You all are probably sick of all these high quality professional shots I've been posting, so I took some photos on my phone for you yesterday so we can get back to keeping it real. ๐
As I've mentioned before, the mesh they use here is by far the worst I've encountered for taking pics, especially since the Pixel doesn't think anyone needs manual focus. I downloaded Open Camera and tried using that this time to see if I could do better.
Title photo is of the new Barred Owl that was being so cute and singing to me on my last visit. He made one little noise this time and that was it.
It was windy and rainy, so most of the birds were in the back of their enclosures and tucked in to stay cozy. I don't blame them.
This is him about a foot away. The screening is not so bad for your eyes, but it just dominates the focus on the camera, and it's smaller than a pinky so I can't even press up against it to shoot through the holes as I normally do.
I was walking past this pen and couldn't really get a good look at what was in there. The sign said it was a Northern Harrier, which I wasn't familiar with. It said it has an "owl-like facial disc" so I stuck around for a bit to see if I could check it out, but I didn't get much better of a look at it than this photo shows.
I don't know if I'd call the bird owl-like, other than it has a distinct facial disc. Still cool looking in its own right though.
Nothing new in the gift shop, they actually seemed to be sold out of a lot. The gf got an owl wine stopper and we donated a case of facial tissue from their Amazon wishlist. They had 14 of 16 requested cases of paper towels, but none of the tissue.
Talked to the lady at checkout and she verified that stuff is some of the most needed because they go through so much of it, like I commented on in the other post today.