Hi and welcome to my photos taken at Exmoor Zoo a fairly small but well stocked zoo near Barnstaple in North Devon. We spent a full day there looking at their wonderful collection of more unusual cats plus many other birds and animals.
REPTILES
Unfortunately, I didn't have the best lens for photographing snakes as my minimum focussing distance was about 4 feet and neither lens had Vibration Reduction to help me handhold the camera in dim light. There were the best I could do in the circumstances.
Boa Constrictor
Unfortunately, I didn't have the best lens for photographing snakes as my minimum focussing distance was about 4 feet and neither lens had Vibration Reduction to help me handhold the camera in dim light. There were the best I could do in the circumstances.
Boa Constrictor
Green Tree Python
Blue Sided Garter Snake
Nile Crocodile (baby)
BIRDS
Pink-Backed Pelican
Peacock
Black Faced Ibis
Sarus Crane
A Bath Duck ! (Mallard)
Race To The Line ! (Mallard family. - I was caught out with the wrong aperture!!)
Eurasian Spoonbill
Scarlet Ibis
Red Billed Leiothrix
Little Bittern
Palm Nut Vultures
MAMMALS
Caracals
Meerkat
Black Leopard (always very close to the wire and glass)
Cheetahs (the zoo has three lovely cheetahs)
Arabian Sand Cat (lovely animal)
Bat Eared Fox
New Guinea Singing Dog (a form of Dingo)
Fishing Cat
Binturong
Colobus Monkey
Black Howler Monkey (Bad day obviously !)
Yellow Throated Marten (There were two of them, never stood still for more than one second)
Asian Golden Cat (I think !)
Pumas
NEW PHOTOS (MARCH 2015)
BLUE THROATED MACAW
CARACAL
BLUE MAGPIE
CHEETAH
CORN SNAKE
NILE CROCODILE
EIDER DUCK
FISHING CAT
GARTER SNAKE
GOLDEN CAT
HUMBOLDT PENGUIN
PUMA
RED-SIDED GARTER SNAKES
RHINOCEROS IGUANA
RUFFED LEMUR
SAND CATS
SCARLET IBIS
EURASIAN SPOONBILL
SUPERB STARLING
RUSSIAN WOLF