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Some great photos of the donkeys and cows. I love the little signs for the donkeys with their likes and dislikes! Glad you made the ferry and you got some nice photos from that and of the Needles earlier. The chairlift looked like fun to the beach. I rode on one of these descending from Mount Pilatus in Lucerne Switzerlaand some years ago aand really enjoyed it.
Glad the passports were found and you must have made a mad dash into the house!
Enjoying the photos so far of the wildlife park and you captured the butterflies very well!
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Some great photos of the donkeys and cows. I love the little signs for the donkeys with their likes and dislikes!
So did I - I thought that was so cute!
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Glad you made the ferry and you got some nice photos from that and of the Needles earlier. The chairlift looked like fun to the beach. I rode on one of these descending from Mount Pilatus in Lucerne Switzerlaand some years ago aand really enjoyed it.
Oh cool - we're hoping to go back there, that sounds like something neat to do!
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Glad the passports were found and you must have made a mad dash into the house!
I was just hoping and praying they were where they were supposed to be - I was so relieved they were!
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Enjoying the photos so far of the wildlife park and you captured the butterflies very well!
Sunday 5 June – part three: where are the buffalo?
The next animal we saw was the lynx, and we don’t usually get to see them being this active, but this one was pacing up and down its cage…
We then moved over to see the wild boar, complete with litter of piglets.
As you can see, a lot of the piglets were flat out, but that didn’t stop their brothers and sisters who were awake, coming over to annoy them, and in some cases, treading over them. Nice!
We carried on walking, and found these two…
The one lying down was literally right by our feet, and didn’t appear bothered at all that we were there. I sometimes wonder if that’s a good thing or not. Ok, so I know most of these animals will never be released back into the wild, but even so, it just crosses my mind that perhaps they should have a little more fear of us.
One of the wallabies was at least active and eating…
… and I did manage to capture this guy as well:
We found ourselves by the wolves, and my first few attempts to get some decent shots were somewhat hampered by the fence in between us.
However, when we moved round to the side of the enclosure, I was able to get some much better shots:
We made our way back to the entrance, but ended up being captivated by this owl, who was very active, and flying around. Once again, photography was very difficult with the fence in the way:
We realised that we’d now done the whole park, but we hadn’t seen the buffalo anywhere. I pulled out the map, and realised where it had said deer encounter was in fact a huge section of the park, so we figured we’d go round again, so we could see the bit we’d missed out. We came across the otters, and they’d now been fed, so were a lot more active.
We would later find out these are brothers, which is why they love playing together so much.
We headed back into the greenhouse, and once again, the ferret was out:
This time in the nocturnal section, we knew what we were looking for, as we’d seen the outdoor area of the badger enclosure earlier on in our tour, and this time there was a badger all curled up. It’s not the best shot, but you get the idea.
Great photos of all the animals and especially, since many were closeups!
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Sunday 5 June – part four: feeding time for the otters!
We found more activity in the next otter pen, probably because they were due to be fed in about 20 minutes time…
The noise they make is a bit like a squeaky wheel, and in the next pen, with this group together (they decided to move just as I took the shot )…
… the noise was just unbelievable!
We headed over to the deer enclosure, and this was a very eclectic mix of animals. There were deer…
… then there were the giant otters, which we were later told are the most dangerous animals in the park. Wow, I had no idea!
They were massive. There were also some more ordinary sized otters as well…
Another attraction here were owls, although again it was very hard to photograph them through the fencing….
We headed down to the buffalo enclosure…
These two headed towards each other, then just stood there, staring the other one out, but doing nothing else. We kept figuring one or the other would move, but not a bit of it. We sat there for about five minutes, and were going to wait for the keeper talk at midday, but that was still about 20 minutes off, so peaceful as it was, without any animal activity at all, I figured we’d give up, and head back.
We found these deer, and one of them obviously wanted the massive tree branch as substitute antlers, the way she was waving it around, trying to eat it!
As we headed out, we found some very excited otters…
We then found out why – feeding time! The keeper was just coming, so we watched them…
This was their beef lunch, which I found a bit weird, as I didn’t think that was entirely natural. Apparently they have chicken for breakfast, beef for lunch, and then fish for dinner. They apparently like to eat any small meat. There was even a robin, who got in on the action, and nicked a bit. Carnivorous robins – who knew?
We carried on walking, and found the first set of otters nearest to the entrance now playing in a big tub of water. These were the playful brothers…
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We were at a beautiful garden/nature centre in Cornwall a couple of years ago, and we watched in horror as the captive otters there were fed dead baby ducklings ........ There were otters happily running around with tiny duck feet sticking out of their mouths, and we overheard a nearby family trying to explain to their small child that it was pieces of bread, whilst their slightly older daughter looked on with a cynical expression on her face.
And then in Edinburgh zoo we watched as they munched on frozen white mice.
I do love otters, they are one of my favourite animals, but I wish they ate, oh I don't know, something innocuous like lettuce!
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Glad you made the ferry and you got some nice photos from that and of the Needles earlier. The chairlift looked like fun to the beach. I rode on one of these descending from Mount Pilatus in Lucerne Switzerlaand some years ago aand really enjoyed it. 
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How cool to come upon a kangaroo sunbathing. 
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We sat there for about five minutes, and were going to wait for the keeper talk at midday, but that was still about 20 minutes off, so peaceful as it was, without any animal activity at all, I figured we’d give up, and head back. 
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