Northern England Animal Atractions

[Jackwow]

Sunday afternoon was spent at Africa Alive, which for me was another major disappointment. I can always tell how interesting a venue was for me by the number of photos of different species that I take and the low number I took speaks volumes for my experience. Not as poor as Yorkshire Wildlife Park but again almost nothing I hadn't seen before and a lot of large extremely uninteresting enclosures (plus a few good ones).

 

[Tim Brown]

Well Saturday didn’t get off to a good start either! It was meant to be a single venue day spent at Yorkshire Wildlife Park, but perhaps I should have researched the venue a bit more first, because I arrived at 10.20am and was finished by 11.40am?! That is the shortest time by far that I have ever spent in any wildlife collection! Not impressed! Nuff said!

So to rescue the day I drove back north about 30 miles to visit Lotherton Hall, which has a small bird collection and very nice it was to. Four new species for me, Cape Barren Goose, Elliots Pheasant, Peruvian Thick Knee and Erckel's Francolin, so even better.

Phew..you missed then,one of the worlds rarest zoo animals(unless its died)in the shape of "Angus" the male Southern Helmeted Curassow.Its the only one on public display in Europe and i havent seen the species in any North American zoo either.