Beenham February 29th 2004


Both a good and a bad day - an early start, arriving at 9 a.m. for cleaning as it was a Wild Arena photography day.
Alex and I cleaned out Duma and Dakota then started to get ready for the photographers arriving - setting up tables and chairs.

The light was great in the morning and we took the 3 Euro's over to the photo mound. I did not take something though - I did not take my camera. What a prize idiot! With their hormones high there were some fantastic interactions between the Girls especially as Lunca imposed her dominance over Latea. It was great to observe and watch though. Here were three large wolves going hell for leather at each other sometimes and the handlers were perfectly OK standing in the enclosure with them.

We then got the Girls (Duma and Dakota) out to go for a short walk in the woods - only about half the usual length, but with our group of 12 photographers it was great.

Upon returning to the Trust we stopped for lunch, then took the girls over to the photo mound. With a little prompting from our senior for the day Rich Watts, I remembered to take my camera over and some of the pictures are below. The ones below represent less than half the number I took - the others have been put to the recycle bin.

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This is probably
one of my favourites
from the day.

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Duma 'sucking up'      
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    These are another of my favs for the day  
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IMG_5390.jpg (101kb) Everyone seemed to have a really good day and I hope they got some great photos from the morning - what I really need to do next is to get on good terms with Alba so I can spend time in the enclosure with all the Euros to try and get some good shots.