Lion & Flamingo - Calgary Zoo

SkippySkippy Registered Users Posts: 12,075 Major grins
edited October 22, 2007 in Wildlife
Hi folks, on our way home from the 2007 Dgrin Photo Shoot,
we stopped off at the Calgary Zoo in Canada.

I got lost :rofl ohhhh thank goodness for mobile phones and text messages!

Glad I didn't wait for Christina to answer me cause she got my message after we got back in the car and were driving down the road :rofl :rolleyes

The Calgary Zoo is a very small Zoo, yeah yeah I know then how did I get lost go ahead make fun :haha I tell you I have no sense of direction,
even in a Zoo :D

The Melbourne Zoo is massive in comparison to it.

It's a nice Zoo to wonder around, and you can clearly get a good look at the Lions, Tigers and other Wildlife within the grounds.

Just so happens that it was mating season, and the Lions were not wasting any time so to speak :rolleyes

Well, we stood there and watched just cause we could :oogle
but the Male Lion cracked it big time with us and showed Ann he was not a happy camper at all!!
.... we almost pooped our pants in fright as he flew the fence and told us in no uncertain terms to rack off hairlegs! :rofl

Then he goes and plonks himself down next to the female and goes to sleep like hello? :oogle the act only took like seconds.. I mean what a show off :nah


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The Flamingo's were busy as you can plainly see NOT! hehehe!
Ohhhhh boy oh boy, I still remember my 8 year old nephew asking me what those Pink Things on Sticks were, many years ago :rofl

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I'm slowly slowly ever so slowly getting through some of my editing.
Enjoy :thumb .... Skippy
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  • RichardRichard Administrators, Vanilla Admin Posts: 19,990 moderator
    edited October 21, 2007
    Great lion shot. Whatever he says, goes.

    Cheers,
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  • ShepsMomShepsMom Registered Users Posts: 4,319 Major grins
    edited October 21, 2007
    Sounds like you had fun Skippy, even that you got lost in a zoo. You should've left the lion out and followed him out rolleyes1.gif
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  • dbaker1221dbaker1221 Registered Users Posts: 4,482 Major grins
    edited October 21, 2007
    good shot Skippythumb.gif
    **If I keep shooting, I'm bound to hit something**
    Dave
  • saurorasaurora Registered Users Posts: 4,320 Major grins
    edited October 21, 2007
    SKIPPY wrote:
    Well, we stood there and watched just cause we could but the Male Lion cracked it big time with us and showed Ann he was not a happy camper at all!!
    .... we almost pooped our pants in fright as he flew the fence and told us in no uncertain terms to rack off hairlegs!

    Nice shot of the lion. I wish there was a shot of your faces as that Romeo charged the fence!!! rolleyes1.gif Sounds like a fun time and don't feel badly about getting lost in the zoo..............I get lost everytime I come out of an exam room in my doctor's office! :D
  • SkippySkippy Registered Users Posts: 12,075 Major grins
    edited October 21, 2007
    rsinmadrid wrote:
    Great lion shot. Whatever he says, goes.

    Cheers,

    He roared LOUD awwwwwww he was just being a big sooky-la-lah!
    .... Skippy :D
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  • SkippySkippy Registered Users Posts: 12,075 Major grins
    edited October 21, 2007
    ShepsMom wrote:
    Sounds like you had fun Skippy, even that you got lost in a zoo. You should've left the lion out and followed him out rolleyes1.gif

    He would have led me straight to Ann hehehe! .... Skippy :D
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  • SkippySkippy Registered Users Posts: 12,075 Major grins
    edited October 21, 2007
    dbaker1221 wrote:
    good shot Skippythumb.gif

    Thanks Dave :D ... Skippy
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  • SkippySkippy Registered Users Posts: 12,075 Major grins
    edited October 21, 2007
    saurora wrote:
    Nice shot of the lion. I wish there was a shot of your faces as that Romeo charged the fence!!! rolleyes1.gif Sounds like a fun time and don't feel badly about getting lost in the zoo..............I get lost everytime I come out of an exam room in my doctor's office! :D

