Nikki Buxton

Just Cruisin’

Nov 18, 2011

This month we had the absolute pleasure of a visit from the World Parrot Trust "Parrot Lovers" Cruise.

I have to confess I was more than a little nervous. We have never really had visitors before and especially not visitors with sufficient knowledge and experience of parrots to be critical of the...

It’s days like these…

Sep 29, 2011

Reading an article about Foster Parrot's Marc Johnson today, I had one of those wonderful moments. I felt sorry for Marc, then I sympathised, then I empathised.  And then I thought - hang on a minute: there's poor Marc struggling like crazy to place captive-bred birds in far too few homes, and look...

No news is good news…?

Aug 04, 2011

Seven months later I am still churning out the excuses and apologies for being an erratic blogger. I guess I have been called worse and can live with that title, but I really will try harder from now on.

Since the beginning of the year I have sat staring daggers at the rusting heap that should...

End of year catch-up

Dec 19, 2010

My apologies for my absence. Loads of excuses, all of them pathetic.

After much fundraising we began construction of the new aviaries. The rain made the task extremely tiresome, but eventually we were done. Much celebration and leaping about. A few days later we piled into the bush bearing perches...