2020 part 3

New Hampshire chicken (Columbus Zoo, October 10)

Finally! Someone whose ears are hairier than mine. (Columbus Zoo, October 22)

This is Lucas, an African elephant, walking away from his mother, Renee, who tried to take away his browse. He went through a gap in the fencing to another part of the enclosure and Renee could not follow. (Toledo Zoo, October 24)

northern ground hornbill (Columbus Zoo, November 2)

A young red panda (Columbus Zoo, November 2)

Aurora in her enclosure (Columbus Zoo, December 2)

bald eagle (Columbus Zoo, December 2)

wolverine (Columbus Zoo, December 16). There was a spin on the platform, so this is probably Guillotine.

female rose-breasted grosbeak (Columbus Zoo, December 16)

San Esteban chuckwalla (Columbus Zoo, December 28)

Lizards

Of the types of reptiles, I find lizards most interesting because of the variety of textures, colors, and accessories (a "fin" on the back, spikes down the back, bulging eyes, etc.).

rainbow agama (Toledo Zoo)

red-eyed crocodile skink (Toledo Zoo)

green basilisk (Columbus Zoo)

 

spiny-tailed iguana (Columbus Zoo)

desert grasslands whiptail lizard (Toledo Zoo)

 

blue spiny lizard (Toledo Zoo)

Solomon Island skink, or prehensile-tailed skink (Columbus Zoo)

 

San Esteban chuckwalla (Columbus Zoo)

I'm lookin' at you

Watusi cattle (Toledo Zoo)

 

San Esteban chuckwalla

western cattle egret

silvered langur

Reeves's muntjac

king cobra

Florida manatee

Victoria crowned pigeon

dromedary camel

All photos are from the Columbus Zoo except as noted.

My best of 2018

Everyone else is reviewing 2018, so here are some of my best photos taken this year. All are from the Columbus Zoo except as noted.

San Esteban chuckwalla

Inca tern (Cincinnati Zoo)

polar bear

Lee, a male polar bear arrived at the Columbus Zoo in November. (Neither of these is he.)

A polar bear and zoo visitors examine one another.

Flowers across the trumpeter swan pond. This photo was taken in September, and they might be asters.

The  foot of a mata mata, a species of turtle

A hamerkop looks quizzical.

rose-breasted grosbeak (female)

a bee

I take 100-150 pictures during a 2-3 hour zoo trip, although I took 297 during my latest trip to Toledo December 15. Some photos are of signs so that I can later identify the animal. I delete horrible pictures from the camera and more after I get home (I keep too many, though). I'm happy if I get half a dozen top-notch photos.