LIFES A BEACH!

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  • socallisa
    socallisa Member Posts: 10,184
    edited February 2011

    you may be right

  • socallisa
    socallisa Member Posts: 10,184
    edited February 2011

    This guy is keeping watch over us

  • barbaraa
    barbaraa Member Posts: 3,548
    edited February 2011

    Are those meercats?

  • barbaraa
    barbaraa Member Posts: 3,548
    edited February 2011

    No, not meercats. These are meercats.

  • socallisa
    socallisa Member Posts: 10,184
    edited February 2011

    they are I believe Barbara...but well fed ones..

    I wish I had seen that series ..

  • konakat
    konakat Member Posts: 499
    edited February 2011

    I loved Meerkat Manor.  Did I cry when Flower died, and Mozart.  Sean Bean was hilarious as the narrator.  I didn't like the woman who narrated the last season though.  And the ads for the show, especially the one that had the song Bad Girls with clips of the female meerkats turning to look into the camera.

  • coonie
    coonie Member Posts: 2,582
    edited February 2011

    ((((((Beachies))))))

    I'm SO sorry to hear about CurliqueCry

  • MissBianca
    MissBianca Member Posts: 1,291
    edited February 2011

    I love your pictures, Lisa. Birds are so beautiful, aren't they. Is that the aviary at the SD Zoo? Out here in the countryside outside of Nashville, there are turkey vultures and buzzards. Being from SoCal, I never saw them around, so I am always fascinated by them, and their impressive size. In the wintertime, when the trees are bare, you can see their huge nests. They are the clean up crew for roadkill, as there is a lot of wildlife here.

    Last spring, when I had a little break from treatment, I took my son to the zoo. Every year, they have an Easter egg hunt, as well as an egg hunt for the animals. On the way there, I saw a small flock of buzzards (or vultures?) under a beautifully blooming tree. The juxtaposition of the end of life and the renewal of it reflected in the blooms caught my eye, and I pulled over to take some photos.

    Later on at the zoo that day, I saw a meerkat's head stuck in an Easter egg. The zookeeper finally came and freed him, but it was sweet to see the other meerkats very concerned. They are so highly social. I loved Meerkat Manor. Who knew all that drama went on with these little guys?

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  • socallisa
    socallisa Member Posts: 10,184
    edited February 2011

    so glad they could help that little guy..wow..

    love the tree with blossoms even with the big old birds...

    Yes, some pictures were in the aviary..neat place but the birds

    sure don't like to have their photos taken..

  • MissBianca
    MissBianca Member Posts: 1,291
    edited February 2011

    The San Diego Zoo is spectacular. You are so lucky you live close by. The last time I went, my son was a toddler, and very wild. I had to keep him in his stroller, or he would run off. I was bummed out I didn't get to see the giant panda bears, because the line was too long, and he didn't understand the waiting part. I did watch the zoo cam on the internet though, and the birth of one of the pandas there.

  • faithandfifty
    faithandfifty Member Posts: 4,424
    edited February 2011

    Have had such a great day.

    Good to stop thru at the end and see so many dear friends.

    xx00xx00xx00xx

  • socallisa
    socallisa Member Posts: 10,184
    edited February 2011

    this is for you faith, I know you like lions

  • socallisa
    socallisa Member Posts: 10,184
    edited February 2011

    this is for me

  • 3jaysmom
    3jaysmom Member Posts: 2,604
    edited February 2011
    you guys always have grreat pics!thanks, lisa....
  • socallisa
    socallisa Member Posts: 10,184
    edited February 2011

    those koalas sure sleep alot

  • chrissyb
    chrissyb Member Posts: 11,438
    edited February 2011

    Lisa, they sleep a lot because they are high on the eucalyptus toxins and the leaves they eat have very little nutrition ergo not a lot of energy produced.

    A little bit of beach for all.

  • barbe1958
    barbe1958 Member Posts: 7,605
    edited February 2011

    Wow! I did not know that Chrissy! Thanks. That just might be a "Million Dollar" question one day and now I know! hehehehehehheeh I love hearing stuff like that.

    At our local zoo in Elmvale (not the big Toronto one) I was taking pictures in the spring and met a tech with one of the baby lions. I got to pat him. They are NOT soft like you'd think! Very bristly, not cuddly at all. She said they have to play with them for hours a day until they get too strong. Then back into the cage where they will interact with each other.

  • Marple
    Marple Member Posts: 10,154
    edited February 2011

    Poor Koalas, I wonder why they don't eat something else.  This was posted by a Dusty Bun on the Housekeeping thread.  These bunnies seem to have the right idea.

  • eph3_12
    eph3_12 Member Posts: 2,704
    edited February 2011

    haha-with my eyesight & size of the picture looks like those bunnies are eating some Acapulco Gold! One of them might be Cheech & the other Chong? 

  • MissBianca
    MissBianca Member Posts: 1,291
    edited February 2011
    funny-pictures-cats-have-catnip 
  • socallisa
    socallisa Member Posts: 10,184
    edited February 2011

    bird eat even less, but this guy does not look real

  • eph3_12
    eph3_12 Member Posts: 2,704
    edited February 2011

    You're right-he looks fake!

  • socallisa
    socallisa Member Posts: 10,184
    edited February 2011

    they are the cutest ducks really..but they sleep most afternoons

  • eph3_12
    eph3_12 Member Posts: 2,704
    edited February 2011

    What kind of duck is he?  We have a wildlife rehab place about 40 miles from here called Wildlife Images.  There is a pond there where ducks & geese come in and hang out.  I think I've seen those kind there, but not certain.

  • socallisa
    socallisa Member Posts: 10,184
    edited February 2011

    they are called mandarin ducks...I know we have some wild here

    but I don't know where else..we do have them at the zoo too

  • chabba
    chabba Member Posts: 3,600
    edited February 2011

    Crab boats.  Ahhh, tis the season.

  • socallisa
    socallisa Member Posts: 10,184
    edited February 2011

    yipee

  • chabba
    chabba Member Posts: 3,600
    edited February 2011

    Dungenes of course.

  • chabba
    chabba Member Posts: 3,600
    edited February 2011

    Dungenes of course.

  • julz4
    julz4 Member Posts: 1,373
    edited February 2011

    Good Evening Beachies......

    Popping in to Wave Hello! 

    Calming sunset views to go with those crabs........