water camouflage.
here's part two of the 'through my cousin's eye' installment from back when he visited me in august last year. we visited one of my favourite places in wiesbaden, the animal park fasanerie.
nutria love! they're always so fun to watch.
they were kissing, and it was the cutest ❤
let me introduce you to a little inhabitant of the fasanerie that you really rarely get to see: the european mink! its compound is directly next to the nutrias and always seemed uninhabited, even though there's a sign that tells you that a mink should live in there. i always stopped by to catch sight of it, but to no avail. i've never seen it once in all of the years i've been visiting the animal park. but not this time. this time it finally granted me its appearance! and i was head over heels with it in an instant. look at this little face! i'm getting all mushy about it, still!
i hope i will get to see it more in the future!
passed by the deer compound where you can always witness them grazeing peacefully.
this little girl was such a sweetheart! she fed the deer with such a diligence and carefulness, which is so very rare with a lot of kids these days. i often witness little children throwing carrots and pellets at the animals and being all over-hyped & loud amongst them. not this girl. it almost seemed like she was in awe of the deer and treated it with great respect.
( sometimes i wish i'd be the mother of such a child, but alas, then i remember i am absolutely unfit for motherhood, lol )
peacock chicks! this was probably also the first time i ever saw baby peacocks running around.
a special colour variation for your viewing pleasure. it couldn't decide whether it wanted to be white or brightly coloured.
couldn't find any information about this bird. never seen it before, either.
this hackly little bird is an eurasian jay and there's a funny story to it. it suddenly appeared & landed on the back of my cousin, stayed there for a little while ( long enough to actually take photos of, which i didn't manage to do of course, because i was simply too flustered that there was a bird on my cousin's back - he had handed the camera to me before, because i wanted to take 1 or 2 photos of the brown bird ). so i missed the wonderful opportunity to catch a special moment, but when the jay got off my cousin's back he hopped onto a bench nearby and that was my chance to take a photo of it and marvel at its strange appearance. jays are actually really beautiful birds, but this one was a little battered. it was very friendly, though and it brought me great joy to see it up close ( especially because they are always super shy out in the wild and very high up on the trees in the woods ).
a better picture of one of the peacock chicks.
there's a new bird compound in the park which hosts owls & kestrels. this particular kestrel looked so dreamy ❤
those antlers were quite a sight and the stag such a formidable presence.
we said hello to the wild cats as well! a must-visit whenever you are in the park. ( cats are like spirit animals to me, really, no matter how much i tell you that i love every kind of animal in this world )
i could stare at them foreverrrrrrrr.
male fallow dear frolicking around.
roe deer mid-chewing.
even the bears were out & abound. okay, only one was, but better than nothing, right? it was on the hunt for peppers.
and caught one! peppers are very slippery little beings, though. more than often they slipped out of the bear's mouth again.
ah, there's such a majesty to bears.
wonderful green scenery of the european bison home.
one of the newest highlights in the park is the newly errected fox & badger compound which is built like a cave ( since these are animals that live in dens ), but also with the possibility to go outside & roam around in the open air. seems like the foxes are really into it, too! ( i haven't seen a lot of the badgers yet, they were always inside their dens everytime i visited )
it's so nice to watch them exploring the grounds in such a natural-looking scenery.
and they are such beautiful creatures, too!
my cousin made another sneaky picture of me, standing in front of the piggy swamp. very fitting, ha.
but look at this happy pig! it was having the time of its life. 😙
why, oh, why, are the nozzles of pigs such a wonderful thing? so soft & snout-y. and the flappy ears!
also, the goats demanded food. i couldn't provide them with any. i was so very sorry. but then again, there are tons of kids throwing food at them every day... and they are cared for very well by the park keepers.
after our trip to the fasanerie me made a last little walk around wiesbaden ( with not a lot of pictures to show ), to look at more exhibitions of the photography rally that went on on that weekend. we were so invested into the exhibitions that we forgot take photos. so these last ones are totally random, y'all.
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