naming the rhea - it's a tie!

The votes are in - our poll to choose the name of our crazy white Rhea has closed and it's a tie!

Castro and Santana got an equal number of votes, with Che coming in a close third. So Mum gets the casting vote and, for anyone who knows her, slightly unsurprisingly she's gone for... SANTANA!

The likeness is almost uncanny...



Thanks for your votes x

Juliet D-H

Out on your Rhea

Mum's gone slightly mad and got herself 5 young Rheas - South American birds, a bit like an ostrich, that apparently love our dry(!) East Anglian climate. They grow to over 5 feet tall and will reputedly fend off the foxes, which have eaten 5 guinea fowl and Othello, the Black Orpington cockerel, in the last 3 weeks. Rheas like to eat young nettles and thistles so we're also hoping that next year we won't have so much strimming and scything to do!

The very friendly Rhea in the photo above has been called Chris (geddit???) but we need some help naming the other four - any suggestions?

The white Rhea is the biggest and the fierce protector of the group:

The other three are all a bit timid so they haven't shown us their individual personalities yet:

Find out more about Rheas on wikipedia by clicking here.

Juliet D-H