Showing posts with label hawk conservancy trust. Show all posts
Showing posts with label hawk conservancy trust. Show all posts

Saturday, July 14, 2012

Back to Bluebells

We were excited in anticipating another week at the Sebastian's Action Trust holiday home, 'Bluebells'. Although the weather was often quite wet, we managed to get out for a couple of trips. We greatly enjoyed the Hawk Conservancy Trust. They like to get you up close to the birds. In this shot we see Pads plus Nigel, the Southern White-faced Owl.
Once again, using our annual passes, we visited Blenheim Palace and finally made it to the pleasure gardens. Wheel-chairs were not supposed to enter the maze but we decided to go for it. Pads managed to clamber up and down the steps to both the elevated platforms. The butterfly house was also a 'hot' favourite, as was the cafe when the rain came on again. Thankfully it had been fine when we needed it to be.
In fact, there is always plenty to do at the Bluebells house, with its leisure wing boasting a swimming pool, art/craft room, music room, cinema/video game room, etc. etc.
Here are the pictures Asher, Boaz and Moli made towards the end of our stay:

Saturday, August 27, 2011

Longleat


We decided to visit Longleat today and use up the 'Passport' tickets from when Pads went there feeding the tigers (back in May). Ally finally got to look around that house and we were amazed at the Hunters of the Sky show (see http://www.longleat.co.uk/shows/hunters-of-the-sky where there's some video too - the birds and handlers come in from http://www.hawk-conservancy.org/index.asp). The journey was worth it just for that.
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