Day 3

Since today was another beautiful sunny winter day here in California my son and I decided to head to the local zoo. Ok, I decided but he didn't protest... The zoo is really more of an animal sanctuary but they have quite the eclectic collection.  We saw Tigers, Bears, Deer, Peacocks, Wolves, many various birds, raccoons, a skunk, feral cats, and my sons favorite; dog/wolf hybrids.  Each exhibit has a tag letting the visitor know the animal's particular back story.  I can't wait for my son to be old enough to actually know what the animals are and to care about the stories.  For now he enjoyed watching the animals pace or run around their enclosures.  The image today is from the zoo.  As my son and I watched the hybrid dog/wolf pair run around their pens (it was feeding time and they were super excited) we were being watched from above by an exceptionally large peacock. The peacocks apparently have free range of the zoo and most choose to spend their time walking around the grounds looking for bits of food but this guy was in the tree being very dominant of the area.  I hadn't noticed him until I heard a loud 'splat' a few feet from me which only then prompted me to look up... I waited for a few minutes before leaving the area that we were in and that guy was just going to hang out up in the tree the whole time, as if daring me to tempt fate by walking underneath him (and from the amount that was already on the ground I was determined not to spend the rest of my afternoon washing up).  Finally his stubbornness won out and I had to walk my son and I back through the exhibits we'd already seen just to avoid any chances.