Tropical Bird Land

Last weekend Adam’s brother and our nieces came up to stay with us. We had a lovely weekend doing a bit of geocaching, having a takeaway and on the Sunday we visited Tropical Birdland in Leicestershire. We’d tried to go a couple of years ago but it was unplanned and apparently can’t cope with unplanned fun!

It was a really good day out and for £8.50 a complete bargain as it was a good few hours out. They have so many beautiful birds there. When we first arrived we found this little guy by the entrance. I think it was fairly cold for him so it didn’t take him long to climb up into my hood.

 Here he is when he’s not hiding! So cute! I love the colours on him.

 This was by far my favourite bit of the day. I love this little guy! He was adorable.

This one, perhaps not so much. Very impressive though. He’s an emu.

These are military macaws. Slightly scary as they are so big but we really enjoyed the way that they are. They took the food ok without also taking any fingers with them. The best to give them seemed to be whole walnuts. One would take it and start to crack it then they would share it between them. You can see them passing it along in this line- the 3 of them were very fair with each other when they were sharing.

 This bird was flirting with Mark - his party trick was obviously to shout “hey baby!”

Finally Adam managed to find this huge parrot just flying free with his mate. He enjoyed looking like a pirate with him on his arm.

It was a lovely weekend spent with family and a really awesome trip out as well. It made us really miss the budgie we had and want another bird.