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~ Building Dragonflight ~
In the year 2000 the bird garden at 'Dracoweyr' was
a collection of knocked together flights
& aviaries.
Most of
them had been built with dirt floors so of
course mice quickly moved in and made themselves
quite at home.
A
number of them were second hand as finances
didn't stretch far in those days.
The kitset metal aviaries I soon found
to be too hard
to work in, with the low doorways making some
painful impacts to the head! They were also too cold
in
the winters and sometimes too hot during the
summer. None of them included safety cages so
these had to be added when
they were assembled.
All were far too small, one even being too low for me
to stand up in!
I dreamt
of having aviaries that were nice for the
birds to live in as well as being easy for me to
work in.
The end of
2004 saw work start on the Birdroom
and we seem to have been building every summer
since then.
What follows is 'Dragonflight'
being built.
December 2004
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| The plan is finally pegged out. |
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| Each wall is built in panels, then erected on the concrete pad. |
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| The roof is ready to go on. |
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| 4 walls and a roof. The Birdroom finally exists! |
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| Doors to the planned flights. |
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| then the walls are lined. |
May 2005.
The Birdroom is finished and we stop
building before winter.
December 2005.
Building starts again over summer.
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| The first flight is measured out. |
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| Concrete for one and a half flights is poured. |
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| The second flight is started. |
March 2006
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| One more flight and the porch still to build. |
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| The porch is finished by the end of 2006. |
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| The last two flights are started in the new year of 2007. |
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| These two have a connecting door between them & are half the width of the first two flights. |
(Doesn't Dino look extremely well behaved and intelligent?
I
never realised he was such a good liar!)
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| Waiting to be painted...... the weather didn't help! |
February 2007
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