The First Day of Autumn at the Zoo

This past Thursday we took advantage of one of our last warm, summer-like days to visit one of the zoos in the area we had not yet seen. It was a big zoo with lots of animals to see and some interesting features, including a train ride through woodlands and past wetlands, a deer park where you can feed the deer (we skipped that part since we inadvertently feed deer regularly at our house), and a bird exhibit where you can feed the birds. We had a busy day!

Emus 

Wallabies

Tortoises

Camels

Tigers (yes, one is white)

Sloths

Prairie dogs

We took a ride on the Elk Express train.

The passengers, one very excited to ride the train, the other asleep the entire time

One of the elk in the woods

Water birds

Some of the many monkeys

In the deer park

Giraffes

Alligator

In the reptile house 

Being watched by a monitor

Watching turtles

Feeding the parakeets in the aviary

Guinea pigs