On the way home from the festival, we stopped off to have a look at the Flying High Bird Sanctuary just outside Childers. This is the largest free flight aviary in Australia and I’d been planning on visiting it by myself at some stage while we were in Bundaberg, cause David’s not really as interested in birds as I am – but he did enjoy it, or at least he said he did 
It’s probably a touch expensive at $18 for entry, but I love birds so I was happy to pay it. The owners only took over about 4 months ago, and I don’t know what the facility was like when they took it over, but they said they had made some changes with a lot more to come (koalas for instance) and they seem to be really enjoying the business.
The aviary has about 400 metres of walkway and most of the birds are freely flying about. Some of the lorikeets and parrots are very cheeky and will land on your shoulder trying to get your earrings (which I’d been warned about, so I took mine out), or in my case, the chain holding my glasses.
At the moment, there are still some birds in cages – mainly the cockatoos, some of the larger parrots, and of course the Macaws, but there are plans for a big parrot cage where they can fly around more freely.
I really enjoyed it. Here’s a few photos of the birds.
