Chester Zoo 1/2
Oct. 11th, 2010 06:42 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
motetusYesterday's weather was absolutely lovely, so we made the most of it and visited Chester Zoo. It wasn't quite as impressive as the one in Singapore, and there weren't any areas where you could walk through the enclosures, though from the behaviour of some of the children there I can see why they don't trust us with their animals (also, I probably would have stolen the baby mandrill. SO CUTE). Still, it was a pretty good zoo and the animals looked fairly content.
No child-molesting baboons this time, though I did spot a young chimpanzee that was sticking his finger up the backside of his adult relatives. I love simians.
So.... is anyone good at identifying birds? I wasn't paying attention.
Vulture:
Spectacled Owl:
Tawny Frogmouth Owl:
Great Grey Owl:
Butterflies:
I'm not a butterfly... honest.
I really wish I'd paid attention and stopped down to get more of the eye in focus. Still, I love the colours in this.
Sorry arachnophobes, but I find this more interesting than butterflies. I had to focus stack several exposures to get it in enough detail - it's not great, but I don't think it's too awful for my first focus stack (and handheld, too!).
Autumn colours:
No child-molesting baboons this time, though I did spot a young chimpanzee that was sticking his finger up the backside of his adult relatives. I love simians.
So.... is anyone good at identifying birds? I wasn't paying attention.
Vulture:
Spectacled Owl:
Tawny Frogmouth Owl:
Great Grey Owl:
Butterflies:
I'm not a butterfly... honest.
I really wish I'd paid attention and stopped down to get more of the eye in focus. Still, I love the colours in this.
Sorry arachnophobes, but I find this more interesting than butterflies. I had to focus stack several exposures to get it in enough detail - it's not great, but I don't think it's too awful for my first focus stack (and handheld, too!).
Autumn colours:
