Water Fowl – a Grand day out (by sarah)
Way back in the fog that was last year we had a day out at Slimbrigde Waterfowl Sactuary, becuase of everything that happen I never got round to posting this and as a result I've sort of forgotten what half the birds are :/
We went along with Alaric's friends Ben and Jenny who have membership and so had a vachour to get us in cheap. It was a really nice and slightly too hot day.
These are Himalayian geese.
This is a Goose.
A coot, a bird that I always get to wind my cousins up about it being their surname 
More geese.
This is a picture of the birds grooming.
This is a Moorhen
A black swan which I think was from Australia.
This one is a white swan.
Flammingos, they had I think at least three types there and this has resulted in me writing a childrens story thing that I just need to do the illstrations for. The food pellets of the Flamingos contain the carrotine they need to remain pink. They also have gay flamingos that hatch spare eggs
There where lots of chicks and duckling and in this case sygnets
I also found out that the southern hemisphere doesn't have any true geese they are instead basically shell ducks - one of these photos is of such a 'goose' but I can't remember which :/
We also went into the hatchery and got to look at all the baby birds which was great and really instructive some of the birds where so sweet and other pretty I have to say the smell of rotten fish from the flamingo enclosers was a bit over powering but it was a really nice day out.
Fri 25th Jan 2008 11:18 am 
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By @ndy Macolleague, Fri 25th Jan 2008 @ 12:04 pm
Wow! Geese! Geese are just my favourite things. They are so cool. I wish that they quacked.
Coot is a cool bird as well. There's a machine on my network called coot.
By Ben, Fri 25th Jan 2008 @ 2:23 pm
A Fowl Day Out, surely?
By sarah, Sun 27th Jan 2008 @ 8:42 pm
hehehehe - I thought you'd be offened if I said Fowl day out
Andy I take it you would like us to evetually get geese as well as the proposed ducks then? Maybe I should get people to adopt a bird that we look after or something?