Longleat is a splendid 16C house in Wiltshire, very near to where I am currently living.
Longleat House
In 1966, the then Marquess of Bath, whose family has owned the house since it was built, decided to raise some much needed money by opening a safari park – the first one in Britain.
The safari park is still very successful and has just reopened after the virus. The house is still closed. These are some of the animals we saw and, it being Great Britain in August, it was raining.
Damp koalaLorikeets. Normally you can go into the aviary with them and feed them but that, being indoors, is closed.Of course, despite the PR department’s best efforts, very few people were attending to this or wearing masks.Damp macaw. Tree porcupine concentrating on its carrot.Giraffes eating. Because they no longer have a whole savannah to browse, the keepers have to pretend there are new leaves on the trees every day. In the Monkey Jungle. Trying to dismantle my car.Bactrian camels nobly posing for photographs.Well fed tigers ignoring a stream of cars.We’ve seen the Lions of Longleat!
The Retirement Travels 
If that’s a hyacinth macaw they’re rare and incredibly valuable and absolutely gorgeous.
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