the wandering chick
...Oxbow Park
a small-town zoo near Rochester

It wasn't exactly what I had in mind when I wanted to take my great-niece to the zoo, but it was the only one within a reazonable distance of Rochester.

As it turns out, it's a sweet little place, clean, not crowded and though it may not have all the animals a big-city zoo has, it had enough to keep smiles on our faces and entertain us for an hour or so.

Check out a few of our favorites. The zoo also has a black bear, but we couldn't get a good picture of him.

Oxbow Park is located west of Rochester off State Highway 14 toward Kasson.

porcupine
Porcupine
American badger
wolf
Wolf
American badger
prairie dogs
in the wild cat family
Prairie dogs
prairie dogs
red-tailed hawk
in the wild cat family
Red-tailed hawk
Cougar / mountain lion
feeding the calf
red-tailed hawk, closeup
Feeding the calf
American bald eagle, closeup of head
American bald eagle, closeup of head
feeding the calf
talons of an American Bald Eagle
American bald eagle, closeup of head
the American bald eagle

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