This was such an interesting and informative display. Their keeper for the day clearly loves his birds.

We were shown perhaps half dozen birds which flew across our heads. The left photo above shows the keeper with a Steppe Eagle – quite a large bird who enjoyed the tidbits offered. We learnt that if fed too much some birds can well have difficulty in flying! Too much cosseting is not good for flying display birds!

The right photo above shows a Cape Vulture – a large bird specially adapted to feed on carrion – nature’s ‘clean up guy’ feeding on the remains of larger dead animals. This vulture, as its name implies, comes from Africa. It is susceptible to poison in its food chain and it comes off badly in collisions with powerlines and wind turbines. This is a large bird but with just a little coaxing from its keeper wandered back to its enclosure at the end of the display.

We paid just £6, saw the flying display and were able then to wander and look at the many other bird species kept there. One to take the grandchildren to as they have displays every day in the school holidays.