Senior Bird Keeper, Ryan Just to set the scene, despite being a bird nerd, I absolutely adore butterflies. Unfortunately, I started here at Wingham after the Butterfly House, inside the Tropical House, closed. So, I missed out on meeting Wingham’s fluttery friends. However, just like the rest of the bird team, I often get confronted…
Spring has never truly arrived until you catch sight of your first bee. On Saturday 20th May 2023 we will be celebrating World Bee Day, so get it jotted down in the diary. This day is to raise awareness about the threats they face and most importantly what we can do to help them out. In…
When you think of animals and venoms, your first thought is probably snakes. You wouldn’t be wrong! There are around 600 species of venomous snakes with about 200 being able to seriously hurt or even kill humans. We don’t hold any of these snakes at Wingham anymore. However, we do still have our venomous lizards,…
On Friday 20th May 2022 we will be celebrating World Bee Day. These celebrations are in aid of raising awareness about the threats to these pollinators. In the UK there are more than 250 species of bees often seen buzzing from flower to flower. For me it’s as difficult to imagine a life without bees as it…
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…
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…
So today I’m going to introduce you to some of our smallest carnivores. You may have already visited ‘the bug garden’ here at Wingham? At the end of the walk is the bug house where you will find a menagerie of invertebrates, including many carnivores. These tiny predators are often given a lot of bad…
Hi everyone, if you have been to the park recently, have you made sure to visit our new bug exhibit? The brand-new bug garden opened on 17th May as we were given the go ahead by the government to be able to open the park back up after the last lockdown restrictions were lifted. If…
