Tropical Bird House – Inokashira Zoo

I love hot houses, and I love zoos and birds of all kinds. Especially in the winter there is nothing like moving through the entrance of a grand tropical bird house, hot and humid and the air filled with strange noisesm coming from a bitterly cold and bleak winter day outside. Last month I visited the Inokashira Zoo and took these photos inside their hot house. Lots of different birds, sometimes so close that you could reach out and touch them (not that you would). I don’t know why I didn’t take more photos but it could have something to do with my camera fogging up completely as I came inside. So to make up for the few photos inside I add a hawk during feeding time! I shot this through a thick fence and it still came out all right – the power of a long lens with a wide opening! In this case my trusty 135mm f2.0.