Beenham January 29th 2004


You may well wonder what I was doing at the trust on a Thursday... well it was a day with snow in the South of England... not a lot, but enough to give me the opportunity to take some photo's.

I got to the trust about 8:15 am and spent just over an hour taking photo's. Gloves, thermal vest, 2 t-shirts, jumper and waterproofs on top. Thermal trousers, trousers and waterproofs on the bottom half and I was still a little chilled at times.

How do these guys survive down to minus 50 degrees?

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There is only ever one place to start taking photo's and that is with Kodiak and Kenai - as you can see it was a little dark to start with, the sun was only just starting to peek up from behind the trees!
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Here we move on to Duma for photo's, the first one on the next line is Dakota.
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Next we move on to pictures of Lunca and Alba... they are very similar in stature and I still find them a little hard to tell apart - a clue. Alba has balls, he also has a light stripe down the middle of his head.
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    Some nice head shots of Lunca
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      Latea on the mound  
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Dakota howling
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Finally - Alba sitting on his mound having a lazy howl.

This was a really nice morning and it is a shame that I could not stay longer, but I did have to go and do some work. I had a very productive day - probably due to the really great start.