| Halloween... A Howling Success! |
2009 is the first year Blair Drummond has kept its gates open far into October to see Halloween; and to mark the event we decided to have a big Halloween party at the park for all of our customers both big and small. We had dooking for apples, a spooky witch’s house, fancy dress competitions and raffles with great prizes to be won. Cheeko the Clown joined us for the occasion and kept the children entertained with lots of balloon tying, music and fun and games. |
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Thankfully the weather was kind to us and stayed nice and dry for the day. Even the animals got into the spirit of things, and they enjoyed eating their lunches out of spooky Jack-o-lanterns! |
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Blair Drummond would like to say a big thank you to all our customers who joined us on Halloween and the made the day such a success. Also a big thank you to all the staff that helped and for dressing up in some fabulous outfits on the day! |
Meerkat Mischief |
As you may have already heard, Blair Drummond had three recent additions to the park; at the start of August our new breeding pair of meerkats had three babies. Park staff were over the moon when the babies were born, and our customers were very excited too when the babies first started to venture out of their cosy nest box. Now the babies are getting big, they are out and about playing in their enclosure and foraging for food with mum and dad. The babies have not been named yet; but Pets’ Farm staff soon plan to catch them up to see if they are boys or girls, after which staff will choose names for them. If any of you at home can think of good names for our new meerkat family, please email them to us at education@blairdrummond.com or post them to us at Education Department, Blair Drummond Safari Park, by Stirling, FK9 4UR, along with your name, age and address. If you would like to come to the park to see our new family, there is still time; remember, we close our gates for winter on Monday 2nd November. |
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Pirates at the Park – A Swashbuckling Success!! |
As it was International Talk Like a Pirate Day on Saturday 19th September, we hosted our very first pirate themed day at the park; and it was wond-aarrr-ful!! We had Central FM in for the afternoon playing sea shanties, we had fancy dress competitions, Cap’n Cheeko tyin’ balloons and lots of raffles for rascally prizes! |
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We even had Gary Gilmour, Park Manager, locked in the stocks havin’ wet sponges thrown at him! |
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Cap’n Ally was in charge o’ the Boat Safari with Danny second in command (left) and Bucaneer Gordon had a fine ol’ day down at the Splash Cats (right). |
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Everyone got into the swing o’ things; here be Gary Gilmour, Park Manager and Susan Morris, Office Manager (left) and some o’ the lasses up at the restaurant (right). |
| All fundraising activities throughout the day were for our conservation campaign, EAZA European Carnivore Campaign 2008/09. On Pirate Day we raised over £500, so a big thank you to everyone who was there and contributed on the day. Also a massive thank you to all Blair Drummond staff who dressed up and made the day such a swashbuckling success! |
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Staff scallywags with the Meller family on the pirate ship at the Adventure Playground. |
| Pirates at the Park |
Avast me Hearties, every year on September 19th it’s “International Talk like a Pirate Day”, arrrr!! So just for some fun for all ye scallywags, we’re havin’ a party at the park to celebrate!
So fish out those pirate costumes as we’re dressin’ up for the occasion; thar’ll be fancy dress competitions for swashbuckling prizes. We’ll have hunts for doubloons n’ treasure and don’t forget our grand ol’ Pirate Ship to mess around on at the Adventure Playground. And for those of ye who are a good aim; thar’ll be a rascally pirate pillory (they be stocks to you ‘n me). Along with raffles, balloon tyin’ n’ much much more.
And be on the lookout on our website for a free child’s pass to our jolly Pirate Day. Yaarrr! |
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| Blair Drummond’s Elephants get a History Lesson |
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Douglas Jackson has had a lifelong fascination for Rome and the Romans; which he has now turned into a series of novels. The books are based around Roman Emperors and the Emperor’s elephant, named Bersheba. Douglas spent some time at Blair Drummond Safari Park studying their three African savannah elephants, especially Toto, in both their behaviours and how they are trained at the park, so he had better knowledge of this subject for his books. In return for the help given by Blair Drummond, Douglas provided the park with a signed copy of each of his books.
“I’d also like to say a special thanks to Blair Drummond Safari Park for allowing me to meet Toto, who gave me a true insight into the character Bersheba, the Emperor’s elephant.” |
Gary Gilmour Park Manager and Ailsa West Head of Large Mammals with author Douglas Jackson and Estrella the elephant. |
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