New forest reptile centre and bolderwood
Thursday, 24. September 2009, 21:06:58
During my visit to the New Forest I visited Bolderwood and the New forest reptile centre an couple of times. During the visits to the reptile centre I saw a captive adder
Along with a rose chafer crawling over the enclosures protective netting
The trees around the reptile enclosures are full of small birds. I managed to photograph a blue tit
Some coal tits
And a chaffinch
On the second visit the biggest enclosure had a female southern hawker in the netting
At bolderwood I saw the fallow deer form the platform
And my first crossbills on my first visit
This species is so called because of there odd bills where the top and bottom part cross over each other at the tips.I also managed to photograph them again when it was sunny the next time
And on the stream I photographed one of the large pond skater species
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WIDGETIZE
RobinL # 24. September 2009, 23:43
The Crossbill has that funny bill for opening up pine cones to get at the seed inside. I saw my first earlier this summer!
Wulpen # 25. September 2009, 12:34
L2D2 # 25. September 2009, 18:27
Originally posted by RobinL:
You answered my question before I could ask it. Thank you Robin. I was wondering what their food would be that would make that beak feasible.
First I have seen or heard of that species.