Throughout eight galleries, cranes andegrets roost in gilded screens, eagles swoop down on prey in hanging scrolls, sparrows and swallows variously flit across the black night of lacquer and the pure white of porcelain, and all manner of avian beauty graces works big and small.
The councillors said Mr McCauley's company had not done surveys on bats and little egretsand so could not give details on how wildlife on the island might be affected by the development.