Magnificence

What a beautiful five and a half hours I spent this afternoon at the Calgary Zoo! My day started off at 9:15 a.m. with a birding walk at Inglwood Bird Sanctuary. It had snowed overnight and was snowing heavily for my long drive. Weather was awful, roads were awful, traffic was awful! Our walk was in a winter wonderland, but my photos don't even begin to do it justice! Around noon, I went straight from the Bird Sanctuary to the nearby Zoo and the weather changed to blue sky and sunshine. Headed straight to see the Snowy Owl family - mum, dad, and three of last year's youngsters. This is, of course, dad! I hope no one leaves a comment beneath this photo before I have a chance to say that it was taken in captivity!! I'm typing away frantically here. Yeah, I have a whole pile of photos with COLOUR/COLOR in them, so stay tuned, LOL!