With her stable wood highly resistant to rot, Red Ironbark Eucalyptus (Eucalyptus sideroxylon) makes excellent branch flutes. Voiced to a sweetly expressive, Am pentatonic scale (A=440), she also plays three in tune upper octave notes and is capable of a heptatonic scale without half-holing, starting on the first hole up.  With some of her colorful bark left on this beautiful solid bore flute, she measures 17 1/2" in length.  Crushed Jasper has been inlaid into her knots.  Deer lacing, adorned with Jasper and Red Ironbark Eucalyptus seed pod beads (from the same tree as this flute branch) secures the bird to her nest.  To help prevent wetout, the bird has been fitted with a cedar shoe and a drain hole, covered by the lacing has been designed into the air chamber. The branch for this flute was gathered with respect and gratitude from a fallen tree felled by the wind and rain, within the San Marcos Creek watershed of Southern California.