Singapore... day nine
*crawls in*
...Singapore.... *gasp*...day... *cough, wheeze*.... nine!
Jurong Bird Park!
Whenever I look at this picture I hear Yakko's 'Aaaaaaaaaahh...' noise in my head. (get the youtube deep linking! Also, the whole video's worth a watch because it's funny :P)
This was a part where we got to feed the boids. Live maggots. In little cups. Which they climbed out of. Onto your hand. And everyone was holding these cups above their heads to attract the birds. You can guess how that ended :D
I got a bit obsessed with closeups. But they are strange and amazing up close, birds!
Also, they like the attention, obviously :P
And we fed the Lorys :D Or lorikeets, as they're properly known. You got into a huge walk-in aviary, and they give you a cup of what looks like peanut butter mixed with water. You go onto a walkway, hold out a cup, and suddenly these cute little parrots are fighting for a chance to lap it up :D And lap they do, they have weird finger-like tongues that dart out and lap it up.
We spent ages in there, it was a lot of fun. Gemma befriended a particularly scruffy-looking one and named it Tiny Tim. Here's a picture on her blog of me feeding and photographing one at the same time.
There were also flowers.
Then we popped over to the Japanese and Chinese gardens, but left it a bit late!
It was a good day, it's a really impressive park, just like Singapore Zoo, an excellent example of how these things should be done. Fun for people and animals :)
Coming up, because it's a bank holiday, day ten. Don't worry, it's a short one.
...Singapore.... *gasp*...day... *cough, wheeze*.... nine!
Jurong Bird Park!
Whenever I look at this picture I hear Yakko's 'Aaaaaaaaaahh...' noise in my head. (get the youtube deep linking! Also, the whole video's worth a watch because it's funny :P)
This was a part where we got to feed the boids. Live maggots. In little cups. Which they climbed out of. Onto your hand. And everyone was holding these cups above their heads to attract the birds. You can guess how that ended :D
I got a bit obsessed with closeups. But they are strange and amazing up close, birds!
Also, they like the attention, obviously :P
And we fed the Lorys :D Or lorikeets, as they're properly known. You got into a huge walk-in aviary, and they give you a cup of what looks like peanut butter mixed with water. You go onto a walkway, hold out a cup, and suddenly these cute little parrots are fighting for a chance to lap it up :D And lap they do, they have weird finger-like tongues that dart out and lap it up.
We spent ages in there, it was a lot of fun. Gemma befriended a particularly scruffy-looking one and named it Tiny Tim. Here's a picture on her blog of me feeding and photographing one at the same time.
There were also flowers.
Then we popped over to the Japanese and Chinese gardens, but left it a bit late!
It was a good day, it's a really impressive park, just like Singapore Zoo, an excellent example of how these things should be done. Fun for people and animals :)
Coming up, because it's a bank holiday, day ten. Don't worry, it's a short one.