HEAD KEEPERS BLOG
There’s always something new happening at The Tropical Butterfly House – keep up to date with all the latest animal antics from Head Keeper, Chrissie Jackson.
Posted at 21:39 10/05/11
Creepy crawlies have stolen the limelight in the butterfly house this week with the arrival of a bumper new batch of fascinating beasties. Amongst them are Giant Emerald Pill Millipedes, mind boggling Leaf Insects and Giant Horse-head Grasshoppers! This is such a fantastic opportunity to catch a glimpse at rarely seen bugs. Photos …
Posted at 12:18 23/04/11
The centre hosted a VIP guest on Wednesday; the snooker player Barry ‘The Hawk’ Hawkins. Barry, accompanied by a BBC film crew, visited us in the run up to playing in the World Snooker Championships at the Crucible, Sheffield. Barry was a real sport and dared to fly Red the Harris Hawk and our pair of Green-winged Macaws …
Posted at 09:48 23/04/11
A young child was heard the other day asking her parents ”Is that the Easter Bunny?” when she saw ‘Biggles’, one of the rabbits at the Tropical Butterfly House, Wildlife and Falconry Centre near Sheffield. Biggles is a female Continental Giant, one the largest species of rabbit in the world, and her tremendous size is often commented …
