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whipsnade easter sunday 2015
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 Blue tit on a birch |
 Wolverine |
 Wolverine scratching |
 Hiding in a tree |
 Hooded merganser |
 Smee |
 Eider bathing |
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 Humboldt penguins |
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 Young penguin |
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 It's love |
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 Chimps racing to catch the snacks and below not affection, but grabbing the tidbits
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 Merlin |
 Merlin on the lure |
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 Poppy the common stork who had a wonderful rapport with her handler |
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 Juvenile bataleur eagle
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 Macaws in flight |
 Whistling ducks |
 Red panda |
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 Bob the burrowing owl |
 Rushing along the barre |
 Almost taking off |
 and into the distance... |
 Blue and Gold Macaws |
 After the fly-past |
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 Native daffodils |
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 Weeping willow at the hippos |
 Cheetah with overlay of netting |
 Magpie removes lice? |
 Lions in the usual posture |
 Lion king |
 A pile of three meercats |
 Two of them |
 This one took over the lookout post rather shame faced |
 Red river hogs |
 Licking under the bark |
Amazing tail |
 Tongue around the leaves |
 Giraffe pattern |
 Grevy's zebra's fantastic hair day |
 It could be a deer |
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 Flamingoes |
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 More flamingoes |
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 Chevallier |
 Tiger through mesh |
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 Excelsior |
 View from the bridge |
 Alpaca - too far for a good image |
 Shetland pony |
 Donkeys |
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 Joyous rabbits |
 Guinea pig 1/8th sec. |
 Goats |
 Barn Owl |
 We saw the bird display again at 3.30 and saw Bob erupt from his burrow
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 Harris hawks hunt as a pack |
 Lanner Falcon |
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 White faced owl looks out |
 White faced owl, Gizmo |
European Lynx Crepuscular inhabitant of rugged forested country. Naturally solitary |
 What a laugh! |
 So well camouflaged we did not notice them immediately |
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 Politely waiting for something to happen |
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We came home after a very good day. We muddied Peter's car,
but it was in a good cause. We came home and muddied the
house... Peter Duncan's pictures at http://fands.org.uk/1.DUNCAN_Whipsnade-Apl-15.htm |
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