It was a spring day at Colchester Zoo. The sun was bright and the temperature almost twenty degrees. Just right for wander sound and look at the lovely animals looking back at us. The fist image in the slide show is a Wallaby. He/she paused from doing her toilette long enough to look up and let me capture an image. The giant Tortoise eating its spring greens is the second image. I think it had just noticed that the food was there and it came accross at quite a rate of knots. Emus always appear to have a beady eye looking straight at you, irespective of where you stand.

Moving on…

We catch the little Maquet at lunchtime squatting to have a snack, some of which he/she is hoding with his feet.I can spend hours looking at the Elephants. This one lumbered slowly round and lookd straight at the camera. The flamingos are a really nice deep pink colour. The first one has their beak in the water and concentric circles are rippling from the point of entry. The second flamingo image shows a bird gingerly making its way down the slope to the water using its great webbed feet. The male lion at Colchester Zoo has recently lost both of his lady friends and so you could say he looks a little sad. However I think he is simply waiting in the sun for his next feed.

This is the first time I have seen the bear close up and just like in the Jungle Book it was licking the insects offf hte tree bark. On this day the penguins were near to where we stood and this little fellah stod like a sentinal and let me get a close up. The tiger is shot through glass and so not the sharpest image, however I would not like to be that close without the glass partition