a recent visit to the zoo

Good Morning I hope your week has gone well and wishing you a good weekend

My week went pretty well I got out a few times for early morning walks and with my camera and tripod, for those walks I was only taking my smallest lens the 17-28mm to keep the weight i was carrying low,

But I decided to see how I would cope with a bigger lens, so went to the Buttonwood Park Zoo here in New Bedford and took my medium ish lens the 50-400mm since I am now out to the window where my surgeon told me to be careful lifting anything heavy.

INitially I felt fine walking around with it, but after a while I did start to feel some pressure of pulling around my stomach where the two surgeries were , nothing to bad, but I decided to be sensible and put the camera away and head out of the zoo, so wasnt as long there as I initially planned but still had a nice visit and got a few shots, some of which I will share today

The Buttonwood Park Zoo, located in New Bedford, Massachusetts, is a zoo located in the center of Buttonwood Park. Opened in 1894, it is the third-oldest zoo in New England and the 12th-oldest zoo in the United States. Located on a 7 acres (2.8 ha) campus, the zoo is owned and operated by the City of New Bedford, with the support of the Buttonwood Park Zoological Society. It is located on part of the Buttonwood Park Historic District, and federally designated on the National Register of Historic Places.

The zoo is home to more 250 different animals made up of more than 80 different species of animals, including many that are rare and endangered

let me start with one of the elephants

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There are a couple of elephants at the zoo, both are fairly old
I managed to catch a shot of one of the Bobcats chilling up on its perch

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