Thursday, 3 September
Another lousy day. Rose late, stayed in for lunch, then drove all the way around the coast to Muncaster Castle. A bit on the pricey side, but we really enjoyed the visit. The castle itself had a fascinating audioguide narrated descendants of the Pennington family, pus a famously haunted room (though I found it rather pleasant).
There is an owl conservation project at the castle, and we were in time to see the feeding. Girls with buckets of dead chicks and baby rats placed them on perches in each cage, and the owls would swallow them whole or tear at them with vicious beaks. They even had one enormous owl capable of hunting young deer!
We also saw a heron-feeding session, which was made more interesting by the buzzards who join in, and try to make the herons drop their food by pretending to attack them. We then parked the car in Ravenglass and took a short walk to the remains of a Roman bath house. The grounds were flooded again, which makes them look more magnificent. I also spotted a brace of rabbits.
Had a nice dinner at the Block Cock Inn in Broughton.
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