Easter is here and ironically the weather is glorious, so had we been open we would have had good visitor numbers, or perhaps we would not have. The cost of fuel is so high now that I suspect that will affect how people use their cars, so maybe we would not have been busy. Still at least I don't have to worry about the weather, will the cafe cope, will people park sensibly, will the dogs behave with visitors after a long break, but nevertheless it is a very odd feeling to not be open at Easter.

We have just run our Easter Egg race, I hard boil eggs, we paint them and then on Easter Sunday we go down to the field with all staff and the dogs and we roll the eggs on the ground round the posts in the flying ground. Sounds easy, just roll your egg, run after it, roll again until you are round and the fastest wins. However there is a handicap in the form of the labradors, who just love the whole thing and steal the eggs as they are rolled. This year I did enough for us to each have a spare, and still with that I did not get round, Sorrel stole the last egg, and carefully carried it in her mouth - what a good girl.

Cloudburst is going this coming week

We have more birds going next week and at the end of the week after most of the bird staff will be gone. So it will be very quiet. There is row after row of empty aviary which is not fun. 

We had a film crew here yesterday - all day - filming those falcons that we have left that we are flying, and wanting to talk about falconry and the history etc. The only problem with that for me is that I have never been that interested in the history, I have always been more interested in its future. Still they bought us pizza's for lunch.

The endless looking online for the right house continues, estate agents do not put the most important things one needs in a place to find them easily. I need at least ten acres, and as I troll through the details soem don't even put the acreage and others just put - a paddock. There are also rarely plans of the whole land, or enough photos. You would think that with the easy use of the internet they would put up more photos.

Adam is aviary building in Wales today, getting the materials for building anything is not easy at the moment, expensive if you can find what you need and more often not available for weeks. Brexit and Covid have a lot to answer for, that and the awful Mr Putin.

My gardens and the field are looking lovely at the moment, but it is time to mow the lawns again!