Tag: honeymoon

Honeymoon photos!

Juvenile Siberian Eagle Owl
These are the photos from Centre Parcs – mostly of owls.
I’m quite pleased with these, although I missed a lot of great shots of the owls by being much too slow!

London Zoo
These are the photos from London – mostly of the aquarium and the zoo.
Sadly a lot of these are either out of focus, or focussed in slightly the wrong place. I’m going to blame the poor light conditions, the fact that most of them were taken through glass, water or mesh, and the fact that I’ve never really worked out how to make the most of the 200mm lens.

Mr & Mrs Smith Go On Honeymoon
These are the honeymoon photos of a certain Mr & Mrs Smith – who travelled with us wherever we went.
My Mum knitted these little figures for us, and we thought they deserved a little holiday of their own!

I realise that I haven’t shown you any photos of the wedding yet. We haven’t had the pictures back from the official photographer, and we’re waiting for those before we compile an online album. There are quite a few pictures starting to show up on Facebook, and I do have photos of everything that Paul and I made ourselves, so we should have something to show you very soon.

Encounter With Owls…

Eagle Owl

I’m just dropping in for a flying visit to upload the photos from the first part of our honeymoon – you can see them all here.

Yesterday we had a Falconry session in the morning, and an Encounter With Owls in the afternoon. This enormous chap was featured in both. His name’s Woolly, and he’s an Eagle Owl.

We also met a Merlin called Angel, a Gyr/Peregrine Falcon called Romeo, a Harris Hawk called Miller, and lots and lots of owls.

I have to confess that I am a huge fan of birds in general, and birds of prey in particular, so getting to spend a couple of hours getting to feed them and fly them to the glove was absolutely amazing.

You can tell how much I enjoyed it by my enormous grin – that’s Woolly on my arm. I’m leaning slightly away from him because I’d already learnt the hard way that his wings were long enough to hit me in the face!

I don’t know of anywhere local that rescues or rehabilitates birds, but I might have to do a bit of research when I get home. It would be brilliant to be able to have contact with birds like this more often.