Some of the details of our camping trip up the Icicle River 14 miles from home. No phone, No News, yeah, and no flicker either.

I didn't walk very far, but the scenery was spectacular especially just when all the flowers were blooming.

RSPB Titchwell

My last outing before lockdown No1

He snuck up behind us as we were feeding the cygnets, Lexie was not impressed.

This fledgling Carolina Wren has a decidedly frown face -- probably hungry, as always!

Mount Pleasant Walkabout

I've contrasted these a wee bit, but I've never seen clouds quite like this - a wee bit scary and a wee bit fluffy and a wee bit cotton wool and a wee bit sheep

Westerheide, Laren, Noord-Holland, The Netherlands

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I realize over time I have gotten quite a little Grumpy Cat Collection... First I got the tiny Needle Felted girl to ease my pain when I missed out on Miss Ixnay...Then Came the art from my lovely friend Punky Blythster and I found a couple of mugs last weekend :D

And Of course Ixnay Finally joined the Lawdeda Clan <3 So happy!

Hope you are all having a great weekend!

She wasn't happy about the snow.

This Gentoo Penguin was photographed at Port Lockroy, which lies on a scenic bay on Wiencke Island near the Antarctic Peninsula. It was used as a whaling station until 1931. Today it is a popular tourist destination for cruise ship passengers in Antarctica. It is now a museum, store and the most southern post office in the world.

We were told that these penguins were not happy at this time because they were in the process of a 3 week moult. That meant that they were hungry because they do not go out to fish during this time. He was putting on his "grumpy" face!

This was our last shore landing before we started the sail back to Ushuaia. Our time was a little limited because there was bad weather coming and the captain wanted to start sailing back. The 2 day sail took us through the Drake Passage, which has the reputation of being the roughest part of ocean in the world. It is where the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans meet and certainly lived up to its reputation. But I loved watching the waves as long as I didn't have to walk anywhere! What a journey it was.

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The Cheyenne Mountain Zoo attendant had just entered the Meerkat enclosure to wash the glass walls, waking this sleeping meerkat in the process. He looked a bit grumpy for it : )

Colorado Springs, Colorado

A grackle feeds in the grass a little too close to some Canada Geese chicks and gets repeatedly chased away by mom and dad.

The poor Grackle wanted nothing to do with either the chicks or mom and dad but apparently the movement of all the geese in the area was kicking up some delicious insects. Too bad for him he couldn't get close enough to enjoy the banquet.

Captured inside the Pieto coffee shop in Nicosia, Cyprus.

SOOC.

Doc and Sneezy may, or may not be, silent partners.

I am now reliably informed that Bashful is the silent partner.

"grumpy yakus just came out"

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colourful rainforest chameleon seen in the Masoala rainforest building of the Zoo in Zürich.

black-capped chickadee

A drake Ring-necked Duck (Aythya collaris)

Washington DC

Green-barred Woodpecker

Scientific name: Colaptes melanochloros (Gmelin, 1788)

Portuguese: Pica-pau-verde-barrado

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One of a pair chasing off other geese on the lake

This is the face of an owl that's sick of you, and the 17 people standing next to you. Honestly there were way too many people in it's space at the time. I took one burst (honestly, probably knowing the group was too close) and retreated back to owls in flight after seeing the fluffed ear tufts (a sign of distress/agitation).

blackbird

She's not really, in fact, Boo is the most affectionate cat we have ever lived with. She just has this perpetually sour expression.

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Mara River, Serengeti, Tanzania

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Hippos (Hippopotamus amphibius) prefer still waters to the fast moving Mara River in full flood that this bull was having to contend with, which, one might imagine, explains his unamused expression.

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A Robin in the garden unhappy with the weather!! 07-05-23