This week my plan was to do a blog on spring. However, seeing what the weather has been like in recent days I may need to rethink my plan and do it on winter instead! Snow, sleet, hail, wind and rain, we’ve had it all haven’t we? Although, it’s not all bad as Spring is…
Last weekend we celebrated World Sparrow Day! A time to reflect on the decline of our humble sparrows. Why do I say spectacular? I think Sparrows are really underappreciated! Yes, at first some species may look like just another drab looking small brown bird, but when you look at them closely they really are subtly…
Happy New Year to all! As the weather is getting colder, it’s easy to daydream of warmer climates and think about future holidays or past trips. I’ve spent a lot of time recently thinking about a trip I did in 2016 to South America. Here I explored the Pantanal region of Brazil, searched for sloths…
Happy New Year to you all, I hope everyone is well and had a very merry Christmas. I have enjoyed sharing with you my recent travels around the UK in previous blogs. However, for this one I thought we’d turn up the heat and go somewhere outside the UK. The Ashes Australia and England are…
Introducing my first Wingham Wildlife Park bird identification blog where I’d love to point out a species that you can try and spot at the park, depending on the time of year of course. And if you’re a birder, like me you’ll be busy on New Year’s Day trying to build up your bird list…
As Wingham Wildlife Park has continued to grow, specialize and constantly strive to improve our husbandry we have had to make a decision to change where we get our fresh produce was. In the past, we had received around 95% of our fruit and vegetables from supermarkets sending us their waste. This was always sufficient…
Now the days are getting shorter and it’s getting a bit chilly, I find myself really enjoying my time in the Tropical House here at Wingham Wildlife Park. Not only is it an escape from the elements on a miserable day but you can’t help but smile at the main attraction in there… our group…
Something way different this week from my usual blog topics and a special request from our Curator, Markus. Did you manage to catch our Wingham Bake-Off over lockdown? I didn’t win, mainly because I managed to make the worst cookies ever, but I had so much fun taking part… and I have since had another…
It has been a little while since I’ve written a blog post, but the other day I was doing some invertebrate surveying in the new bug garden and I just had to write about all the wildlife which we see at the park. We are of course a wildlife park, and we mostly specialise in exotic…
During our lockdown Facebook live streams, there was quite a lot of interest in the wild birds around the park and wild birds in general. So in my blog this week I’m going to point you in the direction of my top five places to go birding right here in east Kent. 1. Sandwich Bay…
