Calke Abbey Car Park Hide 29th March 2017

Calke Abbey is one of the most intersting of the National Trusts Not-so-Stately homes. It also has a bird hide, easily mistaken for a garden shed, in the corner of the main car park. It looks out onto a clearing in the woods with some well stocked bird feeders and attracts large numbers of Tits, Finches and many others. Sit here for an hour and you will probably get good close views of at least 15 different species.

Blackbird

Blue Tit

Carrion Crow

Chaffinch

Coal Tit

Collared Dove

Deer

Dunnock

Goldfinch

Great Tit

Greater Spottd Woodpecker

Greenfinch

Grey Squirrel

House Sparrow

Jackdaw

Mallard

Marsh Tit (taken from the Marsh Hide)

Nuthatch

Rabbit

Rat

Robin

Siskin (female)

Siskin (Male)

Woodpigeon

Hammerton Wildlife Park - Birds 24th March 2017

Hamerton Wildlife Park, near Huntingdon is an interesting little zoo. It displays many species I haven't seen elsewhere, and doesn't have a lot of the animals you would normally expect in a zoo. It's size restricts having any of the big animals, though it does appear to specialise in big cats and in birds.

It isn't the greatst zoo for a phoographer becuse of the amount of heavy mesh around many of the enclosures, but there are enough photo-oppurtunities to make it a wworthwhile visit from that point of view.

Most of the enclosures are spacious and well appointed, but for me ther are still too many that appear too small and inadequate. On the positive side, there appears to be a lot of development work going ahead around the site.

1: Ruppells Griffon Vulture

2: Ruppells Griffon Vulture

3:Snowy Owl

4: Brown Wood Owl

5: Grey Necked Crested Crane

6: Demoiselle Crane

7: Scarlet Ibis

8: Red Legged Seriema

9: Hooded Vulture

10: White Stork

11: Marabou Stork

12: Wattled Crane

13: Manchurian Crane

14: White Faced Scops Owl

15: Zebra Finch

16: Greater Curassow

17: Lilac Breasted Roller

18: White Stork

19: Marabou Stork

20: Kookaburra

Hammerton Wildlife Park - Animals 24th March 2017

Hamerton Wildlife Park, near Huntingdon is an interesting little zoo. It displays many species I haven't seen elsewhere, and doesn't have a lot of the animals you would normally expect in a zoo. It's size restricts having any of the big animals, though it does appear to specialise in big cats and in birds.

It isn't the greatst zoo for a phoographer becuse of the amount of heavy mesh around many of the enclosures, but there are enough photo-oppurtunities to make it a wworthwhile visit from that point of view.

Most of the enclosures are spacious and well appointed, but for me ther are still too many that appear too small and inadequate. On the positive side, there appears to be a lot of development work going ahead around the site.

1: Collared Lemur

2: Goeldis Monkey

3: Bearded Dragon

4: Boa Constrictor

5: Parma Wallaby

6: Cheetah

7: White Tiger

8: White Tiger

9: Eastern Aardwolf

10: Corsac Fox

11: Black and White Ruffed Lemur

12: Geoffroys White Fronted Marmoset

13: Silvery Marmoset

14: Pudu

15: Jaguarundi

16: Meerkat

17:Corsac Fox

18: Canadian Lynx

19: Canadian Lynx

20: Serval