Swan in local pond, where it is cared for. I don’t really like seeing these beauties in a captive environment, but it lives with many other water birds in a good place.

Another memory. Australia and the trip of a lifetime. Tasmanian Devils in an animal park zoo.

Themba, 13 year-old Cheetah, lives at Wild Cat Adventure, in Sonoma County, CA. We spent the afternoon there and it has to be the best cat conservation facility I’ve ever been too. The cats are given the best of care and the best of life for any cat not in the wild. This is a non-contact facility, but some of the 18 cats, many rescued from other places, are capable of having the staff in the cages with them.

Many, if not most wild cats, including cats not in the top five or so big ones, are dangerously low in populations. All due, of course, to humans.

I really recommend this place. It’s a small facility and that made it even nicer.

“If you look at little kids and wild animals, these are two groups of things that whenever I’m with them forces me to be in the moment.”

Dominic Monaghan

Another photo from 2002. A park caregiver takes care of a rescued young wombat. Australia is really suffering the results of climate change.

One of my winning photos for World Photography Day. I don’t compete, but this photo has won multiple awards in photography circles. Wood Ducks at a wildlife zoo.

Another shot of the rescued turtle. I always longed to be a marine biologist.

Red-tailed Hawk at Liberty Wildlife Rescue

Zone-tailed Hawk – Liberty Wildlife

Red-tailed Hawk at Liberty Wildlife

Another bird that can’t be released due to an injury, and then was imprinted by the people who tried to save him.

Harris’s Hawk in flight at Liberty Wildlife. Rescued bird that can not be returned to the wild.