As promised yesterday, here are some pictures of the fauna residing at the San Diego Zoo.
Which is your favorite?
1 – Flamingo
2 – Panda with toothpick
3 – Bear (not sure which species)
4 – One-legged ball of feathers
5 – Meerkat sentry
6 – Secretary bird
7 – Capybara (world’s largest rodent)
8 – African lion
9 – Mountain lion
(the kind that lives in Southern California)
10 – Reindeer with an itch
after delivering all those Christmas presents
11 – Great white pelican
12 – White-faced whistling ducks
(wondering if the water is too cold)
Great shots, Russel! 🙂 Keep them coming.
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Thanks, Pit. As I was doing this post I realized that I have uncatalogued pictures from the Zoo going back to June 2017, so I guess I have a lot of pictures to publish!
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I can easily beat you at that. 😉 As I have only recently started to catalogue my digital pictures [they date back to 1998!] I have thousands of them to still work on – and that inclkudes processing some and deleting a lot.
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My computer disk of cataloged photos says I currently have 2,357,991 pictures. That doesn’t include everything since June 2017 that has not been cataloged, and that disk won’t tell me how many photos are on it. Stupid disk.
I never delete a picture, though, because one of my purposes is to accumulate so many pictures that once I am no longer physically able to get out & about, I can sit at home and mess around with pictures. I also don’t know what the future might hold in this technological world. There might be software in the future that can do some really interesting things to what many might call a throwaway picture.
https://russelrayphotos2.com/2017/06/26/how-i-did-it-theres-no-such-thing-as-a-throwaway-picture/
https://russelrayphotos2.com/2013/09/10/making-something-out-of-nothing-at-all/
That last link is my all-time favorite for taking a throwaway picture and making something out of it.
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Uh oh, I shouldn’t have boasted! 😀
As to not deleting pics: you certainly have a point there. One never knows what – at a later time – might be done with them.
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Once I really really really really really really really really really retire, I’ll start scanning all the paper photos I have. That should add another billion or so digital files…………..LOL
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Really retire?! Good luck! 😀
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Really………..LOL
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P.S.: Thx for the links. 🙂
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They’re all stunning, but I think the Secretary Bird edges it for me.
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The Secretary Bird doesn’t usually cooperate with me taking pictures, preferring to wander quite rapidly all around her exhibit. On this day, she was just standing there looking at something on the ground.
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4 because it’s such a uniquely different picture. 9 because I am a fan of cougars and 12 because your caption with the pic gave me a great laugh to start my day! Thanks
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The panda! They are adorable-
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Pandas are the star attraction at the Zoo, and adorableness has a lot to do with it.
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Love the lion!
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He does look like the King of the Jungle!
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Wow. I’m definitely fur over feathers. But so many choices. I think I’ll go with the cat in the bottom picture (the one on the postage stamp)
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Now you’ve done gone and given Zoey the Cool Cat a big head again. And tomorrow is Friday…………..
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Panda and Meerkat are my favourites.
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There are three exhibits that I always try to make whenever I go to the zoo. Along with the pandas and meerkats are the flamingos.
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I love them all, but I think I have to go with the ball of feathers. It is very unique.
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I wish I knew what kind of bird it is but for some reason I didn’t take name plate pictures on that trip like I usually do.
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The panda and African lion are my favorites, but the reindeer with the itch had me smiling. They’re all great shots, though!
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The reindeer have a large exhibit area and usually they are not visible so I was really happy to even get a picture of one, much less of him scratching that itch.
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I love the San Diego zoo. Such a good one and your photos are great!!
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The capybara would be my favorite. He looks very laid back and wise.Two of them escaped from an old zoo in Toronto and they managed to remain at large for more than a month or two. I did hear one was recaptured and the other one may have been as well. i hoped they would be moved to the proper Toronto zoo , it is like the San Diego zoo in that there is a lot of open space and natural habitat for the animals there. Lovely photos and it was hard to choose just one favorite.
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I’ve been to the Toronto Zoo on Old Finch Avenue several times. It ranks in my Top 10 zoos in North America.
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Fabulous shots of ALL but I have a thing for meerkats!
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Meerkats probably are my favorite residents of the Zoo, and that includes the cats.
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