Just back from visiting Veldhoven Zoo, and from cycling to and from there. Very tired. I took many pictures, both cards I had with me are full. Maybe I should not have left the camera on burst mode, and maybe I should have emptied both cards before I went there... It's going to take a while to sort through everything.

I like that some animals are free to roam around with people, farm style. And I like that this zoo started as, and still is, a sanctuary for birds. All these times people realise they can not keep parrots anymore, they go there. Someone told me that in covid times they received over a hundred parrots and budgies per day; I must have misunderstood. They also have a breeding program for eagles, which will be released in the wild in France. Apparently eagles don't form couples when in France.

Until two weeks ago I didn't even know this zoo existed, and I've lived here for decades. But a colleague mentioned visiting it with her little daughter, and I wanted to check it out too.