    I wasn't sure that shot would turn out because it was shot through thick glass ....... it was a fun day :D .. Skippy
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  • riddim_makerriddim_maker Registered Users Posts: 1,835 Major grins
    edited October 22, 2007
    No wonder the lion was p@#%$ off.
    I would be too if I had to make it a quickie because of spectatorsrolleyes1.gif
    Great captures Skippy clap.gifclap.gifclap.gif
    Russ
  • Ann McRaeAnn McRae Registered Users Posts: 4,584 Major grins
    edited October 22, 2007
    riddim_maker wrote:
    No wonder the lion was p@#%$ off.
    I would be too if I had to make it a quickie because of spectatorsrolleyes1.gif
    Great captures Skippy clap.gifclap.gifclap.gif


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    oh, that is ripe!!

    Yes, we did nearly poo our pants - that lion looked us in the eyes, came right toward the fence, roared and , well thank goodness the fence was sound!!

    Now, as to the Calgary Zoo being small...well, skippy got lost and headed for the car park before we had walked through half of it! That, and it is in the center of the city! That, and we don't really need a zoo cuz we still have actual wild critters right outside our doors.....

    :hide


    Now, Maxine, are you editing backwards????? Thst is not allowed!

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  • DaddyODaddyO Registered Users Posts: 4,466 Major grins
    edited October 22, 2007
    Too much fun. Very nice shots Skippy. thumb.gif
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  • MaestroMaestro Registered Users Posts: 5,395 Major grins
    edited October 22, 2007
    Meh, give him a break. I hear lions have to perform hundreds of time a day. What a life! mwink.gif Two nice captures though. thumb.gif
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  • SkippySkippy Registered Users Posts: 12,075 Major grins
    edited October 22, 2007
    riddim_maker wrote:
    No wonder the lion was p@#%$ off.
    I would be too if I had to make it a quickie because of spectatorsrolleyes1.gif
    Great captures Skippy clap.gifclap.gifclap.gif

    Poor Kitty had stage fright rolleyes1.gif .... Skippy rolleyes1.gif
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  • SkippySkippy Registered Users Posts: 12,075 Major grins
    edited October 22, 2007
    Ann McRae wrote:

    Now, Maxine, are you editing backwards????? Thst is not allowed!

    ann

    Awwwwwww but those two caught my eye, can't help meself ne_nau.gif
    I saw them as I was flicking through me shots.

    I have edited a couple of more shots, takes time doesn't it.
    I have not had a full day at home since I got back from USA.

    Missed two flights on the way home so ended up staying at my parents place... they took me home the following afternoon, and I went back to work the next day.

    One day back at work and it was like I'd never left ... ohhh well.

    I shall concentrate on editing in order :D .... Skippy
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  • SkippySkippy Registered Users Posts: 12,075 Major grins
    edited October 22, 2007
    DaddyO wrote:
    Too much fun. Very nice shots Skippy. thumb.gif

    Thanks DaddyO thumb.gif .... Skippy :D
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  • SkippySkippy Registered Users Posts: 12,075 Major grins
    edited October 22, 2007
    Maestro wrote:
    Meh, give him a break. I hear lions have to perform hundreds of time a day. What a life! mwink.gif Two nice captures though. thumb.gif


    Thanks Maestro, I am still trying to improve on editing.
    Leo was just showing off, his girl walked off and left him rolleyes1.gif

    ... Skippy :D
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  • HarrybHarryb Registered Users, Retired Mod Posts: 22,708 Major grins
    edited October 22, 2007
    Two good captures Skippy but I don't know how one gets lost in a zoo after finding their way to Australia from Utah. headscratch.gif
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  • raptorcaptorraptorcaptor Registered Users Posts: 3,968 Major grins
    edited October 22, 2007
    Nice lion capture! thumb.gif
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