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A painting of a hand pointed at the entrance to the Comstock Saloon in Northbeach in San Francisco.
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The Ferry Building as viewed through the Embarcadero Center.
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A pair of spiked shoes were exibited in a San francisco store window.
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A tiger was asleep inside its cage at Wildlife Safari.
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The silhouette of an elephant was all that was visible back in the cage.
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(127 views) Even the doves on the grounds of the hotel seemed exotic.
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A bird in flight against an overcast sky framed by jungle trees. A memorable moment.
Angela Beske, Tuesday 5 January 2010
I just wanted you to know that I chose this most wonderful photo
as the background of my work desk top: I looked at a lot of
your photos in the past half hour.. it was not an easy choice!!
This one worked best because I can see my short cuts on the
dark back ground on the bottom-. Thank YOU!!!!!
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(125 views) I forgot to ask why the Red River Hog was not on display. It was in a pen in the staff-only area. Fortunately, we passed that pen as we came back from our morning hike and I grabbed this shot over a rather high fence.
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(124 views) Scimitar Oryx are reportedly extinct in the wild. Unfortunately, their beautiful horns have been more valuable than the animal itself, especially to greedy and idiotic wild game hunters.
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(124 views) The trees around the Hotel were at times filled with monkeys which were high overhead and never still. The bane of a nature photographers' existence.
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(124 views) I know this is a male 3-toed sloth because I also got some photos of his back which had the distinctive male marking. We were very lucky on this day and saw several sloths fairly close up and most were actually moving.
By contrast, in Costa Rica we saw a few sloths but each one looked like a large ball of moss.
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If only our north american cities were populated with flocks of these beautiful Nicobar pigeons. I wouldn't object to them at all.
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(124 views) As the boat approached the little cove where we going to snorkle, a brown pelican in juvenile plumage greeted us with wary boredom.
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(124 views) This tortoise was only about a foot long but may grow to be three feet long and a couple of hundred pounds.
He seemed alert and happy and was savagely attacking his lawn.
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(123 views) Sorry I haven't posted in a while. I don't really know why. I suppose planning a trip to the Amazon has me re-energized!
These hummingbirds were the most numerous of all the hummingbirds I saw in Costa Rica. They were present at Turtle Beach Lodge on the East coast and in the central highlands on those hotel grounds.
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(123 views) This photo shows the distinctive markings on the backs of all male 3-toed sloths.
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(123 views) Oh the unlikely and improbable flamingo. I see one and think "Curioser and curioser," and of course, "Let's play croquet."
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Throughout the trip, the brown boobies were too distant to be photographed, even from a boat. I felt lucky to photograph this one while the boat sped past it in the rain.
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(122 views) This photo was taken about a half an hour after we first saw this wet sloth. He was still climbing which was not surprising because he was a sloth after all.
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(122 views) I only saw this Motmot once and briefly. It flew away right after this photo was taken. I originally thought it was the same type of Motmot I had seen in Arenal but in later research found it was unique.
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(122 views) The Giraffes at Safari West were accustomed to people ogling them. This giraffe ogled right back. What a goofy ogle!
Safari West held two kinds of giraffes, the reticulated and the masai. Reticulated giraffes have almost-white lines between large blocks of color. Masai giraffes have more leafy shaped spots and the space between them is light tan.
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(122 views) The duck in this photo swam into some gorgeously colored reflections. I believe it's a female Goldeneye. The point of this photo however, has more to do with its the overall look than it has with identifying the bird.
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I found these two small blue butterflies in a screened outdoor butterfly exhibit. I can't identify them, but I believe these are called "pretty".
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The swan may look graceful and elegant, but his raised wings actually tell onlookers that this is his territory and don't even think about coming any closer.
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(122 views) This handsome bird is a ruddy shelduck. I didn't observe any unusual behavior, they just looked nice.
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