Happy, happy, joy, joy!

You should really click on each photo for a larger image.

 This camera is incredible!

"Like the hummingbird sipping nectar from every flower, I fly joyfully through my days, seeing beauty in everything." - Amethyst Wyldfyre

Feathered Friends

We went to the Philadelphia Zoo yesterday thanks to my father for his generous gift of a family membership.

They have a lot of beautiful birds in the zoo both outside and inside at the new McNeil Avian Center.

I think this new center was my daughter's favorite part. We had a great time trying to find and identify all the birds, many of which were roaming around right underfoot.

Buff-crested bustard from Southern Africa.

 He/she was very persistent and pecked the keeper on her way out.

Flamingos looked so pretty against the flowering weeping cherry tree.

Below is a Victoria crowned pigeon.

Another fancy hair-do on this femaile yellow knobbed curassow.

No knobs on the females, duh.  :)

You don't think of starlings to be very interesting birds but these metallic starlings were and also not afraid of people.

Micronesian kingfishers.

Cutest little duck I ever did see - a ringed teal from southern south America.

Green aracari is a small member of the toucan family.

A barred owl named Shakespeare was rescued from the wild with an eye injury.

She now helps educate visitors in the children's zoo.