Saturday 16th October 2010

The week has been quite a week with so much going on with the building of the new aviaries, all framework & roof timbers are very close to being finished, which is excellent news. Next week we should be starting on the timber cladding & if that goes well this will be followed by fixing plywood to the dividing walls & the roofs. For this we need to order in about 560 sheets of 8x4 plywood, this sort of quantity will give a sense of scale of the size of the aviary area we are building. More will follow as we complete the different stages & of course we will upload some images showing how the project is progressing.

To learn more about the development please visit our 1st blog page.

Friday evening (Yesterday), a wild Barn Owl was closely observed hunting down in our nature reserve, the staff that were still here, sat like quiet mice on a picnic table with their hot coffee's watching what looked to be a youngster, he or she was hunting the field margins alongside the inner hedgerows on the farm, the evening light was just enough to allow our eyes to follow the flight of the Barn Owl whilst it was searching for its prey, all this only lasted for about half an hour but still, what a great end to a Friday evening!

The week days have been relatively busy with our Hawk & Owl Experiences & Owl Flying Experiences.

Now back to today (Saturday).

The weather was very pleasant & we had some great visitors booked in for one of our Hawk & Owl Experiences, this took place between 12noon & 2pm. With the sun shining, we went out & had a great time, all birds that were flown, simply worked with the group to perfection, these were Leighton the Buzzard & Kaln the Eagle Owl, below are a couple of pictures that were taken, with our visitors permission.

An experience with Leighton the Buzzard.

An experience with Leighton the Buzzard.

Our Owl Box workshop was also flat out today with more nest boxes being made for new orders that are coming in. It is always pleasing to see the landowners support their localised Owl populations with Owl Boxes. Nest box orders do come from places UK wide, this is mainly through our web site & of course from word & mouth. With the winter soon arriving, getting an Owl box positioned will help provide a much needed shelter for this years Owlets searching for new grounds to survive the winter.

This is one of our boxes that is used annually with great success.

Todays fundraising event went ahead today with both Lauren & Vikki taking out with them, Luna the Barn Owl & Willow the Little Owl, the event was at Regency Arcade in Cheltenham, this is a place we have been going for years & the support given to us is just outstanding, a big thank you to Regency Arcade & the shoppers who go out of their way to meet our fundraising team, your support as always been important to our charity.

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