Black swans, a peacock, and my friend in the primate house were some of the images captured at the hotel lake and the nearby mountain zoo on my recent stay in Colorado Springs.

The arrival day, I was there just after sunrise for the lift-offs of several groups of geese from the lake.  I practiced panning.

I tried to vary the shooting locations and subjects to get as much out of the short trip as possible. I visited three area parks, a canyon park, a creek park, and the big rock garden of my previous posts. I also spent part of an afternoon at the zoo photographing animals and a little time around the lake at the hotel with the beautiful black swans.

The last day there I spent an afternoon hiking along a creek on a birding loop trail but the afternoon yielded little other than exercise and some random shots of ice in the creek. An unfamiliar bird song was heard faintly as I was getting in the car, She’s leaving, twee-hee.