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Week 35 – Bank Holiday Busyness
We have had a very busy week this week with the warm weather, recent publicity & a Bank Holiday to boot. Mondays Meet a Keeper saw at least 2 members of staff present from 11 through to 4.45 at the Encounter and at times, all 4 keepers and the work...
Week 34 – Wonderful Windrush Wildlife
I'm very fortunate that whilst I'm working I can also indulge in one of my favourite past times, watching wildlife. The site at Birdland is blessed with a variety of habitats with woodland, river and some open areas. All this means that we have a variety of native flora and...
Week 33 – In the Headlines again
Wow, what a week. This week we have had local, national and even international exposure with the story that Missy, one of our King Penguins, could well be the oldest penguin in the world today. This all started when I saw a zoo in Denmark claiming to have the worlds...
Week 32 – Educating Rita….& John, Lisa, Matthew ………….
The Summer holidays have kicked in this week and we have been busy, busy, busy. With daily visitor numbers going up it means the keepers are in full swing on the education & entertainment front. When I first started at Birdland nearly 12 years ago we used to do...
Week 30 – In the News
This weeks blog is a catch up of the last two weeks going on in the park. We’ve had quite a bit of media exposure over the fortnight and with the Summer Holidays upon us, that can only be a good thing. The first bit of coverage appeared...
Week 28 – It's a boy………or girl?!
This week we have been catching up some of the birds that we are uncertain as to what gender they are. With many species of bird there are obvious differences between the sexes. You can go on size (male flamingos are taller, female Owls are larger), by colour (think male...
Week 27 – Quick Update
Hi all It's just a quick update this week as we have been all hands to the deck again with hand rearing, school trips and preparing for Summer (yes, Summer!) We have 3 Greater Rhea hatch this week. The chicks are mobile from hatch and are following the parents...
Week 25 – Hand Rearing Update
We continue on from last weeks blog on hand rearing. All the chicks are doing well, with the Military Macaw chick now tipping the scales at 110 grams (having hatched at 25). As the chick is getting bigger it is getting less feeds per day but larger quantities are given...
Week 24 – Chick Chick, Hooray
It's been a good week this week as several of the eggs that the birds and ourselves were incubating have hatched. This means that the staff are busy hand rearing and bags can be seen under eyes! The first of the eggs to hatch since the last blog was...
