Per its FB page, the Centre is now keeping Red Billed Choughs.
There's also Bache station, which is a (fairly) short walk from the zoo. Change at Chester for Merseyrail services towards Liverpool Central.
I gather that current Chester policy is not to maintain taxa from developed countries (other than the UK itself) which are capable of looking...
I'd advise starting at the back of the zoo, so to speak, and working towards the front. Make a beeline for Islands as soon as the zoo opens and...
The last time I saw Derbyan Parakeets at Chester was on a school trip in 1985, when IIRC they were in one of the small aviaries the footprints of...
Good guide to where to see the Park's wild birds here: Birds - Friends of Regent's Park & Primrose Hill
If you're visiting London Zoo again it's worth noting that the main lake in Regent's Park itself also holds a nice collection of exotic wildfowl...
Also, West Cheshire breaks up on Wednesday.
If you have a free afternoon there's always Hemsley: a quick train ride from Victoria to Meopham (pronounced Meppum), then a ten minute taxi journey.
Rhyl Seaquarium closed for good a couple of months back.
Living in the middle of nowhere gives you plenty of time for water changes! Among the less endangered stuff I currently have fry and young fish...
Only the Krib! The rest were fish I'd been asked to rehome and for which I had no room (I have twenty-five tanks on the go and so I often get...
I recently donated a number of fish to Chester: Clown Loaches, Lake Kutubu Rainbows, Tiger Barbs, Denison's Barbs, Rohan's Barbs, Filament Barbs,...
For the very simple reason that with Blue Planet just down the road Chester cannot justify the expense of a new aquarium, and I've had that...
It wouldn't make a bad replacement for the current aquarium building.
In summer the minor road linking the A543 with Llansannan is an excellent vantage point for watching pretty well every species of upland British...
If you're after Ospreys the Llyn Brenig and Pont Croesor pairs are fairly reliable and have good quality monitored viewing areas. There are other...
Small update to this: Bristol Zoo's eight Clown Loaches are now in the Gharial pool at Chester, bringing the total shoal to eleven. They're about...
I suspect that with a massive public aquarium (not to mention three excellent aquarium shops, which far too many people treat as free zoos) just...
A member of the aquarium team recently told me that they were getting "Half a tank" in Phase 1, presumably meaning the wet bit of a paludarium.
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