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Tuesday, 1 September 2015

The Big Hoot - Birmingham

So Sunday saw us take a drive down to Birmingham for a day out. None of us had ever been before, so that was an adventure in itself. The trusty Google search, located a reasonable priced car park near to the main attractions of the city centre, and off we headed.
A couple of hours later, after a couple of rest stops for the kids and some congestion on the M6 heading into Birmingham we made it to the car park.
I'd printed off the trail map for the Big Hoot and we proceded to walk around collecting as many as possible.
We found 3 before heading to Eastside City Park to have a picnic, luckily there was a covered area with benches as it has started to rain.

The boys then had a quick play in the fountains 
before we headed over to the Science Museum to collect some more owls. 
We then followed the route round to the children's hospital,



we then made our way to the Cathedral gardens still hunting as we walked






After spotting all those in the Cathederal Gardens we moved onto the Square outside the Museum and Art Gallery.



Inside the Art Gallery in gallery 16 they had a collection of 26 Little Hoot owls, which we all designed by different schools in the area.






We then made our way back to the car via New Street and the Bullring


In all we found 31 of the 89 Big Hoot owls and walked 5 miles in the process