Natural History Museum

The Natural History Museum is the home to the Shell Wildlife Photographer of the year gallery.

This gallery is definately worth looking at! The images that the photographers have on show were amazing. Some of the images just seem impossible to be able to capture on camera.

No photographs were allowed to be taken in the gallery and to be honest they wouldn't have done justice to the images on show. They are being shown as prints with a lit background so that every colour shows up as crisp as possible.

To view the winners and runners up for 2007 click here.

This is one my favourite pictures from the gallery. It was taken by Andrew Walmsley and is titled the Amber Thrush.
The image is from National History Museum and can be seen if you click here.

Out the front of the Natural History Museum is the Wildlife Garden.

The Natural History Museum call the Wildlife Garden an urban oasis, i'm not sure about this. This could be partly my fault for visiting it in autumn, but the garden seemed very manufactured, and it was hard to get away from the noisey road and building repairs that were happening nearby.

The garden does seem to doing well for something so small, with more then 300 native species, over 50 bird species have been seen, numerous amounts of moths and butterflies and regular visits from foxes, bats and squirrels.

This all seems ncie and looks good in the brochure but the experience of the garden is very dissapointing.