Re: [Paddlewise] A few vacation pictures

That is the best cat picture I've ever seen. What a gorgeous kitty.

-- 
Bradford R. Crain

Quoting "Tord S. Eriksson" <tord_at_mindless.com>:

> Nothing to do with paddling, directly, but you can take canoe trips  
> inside an establishment we visited a few weeks back, looking for the  
> totally awesome wildlife there! More below:
>
> Not been to the UK for a few years we flew over this time, as all  
> the ferries between Gothenburg and the UK have stopped running (once  
> there were three lines, with one of them going all the way up the  
> Thames to London)! And we took camping gear, so no room for a  
> folding kayak, so we left it at home.
>
> We went to the UK for our vacation and had planned to visit friends  
> in Scotland, but we got so totally taken by all the birds at  
> Slimbridge, the center establishment for WWT, the Waterfowl and  
> Wetlands Trust, founded many years ago by Sir Peter Scott, the son  
> of the famous polar explorer Scott. At Slimbridge various aquatic  
> birds, on the Red (near-to-extinction) list, are bred, but this huge  
> numbers of kept birds attracts thousands of wild birds, and in many  
> ways they are the real attraction: Where else will wild birds feed  
> out of your hand? Birds like totally wild woodpigeons, mute swans,  
> greylag geese and shelducks do it here! A miracle, in short.
>
> I've posted some photos from Slimbridge, Street (which has a  
> wonderful Youth Hostel), and Glastonbury at FlickR, if you're  
> interested. Many of Nenes, maybe too many, sorry, but as they are my  
> favourite birds - native to Hawaii, once on the brink to extinction,  
> but saved by Peter, and his WWT. As a matter of fact he founded the  
> WWF, too!
>
> The gallery contains a lot of flowers, too, if you like those.
>
> http://www.flickr.com/photos/tord55/5820289501/in/set-72157626934926786
>
> More photos will follow, not least of raptors and owls that we  
> enjoyed flying at Newent :-)!
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