Woodland Park Zoo

On April 5th we had one of very few spring sunny days and for lack of any hiking, my wife and I went to the Woodland Park Zoo near Seattle and spent the day there.  I love zoos anyway, though I feel sorry for the animals, but find them a great place to practice photography as well.  Fences, cages, etc., all make for challenges and learning to deal with them is a great help.  These are a few of our pictures.

Southern Masked Weaver

Golden-breasted Starling

Zebra

African Elephant

Lion

Baby Elephant Statue

Orangutan

Meerkats

Snow Leopard

Laughing Kookaburra

Grizzly Bear

White Wolf

Mountain Sheep

Snake Eating a Rat

Gila Monster

Emerald Tree Boa

Rainbow Toucan

White-tailed Trogon

Flamingos

Bufflehead

Blue-winged Teal

Swan

Eagle Watching

It seems that there are an extraordinary number of eagles in the area this spring.  They seem to be everywhere and on Saturday the 11th of February, my wife, Edward, and I went out with our cameras looking for eagles to photograph.  It was a decent day and we saw a fair number of them, though not in the areas we expected, and did get a few photos.

We also saw a lot of Trumpeter Swan which winter in the fields here and were able to get some photos of them also.  Managed, too, to get a few shots of a Red-tailed Hawk which was sitting on a fence, and we stopped at various other locations as well to get pictures of whatever took our fancy, old barns, a pond, some views of the area farmlands, etc.