Spring walk in the zoo

This afternoon i went with my wife to the local zoo , it was a nice sunny day so we brought the camera with us .

Today i brought the Sony a7IV camera and the Laowa 15mm F4.5 1:2 macro lens .

Not really the lens for animal photography , but good enough for some park photography .

1 ) one big yellow dafodill at the entrance of the zoo , arround it a lot of tulips that still need to flower

2 )young green leaves reaching for the sunlight in this low hedge

3 )one of the elepant statues near the elephants and the Japanese garden .

4 ) Anemone apennina / blue anemone i did plant these on my balcony but so far no flowers yet , and here in the zoo they are already flowering.

5 )The fountain in the lake is also working again , no more fear of frost damage.

6 )The Japanese garden entrance , no leaves yet on the Acer palmatum / Japanese maple but i won't take that long if the sune keeps showing up like this.

7 )The trees are getting ready to show the leaves again

8 )a small pond in the japanese garden , there should be some fish in it but I couldn't spot it.

9 ) Blossem on the tree , didn't look like cherry blossem

10 )statue of snake bird and eggs

11 )Scilla luciliae / Lucile's glory-of-the-snow never had seen these before

12 ) Walking towards the kitchen for the animals i spotted this large insect hotel.

13 )Inside the kitchen for the animals , you can see what they feed the animals and how they prepare it.

14 )They grow fresh insects for certain animals , like these grasshoppers

15 )but also these mealworms crawling around the cucumber

16 )And they also had a large amount of crickets

17 )Back outside looking where we should go next

18 )Another yellow sign of spring Forsythia × intermedia / border forsythia

19 ) Then we decided to go and visit the night animals quarters , they had these frogs in an aquarium they als were bussy with the spring 😀

20 ) Some shrubs already starting to show some fresh leaves

21 )Taking photos of pinquins with this lens might not be ideal , let's try some video instead.

V1 )I try to keep the videos short 30 seconds

22 )And then close to the exit of the zoo there are these prariedogs , they can actually walk between your legs if they wanted to so ideal to get up close , but they are still a bit shy .

V2 ) As you can see in the video

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