Friday, October 21, 2011

Exotic animal

well.... a seagull is not really an exotic animal, but i have been trying forever to capture one in flight... i think the camera course helped me with finally capturing it! and this one was pretty close for a bit... :) this was on coney island, new york, on my birthday!
i just saw on the news that somewhere in ohio an exotic-animal owner committed suicide. but before he did that, he freed all his wild animals!! some 49 animals were on the loose, including 8 bears, 18 rare bengal tigers and 17 lions. it took the police 24 hours to get all the animals (or rather, to kill them all), so that was quite a scary situation; it was getting dark while many of those animals were still out and about. people were advised to stay indoors and it took them till the next day to get them all. yuk... here i read that the owner had a lot of debt ($68,000 in unpaid taxes), but it does not make sense to my as to why he would free all those animals...

7 comments:

biebkriebels said...

Yeeeh, what a great capture of the bird and the background! Yes it was on the news here too about the wild animals. So sad they had to kill them.

Julie said...

only in ohio... That's a great picture!

Tim said...

looks like the balloon in the background is a part of the animal's wing!

CaT said...

thanks!
and yes, i was a bit frustrated about that balloon..

Nellies said...

Great photo despite the balloon in his wings, but can understand you were a bit frustrated about that :-)

GUN said...

The afro-american is watching you from behind his glasses.

Pierre BOYER said...

Yes !!!!
Regards from France...

Pierre