Robert Kennedy, Richard Gere and Cheryl Hines lined up Sunday afternoon to plunge their hands into pails containing live animals in a "guess the animal" game at the 21st Annual Birds of Prey Day at Green Chimneys.
Gere offered up Hines—an actress and girlfriend to Kennedy, an environmental lawyer, activist and falconer—as a guinea pig when he said "ladies first," causing laughter to ripple through the audience of a few hundred people gathered under a tent at the Brewster residential treatment center for children.
Check out the video clips to hear Gere, a Bedford resident, actor and owner of the Bedford Post Inn, coaching on Hines through her animal touch experience. Kennedy takes a turn in the second video clip.
Birds of Prey is an annual celebration "dedicated to children, the environment and magnificent birds of prey," according to Green Chimney's website. The facility has a Wildlife Center that is home to over 300 animals including 49 raptors.
The outdoor festival included crafts, demonstrations involving over 100 raptors and a main stage show led by naturalist Jim Fowler, who premiered Mutual of Omaha’s Wild Kingdom in 1963.
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