Monday 9 February 2015
A week into being open as a Charity, and being charitable seems to be working so far, its wonderful when people are prepared to pay a little extra and give us Gift Aid. Which is very special I have to say. The weekend was great, on Saturday we had a grey over cast day, but still a goodly number of visitors and all went OK. Sunday was a delight, a frosty to start the day and then sunny all the way through and by the afternoon it was like spring, clear, sunny, warm, birds singing, just amazing. Once the sun went down the temperature plummeted and this morning we had another heavy frost but another amazing day. Far less busy today but then it was a Monday. But Rob even had the chance to mow lawns!!!
Its been a difficult time with the dogs, the poor pups have
had a bad time. Agapanthus has the second of two operations on his front legs to try and
help his elbows, and so is very lame and sorry for himself. Then last week I
was backing the golf cart out of the shed, and caught Nightshade between the
cart and the door frame and fractured off her epiphyseal plate. Growth
plate at the top of the femur on her back leg. It was my fault, which of
course made me feel dreadful. She was at our local vet within half an hour on
Tuesday for X-rays, stayed there over night and then David Morton helped me by
driving her and me down to Bristol to the referral vets where they have
reattached the epiphyseal plate with pins and I collected her on Friday.
Now she has to be quiet and resting for 6 weeks, which is be a nightmare as she is already feeling better and wants to be moving fast!
They were thinking that she might have to have a hip replacement, but I am glad
the primary surgery worked as the hip replacement is really expensive. Hopefully if I can keep them both quiet for the six weeks, they will both be able to run around and annoy people at Easter.
We have our first two chicks of the year two Grey Buzzard Eagles, with the Griffon Vulture hatching
at the moment, the new incubation room is working well and the brooder room
too. Its really nice to be able to go in there and have some space, rather than be cramped, and its lovely to have chicks again and be able to show them to the visitors.
The snowdrops are coming out, the wild daffodils and showing
and although there is probably another five weeks of winter, spring is sort of
on its way!
My Red Kite is finally beginning to get to where I want her in terms of flying, the falcons are doing really well, although my female Merlin Windward is moulting a few of her back feathers and they look more like she might be a he, not a she!! Benbecula is flying well as is the new Verreaux's Eagle, Aurora! Mark's African Hawk Eagle is on a different planet from the rest of us and the owls are just coming back on line for the last two Owl Evenings which are fully booked up.
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