Baltimore Zoo

Feeling like a little adventure, I took Ben and Clara to the Baltimore Zoo this afternoon. It's cloudy here today, with the temperature in the upper 70s, so I thought the animals would be more active than on a typically hot summer afternoon. Alas, their nap scheduled seems indifferent to the weather, and most of the mammals were snoozing away. We did get some amusement from bouncing lemurs, a prowling leopard (who started his nap as we watched), elephants, giraffes, and birds. I thought the coolest thing we saw was these hamerkops, who were busily gathering beakfuls of sticks to add to their already enormous nest while the other birds looked on, bemused and lazy. The pictures are lousy because I didn't want to use a flash.