Your
session begins at 9.30am when you will be met by Rod in the
Owl Garden. He will take you around the new owl aviaries,
and as you leave this area you will be accompanied by Tiksi,
our Eurasian Eagle Owl, and Tundra, the Snowy owl, and you
will fly them to posts around the field. You
will then collect Inca, the Peruvian Striped Owl from her
aviary and you will fly her to your gloved hand, placing her
gently on the perches. She will glide incredible distances
despite her small size, as she would in the wild.
After
tea and cakes you will take Nadi, our young Bengal Eagle owl
along the river trail, and enjoy his long low swooping flights
from his high branch to your gloved hand. This is an amazing
experience in a beautiful and natural setting.
You
will then 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
This
is a unique multimedia presentation as the owls fly to music!