Market Friday

A post for Market Friday hosted by Hive account@dswigle, if you haven't followed her yet you should she is one of the kindest and most supportive people here on Hive, a comment from her is like a ray of sunshine on your page.
This is the one tag and daily challenge that I always make a point of joining, and also look through the posts of others that join the challenge and seeing markets from all around the world.

For this weeks post, I have recent shots taken at the port, but I have done that last week so I want to mix it up so this week I dig into my archives, and sharing some shots from a visit to the Buttonwood Park Zoo here in New Bedford.

Now you pay to visit the Zoo so I take that to be a market (of sorts)

Starting off with this shot of a duck with water spraying

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I think these are some other form of Duck.
Last year Lulu and I got a yearly pass for the Zoo as we thought we would visit it often, but we have only been the once, the plan had been to visit there in spring and summer more, but plans change and Lulu hasn't felt up to walks as long as are needed to go round the Zoo, and I feel bad going there on my own since it was something we planned to do together, maybe next year we will head there again.

I thin these are also some form of Duck resting beside one of the ponds

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Now I do have mixed feelings about Zoos. I do love visiting them, especially large open Zoos with lots of space for all the animals, but smaller ones with less space for the animals I do feel for the animals caged up and restricted.

Now Buttonwood Park Zoo probably falls into the second category as it is a smaller Zoo, but they do seem to look after the animals, but I still have mixed feelings when visiting there

and here we have a Beaver

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and the little duck I started the post with he seemed to have got shy by this stage and looked away LOL

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These were cool to see, hard to get a clear shot of them with the wire cage.
Now these i do feel for stuck in an Aviary and I did look them up after our visit there Source

The Zoo is home to two rescued bald eagles. Our male eagle, Taz, came to us in 2004 from a rehabilitation center in Alaska after he was injured by flying into a power line. He was not able to be released due to the extent of his injury, but now has a forever home here at the Zoo alongside our rescued female bald eagle. Our female eagle, Birda, was found in Massachusetts as a juvenile. She was emaciated and had a severe eye injury which needed to be removed. These majestic birds were not able to be returned to the wild and the Zoo has been able to provide a permanent home for them.

So then I didn't feel so bad since their injuries did not allow for them to be released into the wild

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