Highland Wildlife Park

[weepete]

I've not been taking a lot of photos recently so I thought I'd take a leaf out of Robbinsphoto's book and headed to a wildlife park I'd heard about. It alsso gave me a chance to rekkie it as they also do special photography days which might be an option in the future. Turns out it's quite a good park and they had some cool animals, some of which I'd not seen before (some stayed elusive!). Here are a few of the days shots:

A Great Grey Owl
Grey Owl by wee_pete, on Flickr

A Snowy Owl
Snowy Owl by wee_pete, on Flickr

and a Red Panda
Red Panda by wee_pete, on Flickr

 

[birdbonkers84]

Great set, the Highland Wildlife park is great and I've been a few times, did you take any photos of the Polar bears?

 

[BrentC]

Nice set.

 

[weepete]

Great set, the Highland Wildlife park is great and I've been a few times, did you take any photos of the Polar bears?

Thanks mate. No, I didn't see any of the polar bears unfortunately or the wolvarines (they were both hiding). I had left it a bit late to leave Glasgow this morning so only had a couple of hours after I got there for a whistle stop tour. It was worth the trip though so I'll definately be back.

 

[weepete]

Nice set.

Thanks BrentC!

 

[weepete]

A couple more:

Lynx
Lynx by wee_pete, on Flickr

Sumatran Tiger
Sumatran Tiger-3 by wee_pete, on Flickr

Sumatran Tiger-4 by wee_pete, on Flickr

 

[Dean_Gretsch]

That Snowy is super crisp but my fave is the lynx. Beautiful cat!

 

[ZombiesniperJr]

Nice set have you seen a snowy owl in the wild?

 

[SmilingFlyGirl]

Nice photos! Just curious what camera you are shooting with.

 

[weepete]

That Snowy is super crisp but my fave is the lynx. Beautiful cat!

Thanks Dan, I actually had thought I'd managed some better shots of the Lynxes but on review they ended up on the cutting room floor. There were 5 or 6 lynx in the enclosure and a few kittens that were quite active so it looks promising for futher investigation. It was definatley one of the animals I had wanted to see as there is talk of a possible re-introduction of them in Scotland.

 

[weepete]

Nice set have you seen a snowy owl in the wild?

Thanks Jr. No, snowy ows are very rare in Scotland though the occaisonal one is spotted in the Cairngorms (which is a big mountain range) the last breeding pair here was on the Shetland Islands in 1975. Fantastic animals though, I have been wanting to have a go at one for a while now.

 

[weepete]

Nice photos! Just curious what camera you are shooting with.

Thanks SmilingFlyGirl, all of these were shot with a (now old) 7D mki and a Tamron 150-600mm f5.6-6.3 G1.