I have to begin by qualifying that I managed to pick a completely lousy day to visit the Centre. Firstly, the weather was dreadful. It wasn’t raining, but it was grey, cold, and very very windy, which I sometimes think is worse than if it just decided to rain. This obviously had an impact on my photos in that 1) wildlife was largely hiding wherever they hide when it’s cold and 2) it doesn’t look as pretty as I think it would if it was sunny, which is a pity.
Very appropriate for the weather.
Being, at times, not very bright, I genuinely thought this was a REAL mammoth excavation. I was so excited. Then the penny dropped, and I realised that it was very unlikely for real mammoth excavators to happily take tea breaks and leave their mammoth bones exposed to the elements and curious tourists like that. And also that said bones looked… not very real.
Random waterfowl. I also saw the most nesting birds that I’ve ever seen in one place at the same time. I couldn’t get good photos of all of them, mostly because most sensible birds choose to nest well away from the water’s edge where people are, but here are a couple. The first bird is really funky (zoom in on that blueish thing nestled in the reeds left of the centre). I don’t suppose anyone knows what it is? The photo’s not the greatest, which doesn’t help.
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