Here is Clay with his new friend, Calvin, one of Forest Park's Yellow-sided Mutation Green-Cheeked Conures!
Although Clay and Calvin spend much time around the house together, when Clay is not teaching his Conure new tricks, he is working to save a much larger species. Clay and a couple of classmates just won the Gold Medal at the Christopher Columbus Awards, a National science competition, where he also won a trip to Disney World. The students are working to preserve wetlands habitat of the endangered Osprey in Ohio. By building Osprey nesting platforms and erecting them in parks, they hope to provide more habitat for the birds and increase their population.
This new page on our web-site is being designed to recognise the achievements of some of our customers, friends, and connections, in areas considered to be of general interest to bird-lovers anywhere! Let us have any worthy contributions which we can consider here at Forest Park Aviaries for inclusion in this part of our site. Previous, present and intending future customers for our hand-fed exotic pet birds are all invited to contribute pictures and explanatory text as we develop this part of the "Friends of Forest Park Aviaries" web-site. Let us have your contact details, please, so we can ensure accuracy. Thank You!
In our ongoing quest here at Forest Park Aviaries to publicise "accomplishments" and to find novel internet-publishable material to further enliven our various web-sites, we could not avoid offering this clickable link to a "YouTube" item featuring a Sun Conure "at play", and many other clips! Just hit the following clickable Link to access YouTube - and enjoy!
Here at Forest Park Aviaries, we offer our most sincere congratulations to Debbie Ryan, our good friend & associate - and prior customer for one of our Pacific Parrotlets ("Kiwi")! Deb has just become a Certified Avian Specialist, having met the necessary examination standards set by the Pet Industry Joint Advisory Council in Washington, D.C. Well done, Debbie! Debbie is pictured here with her son, Connor.
You may wish to visit her "Kiwi's Korner" via the clickable link below:
Just a little personal self-indulgence on my part! What a Major Achievement it was for this wide variety of Churches to have been built in Cambridgeshire, England, and elsewhere all across the country during the late-13th & 14th centuries. Cheveley Village Parish Church and the Village High Street are viewable via these clickable links and Link boxes! As a young child, I first visited these home-village places during wartime in the early-1940's. (Contributor : Dr.Geoff).
St Pancras Station: A Victorian masterpiece restored to splendour, by Simon Bradley
Last Updated: 12:01am GMT 14/11/2007
Once earmarked for demolition, St Pancras' revival is remarkable, says railway historian Simon Bradley
St Pancras has always been special. It has the grandest frontage of any British railway station, a towering neo-Gothic giant in red brick and coloured stone, originally the Midland Grand Hotel. Behind is one of the most powerful spaces of the Victorian age, Sir William Barlow's vast pointed-arched train shed of iron and glass: in its day the widest clear-span structure in the world. Its design embodies British engineering at its most daring, while the eclectic detailing of Sir George Gilbert Scott's hotel demonstrates his gift for blending home-grown styles with ideas and motifs from the Continent.
Today, this extraordinary complex becomes the gateway for High Speed 1, the accelerated rail service between Britain and mainland Europe, built by London and Continental Railways. It's hard to imagine a finer or more appropriate point of departure – a counterpart to the mighty classical block that is the Gare du Nord in Paris.
How different things might have been, for the history of St Pancras is full of narrow escapes and near wrong turnings. The station was built for the Midland Railway as the portal to its London extension, part of a plan that included new main lines over the Pennines to Manchester and Carlisle.
It was intended that the extra routes would turn a prosperous regional network into a strategic long-distance system, funnelling streams of Midlands coal to the insatiable grates and furnaces of The Big Smoke. This meant heavy borrowing on the capital markets, just in time for the worst credit squeeze of the age, in the spring of 1866.
