Site Meter

Saturday, September 13, 2008

The week in pictures: 13 September 2008

The week in pictures: 13 September 2008

A burrowing owl scans the horizon with its large eyes while sitting outside its hole Yuma, Arizona

The Brooklyn Bridge frames lower Manhattan as the Tribute in Lights illuminates the sky on the seventh anniversary of the attack on the World Trade Center in New York

A rare blonde female hedgehog found in Shropshire which is being nursed back to health by RSPCA staff at Stapeley Grange, Cheshire

A car is hoisted from a crater which appeared in a road in Guangzhou, Guangdong province, China

Lightning strikes the Tokyo Tower in the Japanese capital

Polar bears, their fur stained with algae, stand in their enclosure at Higashiyama Zoo in Nagoya, Japan

A cat smells a rat during training for explosives detection in Bogota, Colombia

A robin takes a bath in a garden in Stockport

4 comments:

CherryPie said...

There are some great photos there. But for me it has to be the white hedgehog, I have never seen one before!

jailhouselawyer said...

That one amazed me as well. The owl, and the cat and the rat, and the robin...

James Higham said...

You do like your wildlife, John.

Anonymous said...

Beautiful, thank you. White hedgehog is a first for me as well.