These are some of the birds of prey you will meet at Pant Glas. A few are too big and powerful to be flown by visitors. Others can be handled and flown by children.
By law, all our birds were bred in captivity. People sometimes bring us sick or injured wild birds. We do our best to nurse them back to health and release them as soon as possible.
Harris Hawks are native to the southern states of the USA, Central and South America.
On the right is Page - a female Harris who joined us from a previous owner. Females can be 50% bigger than males and don't put up with any nonsense. When Page is about, the farm cats, ducks and chickens run for cover !
By contrast, here's Cedric - a young male. When he was a chick his mum threw him out of the nest (hawks can be like that) so he needed hand rearing. Despite his rocky start in life Cedric is one of the best mannered hawks you will ever meet.
At 20 years of age Henry is the grandpa of the hawks. Been there, done that, knows every trick in the book. If there's a way of scrounging food without working for it, Henry's got it sorted.
Other members of our Harris family include Twm - a youngster, and Uno who is six.
Owls can't swivel their eyeballs like we can. They have to turn their heads to see what's around them.
Bo, a Bengal eagle owl is a lot smaller than Theo. He's a long established part of our display team but sometimes he gets a bit lazy and must be coaxed to do any work.
Willow, a barn owl, was born here two years ago. She's happy to be stroked and flies to adults and young children without fuss.
When we're on the flying ground there's often wild buzzards and red kites circling overhead and watching proceedings. They're curious but they don't interfere.