The song goes, "Mama's taking us to the zoo tomorrow, zoo tomorrow, zoo tomorrow...." etc. Well, in this case, it was more a question of Lesley taking Gerry to the zoo last week - in Barcelona. Gerry was obviously most impressed and, certainly, if you want to get close up to a few vultures and practise your photography then where better to go? We can get pretty close to
Griffon Vultures at the shelter near Salares and use a long lens but would you see so much detail, I think not! The same is certainly true when you, if your fortunate, see a
Lammergeier in the wild. take a look at Gerry's, presumably hand-held, photographs below.
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A very clean-looking Griffon Vulture Buitre Leonardo Gyps fulvus |
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Now if only we could see this in th ewild - or lose the bars! |
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I'll just check outside the window in case one is drifting by!
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