Birds… Introducing Scrooge! 13 Jun 201813 Jun 2018 Check out this handsome chap! We recently welcomed Scrooge the Bengal Eagle Owl to the Nature Centre! Hi, Scrooge! Scrooge hatched on 1st March 2018. He was hand-reared by Holly, one of…
Birds… Baby Boom at Tilgate Nature Centre 23 Jun 2016 Summer seems to have reached Tilgate Nature Centre and even if the weather doesn’t know it, the animals certainly do! There’s a baby boom down at the centre with a…
Birds… Fezziwig: From Owlet to Adult! 13 Jan 201626 Jan 2016 Barn owls are beautiful birds, aren’t they? This is Fezziwig (named after the Charles Dickens character in A Christmas Carol). She is a 4 month old, European barn owl.…
Births and hatchings… Giant stick insect baby 7 Dec 20157 Dec 2015 This newly hatched stick insect has the scientfic name Phryganistria heusii yentuensis, which is a bit of a mouthful, so it is often referred to as the giant Vietnamese stick…
Birds… January babies 31 Jan 2014 Despite the seemingly never ending rain, the last few days have been brightened by some births and hatchings. Early in the week the Swainson’s lorikeets hatched one of their eggs.…
Birds… Chick Pics 11 Jun 2013 Here are a few of our chicks from this year, all are about a week old in the pictures. Azure-winged magpie Little owl Blue-headed pionus
Birds… Bird update 12 May 2013 After a slow start the bird breeding season is well underway. Several species already have chicks, including kookaburras, spreo starlings and bald ibis. I am especially pleased to have ibis chicks as…
Births and hatchings… Emerging Katydids 28 Jan 201329 Jan 2013 The katydids are now hatching out in large numbers on a daily basis and the first ones to emerge earlier this month have undergone their first shed.
Birds… Mousebird Chicks 22 Jan 201322 Jan 2013 Our first chicks of the year fledged today in the shape of two speckled mousebirds. These birds spent had spent the summer outside in the African finch aviary but were moved inside in the…
Births and hatchings… Katydids Hatch 7 Jan 20137 Jan 2013 Today has seen hatchlings emerge from the first batch of giant Florida katydid (Stilpnochlora couloniana) eggs; these were laid on the 20th of October last year so have taken 80 days to…
