he'll prick you!
Did you see the two bobwhite Quail under Glass. There are some in Maine
Hey your doing good, your up to 20 mounted critters already!
Lets Go to the Museum Room Now..... OK This is going to be tough!
OK can you find the 4 Canadian Geese hiding behind Glass?
But did you miss the 2 Hariquin ducks flying in the distance?
Can you find the 9 Whitetail Deer heads looking directly at you?
OK, This is not so easy... I see a Hare in the snow somewhere.....
Do you know what a Hare is?
That Hare is close to smelly sniffer Skunk near his home....
Can you find 4 big Bass that Mr. Grignon Caught!
Can you find an Otter coming up throw the snow! He won't eat the ducks!
But he might scare off Two Black Ducks if he isn't careful.....
Can you find a little Bobcat that is about to get a bad whiff of a skunk?
There is a neat Fisher about to get his lunch of a Red Squirrel. See Them?
Ok, Snow is coming! Can you find the Two Arctic Foxes from Alaska that just cleaned off a Caribou skull, Did you completely miss seeing the Willow Ptarmigan?
Can you find 2 Barrow's Goldeneyes? These are a rare duck in Maine!
The male is black with a slanted white crest of feathers behind the bill.
Or how about the Two Harlequin Ducks. One is flying the other sitting.
These are a Very Rare Duck in Maine. Almost never seen!
How about an easy find. Do you see the two Green Wing Teals wrapped in abandoned fishing line.. See, you should never throw old fishing line in the water. It tangles up birds and kills them when they can't get loose from it.
Can you find the Silver Pheasant? He's white with black markings sitting on a stump!
How about that otter lying on his back. First place ribbon winner at the World Taxidermy Competition in Denver CO.
Are you having fun yet!
Can you find the two beautiful Wood Ducks? They got pretty heads and bills....
Can you find two Willow Ptarmigans that are changing their plumage? These birds are white in the winter and brown in the summer.
Easy, This is Easy.... Can you see the Two fighting Pheasants! These are another World Taxidermy Competition Winner.
OK, it's not taxidermy but you can't miss seeing all the neat old bottles in the bottle display that Mr. Grignon found diving on old ship wreaks all over Maine. The former publisher of the Maine Diver Magazine, he is a Rated Master Scuba Diver with a professional Dive Master Certificate and holds many, many other scuba diving ratings and has dove off boats all over the Caribbean. What your seeing are ancient bottles. They always look just like the unclean ones you see, then he cleans them up to make them look the really nice ones you see in the exhibit.
Mr. Grignon is also a pilot and owns his own airplane. He has nice aerial pictures from all over the United States and almost every town in Maine. He has been flying his own planes for years, since he was in his teens. He won't say how old he is but he's got to be ancient.
OK, Back to finding Taxidermy work.
Did you spot that big 30 lb Red Coho Salmon. That's easy enough but how about the 20 lb Lake Trout. Both from Lake Ontario. But I bet you missed the big 14 lb Pike hiding under the Deer Heads....
Now, it's easy to find the Big Elk because he is so large... and above him a flying Snow Goose. Then there's the double shoveled Caribou.. He has mounted lots of Caribou...
Can you find the Red Deer. He looks a lot like the Elk but smaller......
These are shot at game farms in Maine for their meat. They are really good eating.
Next it would be easy for you to find the lying down Bobcat. A taxidermy competition winner. Lot's of people have wanted to buy this mount.
Now don't miss the two bear feet made into a gun rack hiding under the Bobcat! That old shotgun was Mr. Grignons first REAL gun. An old single shot 12 gauge given to him by his father. There are two more mounted bear feet on the other wall with fishing rods on them. Easy finds....
Now everyone asks me about the wooden chain. Yes it was cut out of a log using only a chain saw and all cut out in one piece. Mr. Grignons father cut it out.
Ok, look up. You certainly can find the Antelope! He's white with brown markings! He is a range animal from out west.
And the big bear eating a trout. Gosh he gets hungry too! The white markings on his chest, some black bears have them, most don't. It's that simple.
OK. If you can't find that big 6 foot black tip shark, you've fluked this test!
Underneath the shark is a really nice Lake Trout that Mr. Grignon caught at Moosehead Lake.
I hope your having fun!
Do you like the wonderful Fisher Lying on his back laughing at you! This is a favorite mount of Mr. Grignon. He just loves that critter.
Up above him is a Partridge Drumming on a log. He does this to attract a mate.
The otter that looks up to you is a first place winner the World Taxidermy Competition.
Finding the Bobcat lying on the forest floor should now be easy...
If you look up you should find it easy to see a Bugling Moose Mount. This is as far as I know the only bugling moose mount in the world. Never seen another one mounted like it anywhere. The form was modeled and cast by Mr. Grignon and then the taxidermy work was done by him. This Moose head mount took a very long time to complete.
Up above the Moose mount is a Flying Turkey. They are everywhere in Maine now. You can see hundreds of them in one trip from here to the coast most any day of the summer. They make beautiful mounts!
There is also a flying Grouse on the wall mounted to a real moose antler. Everyone loves this.
Can you find a Wolverine! These are a really vicious critter. This specimen was caught in Alaska and froze then air freighted to Grignons Taxidermy Studio. Then Mr. Grignon mounted him as you see him. Please note! All the mounts you see in this building were mounted. Nothing is ever "Stuffed". There is a complete difference. Every critter you see here has had the skins cleaned and tanned then mounted over a hand crafted, or molded manikin. Nothing is "Stuffed". Taxidermists don't like the word stuffed....
Everywhere you look you will see tanned skins hanging up. Please look them over and feel them. This is what all the skins look like before they are "mounted". Notice how neat and clean they are!
Now your cooking, You Just Found another 73 pieces of taxidermy work in this one room!!!
Wow, You should have found 93 pieces of taxidermy work so far!!!
Now let's move into the inner room.....
Well if your cool you should easily find three deer heads here. All of which were shot by Former Master Maine guide, Reimond Grignon, yup the same guy who does all the taxidermy work!
Then if you look close you will see mink sitting on ice with a big brook trout rising to eat his tail! That mink better be careful! That next really big 8 lb Brook Trout on the moose antler came from Canada, caught on one of Mr. Grignons fishing trips.
What's that mounted on the State of Maine Panel? Come on you can name this critter. You've already found several of them! Everyone loves this mount!
The big strutting turkey is looking for a mate. His head is all colorful in the spring of the year. He lifts his tail up and spreads it way out. He then clucks and clucks hoping a female bird will hear him and come to his harem of mated hens.
On the far wall is a beautiful brown trout rising to a fly sitting on the water. He hopes to make a meal out of that bug.... Have you ever been fly fishing?
Then there is another Ruffed Grouse flying mount. These birds are all over Maine, and are difficult to shoot as they are so fast! It is hard to get these birds. They make wonderful mounts and wonderful meals as they taste wicked good.
There is also a deer rack mounted on a panel that was shot by Mr. Grignon in his younger days....
Say you have just found another 11 Mounts!
There is lot's more mounts coming to this room in the near future!
Wow, you've already found 104 Taxidermy mounts, You WIN! but we are not done yet!
If you ask me, you can go into my office and see more of the largest and nicest Brook Trout and Salmon you will ever see mounted and caught in Maine and Canada on Mr. Grignons Fishing Trips. They are so life like! You would think they will swim away!
I hope you have had fun and learned a lot about the wonderful wildlife, most of which lives right here in the State of Maine!
