Sunday 17 November 2013
The second Owl Evening went well although it was a little more tricky than usual as our electrics are playing up, and neither the underground lights, or the PA would work without blowing everything!! Rob Moore (electrician) is coming on Monday to change and add some RCD’s ( I know all about RCD’s – don’t you!) and hopefully the problem will be if not sorted, at least more manageable. We will do some restructuring early next year and make it all less fragile.
The new hospital
room is looking great and we are starting to use it, there are still a few
things to finish off but it’s a very useful room and will be a huge advantage
to us. The first injured wild bird to go in is a Kestrel who looks like she
will recover fine, which bodes well for the future.
We have got the
brooder room all sorted out with proper electrics and it’s been repainted, so
there is just a good clean to get done and that will be ready. Next is the
clean out of the incubator room and all incubators to be thoroughly cleaned,
Holly wants to keep that all to herself!!
The outside of the
new building is all level and gravelled over and looking good. We have to knock
through the new door from the clinic to the hospital room – which we need to
give a name too. That will make a big mess, but gives us the chance to have a
good clear out and redecorate in there, one wall is damp and I think I know why
so we will sort that out before painting. Then the whole block of rooms will be
done and dusted – phew!! Just in time to go charitable and then build a new
brooder room and incubation room so we can turn the old ones into a treatment
room and small lab!
It’s a busy week
next week, I have two meetings, one in Bristol, one in London and I am hoping
to go and collect my (newish!) Range Rover from Jinny. There is however a doubt
because we don’t know if Sorrel is in pup or not. She is large (but could be
too fat!) is digging furiously (but she does that anyway) is very grumpy to the
others at times (but she can be a grump). Penny Carpanini thinks she is, I am
vacillating and generally the jury is out, and of course we don’t really know
when they are due as she was mated over about an eight day period. I need to be
here for her, so the car may have to wait, but I am hoping not as being in
London for a meeting helps me to get most of the way to collecting. We shall
see!! Here is hoping she is going to produce lots of lovely puppies.
We are also doing a
film job here with the Great Grey Owl on Wednesday and we have a group of MSc
students coming as well, plus still being open and an Owl Evening on Sat. It’s
good to be busy!
We close on December
1st, but as that is a Sunday, if the weather is good we will be
open, so watch the forecast and ring us to find out. We close for sure on the 2nd,
apart from a couple of experience days and the owl evenings.
Oh and if you are
looking for a good Christmas present, we are going to reinstate the Owl
Experiences, but in a different way. We are going to do Half Owl Days, which
will be great fun. We have a good team of owls now and will be able to have
guests handle and fly a good number of them. We are looking forward to it.
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I love reading these blogs, as they are so interesting and informative. The new hospital was looking fantastic when I visited last week. The owl experience sounds like a hoot (sorry). I will definitely have to try one in the new year.
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