Penguins and all sorts of cool birds
We arrived at 10am and sort of missed the hawk show nearby, so we decided to join the penguin feeding show at 10:30 and went there instead. Didn't understand why so many tourists like to use flash in such an environment. There's one guy who had this flash unit on top of his compact too, but hope the glass reflections were not too harsh on his images.


Puffin @ the Penguin place. It was dark and we were behind a thick glass wall (otherwise we would had freeze or the penguins would had been fried).


And the glass is not exactly clean. Many shots wasted here due to poor low light performance of the H1. (F11 did not have enough zoom, sigh...)


Penguin posing, but you can see the white 'spots' as if it were some dust on the sensor but you know it's just water droplets on the glass.


All Birds Show
We were early and we got the best seat. Last of the centre of the centre block row where we get a good view and saved us the trouble to carrying all the stuff down. There's an "ang moh" beside me using a S2IS, I think, the Canon version of the H1 type camera. Wonder how his camera fared under these trying conditions. It was cloudy throughout and I need ISO200 just to get the minimum shutter speed (1/100) to use the full zoom. Had to resort to the EVF many times to increase stability too. Sigh...


Parrot racing on bicycles.


Landing on target - S$2 note.


Mission objective - Get S$2 note to buy mee siam for lunch.


Mission accomplished!


This shot is much harder to take. I tried to focus on the hoop and fire off a burst of shots, but unfortunately none of them were sharp. Focus or shutter speed issue? Maybe both. Gotta try this again another day with another camera perhaps, or a brighter day.


Malaysian hornbill bird. This is how it looks like in real life. Couldn't get the shot of it catching this piece of fruit it's eating. Just not fast enough.


Eating snake. The snake is fake, of course.


Introducing the leading actor/actress.


Lunch at the Flamingo Lake
Raining and the restaurant is just nearby. It stopped raining when we were in the restaurant for like 10 minutes. There's a bird watching balcony that gives you a bird's eye view of the birds below and above.


This pose reminds me of the 'shen diao' 神雕 in legend of the condor heros 神雕侠侣.


One of the few odd ball in the midst of a sea of pink birds


Now THAT's bird's eye view.


South East Asean Birds (One huge cage with large cages within)
Birds birds and more birds. After lunch we continued our journey in search for more birds.


Bali Myna.


I prefer my 5003rd shot over my 5000th one


I think 'cute' is the best word to describe this bird. Ugly but adorable.


Something tells me this bird ought to go on a diet or is going to be extincted in the wild.


Behind bars. I kinda like the reflection of it's eyes with the bars there. And that 'red' face gives it a good mood - let me out!

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