Tropical Butterfly House Tropical butterfly house, wildlife & falconry centre

Bristol zoo and posibly Longleat (providing it's open :S)
 
Susan Humphreys said:
Has anyone been to the Tropical butterfly house, wildlife & falconry centre at North Anston near Sheffield? It looks interesting - they have geckos and chameleons so I'm thinking of going over Easter.
They have a nice website too - http://www.butterflyhouse.co.uk/:D
Where is everyone else heading over the holiday??
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Visited the place a few years ago it was a standard butterfly house that had branched out in to other animals,the only thing that springs to mind about the place is the smallest bat enclosure i have ever seen.
 
i will be going to the highland wildlife park next week, and to Edinburgh in April, also hope to get to Blair Drummond soon too
 
Im heading for Chester & Blackbrook. Maybe Twycross aswell, were undecided at the moment. We did want to go for West Middlands aswell but that'll be left until the summer now. Might manage a visit to the Welsh Mountain Zoo aswell
 
I'm hopefully going to blackbrook;I'm doing most of the zoos in the summer, I'll be doing five, possibly six (We are going to try and fit Kota Kinabalu zoo) within three weeks!!!
 
If the weather is good, I'm considering Blackpool, Martinmere WWT and perhaps a day or two away to visit Bristol and Cotswold. If it's bad, perhaps Blackpool SeaLife Centre, Blue Planet or the Deep. I'll go mad if I can't get some quality time with my new camera ;)

Alan
 
Proposed bad weather means that Twycross and blackbrook have been set back to summer for me. Hoepfully Chester is still on
 
Went to Tropical Butterfly House... it is a small place, the butterfly part was good though - we got to see the new ones being released including an Owl butterfly - I've never seen the blue part of their wings before.) They have three free-roaming iguanas - I managed to spot one warming itself under the heat lamp. They have marmosets in an enclosure which then runs to an outside one, a skunk - which I didn't get to see but that they bring out at 3.30. They had paradise whydahs, a golden pheasant, lorikeets. Individual parrots, owls, birds of prey and cockatoos. A veiled chameleon (which I got to meet in the exotic creature encounter), snakes, and a small nocturnal section with two bats, pygmy african hedgehogs, imperial scorpions and some tiny geckos. They also have farm animals, a meercat who's waiting for a mate and I also got to feed an alpaca which loved spitting at everyone (but not me - and you know I wouldn't have minded it would make for a good story to tell!) I'll try and post one or two pics soon.:) Managed to get pics of Dumeril's Boa and Giant Land Snails for my website.:D
 
I wish zoos would keep Whydahs with their associated host species, I don't even think most of them have been bred in captivity, it's such a shame as they are amazing birds.
 
A male Ruppell's Griffon Vulture named Vernon has arrived- no idea where he came from, only information given is that he is 17 years old.
 
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