Columbus May 28

I went with family members on an after-hours tour of the Columbus Zoo.

A moose, the largest deer, can fold itself pretty compactly.

A puma, probably Goldie or Poppy, one of three orphaned because of fires in California in 2020.

A pallas' cat, or manul, pauses during scratching.

A markhor makes a leap.

Splooting, red panda style

Katy, a koala mom

Katy and Kora

Columbus May 15

Lee, I think.

One of three pumas

Guillotine (Facebook), a female wolverine

black-capped chickadee

Northern bald ibis. Looks like a vulture, dunnit?

The whole bird

Chinese hwamei

hwamei in a flowering bush

western cattle egret

western cattle egret

2020 part 2

More from 2020.

male mallard (Whetstone Park, June 1). For some reason, there was a large gap between zoo visits, so I filled-in with a park visit.

brown bear (Minnesota Zoo, August 14)

black-tailed prairie dog (Minnesota Zoo, August 14). Like this prairie dog, my backyard chipmunks and ground hogs often have flying bugs on them. Is it because living underground leaves something interesting on their fur?

puma (Columbus Zoo, August 24)

Clover, as seen under Hermie (Columbus Zoo, August 24)

(Akron Zoo, September 11)

Pesquet's parrot (Toledo Zoo, September 26)

Bourke's parakeet (Toledo Zoo, Septermber 26). This is the species that was interested in my shoe.