Low flying vultures!!

There are not many places in the English countryside where you have to duck to avoid being hit in the head by a low flying vulture, but Andover in Hampshire is just such a place, as it is home to the Hawk Conservancy Trust and is a very entertaining place to visit on a long bank holiday weekend.
During the summer they have three flying demonstrations, including 'Valley of the Eagles', which includes a low flying display by a flock of hooded vultures:
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Through using these displays the trust is bringing attention to the huge worldwide decline in vultures, especially the Oriental White Backed Vulture that has suffered a 97% population decline since the 1990's due to the anti-worming drug diclofenac making cattle corpses toxic.
At another flying display there was a chance to see barn owls up close, a bird I have only managed to glimpse on the north Norfolk coast and at Otmoor.  
British birds of prey are also suffering, mostly due to habitat loss and as well as nurturing damaged and sick birds, they have a fund-a-bird scheme, with the view to increase the number of artificial nesting boxes.
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The star of the 'Woodland Owls and Hawks'  was Nigel, the white faced scops owl:
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The trust is certainly providing an entertaining and educational day as well as assisting in reducing the world wide decline in birds of prey,  but there is also a somewhat melancholic sight, to see what is probably Britain's most magnificent bird - the white tailed sea eagle - in an enclosure.
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