Walk in the museum

A visit to the Natural History Museum for the Wildlife Photographer of the Year exhibition. We were a little early so had the chance to meet some of the residents.

Check out this tiny mammal...

So tiny, so sweet... did we all come from some little chap like that?

Inside, we took a quick spin around birds, which was essentially a whole lot of corpses. There was one display of what seemed like hundreds of hummingbirds. It's a little macabre.

One resident we all surely recognise.

I'd never seen a dodo before. Nor, indeed a passenger pigeon.

And, of course, I never will see either.

The exhibition was very good. I was eager to go in order to get my 2027 calendar. I got my 2026 one from the exhibition last year.

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That lounging cat is wonderful! Then the bullfrog failing to catch a butterfly. Three dolphins making a submarine tulip. Some water creature protecting her eggs. An ant taking a parachute ride. A camouflaged polar bear. Coyote peeking into a trail cam. A young bull elephant spraying zebras. A polar bear peering into a seal hole. A rare black tiger caught on a trail cam. A leopard cub chasing a squirrel up a tree (the squirrel won). A bird cleaning his beak on a rhino (though it looks like it's snuggling). And a flock of red queleas - who are the most numerous wild bird. I had this knowledge and impressed the museum-goers with my ornithological expertise. Well, OK, with that one, single fact.