Ducks and Lilies

Balboa Park's Lily Pond showing some bright colors.

Draw me like one of your French gorillas

Woodland Gorilla trying to look demur for the holiday weekend tourists.

Red Panda on the Prowl

This guy was excited or agitated, pacing around his enclosure and giving a rare view of the red panda in motion. He was fast and agile. The keeper said he was new to San Diego, having only been transferred from another zoo two days prior, and if memory serves his name is Lucas.

Sleeping Red Panda

High in his tree, doing his best to hide from the photographers behind other foliage.

Malayan Tiger

This is what happens when the 1000-pound man-eating cat wants to ham it up and look scary for the holiday weekend tourists.

Snack Time

Elephant reaching for the high snacks.

Cavendish's Dik Dik

He's an adorable little antelope, but we still made all the stupid jokes as though we were twelve years old.

White-Throated Bee-Eater

I think there's been a misunderstanding - eat the honey, leave the bee.

Sly Little Wave

This was one of the few koalas awake this morning, and he seemed to be sneaking in a little wave.

Cheetah

Big cat spending some time lounging in the sun.

Egyptian Vulture

(neophron percnopterus).

Tease

After an hour and a half of teasing me throughout the morning walk at the zoo, this hummingbird finally posed for a rest in the Sloth Bear exhibit just at the maximum reach of my 300mm telephoto.

Sloth Bear

Mr. Sloth Bear (melursus ursinus) was not having any of the morning tourism during breakfast.

Amable in the morning sun

Amable, a 13-month-old hippopotamus, was enjoying the early morning sun.

Up for the view

Amable, the zoo's 13-month-old hippopotamus was enjoying both the stream of water refilling the pond and the morning tourists under the glass. Surprised at how high she was able to get, and yes, this is a swimming move - she was not standing.

Cherry Blossoms

Nice to see spring hitting San Diego in the first week of February. This tree is in front of the Natural History Museum (bokeh in the background).

Colorful cactus

Not sure the type, but in the cactus garden adjacent to the rose garden at Balboa Park.

Flowering cactus

Was trying to get the bees buzzing around the blossoms. Missed, but still very happy with this shot.

Tasmanian Devil

The wild one was out and about for the tourists on this Sunday morning.

Bateleur Eagle

Spreading his wings