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Tropical butterfly house, wildlife & falconry centre
20-03-2008
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/  Where is everyone else heading over the holiday?? |
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#2
20-03-2008
Bristol zoo and posibly Longleat (providing it's open :S)
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#3
20-03-2008
Say hello to the aye-ayes for me and good luck parking at Bristol!
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#4
21-03-2008
i'll be going to Chester and Twycross...
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#5
21-03-2008
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#6
21-03-2008
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
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#7
21-03-2008
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
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#8
21-03-2008
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!!!
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#9
21-03-2008
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
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#10
21-03-2008
possibly London, if I have time
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#11
22-03-2008
Proposed bad weather means that Twycross and blackbrook have been set back to summer for me. Hoepfully Chester is still on
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#12
23-03-2008
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.
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#13
23-03-2008
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.
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#14
23-03-2008
Have posted some of my better pictures from the Tropical Butterfly House with a few question marks about the birds I saw.
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#15
23-03-2008
Gentle Lemur - have you been to Blackpool Sealife Centre? Did you see the Hexapus?
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