About a week after I moved the blue newbies next to the Silver Villa (click here to read that post), I started opening their door for them to come out. To entice them, I tied raffia around the door opening for them to chew on. At times they would come tantalisingly close to the open door:
On the 23rd December 2016, Perry was the first to venture out:
Then he was off, followed closely by Lennie:
That is always the nerve-wracking part, especially when you know they have not previously had an opportunity for a proper fly. They did quite a few laps of the room before landing on the manor, where Bezukhov & Dalai were. That was the cue for more holding of breath. What happened next is in the next post….