Showing posts with label fox squirrel. Show all posts
Showing posts with label fox squirrel. Show all posts

Sunday, October 11, 2020

Rodents

 

black-tailed prairie dog (Minnesota Zoo). All appeared to be well-fed.

capybara (Columbus Zoo)

Patagonian cavy or mara (Toledo Zoo)


A fox squirrel takes a break from stringing lights (Toledo Zoo).

eastern chipmunk (Columbus Zoo)



Acorn, an American beaver (Columbus Zoo)

lowland paca (Toledo Zoo)

I was wearing an orange sweatshirt this day, and that accounts for the vertical orange reflection. Somehow, part of the reflection aligned nearly perfectly with the paca's ears.

 

eastern chipmunk (Highbanks Metro Park)


Saturday, June 15, 2019

Wild at the zoo

In addition to exhibited animals, zoos have uninvited guests. All photos are from the Columbus Zoo except as noted.


fox squirrel (Toledo Zoo)

Ma or Pa goose supervises the kids (2018).

Canada gosling (2019)

A great blue heron in the trumpeter swan pond

A gull, species unknown, in the parking lot

A bee flies to its next flower.

A butterfly? A moth?