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?