I love animals, tame or wild, pedestrian or unusual. Animals make me stop in my tracks, run backwards, drop to my belly in the mud, and do all manner of silly things to capture them on film. The Hubby, and my fellow hiking buddies in England's Lake District, got quite used to me suddenly dropping to my knees, hanging over rocks, and flopping on my fanny to get a shot of a critter. After a while, they even would point them out to me if I missed one (like the moth in the men's room--thank you, Geoff!)
Here are some of my favorite animals from my recent trip (but no dog photos, because that was a separate post a few days ago):
Fern-bedecked Swaledale sheep, Lake District
Slug, Lake District
Fell Pony, Lowther Estate, Lake District
Nesting swallows, Cambridge University
Dogs playing in the River Cam, Grantchester
Cygnets and swan, the River Cam
Momma swan, the River Cam
Cows, Grantchester
Mud Hen chick, Cambridge
Canada Geese, Hyde Park, London
Bumblebee, grounds of the Museum of Natural History, London
Unidentified green moth in the men's bathroom, Coniston
Vole, Lake District
Dead shrew, Lake District
Tiny frog on the grounds of Williams Wordsworth's last home, Rydall Mount
Unidentified butterfly, Lake District
Three-week-old calf on Farmer Brian's spread, Buttermere
"Minnie," Farmer Brian's three-month-old pet lamb, Buttermere
Momma cow, Farmer Brian's farm, Buttermere
Rubber duckies in our hotel bathtub, Cambridge
As you surely could predict, I LOVED seeing the parts of your trip that captured the local animals! (Sharp eyes to see the secretive vole and the teeny-tiny frog!....and the duckies in your hotel bathtub cracked me up!) xoxo
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