Our trip to Big Bend delayed, we took advantage of a rare good weather day with a trip to our local ZOO.
For a small town zoo it does a decent job of giving you a pleasant half day’s worth of entertainment.
The stars of the show, hands down, were the Peafowl. The place was infested with the creatures.
The Peacocks were displaying and calling all over the place. It was very amusing.
They strolled down the paths, totally oblivious to us humans.
They filled the trees with raucous conversation.
And there was no limit to the number of “The End” shots available. Talk about shake your bootie…
This Zoo has very few signs. Perhaps they were being refurbished or replaced, but aside form the obvious eagle, flamingo, hornbill… I have no idea what these birds might be.
Judy, since you’re temporarily grounded maybe you could help identify the exotics?
The Eagle, Flamingo and the Victoria Crowned Pigeon we recognized.
This post is awfully heavy on pictures, so more flamingos and the other animals, (yes there were other animals beside birds, but I hardly noticed them) next post, hopefully tomorrow.
If the weather continues to improve we are out of here (finally!) on Thursday.
3 comments:
Wow that zoo has some collection of beautiful birds. And your pictures of them are fabulously crisp and clear. Really nice thanks! Sorry I can't help with any of the identification.
I go out for the evening and come back to a post ... what a treat.
The black bird with the blue face patch is an Abyssinian ground hornbill. The vulture next to it -- a King Vulture? Could the duck be a common goldeneye? The one below the flamingo is a Golden Pheasant (or Chinese Pheasant); next to it is a Blue-Bellied Roller. The swan is a Black Necked Swan.
And that's all from this birding station.
One more ... the one next to the hornbill looks like a Laughing Kookaburra.
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