Falconry Experience Days, bird of prey experience day

Your day begins in the Owl Garden, where you will meet with Rod. He will show your around the aviaries, and then you will take our Tiksi our Eurasian Eagle Owl or Tundra our female Snowy owl, the largest of our owl species. You will be given a bag with food, and you will fly them, under guidance, around the field on some amazing long glides and flights, marvelling as they display some of their natural hunting and flying styles.

Following this you will fly Bandit or Elsa, our well experienced Harris Hawks, to your gloved hand, as your introduction to handling the bird on your own.

After a break for refreshments and home made cake you will take Nadi, our Indian Eagle Owl, or Dale, a Harris Hawk, up our private river trail and they will fly to your glove as you walk along the trail. This is a very beautiful walk, and a really special experience, enjoying some incredible flights and long glides from both of these incredible birds.

On returning to then farm you will be taken to our medieval World of Owls barn, and fly our specially trained owls to your fist, or encourage them onto the 'pounce box' and watch them dive from their high branches. This is an amazing display of natural owl behaviour in the wild.This will include four of the following owls:

Caspar, the Barn Owl
Pip, the Tawny Owl
Clovis, the Northern Hawk Owl
Anuk, the Great Grey Owl
Dela, the Spotted Eagle Owl
Indi, the Boobooks Owl

A fresh local produce lunch will be followed by flying a variety of larger and different birds from around the world in the open fields. This will also incorporate the afternoon flying display when you will have three or four of the following birds flown to your gloved hand.

Cookie, the kookaburra
Keela, the Tawny Eagle
Mwala our Palm Nut Vulture
Inca, Peruvian Striped Owl
Buzz, the Eurasian Buzzard
Laysha, our Brown Wood Owl
Snoopy, Bengal Eagle Owl

After a short break and wander around the other animals and birds, you will return to the Medieval Barn to fly our Rainforest Owls, Mottley and Moccadoo, the Mottled Owl and Spectacled Owl, followed by Cleopatra the Southern White-faced Scops Owls, or Indi, the Boobooks Owl.

Your day will be completed with a delicious Somerset cream tea, either taken in the beautiful landscaped gardens, or our 15th Century farmhouse.