"Two"-whit tu-whoo

Tuesday 2nd April 2024

We went to the National Centre for Birds of Prey at Duncombe Park, Helmsley today. I think it is one of the best centres I've been to and I will certainly be going again. As well as the birds in the aviaries, we were able to watch two flying displays, of multiple birds, and a bonus display by a wild red kite. One of the eagles in the first display decided it didn't want to perform and flew straight to a tree in the car park. It took them ages to persuade it to return, as predicted after the end when most people had left. We stayed and I captured the picture of it coming in to land  on the post. 

Rather a lot of photos to process (702), many of which will be deleted. This is my first quick run through to get a selection for Facebook. Here are just two different owls. The one on the left is a burrowing owl, which I had never heard of before. He was tiny and demonstrated how he went in and out of the burrows in the ground, see extra.