Thursday, August 4, 2011

Our Day at the Zoo

We got an early start to the zoo because we wanted to see the zoo keepers feed the brand new baby clouded leopards. They are so cute!! Weighing in at only 3lbs. They weren't much bigger then actual kittens. It'll be fun to watch them grow these next several months!
Always a favorite, the Elephant
The kids checking out the Tigers
Can you spot her??
This monkey was checking us out carefully
while this one was stretched out on a log soaking in the early morning sun rays
The kids watching 2 more monkeys. We learned that if this species of Monkey is white, that means it's an adult Female. If it's black, it's either a male, or a teenaged female.
Up next we fed the budgies, which is probably my kids' FAVORITE thing to do at the zoo. Ava was the first to have a budgie land on her seed stick.
As I was taking a picture of Ava with her bird, I caught this guy mid-flight landing on Cristian's seed stick :) Pretty COOL!
Cristian pretty excited about feeding the budgies
Ava trying to help Carter hold his stick "still" so a bird will land on his too
VOILA!! A pretty blue one landed on his stick
A second bird landing on Ava's handCarter looking pretty pleased to have a bird on his stick just like his siblings.
They were just FASCINATED by these birds
Big smile!
Hello budgie
Pretty Bird
We were having so much fun, we decided to go for "round 2"

Ava had a pretty yellow bird land on her stick
So did Carter
Cristian found an all white one
How cute is this... washing their hands after feeding the budgies! They each found a sink just their size :)
Next Nannie took the kids on a camel ride :) Carter couldn't go without an adult because he is not 3 years old. Such big smiles from everyone!
Posing for a picture
There they go
One last picture
The otters, which are usually very playful, didn't move from this position the entire time we were watching them. It's like they were taking a nap :)
Muscox, I think?
Red Wolf
Bald Eagle
Cristian in a shell
Ava in a nest
Carter in a sea anemone
The kids on the spider web
Carter and Ava playing in the little splash area
ducking under one of the sprayers
Feeding the goats
Oops, didn't get a picture of Ava feeding them... just the boys :)
So... I'll put 2 pictures up of her on the Merry Go Round :)
Wheeee
Hi Carter
Cristian found the American horse.

2 comments:

5 Cougs said...

Love the sink pic!

jessica said...

Looks like an awesome day, what a cool zoo you have!