I went to the British Wildlife Centre yesterday on a Photo Shoot. This place is just to the east of Gatwick Airport on the A22, Eastbourne Road, Lingfield.
We (as in my fellow snappers) were the only visitors and we had the chance to go into several enclosures to see the animals up close.
It was a great day marred by several torrential downpours, thunder, lightning and two showers of hail all in a brisk wind from the North West. It was frigging cold!
The wildcats didn't like the hail!
But the otters loved it as long as the keeper kept passing out bits of cod.
This nice little creature was very photogenic. No, it is not a dormouse. It is a male harvest mouse.
Taken with a Nikon D500 + 105mm Macro Lens
I got some nice piccies of a Tawny Owl plus Red Squirrels and Otters. Still lots to process.
Samantha
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When will we Learn
The weatherman and Mother Nature never seem to agree o what the day is supposed to be like. Right now the weather on my iPhone shows it's raining. Clear blue skies, no clouds. Monday was another OKC trip and seventy degree weather. I didn't take a coat. Low fifties and yes I was cold. Insulated coveralls in the trunk of the car. Over kill, heavy enough for blizzard conditions. Besides I left the insulated thermal work boots at home. The outfit wouldn't look fashionable without the boots and heavy insulated gloves. Guarantee to roast inside such attire if temps are above 20 degrees. A girl can't win trying to be fashionably acceptable.
Hugs Samantha
Oklahoma born and raised cowgirl
Nice photo
The weather though reminds me of a long-ago warm morning in Pittsburgh when I biked to campus in T-shirt and shorts, spent the day inside, not thinking much of hearing wind, and came out to 50F/10C. I was young, healthy, and home was 1.5 miles all uphill; it became a good workout but not one to repeat.
Usually
I’ve broken out the shorts for riding by now but not this year, but perhaps I’ve got a bit soft and mesh. Certainly there were young ins up in GOC wearing short skirts and vest tops - and that was only the boys ta dum! But seriously, the sun might be out but under 10c in mid April is unusual although my seedlings seem to be doing okay
Madeline Anafrid Bell
Maybe there's a spelling mistake in your title line
Specifically "mud" in place of "mid"? I'm sure it's not so diffent down South, from what we have (had and are still, as of right now, having) here in the North!
D
Mud, glorious mud...
Mud! Yep. My back garden is in the middle of being transformed. 10 days ago, the dumper got stuck in the mud that was deeper than the ground clearance. The small JCB was able to dig it out. Thankfully, we have had a week of relatively dry weather and it, while still soft is not churning up like it was a week ago. With any luck, the crew will start spreading 30 tonnes of topsoil before turfing.
Then the worry is the forecast heatwave for May.
IT is either too wet or too dry or the wrong sort of rain/snow/sleet/
Sigh
Samantha
Wet, wet, wet!
Barely a day has passed without some rain in the past 6 months here in the NE Midlands of the UK (Notts and Derbys). All our local footpaths (many across pasture fields that were outcropped for coal in the 1940s) are so soggy they threaten to pull your boots off as you walk. The ambient daytime temperatures seem stuck around 10 to 15 degrees but feel colder because of the stiff breezes.
Not that I'm complaining ... much. I suppose at my age I should be grateful I'm still alive to experince any sort of weather :)
R
ambient daytime temperatures seem stuck around 10 to 15 degrees
Sounds like where I live in the US of A. (Northwest Oregon.) In the past month, we've rarely had a high temp above 60 F. (15 C) Most days have at least some rain and start off with a cold fog and temps around the freezing mark.
Discussing the weather brings to mind a joke.
Hugs
Patricia
Happiness is being all dressed up and HAVING some place to go.
Semper in femineo gerunt
Ich bin eine Mann
15c?
Last week is was in Gods Own County otherwise known as Yorkshire, I think one day it got into double figures!
It’s not much warmer here in the SW, it was a glorious sunny day yesterday but the average on my ride was still only 12c!
Summer in the UK is often a state of mind rather than actual thing and spring, well you know it’s not winter because it’s greener and has flowers.
Madeline Anafrid Bell
Summer is the best day of the year?
:)