CORONAVIRUS: FURTHER UPDATE REGARDING LITTLE OWL HIDE BOOKINGS:
11th May 2020
Hi All,
Apologies for not updating this page earlier.
Recently I have been receiving a high number of enquiries regarding the hide from both customers already booked into the hide for this Spring and Summer, plus also a high number of photographers looking to book the hide so I have decided to add this update for your information.
This is a very difficult update to write but in view of the current situation with this wretched virus and the ongoing fight to stop it, it is going to be pretty impossible for me to operate my hide for customers safely this year, and even with the latest, slight but vague and confusing easing of the lockdown measures announced by the Prime Minister on the 10th May, sadly and regrettably I have to inform you that I have made the very tough decision to close the hide.
I have not taken this decision lightly, in fact it breaks my heart to have to do so, but due to public health and safety reasons, plus major problems with meeting social distancing requirements in the hide it will be too risky to allow photographers to visit the hide for the foreseeable future.
Essentially, the hide is way too small to meet the minimum recommended two meters distancing measures when two photographers are in the hide and with two photographers booked into the hide on almost every day during May and June, and the fact that a large majority of those photographers are complete strangers it is clear that it could be potentially dangerous to public health. Also, the hide is very basic and there are no facilities for proper, thorough hand washing in the hide and although I can provide hand sanitiser and gloves etc it is far from ideal.
In addition to that, as a customer or potential customer planning to visit my hide your health and safety, along with the welfare of the owls are my top priorities as is my own health and safety and unfortunately, but very importantly, I am a moderate asthma sufferer, so as I am sure you can appreciate I have to be extremely careful with what I do at the moment and it would be very foolish to put myself or my customers at any unnecessary risk with a virus as lethal as the Coronavirus and the COVID-19 disease it brings especially as there there seems to be an awful lot of virus still circulating out there and are, among others, the main reasons for closing the hide.
I am so sorry that I have no better news in this update and I can't tell you how disappointed and upset I am to be closing the hide but I sincerely hope that due to the circumstances you can see that it is the sensible thing to do. Health and safety must always come first and certainly before any profit or any photo.
Stay healthy and Stay safe!
Kindest regards
Neil
Apologies for not updating this page earlier.
Recently I have been receiving a high number of enquiries regarding the hide from both customers already booked into the hide for this Spring and Summer, plus also a high number of photographers looking to book the hide so I have decided to add this update for your information.
This is a very difficult update to write but in view of the current situation with this wretched virus and the ongoing fight to stop it, it is going to be pretty impossible for me to operate my hide for customers safely this year, and even with the latest, slight but vague and confusing easing of the lockdown measures announced by the Prime Minister on the 10th May, sadly and regrettably I have to inform you that I have made the very tough decision to close the hide.
I have not taken this decision lightly, in fact it breaks my heart to have to do so, but due to public health and safety reasons, plus major problems with meeting social distancing requirements in the hide it will be too risky to allow photographers to visit the hide for the foreseeable future.
Essentially, the hide is way too small to meet the minimum recommended two meters distancing measures when two photographers are in the hide and with two photographers booked into the hide on almost every day during May and June, and the fact that a large majority of those photographers are complete strangers it is clear that it could be potentially dangerous to public health. Also, the hide is very basic and there are no facilities for proper, thorough hand washing in the hide and although I can provide hand sanitiser and gloves etc it is far from ideal.
In addition to that, as a customer or potential customer planning to visit my hide your health and safety, along with the welfare of the owls are my top priorities as is my own health and safety and unfortunately, but very importantly, I am a moderate asthma sufferer, so as I am sure you can appreciate I have to be extremely careful with what I do at the moment and it would be very foolish to put myself or my customers at any unnecessary risk with a virus as lethal as the Coronavirus and the COVID-19 disease it brings especially as there there seems to be an awful lot of virus still circulating out there and are, among others, the main reasons for closing the hide.
I am so sorry that I have no better news in this update and I can't tell you how disappointed and upset I am to be closing the hide but I sincerely hope that due to the circumstances you can see that it is the sensible thing to do. Health and safety must always come first and certainly before any profit or any photo.
Stay healthy and Stay safe!
Kindest regards
Neil
