13 July, 2014

Believe it or not, this is a very strong candidate for best excursion of the whole summer: London Wetland Centre

















 Fowl, galore:























The endangered red-breasted goose!


















































Bird-watching, from a bird-hide















The nice birding man we met was extremely excited to bag, as it were, this ruddy duck.  It's bill, he said most lovingly, is as blue-grey as the far-seeing, penetrating eyes of the protagonist in an Alistair MacLean novel...
















If you knew the story behind this next photograph, then you'd know why it's in such serious running for the golden boot image of the entire trip!
















Spencer is making a sibling face

















Not moved, but allergic
Clean and cool: the view from there

















Justice!