Not a zoo resident, a visitor. Not quite sure of species. I'm thinking it's a really brown female blackbird or some sort of starling, but I'm not quite sure. This was one of the last set of pics I took with my *ist when I was out in SF. Every pic I took that day was very noisy, all of them, no matter what iso I used unfortunately. That day the camera really flaked out on me, and then when I got home, not too long after the camera died.
I'm still playing with this set trying to make them useful, but I think it's a lost cause. I'm a bit ticked. I had some great big cat shots and they're all nasty with noise that even Noise Ninja can't seem to tame. I put a slight blur on them, but that only made them too fuzzy, sigh. But too much sharper and you can really see the noise...