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Here are some of the wonderful comments left by The Hawk Garden customers 

• Jim has a wonderful selection of birds of prey and encourages everyone to handle them and get involved. Clearly, he has a vast knowledge and understanding of these beautiful creatures which he's passionate to share with his guests. We are already recommending the hawk garden to our friends and relatives.

• Thank you! It was fantastic and the guy was very entertaining and relayed information in a very engaging and inclusive way.

• Really good day out. Jim was very knowledgeable and friendly. We had a great time feeding and flying the birds. I would recommend it to anyone to take part.

• Had a lovely day,highly recommended!

• I actually bought this for my sons partner, she is fascinated by birds of prey, the guy who showed her round and talked about the birds and flew the birds was friendly and very knowledgeable, she had a great time.

• If birds of prey are your thing then you must go!

• Thank you for wonderful day.

• THANK YOU. VERY ENJOYABLE AND INFORMATIVE.

• Jim, who took us on the walk was knowledgeable, friendly and very helpful. His insight into the lives of the hawks was inspirational. The bird we flew was a Harris Hawk called PERU and we all handled her several times, a great experience and one we have already recommended to friends and family. In fact we are trying to arrange a time to go back with our grandchildren. You must try it !!!
  

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 It is one hundred and eighty one years ago that Charles Darwin set off on his great Voyage Of the Beagle. On the 5th of September 1831 he was summoned to London to meet Robert FitzRoy the captain of HMS Beagle, it was explained to Darwin that he had been chosen to accompany FitzRoy as naturalist on his voyage around the world.

  Charles Darwin was just 21 years old, had never met the captain or heard of the ship. The Admiralty had charged FitzRoy with two missions, first to continue charting the coast of South America and to get accurate fixings of longitude by taking measurements on their round the world trip.

 The voyage would take Darwin to sea for up to four years but he was free to leave the ship at any time and return to england.On the 27th of December that year The HMS Beagle left Plymouth, they sailed across the Bay Of Biscay and out into the Atlantic Ocean.

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 I would like to start introducing the birds to everyone, So I thought I would start with Al, my Steppe Eagle. Al is captive bred from Austria and was imported to England around six years ago to be part of a breeding pair in Preston.

In the time Al spent with his new mate all they seemed to do is quarrel, fight, damage feathers and not have any chicks at all, not even any eggs! Someone decided eventually to have the pair DNA sexed and what do you know?

They were both boys!

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