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A Day at the British Wildlife Centre – Part 2

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The sun was shining us, quite literally, on Friday when my photography group (www.photographycourses.org.uk) visited the British Wildlife Centre in Lingfield, Surrey. It didn’t start out that way, though. I woke up several times the night before with the rain battering the window glass. “It’ll be done by 7,” I thought. But no. not done by 7, or 8, or 9. No cancellation email though, so I put on double layers and waterproofs and headed out for what was turning out to be a very soggy day.

But then, at 10, as we all stepped out of the canteen at the Centre, fortified by hot teas and coffees, the rain stopped. And, an hour later, some blue appeared in the sky. And by the early afternoon, we had sun. And the animals were as happy to see it as we were.

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Canadian Critters

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I was in the breathtaking Rocky Mountains of Alberta in August and I can’t eulogise enough about the beauty, the wide-ranging space, the forests, the turquoise — yes! turquoise — lakes and, oh, all the animals JamjarJude and I saw in the wild during our travels. Here’s a taster of what we saw in just one week.

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That’ll be a grizzly, mountain goats, deer, Canada geese, ducks, birds of many feathers, a red squirrel, a curious prairie dog, beavers, and a coyote slinking through a field outside of Jasper. All in their natural habitats.  Also saw a black bear but missed a photo of it. And lots of evidence of wolves and cougars…

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Get back to nature. Visit the Rocky Mountains of Alberta.