Paid my first visit of the year to the Seal Sanctuary at Mablethorpe today - as I've posted about this place before I won't do a deatiled review, so I'll just post a few news snippets instead.
*Work on the new seal hospital near to the entrance is progressing quite nicely. The main building looks structurally complete and the outdoor area is also starting to take shape. It all looks very good. The need to carry out a few other essential jobs is delaying work on it though.
*One of the small parrot aviaries (in front of the Clinton Keeling Education Room) has been demolished and a picnic bench put in its place.
*There are now two Grey Herons - I think one was a youngster, but not 100% sure. No idea if this is one that will be released or if its a permanent resident.
*Got a nice view of Vixie the fox in her underground den; she'd been to the vet today due to a minor eye problem caused by too much digging in the sand dunes! Thankfully it's not too serious.
*Where Guillemots were housed before, there were some more young seals. The pool has been repainted in a sandy colour, and I think it may have had some more tidying-up done to it.
*Genet still alive and well; it was asleep (as usual).
*Finally, work was in hand today on replacing part of the roof on the Lynx Cave. Unfortunately this meant that part of the tunnel was closed for most of the day, due to the men working in the enclosure directly above it. For the same reason the lynx was shut in and is currently off-show.
If anyone has any questions please feel free to ask!!!
*Work on the new seal hospital near to the entrance is progressing quite nicely. The main building looks structurally complete and the outdoor area is also starting to take shape. It all looks very good. The need to carry out a few other essential jobs is delaying work on it though.
*One of the small parrot aviaries (in front of the Clinton Keeling Education Room) has been demolished and a picnic bench put in its place.
*There are now two Grey Herons - I think one was a youngster, but not 100% sure. No idea if this is one that will be released or if its a permanent resident.
*Got a nice view of Vixie the fox in her underground den; she'd been to the vet today due to a minor eye problem caused by too much digging in the sand dunes! Thankfully it's not too serious.
*Where Guillemots were housed before, there were some more young seals. The pool has been repainted in a sandy colour, and I think it may have had some more tidying-up done to it.
*Genet still alive and well; it was asleep (as usual).
*Finally, work was in hand today on replacing part of the roof on the Lynx Cave. Unfortunately this meant that part of the tunnel was closed for most of the day, due to the men working in the enclosure directly above it. For the same reason the lynx was shut in and is currently off-show.
If anyone has any questions please feel free to ask!!!