August 9th, 2008 MN Zoo Bird Show

Another Zoo trip hoping to get some good Grizzly captures. Next time I am going to hit the zoo at 9am at opening and around 3pm to close. I was told they have a training around 10am and after that they sleep most of the day until the afternoon. I got some nice tiger, moose, camel, pig and a few other photos but, also took in the bird show. The show began by a brief introduction then introducing a member of the audience who went on to get down on his knees and propose.

She said yes

The family photographer got caught up in the moment so after the show I congratulated them and offered them the originals no strings attached (I took 40+ high resolution photos shot RAW not the little ones like these), hopefully they contact me.

The show was pretty good, I was waiting for the Eagle which they bring out last. Highlights were an albino red tailed hawk. Now for some reason this was not the one I wanted to upload the one I was going to upload actually shows his tail which has a hint of red in it.

Some of the birds screamed above the heads of spectators which made for some good shots.

One flew over the lucky couple on his way to snatch a dollar bill out of a guys hands .

This was some type of rare bird that I did not catch the name of, only 200 or so left in existence.

Then the star of the show the Eagle.

Just as an edit the highlight of the show was the proposal, the audience was clearly touched.

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