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 脳 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 馃榾
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
All photo's and videos are created by me 
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