Month: April 2021
At Corfe Valley Outdoor Learning, we love enhancing our local environment and promoting biodiversity. We enjoy constructing and placing various bird boxes around our site. We hear lots of owls at night here – so have recently built and sited a barn owl box in a tree in one of our fields in the hope a barn owl make it its home. We have seen barn owls nearby and discovered pellets inside already, so fingers crossed!
After just over 3 weeks of staring at the incubator, we now have six healthy Pekin Bantam chicks. Full of character already, we are all enjoying their company! We have named them (courtesy of our own children); Peanut, Delilah, Speckles, Sunlight, Flash and Gracie. We are handling them a lot each day and will eventually, once they are old enough, introduce them to our two wonderful chickens we currently have, Betty and Pebbles. We will post plenty of updates as they really are rather special!
