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A New Season Begins

06/25/2012

Eli getting the front chalkboard ready.

Welcome to opening day at the 2012 Naturalist’s Notebook! Here’s a quick batch of photos from this morning. This is just a tiny taste. Much more to come…

We couldn’t quite fit an 80-foot blue whale skeleton inside the building, but we’re thrilled to have a harbor porpoise, on loan from Allied Whale.

Our new egg-laying chicken, which clucks when it plunks an egg into the dish.

Millie the milkable cow is back, along with our spin-the-wheel, answer-the-questions Farm Game.

Some early visitors, explorers and customers.

A portion of our Bernd Heinrich art installation.

Tigers are but one of the endangered species we highlight in shop-and-think displays.

Artists will find much to like.

Pick up your bird checklist and try to find the 45 species we’ve perched throughout our three floors.

As I say, this is just a small sampling—and doesn’t include major elements such as our amazing 13.7-billion-year, spectral-color, timeline staircase. Stay tuned…

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3 Comments leave one →
  1. 06/28/2012 10:08 pm

    Beautiful. What a visual delight. And, what a hen!

  2. 06/25/2012 9:16 pm

    Only a snapshot, and it looks brilliant! Can’t wait to find those birds…..

  3. 06/25/2012 9:05 pm

    Love this newletter. We came to see you all this past summer and loved the place. I always enjoy the letter and articles, great job and love the web cams. Keep up the great work. Diane for Atlanta, Ga.

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