raptors and reptiles

today we were supposed to join with friends and go to the zoo. unfortunately i was so migrainous that i couldnt get out of bed till lunchtime, and clearly couldnt drive either. I was lucky my lovely friend came to us, picked up myself and BB and took us out to a very much closer raptor centre with birds of prey and in an unlikely combo, meerkats and reptiles. we had a fab time.

We first visited the reptile house, where the chap in it was modelling on croc dundee and did a rather scary demonstration of how strong pythons are and clearly keen to kill and eat you! it wa a rescue snake that hadn’t been handled. scary! he was v v knowledgeable with a clear passion and enthusiasm for reptiles, particularly snakes that the children were spellbound and instnatly keen to own an corn snake – as if bb needed more encouragement. I liked ‘the boy’ asking if the meerkats were there to feed the larger snakes…

we then went to the flight which was running late for a variety of reasons, so didn’t look much at the aviaries. The flight section lasted over an hour tho, it was pretty informative, tho not all the birds were complying cos there was a blumming big raptor in the field so the littler owls were just running away! It was also v cold! All the kids got to ‘fly’ a very tamw owl tho – so were v happy with that. unfortunately my phone ran out of charge, so didn’t get R catch the bird, and none of B, but both did.