Recent content by Litespeed

No flash was used. The bird was about 50 feet away.

Strutting his stuff.

Taken at the San Diego Zoo, one of my favorite places.

This was my beautiful Dehesa who we rescued off a busy street. In this photo she is missing a LOT of fur do to malnutrition. She only weighed 40 pounds when we found her. She eventually got up to 70 pounds (not being fat). We guessed she was a Rottie mix and the best dog ever. This is...

This is my handicapped cat, Chance. His back legs don't bend but he is able to do about 90% of what any other cat can do. He is strickly an indoor cat, we found him when he was only a few days old and took in his mom, and one brother. We had to give away 3 other kittens which I hated to do...

At the Wild Animal Park, they have some interesting looking birds. African Crowned Crane Not sure what this one is called, if anyone knows, I would appreciate knowing. It's not a peacock, but sure was interesting looking.

When I was at the San Diego Zoo Safari Park (aka Wild Animal Park), I just happen to be around the pelican's when the keeper came by to feed them. These guys LOVE their fish.

Thanks for all the comments. I really like the look of the bird, they stand around 4 feet tall and kill snakes by stomping on them. They are in the rapture family and fun to watch run around.

There was no way to avoid the fence behind the bird or in front of the bird and yes those feathers all belong to the Secretary Bird.

Just got a Canon 7d a little over a week ago. It took me about a week to really get use to where all the buttons were (it's a work in progress), but I'm getting there. This is an upgrade from the Canon T1i (which I still love). I took the camera and my 100-400mm lens to the zoo the other...

Big cats have a special place in my heart. Here is one of my favorite photo's taken at the zoo. This cat was right up against the glass with a littermate. This was taken about a year ago and now they are all grown up.

This is my first post to this forum. Hope you like it.