Firstly sorry for not visiting your PaDs. It's just been too busy. My first conducting outing tonight went fine :) but forgot to ask someone to take a picture!!!! Big outing Thursday afternoon now at the opening of the athletics track at Stanney school Ellesmere Port. Let me know if you're passing! Start work on May 3rd.....

Stopped off at Spike Island on the way back from a meeting (yes another Zak!),
at Ikea in Warrington (bacon roll and cup of tea £1 :))

Not much flying action, but got this superb (I say so myself) full frame head shot of swan.
What you see is what hit the camera :) - reduced to 750 wide for upload here.

After signing on, and off at the job centre, popped into Chester zoo.
I was lucky as mum and little one were out for few minutes before disappearing indoors.



This is cropped as my £10k Nikon outfit seems to have got lost in the
post and my 8800 zoom is limited...

However you flower enthusiasts please checkout:
http://www.pbase.com/troonly/chester_zoo



the borders were something else.

Graham Whitehead has some great orangutang shots....
http://www.pbase.com/sandpiper/orangutans